Gabriel54

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by Gabriel54 1y ago
> I would rather have anarchy than rule of law enforced by bandits. This indicates to me that you have no idea how desperate people become in a failed state, in the absence of law and order.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I think it is a stretch to conclude that because someone voted for Trump, they support all of his immigration policies. Some of the policies perhaps, but I think it is a matter of degree. Many viewed Biden (rightly or wrongly) as not enfo
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
So should we model our immigration system on that of those countries? My point is that we are a country of laws, based on rule of law, and therefore must start by impartially enforcing the laws we have. Syria and Iraq (to name two of your
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I don't disagree with anything you are saying. No one should be deported to prison camps in third countries (a la CECOT). Immigration should be made easier. Executives should face more serious consequences for hiring undocumented wo
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Governments have a right to detain and deport individuals in the country without documentation. The fact that ICE resorts to the tactics we are describing is unfortunate but necessary because many cities and states refuse to cooperate with
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I agree, I think this situation is uniquely American, and yes, this is exactly separation of powers (federal vs. state) playing out. I also agree with you that neither side, given more authority, would produce a better outcome. It is my p
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Detaining and deporting individuals who are in a foreign (to them) country without documentation is not "punching them".
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Can you name another country in which I can enter without inspection, commit a crime, and then be released, all without having anyone ask, "what is your basis for being in this country"?
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
It is not a natural born right of every person born in North and South America to come to the United States. It is not a natural right of every person already inside the USA to remain in the USA.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
We should be clear that many (most?) of the immigration raids you are describing are taking place in cities that have explicitly stated that they will not cooperate with the federal government regarding immigration, meaning that anyone in t
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
There cannot be a comprehensive system of worker's rights when millions of workers are present without documentation. We cannot support a higher minimum wage and, at the same time, take in millions of workers who will work for less.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Not the author of the comment you replied to but I don’t believe that is the point. No one is saying that it is not important to listen to experts, but in fact many experts tried to say these things and were quickly shut down by the main st
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
The agents in this case did no such thing. As far as I am aware this has not happened anywhere.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
There is no suggestion that the agents conducted a search or entered a non-public area. And this has nothing to do with the claim that the judge actively obstructed their efforts.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
The warrant of the judge's arrest strongly suggests that she did not think it was appropriate for ICE to arrest Ruiz and took actions to prevent it from happening.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I don't blame them. If I were them, I would do the same thing. However, as someone with the ability to vote and influence (to a very small degree) public policy, I would prefer we move toward a system in which strong labor rights exi
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Might it be because the federal government simply did not need to exercise much authority over the states? As a non-expert I am curious. I am continually amazed by how much authority is delegated to the states and local jurisdictions in t
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I agree with you. A quick search suggests that there are 11 million undocumented people in the United States, or about 3% of the population. A healthy society does not harbor 11 million people without documentation so they can be exploite
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
> Supreme Court precedent is that states cannot be compelled by Congress to enforce Immigration law (see: Printz v. United States). So the supreme court struck a reasonable compromise between federal and state interests. I am not a lawy
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
Did you read the warrant? They did not demand the judge tell them anything. They knew he was there and were waiting outside the courtroom to arrest him. The judge confronted them and was visibly upset. She directed the agents elsewhere
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
What is the purpose of laws if they are willfully ignored? Where do you draw the line? If the police don't care about someone's immigration status, why should they care about who broke into your car?
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
People are arrested in court every day. Why a judge would risk their career to prevent ICE from executing a warrant for someone's arrest confounds me.
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by Gabriel54 1y ago
I fear the day when legal matters and other impactful decisions are decided and similarly hallucinated by AI.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Tangential, and not a train station, but one of the best Turkish şiş kebabs I ever had was at Esenler Otogar (bus station) in Istanbul. The station is something out of a horror movie, but if you go up to the second floor there are some fan
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I mean construction in the mathematical sense. If you believe, for example, that the rational numbers exist, then it is easy to construct the real numbers. Very roughly, we look at the set of all sequences of rational numbers that conver
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Yup! Programs are assumed to have finite length, in the sense that the program must have a finite description. Of course, it may use recursion or include a loop that runs forever, for example.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
It is a good question. I can say that, briefly, you have to take two things for granted. 1, that the real numbers can be constructed, and 2, that the number of computable numbers is countable because the number of programs describing them
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
There are not countless examples. Instead of "hiring of people on the basis of race" I may more accurately say "using race as a decisive factor in the consideration of an application resulting in its acceptance or rejection&
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
In academia, there are more qualified people than positions, on an extreme level in fact. I agree, we have to distinguish people. We must distinguish on intangible characteristics sometimes. Suppose I am hiring for a position in an depar

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