Heroes and Villains: immigration

I had a fall during the taping of Episode 4 of The Erickson Report, delaying production for a week. So I thought I would post a couple of things intended for that show but which will not be used now. This was to be the first appearance of a new occasional feature called Heroes and Villains.

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Heroes and Villains: immigration

Another new feature which will pop up from time to time. It's called Heroes and Villains and to kick it off we have a double-header.

Our first hero is new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Reports had surfaced of a plan by ICE to launch massive nationwide raids over the weekend of June 22-23 including in Chicago, targeting thousands of migrant families for deportation.

Lori Lightfoot

The plan for whatever reason was dumped and the raids didn't happen, but not before mayors, city officials, and police departments from across the country announced they would refuse to cooperate with the feds in carrying out the raids.

Lightfoot was one of the first mayors to speak out. She ordered Chicago police to not cooperate and to cut off ICE’s access to databases of information on immigrants living in the city. She later declared that Tweetie-pie should "back off."

She was not the only mayor to speak out but she did so clearly and forcefully and for that Lori Lightfoot is our Hero.

There could be a lot of villains for this, but there is one who seems particularly apt.

Sarah Fabian

So our villain is Sarah Fabian. She is the Department of Injustice lawyer who stood before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on June 18 and argued that the Tweetie-pie administration does not have to provide items such as soap or toothbrushes or bedding to children held in immigration's human dog pounds despite a 1997 agreement requiring "safe and sanitary" conditions.

Fabian's argument, which the three-judge panel met with barely restrained incredulity, came down to saying that things like soap and the rest aren't required because they weren't specified in the original agreement.

After being scorched on social media, Fabian whined on Twitter that she wasn't saying kids don't deserve thing like soap, she was just saying that there is no obligation to provide them to the children in our concentration camps. Ah yes, that makes all the difference.

Some people tried to defend her by saying she was just doing her job, which prompted others to make reference to "just following orders." My own response: Quit.

Sarah Fabian: villain.