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It always surprises me the depths to which Fox News will bottomfish so they can present their skewered view of reality. The latest, an edited video which presented Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono looking mistaken and confused. I wanted to post this here as I have seen multiple comments on various sites repeating falsely that Senator Hirono doesn’t understand immigration law. She was in fact correct in her comments:
Mazie Hirono, the Democratic senator from Hawaii, was questioning the head of removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Matthew Albence, over the administrations family reunification efforts. The folks at Fox & Friends... selectively edited, and then intentionally presented the falsified video as proof the US Senator was "confused" over immigration law.
Despite the way Fox & Friends presented the dialogue -- suggesting a sitting U.S. senator was “confused about the immigration laws” -- Hirono was, in fact, correct in her assertions that the Trump administration alone made the decision to start prosecuting everyone crossing the border illegally, which has resulted in the separation of hundreds of immigrant families. Albence would acknowledge Hirono’s assertion as “correct,” but Fox & Friends did not include the comment in its deceptively edited clip.
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/fox-fr...-to-f.html
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Prosecuting misdemeanors is fine. Jailing people for months on end pretrial for a misdemeanor is very, very unusual. And costly. I have not heard of that happening here, but it could I guess.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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I watched the unedited C-SPAN version and the video in your link.
Unedited version: https://www.c-span.org/video/?449086-1/g...te-hearing (relevant section starts about the 2.5 hour mark)
Hirono said "I'm confused" and then it's clear that she doesn't understand the difference between the criminal and civil proceedings that take place under immigration laws that legislators like her put into place. In the edited version, not surprisingly, Fox added their normal conservative editorial comments.
Maybe I'm missing something, but she does sound confused in both the edited and unedited videos. She is trying to take a bureaucrat to task for enforcing the laws she and/or her fellow legislators passed, and he clearly understands the laws better than she does. The news organization didn't do that to her, she did.
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Here is an unedited clip where she states that she blames the president and then admits she is confused.
https://youtu.be/7Zt9h3DfaLc
I think that most of our Hawaii politicians are confused because of the massive amount of laws and rules they have passed without understanding the impact of these laws.
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I'm confused why we keep electing them. You can show up and vote at any Absentee walk-in polling place this week, even if you have never registered before. Get informed and then vote for smart people Hawaii!
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@randomq: Here's how it seems to work. The public employees' (and other) unions vote in blocks which control the Democratic Primary, assuring that only their candidates get nominated. The broader electorate is trained to vote Democratic, so it's all decided by the unions in the primary. They don't want people who actually think to be in office because it might threaten their perks and control. The Linda Lingle episode was an anomaly in which the "damage" was controlled by an entrenched, impossible to fire bureaucracy along with a legislature full of tools. Also, many of the union control measures are actually written into the state constitution. We can't win. And, as I've stated many times before, I'm not a Republican, just somebody sick of the status quo in Hawaii politics.
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public employees' (and other) unions vote in blocks which control the Democratic Primary
The unions even negotiated paid time off to make sure they can vote.
They don't want people who actually think to be in office
In the rare cases where someone does "sneak in", they're in the minority, so easily rendered useless.
sick of the status quo in Hawaii politics
Treat the system as "damage" and route around it.
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"You can show up and vote at any Absentee walk-in polling place this week, even if you have never registered before"
Oh, the horror! People voting!
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Back to the misleading portrayal of Mazie on Fox News:
In her questioning she admitted she was confused about the various laws they were discussing and the resulting implications in those laws, but I was too. Most people probably were. By the end it appeared she understood, and in fact Matthew Albence, the man she was questioning agreed she was correct in her assessment.
Compare that to the set up on Fox, which portrayed a very different exchange, calling her impatient and insinuating she was wrong, unlike another Senator they support.
It's disingenuous for a "news" organization to present a segment starting with a deceptive entrapment period, telling viewers what to watch for, and then editing the footage to match their (false) assessment.
I'd much rather have our Senator from Hawaii say she's confused about details in a law or policy from time to time, then listen carefully to an explanation in an effort to resolve (in this case) a cruel immigration situation, rather than a public official who claims to be right all the time, and even defends their inaccurate statements.
Mazie Hirono is on the right side of history, which is a good thing for Hawaii and our diverse population.
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It's disingenuous for a "news" organization to present a segment starting with a deceptive entrapment period, telling viewers what to watch for, and then editing the footage to match their (false) assessment.
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