| Jaicee said: We complain a lot here, be it about policies being enacted (or in the case of our rare right wing visitors, about (heaven forbid) the existence of dissent thereto |
). That certainly includes me. Mocking and excoriating this administration's general policy direction and attitude is something I find easy and often fun and cathartic too. Thought I'd do something different for a change of pace here though because no, I don't actually disapprove of just everything that's being done in Washington right now, believe it or not. I supported the Laken Riley Act, for example, and was glad that it passed and that not every Democrat voted against it.Disagree. Laken Riley Act always felt to me like bad policy wrapped in a fairly reasonable package. Classic propaganda stuff, so you can point to all the people who voted against it and say "They voted against a bill that would do this reasonable thing" while completely ignoring the rest of the stuff packaged with it.
Having ICE automatically detain someone who is convicted of manslaughter is pretty reasonable. I think there could potentially be some issues with it in execution, as deportation doesn't always result in imprisonment in the destination country basically allowing some people to escape punishment and potentially just come back to America, but overall, I'm not too concerned about that.
But handling all theft related crimes this way seems like a bridge too far. Sending someone who steals a candy bar to ICE detainment isn't something I can support as I don't feel like it is imperative for public safety to protect the poor Americans from crimes regularly committed by babies.
And sending them to ICE for just for being accused of a crime? I mean, I feel like we don't need to look too far past what is happening literally right now to see that due process is on shaky footing, making that a pretty dangerous road. Just look at the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Accusing someone of a crime is easy, but convicting them of a crime is hard (and for good reason). In a country where an accusation can be on the basis of the clothes someone is wearing and incredibly dubious tattoo interpretations, we shouldn't enable further assaults on due process.
And the part that allows states to sue DHS? Woof. All that is doing is allowing the Republican Judiciary to hijack control of America's immigration system whenever Democrats are in power...
