Heather Cox Richardson on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-13-2025?r=lxca0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others. Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you.

At least some people understand this. The president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, Sean McGarvey, received a standing ovation when he said to a room full of his fellow union workers: “We need to make our voices heard. We’re not red, we’re not blue. We’re the building trades, the backbone of America. You want to build a $5 billion data center? Want more six-figure careers with health care, retirement, and no college debt? You don’t call Elon Musk, you call us!... And yeah, that means all of us. All of us. Including our brother [International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers] apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who we demand to be returned to us and his family now! Bring him home!”

The whole thing is definitely worth reading.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty, Peggy!

Excellent article!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thanks so much, my dear SheltieLover! It IS an excellent article.