“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”
― Joseph Heller
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“President Biden and former President Donald Trump are holding competing events in Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to call attention to the migrant crisis. Their visits come on the same day a federal judge blocked Texas state officials from implementing a law allowing them to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally.”
… Boiler plate from a variety of articles on this issue …
“Government, on the old system, is an assumption of power, for the aggrandisement of itself; on the new, a delegation of power for the common benefit of society.” - from Applying Principle to Practice, Chapter 3 - Of the Old and New Systems of Government by Thomas Paine
What a Catch 22 … Joseph Heller is rolling over in his grave. Let me see if I can explain this is a way that Joe Miller would accept.
The entity that should be controlling the border either can’t or won’t. Ok, Texas says, If you can’t or won’t we will. Then, a branch of the same entity that should be controlling the border comes in and says we either can’t or won’t and you (Texas) are not allowed to control your border.
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.
“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.”
― Joseph Heller from Catch-22