@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe This is such a heavily fallacious comparison. One key difference between the current administration's policies on immigrants and the Nazi regime's policies on Jews is one has extremely limited power compared to the other. The Nazis implemented laws to persecute shortly after...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...total control of the German government. They had no checks on their power. Many civil liberties guaranteed by the Weimar Constitution were nullified by the Reichstag Fire Decree, and the Enabling Act of 1933 removed any effective legislative check on the executive branch.
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe By comparison, the US has some of the strictest civil liberty restrictions on both national and regional governments, especially when compared with European countries (the EU's Legislative Committee recently passed the EU Copyright Directive, a law that severely threatens to...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...restrict the freedoms of speech and press. So clearly, if the EU is not being called a Nazi equivalent in terms of restrictions on civil liberties, then it follows that the US isn't either. The legislative check on the executive is also healthy in the US. No matter what law...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...the President wants, it has to be brought forth by a member of Congress and then passed by Congress, by which time it will likely be in a form the President will not wholly agree with. Comparing with the EU again, which again is not being compared to the Nazi regime in its...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...policies, there is a far weaker check by the legislature on the executive. Unlike Congress, no member of either the EU Parliament or the EU Council proposes legislation. Instead, it is the executive branch, the EU Commission, that proposes legislation.
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe Additionally, depending on the area of legislation, the Commission and Council may legislate independently of Parliament, or the Commission may legislate on its own in other more specific areas. I.e., Parliament, the only directly elected part of the EU, is not guaranteed a...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...say in all legislative matters and the Council, an indirectly elected body almost akin to the pre-17th Amendment Senate, is also not guaranteed a say in all legislative matters. The Commission, however, which is so indirectly elected it puts the US's Electoral College to...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...shame, has the ability to be the sole legislator in specific areas, with no attention being forced on the concerns or interests of the two legislative bodies of the EU, similar to a stripped down version of the Enabling Act of 1933. Considering the EU is not being compared...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...to the Nazi regime, and the US is stricter than the EU in both its civil liberties and checks and balances, it's absurd to compare the US to the Nazi regime when the intermediary is not being given such a distinction. I disagree with the current administration's policies on...
@kumailn @crahow555 @EricVespe ...immigration just as you do, but I plead that you at least have the sense to not make unfounded, hyperbolic comparisons that just distract the conversation and instead discuss on how we can move forward and make progress towards better immigration law and policy.
