If this isn't a snapshot of what border imperialism and law and order regimes amount - punish immigrants and punching down while empowering predatory right wing authoritarians and economic elites to act with legal impunity - then I don't know what is.

Any Lucia's family got her out of Honduras as a child because of violence sparked by drug gang, led by the likes of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving 45 years for cocaine smuggling until Trump pardoned him last week, b/c he's Trump's preference for Honduran president.

Who knows all the logics behind it, but we cannot discount the message it may send to the leaders of the Democratic Party, who were likely not happy he didn't return to NYC with his tails between his legs...He's displaced Schumer/Jeffries right now as public, recognizable face of the party