Subject: Re: ICE IS CLEANING UP MINNESOTA
Why does the dems and left want criminals, rapist, murderers living among us, fighting
ICE to do their job making America and Minneapolis safe again?

They don't. Any more than the fact that we believe that the criminally accused is entitled to a fair trial requiring proof of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt means we want criminals, rapists, and murderers to escape conviction. Even though a standard that makes sure that no innocent person is imprisoned means that some criminals will avoid conviction. "Better to let a thousand guilty men go free than imprison an innocent man."

So this isn't that people want criminals to go free. They simply recognize that the Administration is not even trying to limit their enforcement activities to people who are known to actually be criminals, and are instead trying to deport as many people as they can who are in the country without authorization - regardless of whether those people committed a crime (some unauthorized folks did not), and regardless of whether they committed a crime other than having entered the country without authorization.

They don't want otherwise law-abiding unauthorized residents to be expelled from the country. Largely that's based on considerations of proportionality - the same reason we don't have capital punishment for misdemeanor theft (to use an extreme and hopefully noncontroversial illustration). Yes, misdemeanor theft is wrong, but we don't kill people for it because the consequences would be vastly disproportionate to the violation.

So many dems and leftists believe that the policy of deporting people without criminal records has consequences that are disproportionate to the violation. You might not agree with this balancing of values. But it is wrong to say that dems and leftists want the rapists and murderers to stay in the U.S. They would be happy for ICE to deport the rapists and murderers. They just don't want ICE to also deport the random mom of three who's never done a thing wrong except being brought to this country when she was a teenager two decades ago. They want ICE and the Administration to go back to the system of going after the ones who are the worst of the worst and not targeting folks who are not a threat to anyone when they comply with their hearing dates and voluntarily walk into a courtroom (to give an example).