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Cheez Whiz's avatar

The arguments against the long-established definition are the purest of white smoke rings eminating from the butts of reactionary fooles and soulless lawyers. But for the moment, that's irrelevant. We are beginning the inital wave of max conservative hubris, aka "who's gonna stop me". The system will route all this into the courts, while the administration continues to round up and expel or confine the intended targets, Latinos in the US. It will be instructive to see if any injunctions pausing this effort are issued, or obeyed. In the end, a year or 2 from now, will SCOTUS uphold the existing definition, or call this another "official act" beyond review? This is one of many places that decide how much friction there will be in our slide down from the shining city on a hill.

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Bruce's avatar

If they're "not subject to the jurisdiction of the US" then we can't very well round them up and deport them, can we? [head->desk]

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