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Chris J. Karr's avatar

"Perhaps this is a show of force to get the really bad people to self deport."

Nope.

This is ICE discovering that Trump's rhetoric of "INVASION!" is grossly overblown and they're not capable of finding and capturing enough gangbangers and other serious criminals to deport, so to make their numbers so Trump can look like "he's doing something", they're coming after regular people who are playing by the rules when they show up to play by those rules.

Combine this with a bunch of wannabe Rambos and Judge Dredds sporting military gear finally being let off their leash, and you end up with a bunch of LARPing (live-action role playing) at innocents' expense.

A humane administration would do something about this, but in this era, The Cruelty Is The Point.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

I'd also say that Ukraine crippling one leg of Russia's nuclear triad is good news.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

What kind of record did the fire bomber in Boulder have? The Biden Administration gave him a work permit. What record did some other illegals (including unvetted parolees and those protected from removal) who committed atrocities have? I have no sympathy for illegals except the dreamers who played no role in their illegal entry.

From Shipwreckedcrew's latest.

"This process is going to play itself out for MILLIONS of illegal aliens over the coming years thanks to Joe Biden. The expectation that the bureaucratic nightmare that this process entails — with much taking place parallel in time with ongoing court proceedings — can be managed on an error-free basis is simply stupid and moronic.

Mistakes are going to be made — a lot of them — because it only takes a mistaken keystroke or two, or an not-timely-opened email notification, or the failure to immediately update electronic database information the moment facts change, for the process to spit out a JMS-like result.

This demand for process perfection — and criticism that results from a failure by people who want no deportations to happen — all comes on behalf of individuals who came into the country and lived here illegally. Some, like JMS, commit more crimes after they committed their first crime in the manner of their arrival."

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Steve Berman's avatar

Curtis let’s get your Venn diagram right. Are you saying there’s a large overlap between illegal aliens and Jew haters? Because I think that’s probably untrue and therefore the attacker’s immigration status is irrelevant to the act.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that there is a large overlap between unvetted illegals and violent crime. And there is no reason to protect illegals from deportation.

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SGman's avatar

That just isn't factual. Immigrants - whatever their legal status - are less likely to commit crime. From the DOJ prior to the Trump Admin removing the page: https://archive.is/5I8ar

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Matters not. Those particular crimes are ones that would not have occurred if not for the illegals who committed them.

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SGman's avatar

It absolutely matters to how you're portraying things.

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

If you can use your statistics to show that unvetted illegals do not increase the number of violent crimes, show me the math.

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SGman's avatar

"Why are ICE officers going into immigration courts to arrest people with no criminal records, people diligently showing up to their court hearings who haven't violated any of the terms of their release?

Because Stephen Miller wants high numbers and doesn't care how ICE gets it."

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SGman's avatar

A couple of quotes out there today re Miller in the Washington Examiner too (from a meeting with ICE): "Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" and "What do you mean you're going after criminals?"

Dude just hates seeing brown people.

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Kim's avatar

Deport high schoolers, moms and married women with no records, while pardoning Larry Hoover. The world is upside down. Open a window and shout with me "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore". I am so over this traitor to the constitution and his merry band of thieves. On another note I thought Shavuot was a celebration of receiving the 10 commandments.

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Steve Berman's avatar

It is, based on Torah. But it is in practice a reading of the Book of Ruth

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Kim's avatar

A great Book!

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