No. of Recommendations: 3
Yah. I'd like to see an end to the tactic of grab 'em and sort it out later.
Again, that's also a possibility. Minnesota demonstrated pretty clearly that there aren't a lot of benefits to immigration hardliners if you increase detentions (the "grab") beyond the capacity of the detention facilities and your lawyers to process the detainees (the "sort it out"). Sure, you up the arrest count. But you're not deporting any greater number of people, because the "sort it out" bottleneck is what's limiting the number of people who get to the end of the process.
In the meantime, you end up with a lot of very pissed off federal judges - burning off decades of DOJ 'goodwill,' the unstated assumption that the federal government is different from ordinary litigants and has some presumption of proper dealing that a "stranger to the court" might not. DOJ has to be pissed of about that. It puts their lawyers in a terrible position if a judge tells the attorney, "The government is ordered to do X" and the lawyer can't get X to happen.
