Democrats justify the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s home as even-handed enforcement of the law, yet illegally allow many southern economic migrants into Americans’ workplaces, noted a Washington Post op-ed.
“We’ve been hearing a lot about the “rule of law” lately,” wrote Henry Olsen, a GOP-aligned moderate on the Washington Post‘s roster of mostly pro-establishment op-ed writers. “Biden’s look-the-other-way immigration policy is in effect an ingenious way to avoid that rule. That mocks the principle he piously says he supports,” he added.
For example, Attorney General Merrick Garland justified the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home, saying on August 11:
Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing. All Americans are entitled to the evenhanded application of the law, to due process of the law, and to the presumption of innocence.
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during an event in Washington, Aug. 2, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
In December, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that Biden and his deputies are willfully ignoring their obligation to detain job-seeking border crossers. The laws include 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226(c)(1), 1231(a)(2), and 1231(a)(1)(A), which say the attorney general “shall take into custody,” “shall detain,” and “shall remove” migrants.
Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on August 9, 2022. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)
Olson’s op-ed is headlined “Biden’s failed immigration policy should be a scandal.”
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