There have been very few complaints from Democrats over all the lockdowns and craziness that accompanies it. They have mostly taken the side of Progressive (nice Fascist) Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. They seem to cheer when paddle boarders are detained, skate parks are filled with sand, parties are busted, churches shut down and pastors arrested, and Other People’s businesses are closed. They denigrate people protesting to reopen America. They love the notion of snitch lines. But
Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Flout Immigration Laws
For more than a month, under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, the Trump administration has used the nation’s public health laws as a pretext for summarily deporting refugees and children at the border.
This new border policy runs roughshod over legal rights, distracts from meaningful measures to prevent spread of the coronavirus and undermines confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top health protection agency, which delivered the directive that imposes these deportations.
The administration has weaponized an arcane provision of a quarantine law first enacted in 1893 and revised in 1944 to order the blanket deportation of asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors at the Mexican border without any testing or finding of disease or contagion. Legal rights to hearings, appeals, asylum screening and the child-specific procedures are all ignored.
More than 20,000 people have been deported under the order, including at least 400 children in just the first few weeks, according to the administration and news reports. Though the order was justified as a short-term emergency measure, the indiscriminate deportations continue unchecked and the authorization has been extended and is subject to continued renewal.
Same people complaining about “rights” for illegal aliens do not care about rights of legal U.S. citizens
The deportation policy was issued by the C.D.C. based on an unprecedented interpretation of the public health laws. The policy bears the unmistakable markings of a White House strategy imposed on the C.D.C. and designed to circumvent prior court rulings to achieve the administration’s political goals.
The Border Patrol is carrying out the C.D.C. directive by “expulsionâ€Â of anyone who arrives at U.S. land borders without valid documents or crosses the border illegally, not because they are contagious or sick but because they come from Mexico or Canada, regardless of their country of origin. The deportations violate the legal right to apply for asylum and ignore the special procedures for unaccompanied children.
The same people who want illegal aliens given free access to the U.S. are the same ones who want you locked down in your home.
Despite what the administration says, the order is not part of any coherent plan to stop border travel or prevent introduction or spread of contagious people or the virus, which is already widespread in the United States. Nothing limits travel from Mexico or Canada by truck drivers, those traveling for commercial or educational purposes, and many others, including green card holders and U.S. citizens. And the restrictions that exist do not apply at all to travel if it’s by airplane.
You mean people who are lawfully entering the U.S.? Huh.
The administration’s order is like a bull’s-eye drawn on the side of a barn around an arrow that’s already been shot. The targets are refugees and unaccompanied children, and the policy is designed to thwart their rights.
Just call them illegal aliens. Who have exactly zero rights until they enter the U.S. illegally. Then they have a right to a hearing for asylum. For which under 6% actually qualify for, even under Obama.
The United States and the rest of the world face a pandemic of unknown scope and duration that has led to the greatest social and economic disruption in recent history. But the dangers we face are not limited to the pandemic alone. The risk is also that governments will abuse the emergency to abandon the rule of law and adopt discriminatory measures targeting those they disfavor.
Perhaps Mr. Lucas Guttentag, who was a senior counselor at the Department of Homeland Security and Dr. Steffano M. Bertozzi, dean emeritus of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, could write a missive on the way the rule of law has been violated in places like California, NY, NJ, and other states run by Democrat governors. Really, federal law targets illegal aliens. It’s right there in the federal statutes. If they want asylum, let them apply at a U.S. embassy, rather than sneaking in.
This is what Democrats care about: illegal aliens. With everything going on with Bat Soup virus, do you think citizens really care?
Read: You Know Who Democrats Don’t Want “Locked Down”? Illegal Aliens »
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A federal judge ruled Friday that all Kentucky churches will be allowed to hold in-person gatherings beginning this weekend so long as congregations abide by social distancing and other health guidelines from the CDC.
While the White House looks ahead to reopening houses of worship, most Americans think in-person religious services should be barred or allowed only with limits during the coronavirus pandemic — and only about a third say that prohibiting in-person services violates religious freedom, a new poll finds. (snip)
