A federal judge ruled Wednesday it is unconstitutional for the Trump administration to require states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to get some Federal Emergency Management Agency grants — a legal setback in the administration’s push to revoke funding to “sanctuary” cities and states.
U.S. District Judge William Smith of Rhode Island ruled in favor of 20 mostly Democratic states that had sued FEMA, accusing the administration of “holding critical emergency preparedness and response funding hostage” unless they assist immigration agents.
The decision is likely to be appealed.
Sure it did all those things.
But the main reason was Southern plantations were being sold to wealthy Europeans for cheap prices to fund the war effort. Allowing the war to drag on.
Outlawing slavery in those states made the land practically worthless unless the South won.
The wealthy Europeans buying up Southern plantations for dimes on the dollar knew the North would win, it was just too good an investment to pass up knowing how profitable slave plantations would be after the war.
By outlawing slavery Lincoln stopped the influx of cash and resources into the South and was able to end the war months, maybe even years, earlier.
The ethics of slavery never factored into the decision to outlaw slavery.
Just like ending the Holocaust wasn’t why we joined WW2, and spreading democracy isn’t why we went to Vietnam, Irag, Afghanistan, or anywhere else.
We need to start being real about why things happen instead of blind patriotism and “we always do what’s right” because that’s rarely the real reason