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For a long time now I've been for increased legal immigration and ease of legal immigration and just as strongly against illegal immigration. So you can see how I would be pretty big on border patrol being relatively heavy handed. That ended this afternoon.
I'm still just as strongly against illegal immigration but the border patrol being too aggressive is infringing on one of the most fundamental rights of the Mexican folks. Which is to say, catching the bigass flathead catfish that live in the Rio Grande. There's a lot of things I'm willing to allow for a solid border and rule of law but fucking with the pursuit of huge, delicious flathead is not among them. I'm going to have to revisit my views on river policy.
For them of you what ain't aware, most catfish over five pounds start getting unfortunate amounts of yellow, fatty meat that is other than the light, flaky, delicious meat that you expect to enjoy when experienced on a dinner plate. Now you can cut it out but that always seems wasteful, which is part of why a lot of catfish folks throw back anything over a certain size. Flatheads taste better than blues and channels (what you eat if you order catfish at a restaurant) to start with because they eat live bait almost exclusively and hardly have the yellow fat issue at all; if you catch an eighty pound flathead, you can expect to enjoy every bit of meat on it. They're also the most challenging to catch of the catfish in the US.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:29PM (2 children)
Personally, I'd prefer the border be tight enough that nobody inside the border ever had to be annoyed by immigration/border nonsense. I don't see it happening any time soon though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 24 2019, @06:09AM (1 child)
The implication is that it's simply impossible for the state to respect my rights, because the state has made a mess of immigration policy and virtually everything related.
No. Their failure does not erode my rights. What a great job! Any time you mess up you get more power?
That's insanity.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 24 2019, @12:19PM
That wasn't meant to be implied.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.