Too perfect
It's been an eventful few days, with Easter, the death of Pope Francis (rest in peace), Earth Day, and a lot of misleading statements about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his deportation to El Salvador, for which he had a court order protecting him from being sent (anywhere else, fine, but not El Salvador).
But that's not what I want to talk about today, other than to remind that everyone in the United States, just by virtue of being on our soil, is entitled to due process, which Abrego Garcia nor any of the other recent deportees apparently received before their abrupt removal (if you want to deport someone who is a member of a terrorist group, you must prove membership in court first). Citizenship is not a prerequisite for such protection in a supposedly democratic society such as ours, and no amount of obfuscation will change that. It's not the person who matters in cases like this (though Abrego Garcia's MS-13 membership has never been proven), but the rule of law, and that means due process must be given, and on the present case (not cases in the past that are immaterial).
Instead, I want to talk about something I've held forth on many times before, but it bears repeating: Be very cautious of quotes that seem too perfect for your purposes.
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