All Purpose News and Politics Thread Part IV: The Center Cannot Hold

[aja_christopher]

So, it's not just brown skinned people ICE hunts after....

Irishman has called Philly area home since '07, but ICE wants to send him back

But "non-whites" are the individuals who get profiled, even when American citizens, as the conviction of Joe Arpaio verifies.

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"ICE releases U.S. citizen, 18, held near Texas border more than 3 weeks"

"A U.S.-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.

Francisco Erwin Galicia left a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Texas. His lawyer, Claudia Galan, confirmed he had been released, less than a day after The Dallas Morning News' reporting about his case drew national attention.

ICE did not immediately comment. Nor did U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, the agency that first detained Galicia.

Galicia lives in the border city of Edinburg, Texas, and was traveling north with a group of friends when they were stopped at a Border Patrol inland checkpoint. According to Galan and the Morning News, agents apprehended Galicia on suspicion that he was in the U.S. illegally even though he had a Texas state ID.

Galicia was detained for three weeks by the Border Patrol, then transferred to the ICE detention center...

Galicia was detained by the Border Patrol for well above the 72 hours that CBP says it is supposed to hold detainees. But in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, where Galicia was arrested, the Border Patrol is holding hundreds of adult men and women accused of entering the country illegally for longer than 72 hours. In McAllen, Texas, adult men are being held in fenced-in pens. Vice President Mike Pence visited those pens this month, and reports and video of conditions there sparked outrage.

The Morning News reported that Galicia wasn't transferred out of Border Patrol custody to ICE until Saturday. That's when he was able to make collect calls to his mother. Galan drove Tuesday to the detention center in Pearsall to secure his release.

Immigration authorities are not supposed to detain U.S. citizens. But both ICE and CBP have apprehended citizens in the past.

A 2018 investigation by the Los Angeles Times found that ICE had released more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship status. In one case, a U.S. citizen was held in immigration detention for more than three years..."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/francis...-than-3-weeks/

[WestPhillyPunisher]

People who cheer when this kind of thing happens to non-white immigrants don't understand that it's a downhill process. They start with a guy you don't know, then they come after your neighbor, and before you know it they are coming after you or someone in your family.

As the reports of natural born citizens being detained have proven, all you need is a tan and a somewhat foriegn sounding name to be dragged Into custody.

Reminds me of that poem by Martin Niemöller from back during World War II:

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me."

Slippery slope, yo!

[InformationGeek]

Watching the Mueller Testimony. My god, Doug Collins is trying to his damn hardest to make Mueller say Trump is innocent by hammering in this whole collusion point. Also, the man should slow down. He sounds like hes hyped on coffee.

[InformationGeek]

John Ratcliffe is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo full of s**t. What the f**k is this nonsense, trying to badger and rant at Mueller.

"You're wrong! ALL WRONG because of a technicality! Therefore, YOU'RE WRONG!!!!!"

Also, what the hell was that "socialists" remark? Get the hell out of here!

[InformationGeek]

Jim Sensenbrenner is up and looks like a complete idiot. "Why did you start an investigation if you didn't believe you could arrest them!"

"Because you never know where an investigation can go." Good response by Muller.


Still, Sensenbrenner is still looking like an ass. "You can do anything him! He's the president, so why bother trying?!"

[InformationGeek]

Steve Chabot: "This is all a conspiracy to get people to want to impeach Trump! This is all awful!! How dare they!"


And here comes Chabot trying to say this is all a conspiracy by the Clintons to hurt Trump.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Sounds like a first class circus, IG. But then, that was to have been expected with rabid Republicans eager to tear into Mueller because he DARED to do the job to which he had been given. What a bunch of maroons!

[InformationGeek]

Sounds like a first class circus, IG. But then, that was to have been expected with rabid Republicans eager to tear into Mueller because he DARED to do the job to which he had been given. What a bunch of maroons!

Don't worry man, it'll get worse. HERE COMES LOUIE GOHMERT!!!!!!

[Tendrin]

[QUOTE]After spending time with his family at their lake house, Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) announced his retirement, saying that “there’s a whole world out there outside this city that’s a pretty damn nice place.”

“You look at the rhetoric and vitriol, it overwhelms policy, politics becomes the norm,” he told Politico Playbook. “Everything’s about politics. Everything’s about an election. And at some point of time, that’s not why I came here. ”[/QUOTE

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/g...-paul-mitchell

[InformationGeek]

Oh god, stop! STOP! Someone get a cane and yank Gohmert out of here!

Mueller: "May I finish?"

Gohmert: "NO!"

[InformationGeek]

John Ratcliffe is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo full of s**t. What the f**k is this nonsense, trying to badger and rant at Mueller.

"You're wrong! ALL WRONG because of a technicality! Therefore, YOU'RE WRONG!!!!!"

Also, what the hell was that "socialists" remark? Get the hell out of here!

Oh, NOW this makes sense!

Rep. John Ratcliffe, who used his five minutes during the hearing to argue that President Trump was held to a different standard than anyone else would be, has been under consideration for a job in the administration, sources say https://cnn.it/2XWQMvc

Man has to kiss some ass it seems.

[Tendrin]

Any political party that isn't embaressed by having a Gohmert as a member...

[InformationGeek]

Oh god, here comes Jim Jordan. Brace yourself for smug jackassness!

SHUT UP! The goddamn ranting and smugness burns! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

[InformationGeek]

Oh boy, here's Gaetz, screaming like a madman and claiming Steele made everything up. It cannot be that Trump did something wrong. It has to be someone else!!!

[Iron Maiden]

Been watching some of this and it looks to me that the GOP are trying to make Mueller look befuddled. They fire off these questions about something on a specific page and then he tries to go back and look it over to make sure he knows what they are talking about. I wouldn't trust the S.O.B's to take some random stuff out of context for their questions. They've already prepared what points they are going to bring. I think they should have given the witness a short list of the pages they they were going focus in on.