Do Immigrants Have the Right to Pursue Happiness?
"Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says."
"Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says."
"While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them."
"Republicans are back on their feet, cheering the very Big Government they despised a generation ago."
"The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions."
While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."
"Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians."
"That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense."
"Many of its current members -- they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- have poor human rights records themselves."
"The ACLU’s move from neutral protector of civil liberties to partisan advocate of liberal politics is both a symptom and consequence [of extremes gaining power]."
"The OLC argues that the presidential order, issued without authorization by or consultation with Congress, was nevertheless lawful because the president 'had reasonably determined that the use of force would be in the national interest and that the anticipated hostilities would not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.'"