Trump's promised ICE raids have begun

[arthwollipot]

Perhaps there was never a marriage. You can't be an in-law if there was no legality involved.

Sure you can. I've never been married but I have in-laws. It's a convenient way to refer to someone without saying "my significant other's parents". Also, I've never been married but my brother has.

Personally I just think it's a way for them to express the relationship in a more clinical fashion to distance Leavitt from the 'criminal', "She's not part of the family, just the Mother of my Nephew"

That's probably more like it. I get a sense of estrangement from the whole situation.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Sure you can. I've never been married but I have in-laws. It's a convenient way to refer to someone without saying "my significant other's parents".

Maybe the people who write news articles feel a need to be more precise in speech, for both accuracy and legal reasons.

 

[arthwollipot]

Maybe the people who write news articles feel a need to be more precise in speech, for both accuracy and legal reasons.

I've seen it in several news outlets, so it seems like they're all getting the language from the same original source.

 

[a_unique_person]

Woman associated with Caroline Levitt detained by ICE.

Karoline Leavitt’s nephew’s mother has been detained by US immigration agents in Revere, Massachusetts, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area resident who migrated with her family to the US from Brazil as a child, is now in custody at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana, according to the Boston radio station WBUR, which first reported the arrest.

The White House press secretary’s brother, Michael Leavitt, 35, had a relationship with Ferreira, 33, and they had a son, Michael Leavitt Jr, aged 11.

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents

Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility

www.theguardian.com

 

[theprestige]

Sure you can. I've never been married but I have in-laws. It's a convenient way to refer to someone without saying "my significant other's parents". Also, I've never been married but my brother has.


That's probably more like it. I get a sense of estrangement from the whole situation.

The whole point of "in-law" is to indicate a legal relationship.

 

[arthwollipot]

The whole point of "in-law" is to indicate a legal relationship.

Originally, perhaps, sure. But language has moved on since then.

 

[theprestige]

Originally, perhaps, sure. But language has moved on since then.

I doubt it.

 

[arthwollipot]

I doubt it.

I literally said I use the term even though I have never been legally married. That's how language changes - people use it.

 

[LiteBright]

Pure speculation here but I have to wonder if this is part of a custody battle. Convenient way to get rid of an inconvenient ex.

 

[EHocking]

Perhaps there was never a marriage. You can't be an in-law if there was no legality involved.

True. Before I was married I referred to my partner’s family as my sin-laws.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Miller: His government is going to accelerate efforts to review every person added to this country over the last four years, all 20 million. Obviously, if you're an illegal you're out automatically, but everybody else who was brought here, refugee, asylum status, whatever status, as he said, if you're not someone who loves this country, if you are not adding benefit to this country we're going to send you out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1993869083289559224

 

[Mongrel]

Sure you can. I've never been married but I have in-laws. It's a convenient way to refer to someone without saying "my significant other's parents".

Same. My (now) wife and I were together over 20 years before we got married but regularly used "married" language, it's just easier.

 

[Frank Newgent]

Scum.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1991218670480289799

I believe this is the background story on this video...

‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary

As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.

www.usatoday.com

Just listened to the video again, I believe the kid tells tem to eat his dick, the whole thing lol.

 

[W.D.Clinger]

Originally, perhaps, sure. But language has moved on since then.

I doubt it.

Language is always moving on.

Furthermore, language has an uncanny knack for being in many places at once.

 

[theprestige]

I literally said I use the term even though I have never been legally married. That's how language changes - people use it.

Language is always moving on.

Furthermore, language has an uncanny knack for being in many places at once.

Enh. Maybe it's one of those US-AU things. No biggie.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Language is always moving on.

Furthermore, language has an uncanny knack for being in many places at once.

And context matters. Coming from a news article it's going to be more carefully precise because they're supposed to be. Arth casually referring to people as his in-laws is fine, nobody's going to sue him for mis-stating a legal relationship. (Unless of course he's trying to claim an inheritance based on a legal relationship that doesn't exist or something.)

 

[theprestige]

I would say that arths usage is heterodox but grokkable.

 

[LiteBright]

I believe this is the background story on this video...

‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary

As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.

www.usatoday.com

Just listened to the video again, I believe the kid tells tem to eat his dick, the whole thing lol.

How do these agents sleep at night? Absolute ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ inhuman filth.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

And context matters. Coming from a news article it's going to be more carefully precise because they're supposed to be. Arth casually referring to people as his in-laws is fine, nobody's going to sue him for mis-stating a legal relationship. (Unless of course he's trying to claim an inheritance based on a legal relationship that doesn't exist or something.)

Can you call the USA a two-party system, though? That's the real question.

How do these agents sleep at night? Absolute ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ inhuman filth.

I think being a psychopath is pretty much a prerequisite.

 

[Frank Newgent]

How do these agents sleep at night? Absolute ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ inhuman filth.

Hope the kid didn´t inadvertently bust his parents by talking to the news. Very well-paid and connected white supremacists will now know of his parents undocumented existence and possible location.