First, walk away from mass deportation once and for all. Deporting 11 million people, if it could be done, would be inhumane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Inhumane?\u00a0 That\u2019s a powerful condemnation, a word we\u2019d use to describe slavery or torture.\u00a0 Is it justified in this context?<\/span><\/p>\nA person who sneaks across the border into this country, claims asylum as a refugee but loses the case in immigration court, is ordered \u201cremoved\u201d which is the politically-correct word for \u201cdeported.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the law. \u00a0The fact there are many such people, does not change the law.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Is it inhumane to enforce existing law?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because immigrants would be sent out of the land of Milk and Honey back to poverty and misery?\u00a0 If that\u2019s the case, isn\u2019t it equally inhumane to leave people rotting in misery and poverty in their own countries because of an arbitrary border line?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we share our riches with everyone?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we eliminate the border on basic humanitarian grounds and let everybody in?\u00a0 Are borders themselves, inhumane?<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>If it\u2019s \u201cinhumane\u201d to enforce the border, then we shouldn\u2019t criticize Trump: we should criticize Congress and the President for maintaining the inhumane laws that presently exist.\u00a0 We should insist Congress repeal all immigration laws, fling the borders wide open and let everybody in. \u00a0Doing any less would be \u201cinhumane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Unless . . . unless that\u2019s not what Liberals really want.\u00a0 Unless they simply want to beat on Trump and any stick will do.\u00a0 If that\u2019s the case, then arguing for open borders gives millions false hope of amnesty, a unicorn dream in this political climate.\u00a0 And that would be truly inhumane.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhen they start applying this to logic and intelligence, then it’ll get serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I flinch when people urge that we condition law enforcement on \u201chumanity\u201d rather than \u201clegality.\u201d \u00a0Who decides which law is inhumane and need not be obeyed?\u00a0 Taken to its logical extreme, that argument produces anarchy. \u00a0 \u00a0For example, Paul Mirengoff writing at Powerline about Trump\u2019s immigration stance says: \u201cFirst, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60172,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60171\/revisions\/60172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}