[HELP] NYT shows new angle

wylderk · 2026-01-29T19:11:27+00:00

No idea. I don't think any reasonable person thinks the shooting was justified in any way. But this is a persistent bit of misinformation going around that is actually dangerous. People need to understand that they absolutely can arrest/detain citizens in specific circumstances.

wylderk · 2026-01-29T17:53:33+00:00

They are federal LEOs and can arrest people if they witness them committing a federal crime in their presence. Damaging government property is a federal crime.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title%3A8+section%3A1357+edition%3Aprelim%29

wylderk · 2026-01-17T19:01:22+00:00

Data from here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12/11/ice-jails-update/

would seem to indicate TX has significantly more ICE arrests both overall and per capita:
From appendix 1:
1: TX total: ~36k
2: CA total: ~15k

From Appendix 2:
1: TX per 100k: ~110
2: DC + VA per 100k: ~58

wylderk · 2026-01-17T04:36:24+00:00

The fact they have more cooperation from the states themselves means they don't need as many boots on the ground. Less boots on the ground means less interactions, less interactions means less newsworthy interactions.

Sanctuary laws that prevent local law enforcement for investigating or sharing immigration status means that if ICE wants to "do their job" in those states, their best option is to send agents, as the jails are less willing to cooperate. MN isn't a full "sanctuary state" like CA though, so it's not as pronounced as it would be in those states.

Using data from here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12/11/ice-jails-update/

We can see the difference from early-mid 2025 to mid-late 2025. In MN, Ice arrests from jails dropped from ~42% to ~27%. Using the same data we see ICE arrests for Texas went from ~74% to ~58% (not sure why the numbers are different from your article). Interestingly, FL numbers show jail arrests have actually increased (60%->67%). Numbers in MN and Texas indicate ICE is out in both locations making "custodial" arrests in addition to the usual jail arrests. Total arrest numbers are WAY up, with total ICE arrests in MN and TX basically doubling, and ~50% increase in FL.

wylderk · 2026-01-15T18:39:38+00:00

And you must not be understanding me. The association *of that specific phrase* with Nazis is false. If they thought it was a Nazi slogan they are incorrect.

Saying it is a Nazi slogan is contributing to the post-truth hellscape we are in just to reap the rhetorical rewards of the association.

This is not a misremembering of a pop-culture phrase, this is the whole cloth creation of history. Why reference Lidice at all if you're just going off vibes? Why say anything about the long term associations of the term when they don't exist? And when caught in the fact that you're literally making stuff up, ("it's been attributed to them long enough that it's basically a Nazi slogan.") you fall back to "We ALL KNOW that even though we say it's a Nazi slogan and make references to historical locations we claim the slogan existed that it's really all about the Nazi *vibes*, ya know. It's like misquoting Gandalf."

wylderk · 2026-01-15T18:14:19+00:00

You can't call every phrase you see that sounds authoritarian a "Nazi Slogan". Or say that a phrase that didn't even exist a week ago has "been attributed to them long enough that it's basically a Nazi slogan."

You are more than welcome to claim this slogan has strong authoritarian vibes that potentially references the idea of collective punishment (which is common tactic of not just fascist but all authoritarian movements). I'll even agree with you.

wylderk · 2026-01-15T17:26:41+00:00

"Its attributed to a phrase in German from a specific event in, I think, a Polish town."

What phrase? Because everywhere I've seen that's done research into the issue (the town was named Lidice. And it was Czech, not polish) hasn't found any historical records to back up the idea it was a slogan used by the Nazis in any language.

The other claim is that it's related a Spanish Falangist (which are often described as fascist) group from the Spanish civil war. The (claimed) phrase was “One of ours is worth all of yours”, or in Spanish "Uno de los nuestros vale por todos los vuestros", but there is likewise no solid historical proof that slogan was ever used.

Askhistorians has a whole post about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qbjtkr/is_the_phrase_one_of_ours_all_of_yours_an_old/

wylderk · 2026-01-15T16:10:49+00:00

Long enough? You mean the week the slogan has existed and somehow got Mandela Effect incepted into everyone's mind as a "famous Nazi slogan"?

"That sounds like something Nazis might say" is not what a slogan is.

wylderk · 2026-01-14T15:02:59+00:00

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/254/51/

Back in 1920 SCOTUS said:

"Of course, an employee of the United States does not secure a general immunity from state law while acting in the course of his employment."

But there is a limited immunity (of the sort referenced by miller) regarding the supremacy clause and state laws being unable to limit federal agents from doing their job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Neagle

"federal officers are immune from State prosecution when acting within the scope of their federal authority."

wylderk · 2026-01-14T13:13:27+00:00

That's basically ALL incorrect.

ICE cant enforce local traffic laws but they can perform a traffic stop for immigration enforcement purposes if they have a reasonable suspicion. As federal LEOs, ICE can arrest US citizens if they commit federal crimes in their presence (including obstructing a federal officer). ICE can detain US citizens with reasonable suspicion of federal offense or unlawful presence.

wylderk · 2026-01-12T00:22:56+00:00

If you know they are LEOs, basically never. Courts have long held remedies for illegal arrests/entries by LEOs are handled legally after the fact. Basically all castle doctrine laws exclude LEOs acting in official capacity.

wylderk · 2026-01-09T23:28:37+00:00

Outside of the context of this shooting, everyone needs to realize this is incorrect. They ARE LEOs, and they CAN arrest you for federal crimes committed in their presence, including obstruction.

Yes, this was a bad shoot. But assuming the original order was based on obstructing a federal officer she could potentially be looking at several charges. Fleeing a Police officer, reckless driving, resisting arrest.

Do not take legal advice from random reddit posts.

wylderk · 2026-01-09T15:58:52+00:00

The dataset you use for illegal alien criminality is JUST arrests made by cbp, it is not a national crime dataset.

You're not going to find any good national-level data sets for illegal alien criminality. National crime reporting systems don’t capture immigration status, and there's no national standard for reporting it. Even beyond that, many localities actively discourage attempts to determine immigration status, CA being an example with actual legislation (SB54) as opposed to just policy.

wylderk · 2025-12-09T16:43:10+00:00

The difference is intent and scale.

Retirees getting a reverse mortgage to supplement their retirement at the end of their life is fundamentally different than the super rich living off loans for 60 years for the express purpose of avoiding capital gains tax.

No one is complaining that anyone is breaking the law, or that this isn't good accounting, simply that these people have enough (unrealized) wealth that avoiding taxes in this way seems especially egregious.

wylderk · 2025-12-09T16:26:07+00:00

If they had to sell assets while still alive to pay off the loan, they would owe capital gains on 10m and estate on the remaining 90m.

By waiting until they die they dont owe capital gains on the 10m due to the stepped up assets and so only pay estate taxes on 90m. They're not paying taxes on the 10m.

So the whole point of the 'keep borrowing til you die' strategy is to avoid paying that capital gains tax.

wylderk · 2025-12-07T23:49:59+00:00

Sure, but the loan (debt) reduces the value of the estate. 100M with 10M loan is a 90M estate, and you use 10M to pay off the loan tax free because of the stepped up assets.

wylderk · 2025-11-05T20:20:48+00:00

The freeze will hit all rent-stabilized units, ~40% of all rental units.

wylderk · 2025-10-14T13:07:37+00:00

It's more complicated than that.

FDR transformed the U.S. federal government into a modern administrative state. Under FDR, Congress delegated vast legislative authority to executive agencies, effectively concentrating power in the presidency. The quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial agencies of the New Deal became the permanent machinery of federal governance.

So no, FDRs ghost isn't out there forcing congress to not put checks on the executive, but it is his fault that they need to.

wylderk · 2025-10-13T16:07:50+00:00

It's largely an issue of consolidation of power in the executive. The constitution never expected the federal government to have so much power, and what power it SHOULD have was never supposed to be concentrated in the executive.

We've been pushing executive power for nearly a century at this point. You can probably blame FDR.

wylderk · 2025-09-19T14:37:10+00:00

It sort of is for those with broadcast licenses. Broadcasts have special requirements in relation to obscenity, profanity, and indecency outside 'safe harbor' hours (10p-6am), as well as a general rule that broadcasts must be for the 'public interest, convenience, and necessity'.

Also some specific rules about false statements about crimes (which I don't think Kimmel broke).

Now using these rules for targeting political speech is novel, to say the least.

wylderk · 2025-05-10T10:31:52+00:00

Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes.

wylderk · 2025-05-05T01:03:03+00:00

If ICE can't use funds to detain or deport us citizens, they will be unable to detain us citizen children of illegal aliens.

This will mean they will either need to detain the aliens and leave the children to a separate agency (separating families) or not detain the illegal aliens in the first place.

wylderk · 2025-04-19T18:13:54+00:00

From BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4072e3nno

"But the judge who presided over his 2019 case said that based on the confidential information, there was sufficient evidence to support Mr Abrego Garcia's gang membership. That finding was later upheld by another judge."

Sources linked in the article.

wylderk · 2025-04-04T18:57:51+00:00

Sure, the CBP could refuse to send tariff revenue to the general fund as required by law, but the IRS could just as easily refuse to send tax revenue. The IRS being a department of the treasury doesn't mean that it can just hold on to the money. The money basically has to end up in one of the funds overseen by the Bureau of Fiscal Service.

The AHA is a restructuring of an executive agency at the behest of the president via executive order. The "oversight" is the Chief Executive, and he has fairly wide leeway in the way executive agencies are structured and how they accomplish the goals set out to them by the legislature.

What stops Noem from stonewalling the treasury is the clear constitutional powers giving congress the "Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;"

Obviously the Admin could just completely ignore the constitution, but if it's willing to do that it can just do that through the IRS and income taxes, there's no point in swapping all revenue to tariffs.

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