Alex Pretti Shooting

While ice is obviously being deployed en masse as a psychological and political tool, what they are tasked with is enforcing the immigration laws by rounding up and detaining people who are in the country illegally.

I am pleased that the law is being enforced and I am even pleased that it is being done as a spectacle to both encourage illegal aliens to leave and to deter others from even coming illegally. The reward for breaking the law should not be a polite and respectful “oh we really wish you wouldn’t do that.” It should be a swift and effective response that both stops the criminal’s behavior and serves as a deterrent to others who are considering the same behavior. To the extent that this deployment is having that effect, I say do it more.

It’s interesting that you think the deployment of soldiers to enforce a federal law that forces white people to let black people attend their schools is laudable (boy hasn’t that sure turned out well) but the use of immigration agents to enforce federal Immigration laws is somehow inappropriate and is the cause of the problem.

Again, I think about our perception filters.

Out of curiosity, out of those here who think that his death that day was not easily foreseeable given the choices he made; would you yourself choose to go to an event such as that, when the demonstrated goal is to obstruct and harass law enforcement, to tie up their personnel and resources and, as necessary, get into physical altercations with them and get yourself arrested; would you then strap on a pistol and spare mags and head off to do this? Hell, I’m a second amendment supporter and a former infantryman who jumped out of perfectly good airplanes, and you couldn’t pay me to do something so stupid.