(04-08-2019, 10:44 PM)mikesez Wrote: This article said that Trump attempted to personally direct members of law enforcement to break the law while he was speaking to them near the border with Mexico.
This is a serious claim and certainly impeachible if true.
The people who work for the government are responsible to ignore unlawful orders, but we cannot expect them to keep that up under sustained pressure.
Someone please explain to me why what the president asked them to do is not actually illegal.
This is not the kind of thing that we can like appeal to first principles on.
I don't want to see any trite or simplistic replies like "no borders no country."
The law says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say. But I don't know what it says off hand.
Can any of your shed some light on this?

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politic...index.html

CNN, anonymous sources, blah, blah. Even though it was CNN, I read the article and in the context of what is happening with immigration and border security, it appears like someone is taking hype speech and trying to burn the man. Trump is wearing his frustration on his sleeve and in those particular forums, the audience is feeling the same. Are you calling the cops if you are standing in the locker room at half time and the rah rah speech is "let's continue to beat their [BLEEP]. We need to kill those dudes!"? No, of course not, it's hype. It is even stated in the article that he is aware of the laws and his supporting cast is aware as well. They feel like their backs are against the wall and it more or less appears to be "table-top" discussion on how far they can push to solve an increasing issue. You know, talking through the issues and coming up with a temporary solution that hopefully leads to a more permanent one. Like we do when working through an engineering flaw. Made complete sense to the engineer, however, it is not end user-friendly. Our immigration laws need to change for the better of the American people but unfortunately, there is a group of power hungry incompetents more hell-bent on hurting than helping.

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