Ahh, so some smoked marijuana, others killed. One basket!!
I didn't see where it said just pot possession; what I read said drugs. I don't know if it was weed, crack, heroin, all the above for personal use or in the amount to sell.
I hear ya though; these days simple personal use pot possession hardly feels like a crime when it's legal in some states and practically legal in others.
The drugs are still illegal at the fed level. We criticized obongo for cherry picking what laws he was going to enforce. It would be hypocritical to do the same thing in this case.
I have no beef with middle eastern Christians; only the muzzies but the laws have to apply equally or they are worthless. It's also why obama, his upper level Admin, and others associated with it should all be looking at 20-life but they get off the hook because they are pols or well connected. It isn't right.
I think, to glean what we can from the story (since we cannot trust the New York Times to tell it factually) is that these people were convicted of crimes.
I guarantee you 100%, being the New York Times, if they could have squeezed as many “victims” in there being deported as having as their only crime the smoking of pot, they would have enumerated them, probably to the exclusion of all others.
As stupid and dishonest as they are, they know someone convicted of rape or murder is not going to elicit sympathy for the victims, or outrage against President Trump (or, Mr. Trump as the NYT likes to call him) so you can guarantee they are going to get the most sympathetic ones they can find.
They give three examples of people being unfairly treated. One would fully expect that if there were people being deported whose crime they were convicted of was littering (or smoking pot) that would be front and center.
But it isn’t.
There are three examples:
***One was a cocaine dealer who did 22 years and lost his green card at conviction.
***One was convicted of breaking and entering into an automobile after he came here as a teenager.
***One was convicted of brandishing a gun (probably illegally owned) during a road rage incident.
That’s it. I could see feeling some sympathy for paying so high a price for youthful trespass of law breaking into a car, or even brandishing a gun in a moment of passion. The guy dealing coke? Not so much, for a sentence like that of 22 years, he probably had a minimum of 200 grams of cocaine.
Bottom line, these were likely the most abjectly minor offenses of all of those people detained in the last sweep.
Do you agree that if the NYT could have made it look like they were deporting people convicted of smoking pot, they would have explicitly done just that?