He believes that people are simply grist for the propaganda mill. I suspect that they reject humanism as a communist plot.
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If the media wanted to “both sides” every random street crime in America, all the muggers and murderers and catalytic-converter thieves would also assure us that no laws were being broken
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“God is punishing us with this hurricane because we have not been cruel enough to Those People”
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I wonder if the people that believe God is punishing those people ever consider God is punishing them for not loving those people?
That thought never crossed their narrow little minds.
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See also:
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I recently read an article that essentially did just that.
Hicks said the lucrative heists have drawn in a dangerous new criminal element in Houston. He said HPD’s auto theft division has “dealt with the same criminals and their friends and their relatives for years,” a set number of crooks who steal cars, break into them and jack tailgates, wheels and tires.
They know not to carry weapons, Hicks said.
“Because they know in Harris County it’s a property crime and they’re not going to get any jail time, they’re only going to get a PR [personal recognizance] bond if they don’t have a weapon. And they all know this because they’re all convicted felons.”
Personally, I thought those statements betrayed Desantis as a morally depraved individual, but there’s always the danger that his millions of followers will seek political power by embracing moral idiocy,
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along those lines, this npr interviewee brings up the point that beyond the question of kidnapping charges there are constitutional issues because the state clearly can not detain you and transport you anywhere without due process
let alone a state, when the federal government has say over immigration not the individual states
in someways i wonder if there might be too many ways to prosecute this case. it makes it unwieldy and time consuming. and unless they’re able to apply charges to individuals, de santis and abbott will just ignore any injunction and keep doing it
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… they’ll keep it up until two minutes before there would be any consequences and then switch to a different atrocity, forcing opponents to start over
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David Simon, self-identified as the “Angriest Man in Television” (he wrote for The Wire and Treme and much more), sounds… angry:
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I thought that was John Rogers
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Popular Information, however, has obtained a brochure that was provided to the migrants who ultimately agreed to the flights. It was provided to Popular Information by Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), a Boston-based legal organization that represents 30 of the migrants. The brochure says that migrants who arrive in Massachusetts will be eligible for numerous benefits, including “8 months cash assistance,” “assistance with housing,” “food,” “clothing,” “transportation to job interviews,” “job training,” “job placement,” “registering children for school,” “assistance applying for Social Security cards,” and many other benefits.
None of this, however, is true.
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In the 60s in Louisiana white supremacists ran radio ads promising housing, jobs, and a presidential welcome to recruit people to ship to Massachusetts where none of those things were waiting.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/the-long-journey-north
(unfortunately not one-boxing)
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“inveiglement”
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Scathing. Absolutely on-point scathing.
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Bexar County sheriff has opened a criminal investigation. ETA: I hadn’t heard this yet- but the victims were here legally. As in- documented
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That’s a mighty interesting take from Salazar, especially after the challenge to SB4 failed its appeal in 2017 (?). Maybe there are some decent law enforcement folks in Texas? 
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-search-for-perla
The Search for “Perla”
The national news media seems to have lost interest entirely in the story of the Venezuelan immigrants shipped off to Martha’s Vineyard as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reelection campaign. The meta-story of course continues to get some attention — how it plays into the midterm, who it helps or hurts as a political story, etc. But I mean what actually happened. That’s unfortunate both in journalistic and political terms because even the barest look at the details we know make it very unlikely this was an official or on-the-books government operation. And yet it’s one Gov. Desantis has publicly taken credit for and said was paid for with taxpayer funds from Florida.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately despite the events in the UK positively dominating the news here.
There’s just so much to unpack.
Republicans just loooove talk shit about socialist Venezuela and how it’s such a commie hellhole. So, instead of welcoming its refugees, they shit all over them?
Then there’s all the irrelevant talk about illegal immigration, the “crisis at the border”, and so on. Yet, these aren’t illegal or undocumented immigrants. They are asylum seekers; we know who they are, they are quite literally “documented” in every sense of the word.
The recent revelations about the brochure they were given were definitely buried as I just heard about that today, and it just makes things even worse. It’s like a stranger offering candy to go into their van.
From a fiscal point of view (which Republicans claim is really important), how is it a good use of state taxpayer money to shuttle migrants around the country — migrants that aren’t even in your state? That $12 million DeSantis is so happy to waste on these political stunts could do a whole lot to help Floridians. If you were from Florida, would you think spending millions of dollars to “own the libs” is a good use of your money?
How is any of this Christian?
Finally, is this supposed to deter migrants? After trekking for weeks through the jungle and desert, a free flight to Martha’s Vineyard or Cape Cod would probably sound pretty great.
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