The Democrat party is asking that every person who is in America be given a court trial before they are deported. I assume that includes major criminals as well as those who simply broke the law getting here. The Democrats have not always felt that way.
On Friday, Jack Cashill posted an article at Substack reminding us of some not-so-distant history. The article deals with the case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, whose mother died while trying to bring him to America. Elian was found floating in an inner tube on Thanksgiving Day, 1999, by two fishermen who rescued him and brought him to his relatives in Miami. Because the Clinton administration was trying to be nice to Fidel Castro (to prevent Castro from sending criminals to America), the administration immediately took action to take Elian away from his American relatives.
The article reports:
On Easter Saturday, April 22, 2000, heavily armed federal agents seized six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint from a closet in his uncle’s Miami home where he had been hiding.
…Almost from day one the Clinton White House did everything in its power—and outside its power—to send Elian back to Cuba. Google AI, an aggregator of mainstream reporting, sums up the case:
“Attorney General Janet Reno and later the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, disagreed with a court ruling and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) determination regarding the case. They determined that Elian should be returned to his father in Cuba, overriding the court and INS’s decisions. Specifically, Holder later claimed he didn’t need a court order to make this decision, stating that he believed the court and INS rulings were invalid.” Overriding? Didn’t need a court order? Invalid? Interesting.
Not surprisingly, Holder, who was Reno’s Deputy Attorney General, has a much softer spot in his heart for MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia than he did for Elian. Speaking with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, he called Trump’s treatment of Garcia “disgusting, shameful.” This new found champion of due process urged viewers to “stand up and fight now,” adding, “There’s a treadmill that we’re potentially getting on here that could result in the erosion of rights for American citizens.”
The article concludes:
Until April 22, 2000, Gore was the odds-on favorite to win the presidency. In 1996, Clinton had won Florida by a comfortable margin. Gore expected to do the same, but the raid on Elian’s Miami home reminded those Cuban-Americans drifting to the left that Democrats were not necessarily their friends.
The shift in their vote gave George W. Bush just enough margin to be declared the winner by the U.S. Supreme Court. If I remember right, the Democrats did not exactly applaud that bit of due process, now did they?
The history of the Democrats is that they would send a young child back to a country run by a tyrannical dictator and keep a proven gang member in America. It makes no sense to me.
Please follow the link above to read the entire article. The maneuvering that the Clinton administration was willing to go through to deport Elian is amazing.