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from the 'Good-fences-make-good-neighbors'-/-Mending-Wall-/-Robert-Frost dept.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-mexico-border-history-photos-2017-4:
One of the Trump administration's latest immigration policies has come under fire, after Homeland Security figures revealed that ICE is separating families at the US-Mexico border.
Between May 5 and June 9, border officials separated more than 2,300 children from 2,206 parents, the DHS said Tuesday. The policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in early May, enforces "zero-tolerance" regulations on those who enter the US without documentation. Any migrant who attempts to cross the southern border — even those seeking asylum — is now being prosecuted.
Following mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle, Trump signed an executive order that he said will stop family separation at the border. But the fate of immigrant children already in custody remains unclear, and the order still faces legal obstacles.
The goal of establishing a firm physical boundary to separate the US from Mexico is nothing new. In the country that has the world's largest immigrant population, American presidential administrations have tried tightening security along the border for around a century.
Though the divide was formally established in 1824, the US didn't launch its official Border Patrol until 1924. Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.
The included pictures and captions speak of the changing attitudes towards Mexicans and their efforts to cross the border over the years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @10:24AM (1 child)
That's an oxymoron.
You're spouting Cold War bullshit.
The opposite of Socialism is NOT Democracy.
The opposite of Socialism is Capitalism.
Those 2 are ECONOMIC systems and are on the HORIZONTAL axis of the "political" palate.
It is completely possible to talk about that axis without mentioning The State.
(I do it all the time, mentioning the Mondragon worker-owned cooperative.)
GOVERNMENTAL systems are on the other (VERTICAL) axis with dictatorship at the top edge and anarchy at the bottom edge.
Liberal Democracy (AKA tax and redistribute; what a lot of uneducated bozos call "socialism") is in the middle area.
It's easy to spot the poorly informed in the crowd.
They repeat propagandistic bullshit they've heard on Lamestream Media instead of thinking outside the (idiot) box.
They get the 2 axes confused and call Socialism a governmental system.
People who think Democracy is the opposite of Socialism are simply idiots.
Capitalism can and does exist under the most repressive of regimes.
Socialism can only exist where there is Democracy.
Socialism is Democracy extended to the workplace AKA Democracy Everywhere).
If you're not mentioning the workplace in your description, you're talking about -something-, but it's not Socialism.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @11:15AM
Yes it is, history proves the point.
Then how do you enforce it?
Stupidity is democracy extended to the outcome of competitive sports, the revenue generating function of the market (free exchange) is already democratic.