At this point it’s just a bogeyman word.

But they’d be that way even in a democracy.

Their many articles on the subject are all entirely consistent with that article, and I don’t have the patience to go hunting down all their other articles about ICE to find those same types of snippets.

Even if we did, it’d still be a reasonable assessment of power.  If you can only get 47% of the vote on a given issue, you essentially have no power.  But if you can take 47% of the revenue from a business, that’s enough to shutter most places.

Even if we did, it’d still be a reasonable assessment of power.  If you can only get 47% of the vote on a given issue, you essentially have no power.  But if you can take 47% of the revenue from a business, that’s enough to shutter most places.

https://splinternews.com/ban-ice-1819920752

I don’t disagree that it’s not that big a security threat. I’m also fine with there not being a rush to enforce things.

It’s weird how the right will vote for Hollywood people but the left won’t.

Okay, well it’s not quite that, but it effectively amounts to it.

I have too in fact, but NYC isn’t populated primarily by 85 year olds. It’s populated by a pretty broad diaspora of people who are, by and large, deeply liberal.

I’m aware of that, but RobNYC’s point is that Cuomo is very popular in NYC.

Maybe.

I’m not sure it’s possible to caricature Japan’s weird and insane work culture in a way that is inaccurate.

You can do it for stretches of time when you can convince yourself it’s meaningful to do so, but if things are normal course of business ... yeah not so much.

That is increasingly mind boggling to me.

The INS, that had all the same powers to detain and deport immigrants who didn’t have their paper work in order.

You don’t need to arrest people to get that information.

*pinches Skip 2's cheeks

I mean, it’s ground beef. It’s bland. Even a premium cut ground up and cooked to rare perfection with the juices in it is pretty boring tasting.

Because it’s reasonable to know who’s entering the country, why they want to enter it, what their plans are, and how long they plan on staying.