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\nFor those confused about the decision to strike Venezuela, capture Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and bring him to New York City: This is actually an important phase of Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policy.
Phase 1 (ongoing) has been to remove all law-abiding immigrants who have been living in the country waiting for their asylum claims to be processed, hoping that America could be a place for them to have a better life. They now must be kidnapped, separated from their families, denied anything remotely resembling due process, and subjected to grotesquely inhumane conditions. Phase 2 is to replace them with (alleged!) brutal autocrat drug criminals from abroad who will be brought in individually (also, as a bonus, in violation of international law). That is the phase we are entering now. Phase 3, of course, is profit. With Maduro in U.S. custody, Trump will now \u201crun\u201d Venezuela and has promised to send in corporations to take care of its oil. Rest assured, this is not the bad kind of oil-involved regime change, where America gets mired endlessly in a war whose wafer-thin justification could barely pass Congress. This time, Congress has not been consulted at all!
The Constitution does say that war powers belong to Congress. But there are important exceptions, like if the president really, really wants to go to war. Or it\u2019s the weekend. Or it\u2019s January. Or he thought he saw a spider. Or he\u2019s destroyed the East Wing of the White House to build an elaborate ballroom and has a lot on his plate.
Besides, keep in mind that, if I\u2019m reading Trump\u2019s math correctly, the only alternative to this plan was for the entire population of the United States to perish from drug overdoses. Is that what you want? Do you want us all to perish? If not, hush.<\/p>\n