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Recent content by hedrick

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    US appeals court lifts order curbing immigration agents' tactics against Minnesota protesters

    The problem of detainers would be solved immediately if they were actual judicial warrants. It appears to me that the whole immigration process is in a legal gray zone. Arresting, holding,and expelling someone looks a lot like the sort of punishment that is normally considered criminal law. But...
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    US appeals court lifts order curbing immigration agents' tactics against Minnesota protesters

    I looked into the situation in Minnesota. It appears that their courts made a decision in 2019 that changed things. Because some specifics have changed since that decision, the attorney general issued an advisory opinion, but it was based on a decison by their court of appeals. The Minnesota...
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    US appeals court lifts order curbing immigration agents' tactics against Minnesota protesters

    To some extent they are grabbing people who served time and were released. They are by some definitions criminals. I believe they are continuing to investigate things like criminal gangs. While the PR talks about criminals, there are also legitimate expulsion orders, and people not registered...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    More specifically, they may have violated FACE, a Federal law that prohibits disrupting worship.
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    That's not what sanctuary state normally means. It normally means that state and local police don't enforce immigration laws beyond what is legally required. Normally they do respond to warrants and other legally required documents. I haven't investigated far enough to know just Minnesota has...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    Incidentally, I might be amenable to a law that says non-citizens convicted of certain crimes shoujld be deported automatically upon conviction, and requiring courts to notify ICE. There would need to be a loophole so we didn't have to send drug cartel leaders back ...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    I've looked a bit to see what is behind this. What I can determine is that when people get to the end of their sentences, Minnesota releases them. We have lots of convicted criminals in our communities, because most sentences aren't for life. The question is how far Minnesota should go in...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    Maybe. Criminal prosecution faces a very high bar: the officer must have intentionally violated the law. Civil cases aren't possible, I believe. So you'd have to do some kind of injunction, as has been done. Whether the Supreme Court will allow that is unclear. The record is mixed. There is a...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    Yeah, people aren't being careful enough to say "some." But when ICE officers are acting as a group to do things that appear unjustied, it's understandable that people who say "ICE' rather than "some ICE agents," particularly if the things seem to be encouraged from the top. I don't think we...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    The problem is that ICE is a mixed bag. They actually do arrest people who have done bad things, sometimes very bad things. But they also arrest immigrants who are perfectly OK. They arrested one of our church members as they appeared for hearing on their asylum application. This is far from the...
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    California Billionaires Are Leaving the State in Response to Proposed Wealth Tax

    Gov Newson has vowed to stop it. I doubt it will happen, but since it proposes retroactive to Jan 2026 I can see people panicing. This was a really bad idea.
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    Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US

    Huh? We already have more troops in Greenland than Denmark does. I think it's pretty clear that if we wanted to expand our defense presence there would be no objection. We don't need to own Greenland to do pretty much anything we're likely to want. This is Trump's equivalent of Putin's desire to...
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    Office (Who Was Not Struck) Suffers Internal Bleeding.

    That's why the officer will (and should) never be charged. However there are rules intended to prevent them from getting into situations like that. One is not to stand in front of a car. There appears to be no plausible excuse for shots after the first, but it still doesn't pass the very high...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    Has Minnesota failed to honor any laws? Have they not honored judicial warrants or anything like that? My impression is that most of the ICE operation doesn't use the same kinds of warrants, etc, that normal law enforcement does. I'm not saying their operation is illegal (though some may be)...
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    ICE shooting in Minneapolis, police swarm scene

    This is why so much of the discussion is trying to discredit the victim. People seem to be feeling that because she was doing something wrong it was OK to kill her. I think an investigation would show that she was trying to impede law enforcement. I also think she could be charged with reckless...
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