Because gang affiliation is not illegal, only criminal actions associated with gang activity are. For US citizens, police can’t just arrest someone because they think they’re a Blood or Crip, they need some other crime to charge them with.
With illegal immigrants, the govt can legally deport someone for any rationale they wish, as the person has no legal right to be here. In this case, gang affiliation is just a pretext, and not the legal reason for deportation (thus not required to prove it in trial).
Although I would argue this is limited to deportation only, and the US govt should not send illegal immigrants to foreign prisons without a standard of proof of real criminal activity. Sending people to prison with no due process is contrary to our founding principles, even if non-citizens.
But ironically, gang affiliation is illegal in El Salvador…
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
