The Republicans are claiming to be the party of law and order in the ICE raids issue. They consider Trump’s policy to arrest and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, by any means possible, to be the law.
Courts that rule against Trump’s policy, declaring for
example the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles to be illegal, are
denounced as “lawfare”, – unelected judges trying to thwart the policy of the
elected president who has a “strong mandate” to deal with “illegal immigrants”.
As an aside, recent polls show that the majority of Americans do not support
the Trump regime’s handling of immigrants (nor any other issue for that matter)
– so much for Trump’s strong mandate”. And people who try to protect immigrants
from the illegal raids, including judges, mayors, and members of Congress, are
arrested and charged with obstructing justice. Tom Homan, Trump’s “border Czar”,
warned that anyone, including judges, who obstructs Trump’s immigration agenda
will be prosecuted.
Now what if the tables were turned. Suppose that
President Biden had issued an executive order to outlaw the possession of
assault rifles. The courts ruled against the order, but that didn’t stop him.
He then sent the National Guard into Republican states to raid any home,
without a warrant, that they suspected might have such now-illegal weapons. And
to seize any such weapons they found and arrest the entire families in the
home, sending them to offshore prisons. The courts ruled that this use of the National
Guard, and the deporting of citizens, are both illegal but that didn’t stop the
president.
Do you suppose that Republican judges, mayors and
members of Congress might oppose such actions and perhaps try to protect their
people? And loudly protest such actions as “police state” terrorism? Of course
they would – and so they should; most if not all Democrats would as well. But
now people who obstructed the President’s agenda would be heroes, not
criminals, in the eyes of Republicans.
Now, for the record, I don’t believe for a second that
Biden would do any of that. When the courts stopped his student loan forgiveness
order he backed off and found another, legal, route and did what he could.
So, people who try to obstruct illegal actions are
either criminals or heroes, depending on whether you support the policy behind
the actions.
Sources:
https://hartmannreport.com/p/noem-the-fbi-and-trump-just-sent-3ee
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