"The Intercept found a gulf between how the Colquitt County Sheriffโs Office presented the operation to the public and what actually happened. Rather than serving existing criminal warrants, local authorities conducted traffic stops, arrested people without licenses, and sent information about the detainees to DHS. Only then, after the men were in custody, did the federal agency issue warrants for their arrest."
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Georgia Police Arrest Farmworkers โ Then Get Warrants From DHS
Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. They swept people up and got immigration detainers later.Schuyler Mitchell (The Intercept)
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Kent Paint
in reply to Kenny Chaffin • • •I enjoy reading this โค thank you!
still a quarter left to read but it's so good it even made me want to eat sth. ;D so I go, make some act of selfpreservation and read the rest for dessert.
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merci again!
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Greg A. Woods
in reply to Kenny Chaffin • • •I'm having a hard time connecting that essay with the apparent reality of Trump supporters and the seemingly vast majority of them who claim to be "fundamental" "Christians" of some sort.
The disconnect seems, to me, to be that they claim to have a shared morality dictated by devotion to a dogmatic religion. They're not descended from the Enlightenment -- they're a throwback to pre-Enlightenment dark ages, but somehow they latch onto a god-less evil sociopath.
Kent Paint
in reply to Kenny Chaffin • • •(notice: my english is too bad to serve good expression, so beg your pardon for the following)
I do not live in america but we sure follow the desaster here in central europe too...
I do not have hard time connecting the essay with ongoing reality (viz. ca.60% that 2 paragraphs from "along comes trump"- "part of your predicament")
that summs up what I felt in the first election where hilary clinton was on vote - the double standards that were ruling(and are ruling still, like the christdemocrats here in eu) suddenly lost and were replaced by sb. like trump. there is one difference: he had the rhetoric of a wrecking ball. he was talking like an arsehole and made politics like an arsehole. those before him got nobel price for peace but were also making politics like arseholes...
I thought that trump would break up the system and he would never get elected again... that was an error
here we have von der Leyen and mr. german vote chancellor Merz their double standards will in worst case lead to the election of some right wing arsehole in the next terms - in italy they already have Meloni - the female trump-style. in poland the double standard Tusk now playing big democrat what seems a joke when sb. looks deep enough but in contrary to the trump-style PIS-shits he really can put himself in scene like that...
even the green party germany in on european level a christian party. it is a desaster where ever you look - its that instrumentalisation of values which devalues.
for me what I read and uderstand from that article/essay is (again) one of the questions to be solved (by us the people of this age): how do we get some common base done without giving up our hyperindividualistic claims.
nobody solved that yet. it's on us and those generations who follow after us.
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Greg A. Woods
in reply to Kenny Chaffin • • •I think I understand you, but that's not what the essay seems to be talking about.
The author seems to be trying to suggest that the Enlightenment brought about a form of secular thinking that "thinned" morality to the point where people don't have a strong enough guiding belief system to prevent them from doing bad things.
However it seems to me the average MAGA person is a "fundamental" "Christian" of some sort. (I use quotes around those words because there are many variations and they may not all mean the same thing as traditional Christianity). They claim to have extremely strong "god"-linked morals, right down to many being "right-to-lifers" and bible pushers.
Meanwhile what seems to have actually happened in the USA is that all these "fundamental" "Christian" MAGA people have chosen to ignore each and every immoral thing (based on their own "Christian" morals!) that Trump has done and continues to do.
So I think the essay misses the mark entirely. It doesn't answer the question at all.
I don't even think that they believe "Trump is Good" -- they just like the smarmy arse, as if he is one of them.
Now part of that is probably due to what some call "celebrity culture", which may actually be a fallout of the distant past Enlightenment.
How it's all connected, I'm not sure, but the essay doesn't answer that either.
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