Subject: Re: Green Card interviews end in handcuffs
Echota,

NY Times articles are constant "spin."

Plays for emotional sympathy/manufactured outrage.

(That's why many of them are now clearly labeled "Opinion.")

If you read one of these pieces and are "angry" or "outraged," that's deliberate.

You're being manipulated, deliberately.

What's missing?

None of the people being detained claim to be in the United States legally.

They say things to the effect of: "....but my lawyer told me it wasn't a big deal" to be in the country illegally.

How many dozens, hundreds, or thousands of detention cases did the NY Times have to sift through before finding those which they felt would be most sympathetic, most guaranteed to generate manufactured outrage, anger, and engagement?

Not one of these illegals or their family members ever say: "You know, we were careless. We didn't follow the immigration laws to the letter. We thought we would get a 'pass.' On the one hand, we were encouraged to feel this wasn't an issue by our attorney and also by the previous policies of the Biden and Obama administrations. On the other, we knew the person detained was in the country illegally."

Not one of them. Not one of them takes ownership of their own legal responsibilities. Those that do, don't get published by the NY Times.

Suppose ICE started enforcing the laws only against the less-sympathetic cases. The articulate, relatively well spoken, "people just like us" immigrants shouldn't have to abide by the rules because...they're "just like us."

Would that be fair? Would that be equitable? Of course not.

Yet with the situation involving Carolyn Leavitt's brother's baby mama--ProGlibs insist that this situation is some kind of "dunk" on Caroline Leavitt because immigration laws are being equally enforced against her brother's baby mama.