DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 10, 2025

Wasn’t Using That Habeas Corpus Anyway:

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who orchestrated President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, said on Friday that the administration was considering suspending immigrants’ right to challenge their detention in court before being deported.

“The Constitution is clear,” he told reporters outside the White House, arguing that the right, known as a writ of habeas corpus, “could be suspended in time of invasion.”

“That’s an option we’re actively looking at,” he said, adding, “A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

I think the courts, most of ’em anyway, recognize that they’re the only ones who can save democracy, or whatever remains of it.

We Are Being Invaded–By Racist Put-Upon Afrikaners.  Hey, if they can’t grow enough on their own here, why not import them?  Where will they settle?  I’m guessing Texas or Idaho:

The US has granted refugee status to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, who could arrive as soon as Monday in Washington DC, where they will be welcomed by government officials, according to media reports.

Donald Trump suspended the US refugee settlement programme in January on his first day in office, leaving more than 100,000 people approved for resettlement stranded, having fled war and persecution in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.

In February, Trump signed an executive order directing his government to grant refugee status to Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch and French colonisers who he claimed were discriminated against.

South Africa’s foreign ministry said in a statement: “It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy; a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again.”

Wow.  Don’t know if it’s a dearth of inspiration or what.  That’s all I could come up with today.  Surely you can expand the scope of topics to discuss today.

What do you want to talk about?