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> I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive. But is it a net positive at the margin? Protests by the tech community won't ge
by tfehring 8y ago
> I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive.
But is it a net positive at the margin? Protests by the tech community won't get rid of ICE. They might make it less efficient, forcing it to spend some of its budget on, say, migrating to new tech platforms. Seizing drugs is (hopefully) a higher priority for ICE than locking up children, so a reduction in available budget should lead to a reduction in the latter, not the former.
- Kalium 8y agoYou could be right! Of course, it might also just lead to ICE having an easier time getting a bigger budget next year so that they don't have to let any services slip. Or maybe they just cut back on cultural sensitivity training. Perhaps something else entirely! There's really no way for us to meaningfully predict outcomes from where we are. We may as well be generating random numbers. Your hypothesis is intriguing. I would love to see data.