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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous]I am not going to read anything against this guy for several reasons.

1. When an action is wrong it is wrong, no matter who is the recipient. In the United States, it doesn't matter if someone committed a crime, you still can't violate his human rights. It doesn't matter if someone once upon a time broke the law, you still can't shoot him in the back. We are discussing the actions of this administration, not the moral character of its victims.

2. The Trump administration always villifies victims (see Renee Good, Alex Pretti and EVERYONE else they have shot) as well as everyone they have detained ("the worst of the worst"). This is the MO and it has gotten old, tired, and is full of holes.

3. The Trump administration are proven fabricators of stories. They are liars. I no longer believe ANYTHING this government says. It is too bad because there are likely some truths mixed in with the lies but I no longer believe one single thing. This is what happens when you lie and lie again: the erosion of trust. If your lips are moving, I assume you are lying.

4. The Trump administration can break laws with impunity and the rest of us are held to an impossibly high standard. I reject this hypocrisy.

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+1000

The effort to smear this guy is disgraceful [/quote]

Literally a drug dealer who abandoned his family in Ireland.

Just give up, nobody need make any effort to “smear” him, he smeared himself.

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If he’s all that, why did he bring himself to the attention of the media? Why did he ask the Irish government to intercede on his behalf with the Trump administration? 
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DP. For the record, The Guardian reported on the drug warrant. [/quote]

I don’t care if he was Jeffrey Dahmer. His character and past is not the point. By being white and foreign, he is bringing attention to the way immigration authorities in the US treat visa overstayers (overstaying your visa, even by decades, is not a crime under current US law)  and to the abhorrent conditions in US detention centers. [/quote]

The issue is not this particular man. It is the detention centers themselves. It is the overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. It is the behavior of the guards. It is the illegally long detentions. It is withholding food and medical care. It is the behavior of ICE and CBP.

Even if we were talking about a convicted criminal from Tren de Aragua (and you lied about that over and over and OVER with the Venezuelans in El Salvador, with the Chicago raid, every time LIE LIE LIE). But even if we were talking about a convicted criminals from Tren de Aragua or MS 13, our country has laws that need to be upheld. We have standards. Without them, [i]we[/i] become "the worst of the worst" and some of us do not want that. [/quote]

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