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“Somehow we can follow some laws and we don’t have to follow other laws, but who’s accountable for this?” Abraham said. “You talk about this due process … Katie didn’t get any due process.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Sanctuary policies are not about love and compassion. They are about stupidity and the normalization of lawlessness. Immigration laws were put in place for good reasons. LEGAL immigration does work.
My neighbor who came here LEGALLY from Venezuela is not a fan of open borders either. Best neighbor ever.
Most Immigrants are here to better their lives and their families’ lives. Just like Tens of millions of other immigrants have for centuries. There is always a few bad among all groups of people, including born in America. These immigrants are the new face of Chicago, so get used to it.
Legal immigration is fine but open borders don’t work. Open borders will destroy a country. You should listen to historian Victor Davis Hanson. He explains it very well.
As sad and tragic as her case is, how does abrograting due process for those “accidentally” sent improve her case? This isn’t a zero sum game between them. The guy sent to El Salvador did not commit the crime in her case.
Because Mr. Jones, as we see over and over, the illegals, in large mass, don’t respect our culture of laws and civility. Clearly in the back of Mr. Cucul-Bol’s mind, he can always flee the country and escape responsibility…just like the country he came from.
Do statistics prove that out?
Using incarceration rates as a proxy for respecting laws and culture, immigrants have a lower rate than native-born citizens. Digging deeper, illegal immigrants have a higher rate than legal, but still lower than native born. Sounds good for illegals, right? But there are a couple of problems. First, some immigrant groups have extremely low rates of crime, such as Indians and Chinese. Lumping all immigrants together hides this fact. Separating by country of origin would probably provide a far different picture. Second, native-born group includes people who are the children of illegal immigrants. Would separating out the children of illegals… Read more »
El Salvador is his home. He is home now.
Doesn’t answer the question.
At all.