“The staffer should be in prison. Aiding and abetting is a legit felony (unlike the mystery felony no one can name that elevated 34 misdemeanors to felonies)” – Top comment on the Thursday Fox News article headlined “Dem rep’s staffer repeatedly posed as lawyer for detainees, smuggled phone into Texas facility, ICE says,” and then a subhed of “Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has banned Benito Torres from all ICE facilities and is demanding [Democratic Texas Congresswoman Veronica] Escobar answer whether she knew about his alleged conduct.”

In the letter to Escobar, Lyons wrote that staffer, “Benito Torres, misrepresented himself as counsel for detainees in ICE custody, violated clear detention standards and security protocols prohibiting the use of cellphones inside ICE facilities, improperly met with multiple detainees, and falsely claimed to ICE personnel such use had been approved by the agency. As a result of bringing a cell phone into the Camp East Montana facility, contrary to facility visitation policy, Mr Torres’ misrepresentation that he is a licensed attorney to gain access to detainees, his improper meetings with groups of detainees, and his assertions to ICE personnel about the origins of his visit, Mr Torres is herby [sic] prohibited from accessing any ICE facility,” making it clear the sternly-worded letter is the best he can do in lieu of filing a criminal complaint and having Torres prosecuted.

Because he didn’t actually break any laws. You would be reading a different story if he’d had. Clearly that’s the story the commenter wanted to read, one where there were at least some sort of consequences for embarrassing the incompetent and overly entitled manboys tasked with ethnically cleansing America – who can’t even stop a guy from lying to them about being an attorney 11 goddamned times. Maybe the commenter should look up what “self-evident” means.