Texas Republican Discovers Humanity, Newsweek Declares 'Exclusive'
Newsweek hails an 'exclusive' revealing a Texas Republican mildly questioning deportations, as if a politician showing a fleeting flicker of conscience is groundbreaking journalism. Meanwhile, the U.S. government, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, has consistently funded and executed mass deportations, breaking up families and often sending individuals to dangerous conditions.
This 'exclusive' conveniently sidesteps the decades of bipartisan support for stringent immigration policies and the multi-billion dollar industry built around detention and removal. One might wonder if the real 'news' is when a politician *doesn't* quietly enable the very system they occasionally 'speak out' against, or when mainstream outlets connect these occasional humane statements to the
relentless machinery of state violence they otherwise normalize. How many mild criticisms does it take to undo systemic cruelty, or merely distract from it?