Feds lie: They put that Iranian student on a plane 30 minutes after a judge told them not to

But shouldn't enforce rules and regulations that you feel are unjust correct? (Or ones that a federal judge tells them not to enforce which I agree)

The KGB was not the Soviet CIA; it was a vast security apparatus that included also the border patrol, the coast guard, and the Soviet equivalent of ICE, and even its own army. You could tell a green-uniformed border guard from a regular Soviet soldier because the latter wore the letter "SA" (for "Soviet Army") on their shoulder boards, but the border guards wore "PV" ("Pogranichniye Voiska" = "Border Troops").

There were also grey-uniformed troops with "GB" on their shoulder boards (for "Gosudarstvennaya Bezopasnost" = "State Security".

In 2001, when George W. Bush proposed the creation of DHS, I opposed it, comparing it to the Soviet KGB, which indeed it has become: a huge bureaucracy driven by insitutionalized paranoia and the constant need to uncover enemies of the people in order to justify its existence.

I remember crossing the Soviet Finnish border in 1975, going to Moscow by train, and again a couple weeks later, going back to Helsinki. It was quite an experience.

I think you're being too hard on these poor banal bureaucrats. After all, they were just following orders.

Who will broom the upstairs like you said.

Was this guy shouting "Death to America" before he was arrested? If all Iranians share the same views, do all Americans have the same political views too?

Should we assume you love Elizabeth Warren on the basis that she has millions of supporters in the US? That would be the safe assumption, right?

If someone in the US shouts, "Death to the democrats" should everyone else of same demographic be rounded up on the basis that they represent a potential threat to other American citizens?

You know, from being afraid of young students?

"We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well."

-Richard Hofstadter

In addition to your clear lack of understanding of what Northeastern's co-op program is and how it works (you can't "do a co-op on traveling" somewhere), you also paint with a really xenophobic brush here. I'm sure there were just as many Americans (I wouldn't be surprised if you were among them) shouting to blow up Iran last week, but there's no basis for your implication that the illegally-deported student had any ill will towards most of America, though I wouldn't be surprised if that's changed in the past week or so considering how he was treated by idiots like you.

...not to run you in for questioning on a regular basis, given that the most common terrorist profile in America today is a white man.

i’m fairly certain that O-FISH-L is a bot. same for that other ostensibly intelligent conservative guy that posts on here (can’t remember his username).

fish never responds to comments and his posts always contain some syntactical oddities.

I'm sure whatever classes he misses at Northeastern can be made up or perhaps he could do his co-op on traveling to the U.S.A. from the world's leading state sponsor of terror.

what does this even mean? outside of hitting talking points, i can’t make practical sense of this sentence.

that said, i know it’s great to vent some frustration on here but he’s likely not real.

The State Department just issued the visa last week. If they weren't going to let him study here, they should have rescinded the visa before he got on the plane.

You might want to learn how laws are actually enforced and how separation of powers work before you start talking about it.

we seem to keep forgetting that counties stopped cooperating with ICE because they filled up the jails with civil detainments and then stiffed them on the bill.

Public health services don't report immigration status because they are afraid that people will won't seek treatment or immunizations out of fear of deportation.