America’s Two-Tiered Systems of Just About Everything

As PBS reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raided several Mississippi food processing plants this week, detaining hundreds of suspected undocumented immigrants. However, it appears unlikely that their employers will be prosecuted.

What’s important to understand in evaluating this is that in the U.S., we do not prosecute all crime, e.g., possession of small amounts of pot. What we DO, however, is prosecute those who are most clearly culpable, e.g., the drug lords. This is what makes the ICE raids such an appalling miscarriage of justice, in particular, an obvious violation of the 14th Amendment.

A sustainable civilization is one in which the government works for all the people equally.  Of course, this is something that has never existed in America; the problem is that we’re moving further in the other direction with each passing day.