Pope Leo declared: “No one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person, especially the most frail and vulnerable, from the unborn to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, citizens and immigrants alike.”
A friendly border, spanning a continent, is an immeasurable asset — socially, economically and environmentally. Keeping it requires just a modest use of intelligence. Unfortunately the Trump Administration is neither modest nor intelligent.
“Chilling the lawyers who represent those people hurts the rule of law because when the government can’t be legally opposed, the law provides no protections to anyone, and you start to live in an autocracy.”
No one can lie like Trump. Trump will abolish the entire concept of truth. I have several duplicity name thoughts — for boys, Mendacious, DuPlicit, and Falisfyfire. For girls, Perfidious, Prevaricature. Farbricature.
The Hong Kong student no longer participates in class discussions and is reassessing her post-graduation plans of remaining in the U.S. “I’ve got to be really careful where I tread,” the student said. “I am just very much scared about what I say, what I do.” She has also chosen to opt out of a trip to Canada with friends out of fear of not being able to return to the U.S.