steeleydock: More on Illegals

Monday, February 12, 2024

More on Illegals

A woman was taken to a hospital after she was hit by a car in Shadyside Friday.
Pittsburgh police said a woman in her 40′s was hit by a car at 5th Avenue and Morewood Avenue just before 10 a.m.
According to police, the woman was in the designated crosswalk and had the right-of-way when the driver tried to make a left turn on a green light.

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Tic Tacs are labeled as sugar free even though they are 94% sugar. As long as there’s less than half a gram of sugar, the FDA permits products to be labeled sugar free. Each Tic Tac has 0.49 grams of sugar.

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More on Illegals

Zacharia has doubled down on From's argument that processing illegals is more reasonable than stopping them first. There is a new red herring in this argument: the Republicans say that processing illegals has been managed by executive orders and should be now, the Democrats say that executive action is inappropriate. So the small government party wants more government and the large government party wants less. The inconsistencies here are paralyzingly overwhelming. (Remember, Biden had a majority in the House and Senate his first two years.)

Note this from Voice of America, Feb. 2, 2021, right after Biden's election: "U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to start dismantling former President Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies." Biden here was using executive action to overturn Trump's earlier executive action.

The high-minded concern for executive action is an insincere smokescreen. Both parties are happy to use it. (see below) And the aim is to obscure the basic problem: how illegals are viewed. Democrats are happy to have them and want the apparatus to process them after they arrive, Republicans probably don't like them and want them held out of the country while they are processed. The debate as to how they should be evaluated is legitimate but the obscuring of the debate implies these politicians are unwilling--or at least uncomfortable--making their real reasons for their positions known.