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The Border Guards Have a Choice to Make, Too

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

For that singular individual who will not let himself be morally handcuffed and so hands in his badge and handcuffs, I have nothing but admiration.

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For once, President Trump’s fickleness is a blessing. Putting families desperately fleeing violence and/or poverty behind bars together is preferable to ripping babies from their mother’s breast, much as waterboarding is better than burning people at the stake, though it is still morally repugnant and — while it is a...

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