Tim Miller

What the hell is that?

I mean, that's a government veto on any story, right?

I mean, you know, did you commit war crimes?

No comment.

Well, I guess we can't run it.

You know, did the government do this?

Did the government do that?

No comment.

Well, I guess we can't report on the government.

That is an absolutely bonkers rule to put into place that unless the government answers your phone call, you can't run the story.

I mean, the world is full of stories where people in the government say, I don't want to talk to you.

Sometimes that's what governments do.

Yeah.

I mean, aside from the horror of what they're doing to people who, you know, as you say, maybe they shouldn't be here, but they don't.

There are other ways to deal with this besides putting people in a torture chamber and beating the shit out of them.

Not that it would have been okay if this guy came in illegally to send him to a foreign torture prison, but he didn't.

He followed the rule.

He waited in Mexico.

He signed up on the app.

He reported a port of entry.