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They are allowed to have thoughts and free will, and a company is allowed to fire you for not doing your job. It's not a sin, it's just business.

>Update: Root cause found — this was a bug in a tool I built that was running locally for testing, not Claude Code.

Obviously it's "on average". Of course not every single person will be ranked by their IQ.

I know a 5'3" guy who played in the NBA.

So nothing. Just anecdotes. At least you admit it.

>Mass deportations are being conducted mostly on the basis of race.

Care to share your stats?

This sounds like more of "I don't like this president, therefore what he's doing is wrong"

You heard wrong.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

Immigrant isn't a race.

Being anti-crime doesn't mean lacking compassion. Crimes have victims, and reducing crime results in fewer of them. Poor people don't want to be victims any more than rich people do.

For an American startup/technology forum, this place is remarkably anti-America, anti-capitalism, anti-AI, anti-crypto.

If one country has labor protection and pollution regulations, and another country has near-slave labor and dumps chemicals into rivers, would you consider the former inferior? Unable to compete?

This is not accurate. The details were kept secret during negotiation which consisted of 2 Democrats (1 "Independent" who caucused D) and 1 Republican. When the text of the bill was released, it was widely disparaged by Republicans.

>Several Senate Republicans Issue Blunt Dismissal Of Bipartisan Border Security Bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

It never had a chance of passing. It wasn't some amazing bill that everyone loved until Trump told them not to. That is a fantasy that fits the narrative.

Republicans did not support that bill. A single Republican Senator negotiated it in secret. You guys mischaracterize this bill as some amazing thing that everyone was excited to pass until Trump told them not to. That isn't reality.

You can hear it from the horse's mouth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

Federal law also restricts illegal aliens from entering the US without authorization.

They're also not eligible to be living in the US, yet here we are.

Again, your post is utter pedantry and seemingly wrong.

Why should I care about the number in August 2024? Why are you annualizing the 58k number? I'm referring to the current numbers at the border.

> During Trump's first eight months in office, there have been fewer than 9,000 illegal crossings recorded each month, CBS reported.

249,000 -> 9,000 encounters = flow across the border is "largely eliminated" to any non-pedant.

We have more illegal aliens in the country today than 2007.

2007 -> 2026 = MORE illegal aliens = no headway has been made. It's as simple as that.

Lastly, your link literally confirms what I said:

> The report attributed the shift to combination of the large drop in entries and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures.

It's so refreshing to finally have someone at least attempt to tackle this issue (likely the main issues in the 2016 and 2024 elections). I just wish it was more widespread and less theatrical.

Your pedantry is unnecessary.

"Largely eliminated". I didn't say "completely eliminated". <9,000 per month can be considered "largely eliminated" when the previous flow was often many hundreds of thousands per month. You can see it plainly on the graph.

Yes of course encounters are not total entries. Do you have a better way of estimating?

The net migration is due to several factors. The result of "largely eliminating" the flow of illegal aliens, along with dutiful removal of those in the interior, has made a big dent. There are other factors, including legal immigration, obviously.

There were 12 million (estimated) illegal aliens here in 2007. There are MORE now. No headway has been made.

Illegal aliens are shown to commit more crimes than citizens when time is given to determine immigration status. [1]

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs.

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

Your pdf is a repost of the exact study (Light) cited here as being flawed.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...

Simply incorrect.

That study is yet another that fails to account for the fact that immigration status is not known immediately upon arrest.

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs. [1]

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...

There is a huge difference between turning people away at the border and tallying a "deportation", and removing people from the interior of the US.

The flow of illegal aliens crossing the border has largely been eliminated. [1]

> should you favor a more peaceful and efficient process? Instead of a more violent and less efficient process?

I want a process that actually works. There has been no serious headway made in the number of illegal aliens for decades until now. [2]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8wd8938e8o

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-1st-time-50-years-experienced-n...

Obstructing justice, and then refusing to comply / resisting arrest will lead to you being forcefully removed. This is in fact a valid reason.

Purposely moving your car in front of law enforcement officers' cars to prevent them from arresting a suspect is in fact obstruction. This is not "violence", but you will be arrested if you do this. If you resist arrest, you will be forcefully arrested/apprehended. If you then attempt potentially life-threatening physical harm to the officer you will likely be met with deadly force.

There was slavery for tens of thousands of years. Just because something happened in the past, does not mean it must continue.

If someone is doing/about to do bodily harm to you, you are allowed to defend yourself. She wasn't killed for breaking laws.

Illegal aliens.

Are you saying there aren't millions of illegal aliens in the US? Time for a reality check.

>The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-...

There are millions living in California alone.

Being pregnant doesn't make you immune to law enforcement.

> Not all the people

Meaningless. You are implying that unless someone is elected with 100% of votes, they do not represent the People?

> policies being put in place were not what was promised.

Again meaningless. Did Trump make promises specifically to not increase stringency of immigration law? He was elected to make decisions on behalf of the electorate.

> Which Americans do you mean specifically? And which abuse? That's not specific enough.

The Americans who elected the current President. Abuse by by companies and individuals defrauding American workers and taxpayers, while the government does nothing to combat it. The abuse by the government allowing millions of immigrants per year to the detriment of Americans (speaking of "not what was promised", the 1965 INA).

I will take even this pittance at this point.

Being more strict about immigration law is not "cruel and disgusting".

The People elected the current executive to represent them.

You are free to suspect anything you want - that doesn't make it true.

Americans are tired of their country being abused.

The US is more than simply an "economic zone".

It's not cruel to want to keep your country from changing irreversibly. Foreigners don't have a right to immigrate. Americans are allowed to decide who they want to let in.