Elyria, OH Police went to the wrong house to serve a warrant, now the mother of a special needs 17 month old says he was injured in the raid; police claim that isn’t true.
I am way behind in reading and replying to comments. But I am supper glad I saved them for getting to when I could. This comment from Suze is outstanding. I will first post the link she left it on, then her comment. Hugs. Scottie
I have visited Palestine twice….both in the early 2000’s. Kids were on the streets of Ramallah and Raffa everyday selling whatever they could for tourists spare change. I bought street food (falafel) for about ten kids one day…garnered a LOT of interest from Israeli police who seemed to think it was a strange activity. Those kids watched out for me though and led me to some truly wonderful shops where I could easily bargain. I made it a priority to purchase food every day in a Palestinian area to bring back to my hostel or hotel. On my last day in Rafah I was saying goodbye to a few kids and a funeral procession started down the street. One of the kids, a boy of about six, grabbed my hand and pulled me into a shop. I asked if he was okay and he said “missy, you stay off street, men are angry. I keep you safe” That little boy, if he has survived is a man now and I wonder about him every day. I get that Israel is all about their “homeland” but frankly it is the Arabs homeland too and they are treated like fourth class citizens. Apartheid is alive and well in the land.
The law he touts that would allow local police to arrest people they “think” are not here legally and a local judge gets to order their immediate removal. Guess what that means in reality? Arrest all brown people, charge them, quickly send them to Mexico at gun point … learn later they were here legally, or maybe even citizens. Ah who cares, they republican leaders get their nice white straight cis ethnostate where they are complete rulers over how people live. Hugs. Scottie.
The third-term Republican responded that the state is using “every tool that can be used, from building a border wall to building these border barriers.” He also touted the new Texas law empowering state officials to remove people from the U.S. who they suspect of being in the country illegally.
“… the new deportation law, which is set to take effect in March and threatens to upend longstanding precedent leaving immigration enforcement solely to the federal government. The law would allow any law enforcement officer in Texas to arrest migrants accused of unlawfully entering the state from Mexico and empower judges to order their removal”.
Department of Public Safety troopers stand guard over migrants in a detention area Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass as a surge of migrants push across the border.
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WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is doing everything to stop border crossings short of shooting migrants because the Biden administration would “charge us with murder.”
“We are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” the governor said in an interview with conservative commentator Dana Loesch. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”
The comments came during an appearance on Loesch’s show last week in which Abbott was asked what he believed was the “maximum amount of pressure” he could implement to secure the border.
The third-term Republican responded that the state is using “every tool that can be used, from building a border wall to building these border barriers.” He also touted the new Texas law empowering state officials to remove people from the U.S. who they suspect of being in the country illegally.
The clip was aired on Loesch’s program again Thursday without the line about shooting migrants. A version of the audio was also posted on social media by Heartland Signal, a progressive radio show based in Chicago.
Abbott said Friday that he was asked to point out where he was drawing the line on what the state can legally do to secure the border.
“I pointed out something that is obviously illegal,” Abbott said. “It’s that simple.”
The comments come as the Biden administration has sued the state to stop a slew of Abbott’s border security efforts, including the new deportation law, which is set to take effect in March and threatens to upend longstanding precedent leaving immigration enforcement solely to the federal government. The law would allow any law enforcement officer in Texas to arrest migrants accused of unlawfully entering the state from Mexico and empower judges to order their removal.
Abbott also has strung miles of razor wire along the border and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande, which the Biden administration is also fighting to have removed in a separate court battle.
But Abbott still has faced pressure from some conservatives to do more, and some in the GOP have called for the use of deadly force to stop suspected traffickers. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged as much during a campaign stop in Texas last summer, saying those breaking through border barriers and displaying “hostile intent” should “end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety last month found no wrongdoing by agency officials after six troopers working for Abbott’s border security initiative alleged mistreatment of migrants last summer.
The complaints included an email from a DPS medic describing “inhumane” treatment of migrants he witnessed while deployed in Eagle Pass. The email said troopers had been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande and told not to give water to asylum-seekers even in extreme heat. The agency’s inspector general found that most of the incidents raised by the troopers did happen, but concluded that DPS officials did not violate law or agency policy.
Benjamin Wermund is the Washington correspondent for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. He can be reached at ben.wermund@houstonchronicle.com. He covers the Texas delegation and the many ways the state and its leaders shape national politics and policy. He’s a Texas native and a diehard Spurs fan.
People like Abbott are precisely the reason why laws exist. He has no moral compunction against murder, but luckily realizes it could land him in prison.
There is no compromise to be had with these republicans anymore as they are openly racists. The only thing they will accept is no more letting brown people in the US. Period. Look at all their proposals, remain in Mexico which makes it a Mexican problem the US is causing, no more processing and releasing until hearing which as he whines lets those people into our country, and build the wall which is proven not to work.
I listened to half of the video because I couldn’t read the article and it was all I could stand of the republican talking points of fear fear fear and Biden doesn’t care, Biden is out of touch, Biden needs to go to the border. When it was pointed out to him that Biden did go to the border, Johnson replied yes but it was just a photo op. Well what do you think he and his republican buddies are doing? The 14 million does have more money for processing asylum seekers so there is not such a big backlog of cases waiting in detention at the border. It also includes more money for beds, more money to house and care for the people, it has solutions to the problem. But again the republicans don’t want solutions, they want the problem to run on.
If you listen to him, he makes claims that instill fear in people especially white people. He claims over hundreds of thousands of “known terrorist” have crossed the border and are in the country planning terrorist attacks on US citizens. When he was corrected that these people were flagged but not known to be terrorists and that their where they were was known, he moved to the large number of crooks from prisons that are coming here. Again he was corrected by Tapper that has gone on forever under all administrations, so he switched the large number of people crossing the border, 6 million he whined. Yes six million have come seeking asylum and are waiting hearings. If we had the money the republicans refuse to vote on they could be processed. And this country can handle 6 million and millions more. Every store around here has help wanted signs up. Let these people work while they wait. But the republicans want the issue for the elections. When that did not hit, he moved to illegal drugs, fentanyl, and people trafficking. Again, addressing fentanyl was in the bill that the republicans won’t pass or even here. Also fentanyl and other drugs come in by legal crossings, not by asylum seekers. The republicans like to bring up the coyotes helping people get here because they like to use the word trafficking, which they make sound as scary as possible. It brings to mind sex trafficking of little girls, little boys, and young women for sex. Sorry that shit is happening all over the US and not at the border. Yes they are moving the people to the border and over it. But hey what do you think DeathSantis and Abbot are doing with the mass immigrant bussing they are doing, yes people trafficking.
Just before I shut it off Johnson whines that these things he is saying are not just republican talking points they are real bad things happening right now. Again back to be afraid, be very afraid, along with Biden doesn’t know or care. Yes all republican talking points. No solutions, but lots of whining. Lots of racist dog whistles. Elect us and we will keep the brown people out. Hugs. Scottie
Republicans have had over a year being in charge of the House plenty of time to write their own bill on how to fix the border problem. Has anyone seen it? These assholes have no desire to fix anything instead they just want to blame Biden for everything. They are unfit to serve and they have to go.
They’ve lost the ability to write sane bills because all the sane GOP are gone from office. All that is left are morons and people trying to get a Fox News gig after they are voted out.
I believe they are rooting around in Hunter’s tighty whiteys trying desperately to find some vestige of daddy that simply isn’t there and spending the entirety of their efforts on protecting the actions, deeds and words of their mango messiah. It’s a lot of work and money to do both of those things. I’m sure it’s exhausting. Just look at Gym. He looks totally worn out. To be honest, I don’t think Johnson is there to be much of a speaker. He has one job and that is to disavow the election results when they don’t go blumpies way. Not sure how all of that is going to turn out but I’m curious to see if he’ll even be in that seat at the time. rethuglicans are seeing their way out as quickly as they can get. And we’re happy to see them go.
Republicans already are using the border crisis as their primary campaign argument for the 2024 election. It’s how they hope to help Donald Trump get back to the White House.
The worst thing that could happen to them, politically, would be for Republicans and Democrats of good faith to reach a bipartisan deal on the border.
Republicans led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, all of whom made the trip to make speeches, make the news, make (perhaps) some campaign cash, and accomplish … nothing.
Andy Biggs: ”Shut the border down, or we’ll shut the government down,”
Their base may fall for this but everyone else sees this for what it is….Bullshit.
Thanks to our worthless media, those low-info voters don’t understand that it takes congress to actually enact laws and funding for those laws. They also fail at understanding basic concepts like cause and effect.
Media doesn’t help. But lack of civics education (and crappy history, literature ,and math* education) is a bigger driver in my book. Apathy and the feeling that nothing I do matters doesn’t help the situation.
*I say math, because well taught, math teaches logical thinking and reasoning, history which should look at cause and effect and how nothing happens without a multitude of factors, and literature because it explores empathy and the power of words and meaning.
Please. This way the situation at the border stays stagnant and they can blame Biden, so it’s a win/win as far as they’re concerned. Shows you how much they really care about the border “crisis,” except as a political tool.
Well, they have to turn somewhere other than abortion after SCrOTUS overturned Roe. And they have to avoid being blamed for that as well. So create / worsen any existing issue to use against Dems.
Well if you count separating children and infants from their parents, let some sexual abuse happen, didn’t keep records of the kids and their parents then proceeded to lose children in the process…. they didn’t solve it but made it MUCH worse.
If only there had been money set aside for a string of border signs that say “WETBACKS GO HOME!” , Johnson would have gleefully accepted it. Remember, hatred is the point.
Follow the money. Corporations make billions off of powerless illegal migrants who can’t report wage theft or unsafe working conditions. Their repellent minions use the issue as a racist dog whistle but block all attempts to address the issue.
Remember, this is the man who married his teen-aged daughter in a “purity” wedding. He put a ring on her finger and she’s not allowed to take it off until he finds her a husband and hands her over.
Ag, hospitality and construction all rely on both documented and undocumented labor. They contribute heavily to the GOP because they like tax cuts and some of them like white Jesus and tax cuts. They do so knowing that their labor supply will not be fucked with.
It isn’t immigration policy or regulations, it’s IMMIGRATION LAWS. It’s basic civics: who passes laws in our government? Who’s in control of the House?
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