JimofPennsylvan
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Republicans in Washington failure to act reasonable in reining in ICE and the Border Patrol and their failure to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits two issues that the American people think are major issues and see the Democrats as committed to compromise but the Republicans not is a compelling reason for the American electorate to take the keys of power away from the Republicans this November! The Democrats are largely right on trying to fix the immigration enforcement problem the breakdown on their positions they want to see in the needed DHS funding bill is as follows. They are right in mandating body cameras for all ICE and Border patrol agents this should go a long way to stemming the excessive force against protesters the American people are seeing and these provisions should sail into the bill (for DHS this week announced plans for all agents to get body cameras as financing allows). They are wrong to mandate "no" face coverings for Ice and Border Patrol agents when they are conducting operations because of the current public opinion climate many people hate these agents they view them as enemies of America allowing these agents to be photographed and thereby identified will subject these agents to public disdain, threats and even potential bodily harm, the public animosity against these agents is so great that a prudent person should definitely recognize it and the government preventing these agents from wearing masks and protecting themselves and their family will lead to a significant number of good people not pursuing careers and ICE and Border Patrol agents and this would be bad for America. The bill should mandate that these ICE and Border Patrol agents when executing a warrant or otherwise detaining a person identify themselves as Federal agents and be prepared to show Identification as federal agents as requested because in our society today a person could reasonably believe they were being kidnapped by criminals if accosted by a bunch of men in unmarked attire and brandishing guns and violence could unfold as these people pursue what they believe is legal self-defense. The Democrats are right the bill should have a provision banning these roving border an ICE agent patrols; Joe Rogan the very popular conservative Podcaster said it best when he said what we have now is the Gestapo in America, government agents checking people's papers this is so un-American so acidic to our unity as a people if you look Hispanic or you have a foreign accent you get singled out and have to prove you're legally permitted to be in America.
The Democrats are right only in part though, meaning for a limited time, that the DHS bill should prohibit the use of Administrative arrest warrants and mandate DHS arrest warrants be judicial warrants signed by a Judge even a magistrate Judge because the system needs some independence because administrative warrants where a DHS agents signs off on approval of the warrant is so not working. The DHS of today cannot be trusted they are skirting the law left and right for instance if a person has an open asylum case and is compliant with the Judge hearing the case orders to appear that person has a legal right to be in the country DHS cannot just issue a warrant basing it on the view the subject of the warrant is in violation of America's immigration laws like they did in the Liam Ramos's father case that being five year old Liam with the winter hat that had bunny ears and the spider man backpack who recently captured the American people's heart with images of him all over the news. It should be mandated for four years that DHS has to go through the Judiciary to get their arrest warrants this should be enough to get DHS on the right path about their warrants and the standards that can be used to get a warrant. One reason not to make this permanent is that this mandate will present a real logistic challenge fairly there is at least ten million people in America that are here without visas that will need to be deported and could possibly need to be the subject of a warrant to facilitate deporting them and this will unduly strain current judicial resources getting approved warrants from this system. But you know fairness dictates DHS bought this on themselves ignoring America's law on a massive scale so they have to take their medicine; notwithstanding this Congress should provide the funding for an additional two hundred federal magistrates to handle this increased warrant approval work load - to facilitate the system working. Another wrinkle here the DHS bill should mandate that any DHS warrant to be implemented on school grounds or withing one block of school grounds be signed by the Secretary of DHS herself because the current state of things is terrible public policy where in many communities members of the community are in fear of immigration enforcement in or near schools and so students in large numbers and teachers aren't going to school America needs the kids even non-citizen kids without visas to go to school because kids that don't go to school often get involved in crime and the country doesn't need this.
On the Republican side of the ledger they want to by law end sanctuary cities, I don't see the case for that. However, I find it a dangerous loophole in the nation's laws from a security protection standpoint that state and country prison officials can release convicted felons from prison without notifying or providing that information to federal authorities even aside from the immigration issue what if federal authorities want to arrest a gang member for major drug trafficking and the gang members is in the state prison system for domestic assault or a DUI case, do Federal authorities need to generate arrest warrants for every prisoner in state and county prison across America who is an illegal immigrant and lodge a detainer so that prisoner won't be released when they finish their state and county prison sentence that seems to much of a dysfunctional system to me. The DHS bill should mandate all state and county prison officials give the Federal government a five hour notice of inmates that are in prison on a felony conviction that will be released from prison so the Federal government can get an arrest warrant for such illegal immigrants that DHS wants to deport and lodge it with the respective prison. There is one condition that should be mandated with this provision that being that DHS cannot directly deport someone that they have picked up from prison from a warrant they must take that local prisoner they got before an immigration judge and get a deportation order to be able to deport even if that person has an outstanding prior order for deportation; because there is cases where such defendants may not pose a public safety threat that may make their deportation case unclear or murky, cases like a DUI case or a Dometic assault case doesn't necessarily mean the illegal immigrant poses a danger to others.
I think the DHS bill should mandate three months of training before Ice and Border Patrol agents are put in the field and once in the field for the first three months at the end of each month they should get a written performance review. Are these agents too violent do they treat members of the public and illegal immigrants in a humane fashion or do they do things like call them "F"in Bitches! The Renee Good and Alex Pretti shooting show so many shortcomings in agent training. Agents are not to use their body to box in cars which protesters are driving and once an agent pulls out a gun that agent puts away his or her cell phone and continually gives his full attention to the use of that gun as long as it is pulled and if that agent is being run down by a protester in a car and there is not the opportunity to get out of the way the justification for shooting the driver in that car in self-defense ends once the front of the care has passed the agent (you don't get the right to fire at the driver from the side). When protesters are withdrawing agents are not to pull them into a physical confrontation they are to let them withdraw, if an agent or agent puts or tries to put a protestor on the ground than the agent has made the decision to arrest the protestor, when an agent or agents has the protester on the ground they are to use training to as readily as possible handcuff the protester they are not to repeatedly strike the protester for the purpose of getting the protestor to submit to their control and they are especially not to strike the protester in the head and especially especially not with a metal object (for head trauma can cause brain damage to a person). No agent should fire their gun at a person that is in plain sight when that agent does not see a gun in that persons hand; no legal justification lies for shooting a person when that person is unarmed!
I think that Republicans should be extremely amenable to provisions in this DHS bill that stop the current abuses in the nation's immigration enforcement system. It is completely mind-boggling how Republicans blew this issue from the 2024 election, I have followed this immigration issue closely from the George W. Bush administration and I had never seen the American electorate more open to stopping illegal immigration and permanently resolving this issue at that time of the 2024 election. But the Republicans blew it they have turned it into an historic screw-up they have turned an issue that was an easy lay-up political asset in future elections to a significant liability in future elections. I was surprised to read in the WSJ yesterday in an editorial article by William Galston that today a majority of Americans would like to see a cut in ICE funding what a change since November of 2024 and in a poll on CNN recently fifty-eight percent of Americans would like to see the current DHS Secretary removed. Republicans immigration enforcement has shaped up to be a liability in the upcoming mid-term elections this year; fortunately though there is still time to fix it, this DHS bill is the ship that can transport you to the fix!
The Democrats are right only in part though, meaning for a limited time, that the DHS bill should prohibit the use of Administrative arrest warrants and mandate DHS arrest warrants be judicial warrants signed by a Judge even a magistrate Judge because the system needs some independence because administrative warrants where a DHS agents signs off on approval of the warrant is so not working. The DHS of today cannot be trusted they are skirting the law left and right for instance if a person has an open asylum case and is compliant with the Judge hearing the case orders to appear that person has a legal right to be in the country DHS cannot just issue a warrant basing it on the view the subject of the warrant is in violation of America's immigration laws like they did in the Liam Ramos's father case that being five year old Liam with the winter hat that had bunny ears and the spider man backpack who recently captured the American people's heart with images of him all over the news. It should be mandated for four years that DHS has to go through the Judiciary to get their arrest warrants this should be enough to get DHS on the right path about their warrants and the standards that can be used to get a warrant. One reason not to make this permanent is that this mandate will present a real logistic challenge fairly there is at least ten million people in America that are here without visas that will need to be deported and could possibly need to be the subject of a warrant to facilitate deporting them and this will unduly strain current judicial resources getting approved warrants from this system. But you know fairness dictates DHS bought this on themselves ignoring America's law on a massive scale so they have to take their medicine; notwithstanding this Congress should provide the funding for an additional two hundred federal magistrates to handle this increased warrant approval work load - to facilitate the system working. Another wrinkle here the DHS bill should mandate that any DHS warrant to be implemented on school grounds or withing one block of school grounds be signed by the Secretary of DHS herself because the current state of things is terrible public policy where in many communities members of the community are in fear of immigration enforcement in or near schools and so students in large numbers and teachers aren't going to school America needs the kids even non-citizen kids without visas to go to school because kids that don't go to school often get involved in crime and the country doesn't need this.
On the Republican side of the ledger they want to by law end sanctuary cities, I don't see the case for that. However, I find it a dangerous loophole in the nation's laws from a security protection standpoint that state and country prison officials can release convicted felons from prison without notifying or providing that information to federal authorities even aside from the immigration issue what if federal authorities want to arrest a gang member for major drug trafficking and the gang members is in the state prison system for domestic assault or a DUI case, do Federal authorities need to generate arrest warrants for every prisoner in state and county prison across America who is an illegal immigrant and lodge a detainer so that prisoner won't be released when they finish their state and county prison sentence that seems to much of a dysfunctional system to me. The DHS bill should mandate all state and county prison officials give the Federal government a five hour notice of inmates that are in prison on a felony conviction that will be released from prison so the Federal government can get an arrest warrant for such illegal immigrants that DHS wants to deport and lodge it with the respective prison. There is one condition that should be mandated with this provision that being that DHS cannot directly deport someone that they have picked up from prison from a warrant they must take that local prisoner they got before an immigration judge and get a deportation order to be able to deport even if that person has an outstanding prior order for deportation; because there is cases where such defendants may not pose a public safety threat that may make their deportation case unclear or murky, cases like a DUI case or a Dometic assault case doesn't necessarily mean the illegal immigrant poses a danger to others.
I think the DHS bill should mandate three months of training before Ice and Border Patrol agents are put in the field and once in the field for the first three months at the end of each month they should get a written performance review. Are these agents too violent do they treat members of the public and illegal immigrants in a humane fashion or do they do things like call them "F"in Bitches! The Renee Good and Alex Pretti shooting show so many shortcomings in agent training. Agents are not to use their body to box in cars which protesters are driving and once an agent pulls out a gun that agent puts away his or her cell phone and continually gives his full attention to the use of that gun as long as it is pulled and if that agent is being run down by a protester in a car and there is not the opportunity to get out of the way the justification for shooting the driver in that car in self-defense ends once the front of the care has passed the agent (you don't get the right to fire at the driver from the side). When protesters are withdrawing agents are not to pull them into a physical confrontation they are to let them withdraw, if an agent or agent puts or tries to put a protestor on the ground than the agent has made the decision to arrest the protestor, when an agent or agents has the protester on the ground they are to use training to as readily as possible handcuff the protester they are not to repeatedly strike the protester for the purpose of getting the protestor to submit to their control and they are especially not to strike the protester in the head and especially especially not with a metal object (for head trauma can cause brain damage to a person). No agent should fire their gun at a person that is in plain sight when that agent does not see a gun in that persons hand; no legal justification lies for shooting a person when that person is unarmed!
I think that Republicans should be extremely amenable to provisions in this DHS bill that stop the current abuses in the nation's immigration enforcement system. It is completely mind-boggling how Republicans blew this issue from the 2024 election, I have followed this immigration issue closely from the George W. Bush administration and I had never seen the American electorate more open to stopping illegal immigration and permanently resolving this issue at that time of the 2024 election. But the Republicans blew it they have turned it into an historic screw-up they have turned an issue that was an easy lay-up political asset in future elections to a significant liability in future elections. I was surprised to read in the WSJ yesterday in an editorial article by William Galston that today a majority of Americans would like to see a cut in ICE funding what a change since November of 2024 and in a poll on CNN recently fifty-eight percent of Americans would like to see the current DHS Secretary removed. Republicans immigration enforcement has shaped up to be a liability in the upcoming mid-term elections this year; fortunately though there is still time to fix it, this DHS bill is the ship that can transport you to the fix!
