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by tootie 284 days ago
Most crimes are not arbitrary. Anything that causes or risks injury or loss of property make up that vast majority of crimes. Drinking age or driving age are proxies for public safety. Those lines are already fuzzy and breaching them is not a major offense.

We haven't had a serious discussion about actual immigration policy for a while and a lot of agreed upon rules are being tossed out. Trump's enforcement includes summary dissolution of refugee status, summary revocation of visas and green cards, arrests at court houses and a general disregard for due process. There is a big headline strategic objective of fighting crime and the current enforcement is not even pretending that this is a serious goal.

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Thank you for being a voice of reason. Zero disagreement on the need to have that discussion. I am certainly not, lets say ecstatic, about how the current environment shapes up. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the capacity to influence it in any serious way. I am basically a spectator.