May 14, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, May 14
Good morning, and all the healing thoughts to President Carter.
- There is no connection between undocumented immigrants and increased crime.
- One mother’s account of her 13-year-old son’s journey into the Alt-Right movement, mostly via Reddit.
- Longtime Macon-Bibb councilman to run for mayor.
- “Reason to believe” Anthem violated Georgia law.
- Senator Bernie Sanders is headed to Augusta.
- Georgia’s (completely ineffective) immigration court is no more.
- Newly-minted Agnes Scott College and Morehouse graduates share their stories.
- It is inarguable that more women of color die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than white women.
- The kitschy allure of celebrity prayer candles.
- Here is the deal with that gut doctor and his vegetable fixation, you know, the one from the chumbox.
- If y’all thought CFA swapping their slaw for a kale salad was a lot to take, well, I advise you to buckle up, buttercup!
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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There is no connection between the undocumented article and the internet but we already new this. Here’s an older link on said subject. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6241529/
Link to that Chik-fil-a story:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/chick-fil-a-is-exploring-a-major-change-to-the-menu/948841762
So would the new advertising campaign have those cows encouraging us to “eat more soybeans”?
Well there’s one slogan I know they won’t be using:
http://time.com/3631523/eat-more-kale-slogan-chik-fil-a/
Your links are scragged Teri.
Not http://%20https//www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html
but https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html
Of course one has to ignore the crime of being in the United States illegally for this story to be correct. That in itself would increase the crime rate in most neighborhoods.
Well if we are going to count all crime just on principle, the statistics would be absurd. Just exceeding the speed limit alone would make 99% of residents criminals.
When discussing immigration – – since we are talking about human lives that possess just as much value as your life or my life – – we really need to consider the distinction between malum prohibitum and malum in se. A human being whose “crime” is merely standing on different dirt than the dirt from their country of birth without some authorization to do so (a crime that my ancestors were certainly guilty of, and much much worse) cannot be viewed the same as someone who commits rape, murder, meth trafficking, etc. We do not live in a black and white world. We must see things in all sorts of different shades of grey. Not only is the right thing to do, it is also well-founded in american criminal law jurisprudence and practice.
When you jumped that fence or crossed that border, employed that coyote to get you across, that is more than just standing on the wrong part of dirt.
Um. No it’s not. There’s nothing immoral about standing on the other side of a fence in order to find a better life for you and your family. These are human beings who merely want what I’m sure you want – peace, safety, food, and roofs. You aren’t better than these people because you were born on this dirt instead of theirs.
After all, we were on the high moral ground when we took it from them.
I think.
Maybe.
Many if not most are people that overstayed visas, no fence or coyote involved.
If you can detect a heartbeat they can’t be aborted from the country