Oh FFS, here’s another one piling on:
Wednesday on “CBS Mornings,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said “there’s a loss of public trust” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so some reforms are needed.
Paul said, “I think the nation and the country at large or large parts of the country, have lost trust. You know, I think there’s a loss of public trust in ICE and their officials after seeing what’s been going on in Minneapolis. I think there’s fault on both sides.”
And I think you have your head up your ass.
Item 1: “Public trust”: I would bet a considerable sum of money that the “public” — i.e. the people who voted for Trump and his agenda in their millions — have not lost trust in ICE. You’ve fallen prey to the Washington D.C. mindset of letting the constant drumbeat of opposition from the mainstream media cloud your thinking.
Item 2: “Fault in both sides”: Let’s allow, as you yourself have in the past, that there are tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country right now, thanks to FuckJoeBiden’s “open borders” policy, people that need to be deported back to Shitholia their native countries with some alacrity. Let’s also allow that Trump has directed ICE to concentrate on getting the worst of these illegals — the hardcore criminals; the murderers, rapists, violent robbers and drug dealers — as their first priority. As he has.
Now ask the question: Did you think that this was going to be easy? Did you think that these violent assholes were just going to submit meekly to ICE agents and comply with their lawful actions? Of course they wouldn’t, and haven’t. They’ve been resisting ICE with all their might — in one case, deserting his own 5-year-old child to make his escape — and at all stages, these criminals have been assisted in their resistance by the efforts of Marxist scum in (surprise, surprise) Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Oh yeah, maybe ICE has lost the “public trust”, in those Marxist hellholes and strongholds. In the rest of the country, where local law enforcement has been helping ICE remove the cancer? Not so much.
Senator Paul, I generally have a great deal of respect for you — generally, not always, because sometimes you let your inner libertarian go a little too far. As you did here.
So STFU, let law enforcement get on with their Augean task of cleaning our national stables of this scum and trash, and stop feeding our enemies — that would be the likes of CBS — with headlines that undermine our national purpose.
Rand and Ron Paul are libertarians. Don’t ever forget that libertarians are for open borders and always have been.
The only criticism I have for ICE and our security agencies is that they are moving too slow. I would think that the detention centers are merely collection centers for travel arrangements to be made to deport these illegal migrants. I can’t understand why anyone is held in a detention center for more than a few days, a week at most if there are transportation or weather delays.
There’s some meglomaniacal judge somewhere who via an injunction within his jurisdictional district, held that EVERY illegally present alien is entitled to the due process of a full trial on the issue of illegal entry and presence in the country, with full response times for each element of the trial process that is due.
Yes, this is economic warfare via Lawfare. He will never be faced with an illegal alien coming to his town and taking his job at a much lower and reasonable salary (I wonder if, instead of merely making all large corporation contracts require Arbitration before a trial, those same contracts could require an arbitration clause before an administrative judge who is not only a Mexican citizen but also qualified under Mexican law to be such an administrative judge).
I have similarly wondered if lawyers and accountants and other professionals could make use of administrative staff in, say, India. True overnight service. All you’d need as the principal in the office was an assistant to answer the phone and make copies, and a fast line to the other side of the world. The paralegals and junior architects will find first hand what everyone else learned a decade ago.
It has been said for decades that information wants to be free. We learned with H1B visas that you can hire a grateful foreigner to do the work, and the Visa protocols will keep him working for you at whatever you deign to pay him. For information alone, why require a desk and chair in this country? Someone to proofread here is all you need. I can only imagine how quickly those lawyers and architects in Silicon Valley will flip.
Rand Paul is a chip off the old block, and is slowly becoming his father in all of the battyness that Ron carted around with him. KY whiskey must cause an aging problem because Rand isn’t they only Olde Coote from KY going around the Bats..t Krazy Bend.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my father, after all.
Intergenerational consistency of philosophy is not always a virtue.
“…. murderers, rapists, violent robbers and rug dealers …”
Wait, wait, he hasn’t delivered my Herati yet!
Ok back to serious.
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New glasses, you need them.
Someone got an new envelope in the mail with pics of him and little boys, I would guess.
But once again, He is a LIBertarian, they are fine as long as the sex is consensual, no other limits apply: kids, dogs, goats, watermelon, whatever floats your boat.
I’m not surprised he senses a loss of confidence in ICE. There was a similar loss of trust in the Jews in Germany for the sixty or so years before the Nazis weaponized that loss of trust at an industrial scale, and for similar reasons. Cf Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, and a number of “Philosophers” I do not care to look up at this hour.
I do not call him G. Rand Stand Pau without cause.
Rand Paul seems to be at his happiest when he is throwing wooden shoes into the works, especially when he is attacking his “own” side. I suspect he’s addicted to the feeling of being the “principled lone voice,” and the fundraising money that comes from the niche group that loves seeing such stories play out.
However, like Thomas Massiec and Mike Lee, I doubt there’s actually any principle of his involved; while there is virtue in standing to for what’s right against massive popular opinion, it’s gotten corrupted into simply “standing against popular opinion” for its own sake, and morality and legality be damned.
He’s playing “look at me, look at how RIGHTEOUS I am, that I am saying ‘No, YOU move!’, to the Powers That Be,” without ever looking at whether or not he is actually right or correct.
I have as much use for Rand Paul as I do Mitt Romney or I did John McCain.
Useless reflexive naysaying obstructionists, playing at being principled leaders.