It remains unclear whether the Trump administration will apply the law in this way. But such an interpretation, experts say, would infringe on basic civil liberties.
  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They don’t have infinite agents. If they start sending one or two dozen agents to arrest one person, rather than the 2-6 they are sending now, that means they will be making less arrests overall.

      • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago
        1. It would lead to significantly less arrests if they needed double or triple the agents to conduct them “safely”.
        2. More people will die only if agents or their victims start shooting on general principle. In either case, that’s a backslide that isn’t really a consequence of putting more agents on one person.