Let's be blunt here. This is an act of aggression. Just as it would be to sabotage the functioning of any other system, whether it's the power grid or the stock market. This is lawfare.
Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down.
The proposal calls for ad campaigns advising migrants in the U.S. to take their cases to court and fight deportation if detained. “The backlog in the immigration system is tremendous,” said former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda. The idea is to double or triple the backlog, “until [U.S. President Donald] Trump desists in this stupid idea,” he added.
Mr. Castañeda is part of a group of Mexican officials, legislators, governors and public figures planning to meet with migrant groups Saturday in Phoenix to lay out plans to confront the Trump administration’s deportation policy.
Recently the Democrats were reborn as Russia hawks after years of mocking Republican objections to their Putin pandering. Okay.
We've had endless lectures about how opposing a foreign country's domestic sabotage should not be a partisan issue. Okay.
Let's see the outrage to this. Foreign government ex-officials plotting to sabotage the court system, that branch of government that they were just shrieking should be sacrosant, should be denounced and opposed.
Shouldn't it?
It's either that or Democrats only care when foreign intervention that damages our system hurts their own political prospects. Not, as in this case, when it helps them. And that's open and shut treason.