The main cause of Tangerine’s lower border crossing figures was a wanton violation of our own, and international, laws: Tangerine was kidnapping children from their parents, in violation of numerous treaties and US federal law. Endless strands of federal courts have so held, for decades.
This is not not not “deftness” — of international leadership. This is… a criminal enterprise — nothing more (oh — and his wall was utterly… useless).
In point of fact, the Tangerine “tariff threats” to which Paul makes reference only came months AFTER Mexico had voluntarily eased the burden at border crossings.
But churlishly, Mirengoff writes — in unctuous fashion, thus (without any offered evidence):
…[Tangerine] addressed illegal immigration by brow-beating central American leaders into toughening up their immigration-related policies. That’s the kind of “steeliness” and “deftness” that produces results….
We know that’s a lie, Paul. We lived it. The federal courts ruled definitively that he had violated the law.
That is not… deft.
That’s just ultimately… impotent thuggery.
Out.
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