Clinically Stupid
Y’all, I have to agree with Elie Mystal when he calls Betsy DeVos “clinically stupid.”
DeVos’ latest balm of the sea of shallow waters is her idea that it’s kinda up to each school district whether or not they follow the constitution.
When asked whether or not schools should report undocumented children to ICE, DeVos stammered thusly,
“I think that’s a school decision… That’s a local community decision. And again, I refer to the fact that we have laws and we also are compassionate, and I urge this body to do its job and address or clarify where there is confusion around this.”
Nope. No confusion at all, except in DeVos’ perky little head. From the Washington Post, where the headline says, “outstandingly ignorant of the law” …
The Supreme Court made clear in Plyler v. Doe that public schools have a constitutional obligation to provide schooling for children, regardless of immigration status. That means schools also cannot enforce measures that would deter undocumented children from registering. They cannot ask about immigration status. And according to the American Civil Liberties Union, they cannot report students or their families to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Okay, so we’re gonna ask kids to rat out each other because of skin color?
Man, I’d pay a fresh dollar bill to hear DeVos and Trump hold a forum on the Bill of Rights. That would produce enough energy in dumb alone to power New York City for a year or two.
Thanks to Henry for the heads up.
Weapons-grade stupid.
1How dysfunctional was this Edgar Prince family that it spawned adults like Erik and Betsy? Good grief. They both need 24×7 keepers.
@Pia Holm
2+1
Betsy the medical marvel! We saw her flat line at her Senate confirmation hearing, yet she continues to breath without mechanical assistance. That was the day we discovered how weapons grade st00pid our snacilbupeR senator could be. Heller defended Donnie’s ‘right’ to appoint anyone he wanted to appoint. Correct, Dean. However, you omitted your responsibility of “advise and consent.” Meanwhile comatose snacilbupeR members of the House fail to provide checks to the plutonium level of corruption with this maladministration. How many Benghazi hearings? Yet Zinke, Pruitt, Sessions, et al plunder and blunder on …
3This woman is gosh darned rich as hell and from the looks of it, she can’t buy herself a good education or get decent staffers to brief her and rehearse her? What the bleep does she do with her money? And the federal paycheck the she is supposed to get? Must be something in the water or the air or both in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
4Mucking foron.
5So if I’m keeping score correctly:
NFL – Must stand during Star Spangled Banner
6Schools – Enrolling students is optional
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” And there’s no excuse for having cabinet secretaries who are ignorant of the laws. Though in some cases I can’t tell if it’s ignorance or not giving a flying fart.
7As a school girl, I could not understand how the German people allowed Hitler and the Nazi’s to turn their country into a killing state. Now, seeing what is going on with Dump and his minions, I understand how it happened, because it is happening here.
8Taking children from their immigrant parents, expecting teachers to turn children in to ICE, seeing policemen gun down innocent African Americans, hearing the hate that spews from Dump and his minions, restricting African American football players from peaceful protest, is all sanctioned by a mentally deficient president and a morally bankrupt Republican Party.
@Maryelle:
I wonder who is next after the children taken from immigrant parents, Americans who speak Spanish, LGBT and innocent African Americans?
Will it be the demonizing of native indigenous people, the intellectual community, the elderly, the poor, the disabled or those of faith different than Christianity?
It’s happening here now.
9“I think that’s a school decision…That’s a local community decision.”
Something she never would have said if the issue was whether to be a “sanctuary city”, have local laws about having guns, issue driver’s licenses for those with green cards, etc., etc.
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