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Seth Meyers: Jan. 6 Panel Grills Giuliani for Nine Hours; Kellyanne Conway's New Book

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mmmirele5/23/2022 10:06:31 pm PDT

re: #20 EstebanTornado1963

There’s no republican past or present that I trust.

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This irritates me so much. Both the English-language US press and US politicians of both parties are to blame for this. The situation with the border is *complex*. It’s not easily condensed down to soundbites. Especially when both journalists and politicians try to just make it about drugs flowing over the border or “rampaging hordes of brown people.” We don’t talk about why Genaro Garcia Luna, former secretary of public security in Mexico, is going on trial in October for allegedly being paid off by the Sinaloa cartel. We don’t talk about how Honduras deported its former president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, to the USA a month ago, to stand trial on drugs and arms charges. We don’t talk about how shitty people’s lives are in so many countries due to the ongoing drug war or low level civil wars and immigration is seen as a way to escape. It’s all of a piece. Or even stories about how Mexico is currently being badly affected by the Ukraine war because wheat shipments are held up. We don’t hear any of this.

Sorry to rant, the situation is complex….