1. I remember when my brother was tasked with dealing with the Haitian boat people that had begun under Bush41 and continued under Clinton. Janet gave him the task in part because he was jokingly termed the Ambassador to Florida. Both sides allowed him to take the actions they
2. knew had to be done. Rather than use it for more gotcha politics, the Orin Hatch headed GOP just let him do his job and the crisis ended. John had become known in Florida as the first prosecutor to convict white police for killing blacks in Dade county.
3. The Koch-fueled hatred that makes up the GQP raison d'être makes a bipartisan immigration fix impossible. We should not waste time on white supremacists and the GQP's prurient interest in the rights of immigrant children does little to advance their interests that were
4. used by the Koch machine to keep its strangle hold on tax policy at the cost of human misery and civil strife leading to an insurrection. Want to fix immigration? Lock Joseph Stalin's BFF's son Charles Koch in a cell for giving aid and comfort to the insurrection.
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