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The unforgiving servant

THE UNFORGIVING SERVANT

A migrant or refugee from another country who enters the U.S. illegally for the first time commits a misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (cited below for the readers convenience.)  Repeated illegal entries are felonies, however. This is an important area of law to the point I want to make in the “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.” Findlaw explains the difference: “A misdemeanor offense is a less serious crime than a felony offense. A felony offense is the most serious crime you can...

LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS

LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS

This afternoon I plopped on the couch while my wife Deena was watching a rally where former President Barak Obama was speaking. It was in Wisconsin, that he was just concluding his remarks. The repeated rounds of applause were positively thunderous. As he was about to introduce Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz (D), Bruce Springsteen’s voice could be heard in the background singing “Land of Hope and Dreams.” Springsteen has always been a favorite musician of mine, at least since “The...

Unspeakable horrors

UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS

The people in the photo below are headed north. In our direction. It’s what Fox News calls a caravan; or perhaps the beginning of one, or perhaps the end of one. These migrants want what we all want—to be safe and to be free.  At the moment, the scent of fear is overpowering to them.  But the smell of freedom, also faintly present, is irresistible. They have a path laid out for them, courtesy of a million or more people like them who have...

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