JBG
Liberal democrat
"Migrants Deported to Panama Ask: ‘Where Am I Going to Go?’ Dozens of stranded migrants sleep on mattresses in a school gymnasium. In interviews, 25 deportees from around the world said they were stuck in limbo." (headline and sub-headline) (link, paywall free, excerpts below):
The European immigrants of the early 20th Century were led to believe that "the streets were paved with gold" but they did not rely on the government to guarantee it. Trump may not be everyone's favorite. He's not mine. But he's not "the Grinch who stole Christmas" or some random "meanie." No one had a right to rely on any ability to break the law forever.
The intelligent question is did these people or the ones who organized their migration to the U.S. really believe that they could rely on an inherently illegal process and policy? Maybe the migrants themselves, or some of them, are illiterate simpletons. But did these people organize their own transport? Who told them they should come to the U.S.?New York Times said:When the first buses of newly freed migrants arrived this month in Panama City from a detention camp at the edge of a jungle, three people were visibly ill. One needed H.I.V. treatment, a lawyer said, another had run out of insulin and a third was suffering from seizures.
Confusion, chaos and fear reigned. “What am I going to do?” one migrant wondered aloud. “Where am I going to go?”
These are questions being asked by dozens of migrants deported to Panama last month by the Trump administration, part of the president’s sweeping efforts to expel millions of people from the United States.
The European immigrants of the early 20th Century were led to believe that "the streets were paved with gold" but they did not rely on the government to guarantee it. Trump may not be everyone's favorite. He's not mine. But he's not "the Grinch who stole Christmas" or some random "meanie." No one had a right to rely on any ability to break the law forever.