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Home Front: Politix
Madeleine Albright: U.S. Needs Open Borders So It Can Demand Same from Europe
2018-07-05
[Breitbart] Clinton-era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has slammed U.S. efforts to secure the border, telling the BBC that the immigration policy of President Donald J. Trump "makes it very hard for America to tell Europeans ... to be more humane"

Promoting her new book entitled Fascism: A Warning on the Andrew Marr Show, the former U.S. Secretary of State said she has been "very troubled" by the Trump administration’s moves to end the ’catch and release’ of illegals into American communities while they await immigration hearings.

America’s former ambassador told the BBC that detentions at the U.S. border "remind one of things that happen in fascist countries",
...although historically such people were attempting to escape the fascist country at issue, not enter it, and were therefore being detained by their own border guards before they manage to cross into the non-fascist country next door...
adding that "there’s plenty of room for people in the United States and there are a lot of companies now saying that we need them".

When people ask her opinion "about what’s happening to Europe on the same issue", Albright said she thinks the President’s "offensive" crackdown on illegal immigration "makes it very hard for America to tell Europeans what to do if we can’t figure out how to be more humane ourselves".
Someone, anyone, please tell me why it is necessary for the U.S. to "demand" the Europeans (or anyone else) do anything.
In general one expects diplomats to be diplomatic, persuading or negotiating rather than demanding.
Posted by:Besoeker

#27  It is a leftists ethos to always out-stupid each other.
Posted by: newc   2018-07-05 17:41  

#26   "makes it very hard for America to tell Europeans ... to be more humane"
When would they listen? To uppity colonial trash, that is?
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-05 14:06  

#25  When did our so-called elites start taking LSD?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-07-05 12:47  

#24  "makes it very hard for America to tell Europeans ... to be more humane"

Why should we tell Europeans what to do? They are grown-up nations capable of deciding their own futures without US nagging.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-07-05 12:34  

#23  Fascism, huh? How would she know?
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-05 11:18  

#22  Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGh8MkpNOg
Posted by: Boss Elmique2397   2018-07-05 09:45  

#21  Madeline Albright...is she still alive?

Obviously her brain isn't.
Posted by: gorb   2018-07-05 09:39  

#20  Fuck off bitch. You were worthless as SoS and you are even more worthless now.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-07-05 09:27  

#19  Same troll that did Diplomacy by brooch
Posted by: Frank G   2018-07-05 08:51  

#18  #13 I really don't have an issue with immigration. Legal Immigration that is.

It depends on how much there is, and how much of a commitment there is to assimilation.

Posted by: charger   2018-07-05 08:43  

#17  Another 'globalists' aka anti-American self identifies.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-05 08:41  

#16  Why would we want to demand "Open Borders" from Europe or any other nation? Er, er, uh isn't that a non sequitur?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-07-05 08:34  

#15  such hot-shots, why can't they just stay home and build their own utopia?

If Vienna offered free food, education, medical coverage, housing, income tax exemption.... I might consider learning to speak Austrian, and immigrating as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-07-05 08:06  

#14  Tell me mad Maddie: If these gimmegrants are "that "there’s plenty of room for people in the United States and there are a lot of companies now saying that we need them". such hot-shots, why can't they just stay home and build their own utopia?
Posted by: AlanC   2018-07-05 07:59  

#13  I really don't have an issue with immigration. Legal Immigration that is. The one thing I really don't like about this whole issue is say one thing and you immediately get labeled a racist or whatever the wing nuts can come up with
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2018-07-05 06:05  

#12  'Gimmigrants "....I will have to remember that one.
Posted by: Lionel Spomotle6549   2018-07-05 05:47  

#11  Madeline Albright...is she still alive?
Posted by: Lionel Spomotle6549   2018-07-05 05:45  

#10  Didn't they used to call her Madeline HalfBright? One can see why.
Posted by: Albert Gray3362   2018-07-05 04:41  

#9  She just wants her Kalergi prize for white genocide.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-07-05 04:34  

#8  Fuck you Albright!

Europe needs to close it's borders to gimmigrants and so does the US.

No migration for ANYONE on less than average wage.
No migration without a good conduct sponsor who pays out if the migrant is a criminal
No Migration without medical insurance
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-07-05 04:33  

#7  Madame Madam

And speaking of subconscious misogyny (and nurse sharks IIRC)... pulled out of the pile from way back before "Shark Stories" was even a thing...

A neurotic young clerk of Hyde Park
Had much rather spark in the dark.
Alas, as it lightened
The poor lad was frightened
And fled like a worm from the lark.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-07-05 02:34  

#6  A menacing mug had Mad Madame,
Like sixty-four klicks of macadam,
Bare feet all the way
In the heat of the day:
She demanded, they did as she bad 'em!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-07-05 02:22  

#5  I'm going to group Madeline's idea along with Nancy's idea of needing to pass the legislation in order to find out what's in it.
Posted by: gorb   2018-07-05 02:10  

#4  Companies are saying we need more illiterate criminals? Which ones? The ones running the prisons?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-07-05 01:47  

#3  Lets go and butcher some Serbs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-05 01:43  

#2  A mind is a sad thing to lose. However, in Aldumb's case she never had one.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-07-05 00:34  

#1  You could push her face in some dough, and make gorilla cookies. And yes, I saw the Maxine Waters thread elsewhere...
Posted by: Raj   2018-07-05 00:12  

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