Typically, here at our little snarkfest, we hold up the GOP stupidity to the light so to receive it’s rightful ridicule. Today, however, the snarkfest is going full rageathon.
Both, Sam Damon and I, have addressed the GOP fear mongering as it relates to the human wave attacks along our southern border, carried out by hoards of small brown children fleeing for their lives from their home countries, alone.
The GOP position and reaction on this issue was of the predictable level of batshit insane and mouth breathing stupid we’ve come to expect. Unfortunately, there was something else entirely predictable that I’ve been waiting to be reported, with no small amount of dread, and Saturday it showed up in all of it’s full tragic reality. From the L.A. Times,
“There are many youngsters who only three days after they’ve been deported are killed, shot by a firearm,” said Hector Hernandez, who runs the morgue in San Pedro Sula. “They return just to die.”
At least five, perhaps as many as 10, of the 42 children slain here since February had been recently deported from the U.S., Hernandez said.
Immigrant aid groups and human rights organizers say the Honduran government is ill-equipped to assist children at high risk after they have been returned.
That one of our two political parties cannot distingiush a humanitarian crisis from an immigration issue, or, as is more likely, chooses not to, shows just how far down the moral abyss it has desended. In fact, assigning any morality at all to the leadership or membership of this out of control and unrepent national disgrace requires one more subatomic grain of give-a-fuck than I possess. You see, the deaths of these children and those to come isn’t some tragic unintended consequence, of bad policy, it’s a goddamn design feature. From MSNBC
Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who at one point was said to be writing his own immigration overhaul legislation and this week is at the Texas border visiting detention centers, has sent President Barack Obama a letter calling for an end to the 2012 executive order granting stays of deportation to children brought into the country illegally by their parents.
Reversing the president’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals order, known as DACA, would “send a clear signal to all individuals that our immigration laws will be enforced,” the California Republican and thirty-two House GOP cosigners wrote.
Remember, the deferred-action policy doesn’t actually relate to the ongoing humanitarian crisis along the Southern border – none of these unattended children who crossed the border illegally recently will be able to stay under DACA.
But Issa, who found 32 other House Republicans to sign onto his letter, believes more deportations will send a “signal” to families in countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
In other words, nearly three dozen House Republican lawmakers have a message for Dream Act kids: “Sorry, but if some Central American families have been misled by unscrupulous smuggling groups, the appropriate solution is to deport young people from the only home they’ve ever known.”
There is only one acceptable solution to allowing the zombiefied corpse of the GOP to wander through the political landscape of our country. A fatal blow to the head delivered with the most powerful and effective weapon available, the vote.
The current demographic of scared, angry white people can see the event horizon of their inevitable decent into the minority, and that’s why they’re scared. Similarly, the Bible thumping Christain Taliban seem to sense their diminishing influence, which I see reflected in their increasingly egregious attempts to discriminate against those with whom they disagree, either despite the rule of law, or by trying to codify their bigotry into law .
The ratfucking politicians who represent the interests of those groups do not, in any recognizable way, represent the best interests of our country, and I’m tired of them being the face of a government that acts nationally and on the world stage on my behalf. Here is a reminder from Charlie Pierce as to why that is so.
It is now the stated position of most of the Republican party in this country, and of Republican politicians like Steve King and most of the prospective 2016 presidential field, that more children must be sent home to die this way. People should remember that.
