All Democrats Do Is Lie

You know, the Democrats have a case to make over the Abrego Garcia affair. 

It is a so-so case. Perhaps even a weak case. But it is not utterly absurd. Having the courts give a definition of what process is actually “due” in immigration cases involving identified terrorist organization-affiliated individuals wouldn’t be the worst thing. 

But we all know that “due process” is an excuse, and not the point. And it is hard to get as much sympathy for their cause as they would like, given that Abrego Garcia really is a scumbag, not a fine, upstanding, and according to Van Hollen, a “constituent” of the Senator. He is an illegal alien with precisely zero right to be here in the US even if he were a good guy, and certainly not one of Van Hollen’s voters, at least not legally. 

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But, as I wrote yesterday, the “due process” argument works primarily with the laptop class who think in those terms, and not so much about the fact that gang members might murder or rape somebody. After all, that happens elsewhere. Due process is something clean and abstract to think about. 

Remember, this demographic cared deeply about Stormy Daniels and Trump’s “34 Felonies” for giving her a check, yet shrug off ordinary people getting raped and children being trafficked or abused. 

To appeal outside the laptop class, Van Hollen and company must deny the truth about Abrego Garcia. Ordinary people rightly wonder why this is the hill Democrats want to die on. Why expend so much effort to defend a wife-beating gang member?

The answer: deny the obvious. 

Lost among all the verbal salvos thrown out there is the simple fact that Abrego Garcia DID get due process, and he WAS adjudicated to be a gang member by an immigration judge. It was not a criminal trial because, after all, they didn’t want to jail him but rather deport him, but the judge said right there in his order that the evidence showed he was a member of MS 13. 

Van Hollen lied. Right there on CNN, and many times elsewhere. 

We can have an argument about whether YOU are convinced, but that is utterly beside the point. The judge gets to decide, not you, and the standard of evidence is quite low when dealing with an illegal immigrant who already has no right to be here. 

The only legitimate argument regards the deportation to El Salvador, rather than some other country. A second immigration judge granted Obrega Garcia’s plea not to be deported there because he might be in danger. As a gang member himself, he might be in danger from a rival gang, after all.  

At other times, Van Hollen has avoided answering whether Abrego Garcia was or was not an MS 13 member, sticking to the due process argument. That is stronger ground legally and in regard to the truth, but not persuasive to people outside a relatively small slice of the population. 

So he lies, and in a great irony, his laptop class supporters seem just fine with that. “Norms” and basic decency don’t apply in such matters. Every “i” and “t” must be dotted in some cases, but when dealing with the ordinary folk, it is OK to lie. Even to courts, as you will recall, the FBI lied to the FISA Court to maintain surveillance on the Trump campaign, and not a one of these people did anything but applaud. 

I think Abrego Garcia should have had 5 minutes in front of a judge before he was shipped off to exactly where he is now, satisfying the due process concerns of the concern trolls. But to see this as a great injustice?

You had to have swallowed all the lies.