News and notes from around the interweb:
- If you haven’t linked your Uber and Marriott accounts yet you can earn 1000 points for doing so and completing your first qualifying order with Uber Eats or ride by March 20.
- Woman used PPP loan to pay for hit on TSA agent who stole her boyfriend
- Amazon co-owns deportation airline implicated in alleged torture of migrants (HT: Paul H.)
- Disney will start opening retirement communities
- Fleet of rental cars stolen from Avis and Budget at Charleston airport was found at an Embassy Suites.
- 800 room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach back on track, won’t open until 2025
The Amazon article raises lots of questions, though of course they are not limited to that company. It’s not like Bezos and his people are standing over the deportees with whips and chains–from what I’ve read they just do that figuratively to their own employees–but they are profiting from others who do that, maybe literally. It’s a bit like buying stocksin a company with private prison assets, it’s not your fault if people are being treated like slaves. Personally I won’t invest in such companies or tobacco stocks…but look at all the other businesses that big tobacco owns. It’s hard not to help them in one way or another. Just like our taxes went in small ways for secret foreign dungeons and torture chambers post 9/11 we all are connected. Still, giving up and being quiet is no answer. Saying nothing is assent and that may be morally worse than consent.
When Disney opens their themed retirement community, will the local hospital Chief Executive Officer be Goofy, Daffy Duck, or Bugs Bunny?
I sincerely disagree that Amazon nor ICE are in the business to torture, abuse or torment people who knowingly broke the law and are in this country illegally. Only a left wing activist would publish disinformation intently to cause harm and provoke the public into commiting acts of insurenction
C’mon Gary – The Intercept fails the sniff test as a reliable source of information:
The Intercept is a left wing news website partly founded by journalist Glenn Greenwald who resigned in 2020 citing the outlet’s refusal to run an article critical of Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden.
In February 2016, Juan Thompson, a reporter at the Intercept, was fired after it was discovered he had been inventing both sources and made-up quotes attributed to the fake sources.
There is nothing wrong with sending the invaders back home.
I wonder if they have a frequent flyer program?
Perhaps one should consider the consequences of breaking the law and entering another sovereign country illegally. Did they expect an Emirates 777 to return them?
Deportation frequent flyer program has 2 tiers: Waiver (illegal entry once) and Lifetime Inadmissible (illegal entry more than once)
I am a liberal but forgive me if I point out that removal of aliens that unlawfully entered a country is lawful and correct. ICE is doing nothing wrong. In fact, they mostly only deport illegal aliens that in addition comitted a serious crime. If anyone doesn’t agree with enforcing laws, then try to change the law but don’t act like law enforcement is at fault.
I have to say Amazon probably isn’t intentionally targeting at migrants. They are of similar mentality even to their own employees. I have never heard abt any Amazon employee saying that they were not mentally tortured by their employer.
Illegal Aliens.
Another Florida woman…..
1. The USA Today article on Disney reads an awful lot like an advertorial. Most of USA Today seems to be that. It always was a lowest common denominator publication, but now they just think their readers are stupid and can’t see through their game.
2. Disney has been down this road before. It didn’t end well. Creepy as hell.
3. Thanks for the warning. I’m looking at properties in the Coachella Valley and will make sure to stay far away from this new version of Mauschwitz.
Those illegals present a clear and present danger to Real Americans and should have never come here under the guise of false asylum claims. They should not have been allowed in. Immediate repatriation to home countries or countries they just came from would solve this.
I read the article with the hope of pointing out how false the headline is but I can’t. Those claims are likely true. Jails and prisons in the U.S. qualify as torture under rules of the various conventions. Look at what happened to the innocent Hertz customer on a cruise. What is claimed is very believable. I understand that combative individuals present a problem for air transport, however, 9 hours or more in a full body restraint device like described is unconscionable. Economy can be considered torture to those who use the term liberally but passengers can move around, get up, and change positions.
It seems criminal alien deportees only were restrained like this if they were combative. Being combative on a passenger jet is a legitimate problem. The illegals probably do this in the same way they abused the asylum process with false claims. They think that being combative before boarding will get them to remain. I can’t blame the contractors for using rough language. When one group is responsible for 90% of the problems, how can rational people not call out and speak derisively about the group that disproportionately causes the problems.
I certainly prioritize preventing our daughters from getting gang raped by the Haitians or Somalian illegal aliens over comfort of these illegals. However, combative deportees need to be transported a different way. Charters with an enclosed cage around each individual combative deportee would be appropriate. Putting them in jail ships with solo (properly sized and good amenity cells like in Nordic countries) locked rooms would be appropriate.
The problem with articles like this is they have an agenda. They want to push open borders and stopping deportations of illegals instead of focus on humane transport of illegals back home. The most humane treatment of illegals would be for them to be sent back within 12 hours of being caught and the asylum system being dismantled as it nowadays is subject to 99.999% false claims.
@TJ
Laws are just words of politicians and judges. Cops and agents choose to enforce those words with violence and are therefore 100% culpable for those laws because they are impossible to enforce without them. Laws can’t be changed if people are in a minority. 51% enslaves 49% in democracy. That’s fact. By holding each individual (cop) accountable for their actions, there is a much higher chance a bad law won’t be allowed to be enforced than voting which has a 100% failure rate 100% of the time when you are in the minority. Yes, we should blame cops for arresting Hertz customers without absolute verification and for enforcing leftist laws from taxation to mask mandates to gun control.
Non thinking Conservatives say they don’t support the government but support cops enforcing the laws and orders of that government. It’s not logical.
I agree with you in this case that illegals should be deported but not because it’s a law written by people 60 years ago. I want them deported because they present a clear and present danger to my people. That’s my law and conservative law. It’s the only law conservatives should support the enforcement of.
The intercept is a far left rag. I wouldn’t put to much stock in anything they report.
@Anthony
Facts don’t matter to the American left. Their entire ideology is based on emotion. They are a fifth column in this country.