Comment by mosura
10 days ago
Then argue for democratically changing the law to make them unambiguously legal.
Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.
10 days ago
Then argue for democratically changing the law to make them unambiguously legal.
Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.
> Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.
Like expanding Presidential immunity specifically for a President with 34 existing felony convictions?
Or the admin refusing to even investigate the agent in the Good shooting (https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/ice-trump-minneapolis-inves...) while going after her widow (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resign...)?
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I accept that US law, and its execution on border crossings and asylum was disastrous. Over many administrations.
That in no way justifies this move to an unaccountable paramilitary force attacking US citizens who are legally exercising their rights.
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> By failing to accept that you are being selective.
Are you not being selective?
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mosura%20Trump&type=comment
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Current ICE/Homeland Security actions are unambiguously illegal.
The problem is that without an independent congress the US system is able to descend into authoritarianism. The court has (reasonably) decided that on many broad issues regarding presidential actions and abuse of authority only congress (via impeachment and removal) is able to constrain the president.
The current congressional majority has, for now, decided to allow the president to do almost anything he wants, regardless of the law and constitution.
> Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.
That's what the OP is saying.
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They are engaged is massive violations of US law
Because that's plainly not what they are always doing. And the aggressive, racist unprofessional, downright dangerous way ICE are going about things is simply shocking.
Detaining citizens is not immigration law.
You can watch any of these videos I posted a few days ago [1] and tell me why.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598192
ICE is blatantly violating peoples’ rights. Read any comment on this page.
Congress has been neutered and there's been efforts to ensure that it stays that way.
Congress hasn't been neutered, they can reclaim their power at any time. Republicans in power simply refuse to act at all.
That they neutered themselves doesn't make them any less neutered.
I'm skeptical about their ability to reclaim it, too. Lots of them remember being terrified and running away Jan 6, even if many now pretend not to... and SCOTUS has been on a tear wiping out long-standing legislation Congress was quite clear about like the Voting Rights Act.
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It’s the literal plot of Star Wars
It isn’t new though. The whole reason it is such a mess now is it was equally deliberately ignored for decades.
Obama was "Deporter in chief"
You are just wrong.
America didn't even really have borders for most of it's existence, as the very idea of a Nation wasn't really a thing until into the 1800s.
We had a purposely pourous border with Mexico until relatively recently.
How many mexican immigrants do you happen to think live in Minneapolis?
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No. One old man and a bunch of malicious zealots at his side are introducing a tremendous amount of instability into the country and the world at large; just like they did with his first term, only now less inhibited.
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