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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:30 AM Jun 2018

Seeking asylum vs crossing the border?


I'm curious what percentage of families being separated are not actually crossing the border but rather seeking asylum?

Not that it really matters that much but those trying to justify this terror never mention asylum but rather "crossing the border illegally". Which by the way you'd think was a violent felony rather than the low level misdemeanor it is by the way the rabid rightwing frames it.
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Seeking asylum vs crossing the border? (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2018 OP
It seems to me that all of them are asylum seekers. DURHAM D Jun 2018 #1
I don't think there is a difference to the Pig and his pet elf... Thomas Hurt Jun 2018 #2

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
1. It seems to me that all of them are asylum seekers.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:40 AM
Jun 2018

I have been pushing back on this "entering illegally" thing for days with no progress.

I posted this several minutes ago -

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=208639

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. I don't think there is a difference to the Pig and his pet elf...
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:45 AM
Jun 2018

because the "criminality" is just the excuse for the fascist scapegoating, racism, and jingoism of the Pig Admin.

You notice how the Pig has no compunction about using this tactic and children as a way to try to extort political concessions from the Dems.

In the end, this is all about the Pig's Wall.

7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the US, a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.


Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism (1995)
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