My current News & Advance and Kitsap Sun columns --S/f, EFP

 

        [I was able to add this afterword to the Kitsap Sun version of the column.}

An Afterword. Last week, on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, I heard Border Czar Tom Homan grilled about whether those recently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador received any due process. He dismissed the concern by resorting to inflammatory whataboutism. “All those young women who were raped and murdered by TDA,” he asked, “where was their due process?” The thing is, two wrongs don’t make a right. Granted, a few undocumented immigrants have committed heinous crimes. But presuming all undocumented aliens to be capable of such crimes, and preemptively deporting them, does not balance the scales of justice.

            Also, on that same Sunday talk show, I heard Bernie Sanders remind viewers of the fly in Trump’s mass-deportation operation: “I’ve got news for you. Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to pick the crops in California or work in the meat-packing plants.”

            A friend said he would “pay good money to see that.” So would I.