Don’t worry, Batya. I won’t. This group is terrible at documentary proof because they are trained out of monitoring US law violations. They will show you outrage and finger-pointing accusations. They are thin, if not a vacant, lot for presentable evidence on all the pogroms and GDR street demands for ID.
They’re not showing anyone any videographic or photography of citizen detention and ID trolling. All I am seeing are enraged protestors attacking federal ICE police. If it’s there, where the ‘f’ is it? I would believe them if they showed their work.
What does the rule of law mean at Harvard law school. Any special Cambridge interpretations with respect to federal immigration law and the rights of states to interpret or interfere therewith?
> is the stonewalling of ICE by local officials that led to both Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s tragic deaths
Stonewalling happened, yes. But it’s ridiculous to blame some administrative resistance for an ICE officer’s decision to shoot a man in the back while he was on his hands and knees and then on the ground. It’s clear that the officer was poorly trained and didn’t know how to manage the fear and anger that can arise when working in law enforcement. (That’s a generous take on the officer’s response.)
I’ve often appreciated your focus on class and willingness to push back on Progressive excess. But you’re coming across as an apologist for the administration lately. It feels like you are aligning based on loyalty rather than moral clarity. In doing so, you’re putting your credibility at risk and making it harder to fight for the class-based changes you’ve said you want.
"The Left isn’t looking for a better ICE with more orderly deportations. They are looking for a way to stop the deportations from happening."
Batya, you cannot possibly be serious with how you are characterizing "the Left" on this issue. It's not that we are against all deportations at all. We are against Trump's band of brownshirts invading specific communities to terrorize them. We are against ICE being able to use force (now twice deadly) that no other law enforcement agency in the U.S. is allowed to use. Ideally, we would like commonsense immigration reform, which does not look even close to happening from the governmental body (Congress) assigned with doing it.
If you are "looking for a better ICE with more orderly deportations," as you phrase it, surely you would agree that the current incarnation of ICE is not that at all, right?
The law works on the basis of fear, making people fear to break it for the punishment. Lawbreakers should be afraid. Calling ICE "brownshirts" is hysterical hate which would be justified only if they were unaliving illegals en masse rather than humanely deporting them.
Would the police actually do their jobs and hold back those attacking ICE and obstructing justice, neither Good nor Pretti would have died.
Every law enforcement agency is allowed to use deadly force in self-defense, not just ICE.
"Commonsense immigration reform" is enforcing our democratically passed immigration laws by deporting every illegal. That's all we want.
Orderly deportation are possible only when local law enforcement does their job.
Batya, you are a brilliant and talented writer, interviewer and interviewee. Thank you
I appreciate your writing and comments showing up in my inbox more frequently. Thank you for your perspectives.
The previous video with the man whose daughter could not speak anymore was so touching, as well as the woman who lost her only child
No one says it better than Batya! The chaos in Minneapolis is by design and Obama is the chief architect.
With a large assist from the joe bribem regime.
Spot on Batya! Thank you!
Don’t worry, Batya. I won’t. This group is terrible at documentary proof because they are trained out of monitoring US law violations. They will show you outrage and finger-pointing accusations. They are thin, if not a vacant, lot for presentable evidence on all the pogroms and GDR street demands for ID.
They’re not showing anyone any videographic or photography of citizen detention and ID trolling. All I am seeing are enraged protestors attacking federal ICE police. If it’s there, where the ‘f’ is it? I would believe them if they showed their work.
How does Obama expect ICE to work w/ local officials in a sanctuary city? I know he’s not that dumb.
What does the rule of law mean at Harvard law school. Any special Cambridge interpretations with respect to federal immigration law and the rights of states to interpret or interfere therewith?
Oops wrong post! I thought you were going to explain why our president posted an 'Obamas as Apes' video!
Who cares?
So it’s another elite concern only - like serial sexual abuse of children?
You’re right about reforming vs. abolishing ICE.
You’re wrong about this:
> is the stonewalling of ICE by local officials that led to both Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s tragic deaths
Stonewalling happened, yes. But it’s ridiculous to blame some administrative resistance for an ICE officer’s decision to shoot a man in the back while he was on his hands and knees and then on the ground. It’s clear that the officer was poorly trained and didn’t know how to manage the fear and anger that can arise when working in law enforcement. (That’s a generous take on the officer’s response.)
I’ve often appreciated your focus on class and willingness to push back on Progressive excess. But you’re coming across as an apologist for the administration lately. It feels like you are aligning based on loyalty rather than moral clarity. In doing so, you’re putting your credibility at risk and making it harder to fight for the class-based changes you’ve said you want.
Had police been keeping rabid leftists in check, neither incident would have happened.
You're a screeching moron
Ad hominem is all the Left has, never facts, reason, or logic.
I’d like to seize this opportunity to do a land acknowledgment for Pretendians. For surely this is their cultural land$cape that we are now sat upon.
"The Left isn’t looking for a better ICE with more orderly deportations. They are looking for a way to stop the deportations from happening."
Batya, you cannot possibly be serious with how you are characterizing "the Left" on this issue. It's not that we are against all deportations at all. We are against Trump's band of brownshirts invading specific communities to terrorize them. We are against ICE being able to use force (now twice deadly) that no other law enforcement agency in the U.S. is allowed to use. Ideally, we would like commonsense immigration reform, which does not look even close to happening from the governmental body (Congress) assigned with doing it.
If you are "looking for a better ICE with more orderly deportations," as you phrase it, surely you would agree that the current incarnation of ICE is not that at all, right?
🤦♂️I read this comment three times trying to understand how you
got there after reading the article.
It’s almost as if you didn’t actually read it.
Thank you for showing me how my liberal friends will hear and respond to this article 😆
The law works on the basis of fear, making people fear to break it for the punishment. Lawbreakers should be afraid. Calling ICE "brownshirts" is hysterical hate which would be justified only if they were unaliving illegals en masse rather than humanely deporting them.
Would the police actually do their jobs and hold back those attacking ICE and obstructing justice, neither Good nor Pretti would have died.
Every law enforcement agency is allowed to use deadly force in self-defense, not just ICE.
"Commonsense immigration reform" is enforcing our democratically passed immigration laws by deporting every illegal. That's all we want.
Orderly deportation are possible only when local law enforcement does their job.
Renee Good died because she tried to flee arrest and hit an ICE agent with her vehicle, causing internal bleeding.