“the hardship and mercy argument”
If you don’t have the facts or law, abuse the plaintiff: “Racist!” “Xenophobe!”
And if you don’t have logic on your side, or the ethical standing to sway the argument, as a last resort appeal to pathos.
Woe is me. O the hugh manatee ... But `tears dry quickly’.
And when does our Congress start considering the “hardship” that decades of lax border security has imposed on Americans?
Lost jobs, highway deaths, unpaid medical bills, escalating prison costs, crime and welfare costs—not just our own underclass now, but the entire western hemisphere? and any others throughout the world who can afford air or boat passage to Mexico?, and important but never discussed: the demoralizing feeling knowing that your own government doesn’t give a **** about you. Since we’re in Pathos land.
So how about some “mercy” for the people paying the bills—American taxpayers.
Well stated...The liberal Rats and many Pubs have no mercy for the taxpayers footing the bills for illegals or for their own outrageous spending on phony issues.
They’re only concern is for their next election and pork projects, it’s even come to the point they don’t care who knows.