Trumped up fear over immigration; Example of "Fake News"

The headline “Trump’s deportation plans are costly, harsh and a logistical nightmare.” 
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2017/02/23/trumps-deportation-plans-costly-harsh-logistical-nightmare Can be added to the plethora of fear mongering headlines and narratives regarding Trumps new Immigration policies. This sort of rhetoric is geared towards a generally less informed reader and is intended for an audience who typically reads headlines and skims an article or just reads the first few paragraphs.  You know who you are. This Dallas News is fake news and provably intentional fear mongering. I believe its safe to say the author was never a fan of Trump or his campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration. This is an emotionally driven piece heavy on rhetoric and light on facts. The author looses all credibility because the facts that they instruct you to reference at the end of the article completely refute the entire narrative of the article. This author is more concerned with spreading his own political views rather then reporting the news with any sort of journalistic integrity.

     The amount of contradictions and false or misleading claims could easily have me writing eight pages. Claims of humanitarian crisis are hyperbole when the policies Trump's proposing are hardly distinguishable from the policies under Obama. The article makes it seem as if the new policies are intensely harsher then Obama or past presidents. The author has either ignored history or pacified it; forgetting that Bill Clinton banned all refugees from Haiti and unilaterally instructed Navy gun-ships to prevent them from entering US patrolled international waters, let alone setting foot on mainland US soil. The executive order made by President Clinton was upheld in an 8 to 1 supreme court decision. I do not remember if Democrats were as upset about those actions as they are against Trumps temporary suspension on immigration, but we certainly are not hearing that perspective in this piece.

    This article makes the claim that Trump's plan is costly and a logistical nightmare.  I didn’t hear much complaint about the trillions of dollars spent by the Obama administration and the logistical nightmare that was and is the Affordable Care Act. Strange how this narrative is now concerned  with fiscal responsibility. I doubt this author writes with such outrage against the almost ten trillion in debt the Obama administration added.  I wonder if people just forget that we are a sovereign nation governed by laws; laws that if broken have consequences. Why is it troubling or harsh to say if you come here illegally we will kick you out as a consequence? Dreamers aside, who are not affected by new policy unless they have committed a crime; is it really controversial to say if your going to live here you are going to have to live by the same rules as its citizens? Is it a chilling consequence that if you’re here illegally without proper documentation you would be forced to leave? I wonder what consequence this author thinks someone who illegally entered this nation should receive if not to be deported? One of the most fundamental and basic functions of the Federal Government is the security of its citizens, and that involves controlling who comes into the country.

     I wish this author would consider the economic and humanitarian costs of not having a secure boarder, and the serious consequences of failing to enforce immigration laws. Trumps policy is focused on deporting criminals. People who are breaking our laws; at least that is what the proposed policies imply which the article does not deny by its own citations. A less emotional headline would read instead,  " Trumps deportation plans are similar to Obama's policies except Trumps plan enforces the laws."

legalize it!

http://www.ibtimes.com/texas-marijuana-laws-2017-grandfather-arrested-drug-possession-lawmakers-push-2474686

Pushes for marijuana law reforms could not come sooner as several bills are up for vote this upcoming legislative session; and this article shows a great example of why we need to loosen our laws regarding this substance. A 67-year-old gentleman left his weed friendly state of California to visit his family and his granddaughter who is being treated in a Houston hospital for stage 4 cancer.

It seems like this man was a little to comfortable by the lax attitudes of cops in California because he admitted to the Texas police that he had a smoking pipe in his car. Ignorance got the best of him I suppose, because he admitted guilt and gave the police permission to search his car.  Because our Texas law enforcement is tasked with upholding Texas Law and not California’s this man probably wishes he was not so forthcoming. This Grandfather spent the night in jail and could face serious jail time. People caught with 2 to 4 ounces could earn a sentence of at least a year in jail. Grandpa had more then four ounces on his person so he could be facing felony charges and a jail sentences between two and 99 years. Its unclear if he intended to give the Cannabis to his granddaughter although I suspect a loving grandfather would provide some of his own medicinal stash to a young woman battling cancer. Perhaps if his granddaughter could be prescribed medicinal marijuana her grandfather would not have been driving across state lines with the controversial substance. Either way, criminalizing someone for something so innocent should make people take pause to consider the laws we have in regards to Marijuana. Its time for serious drug law reforms in the state of Texas.