Unified theory of ICE caprice: you know how you read some stories where an illegal immigrant is somehow still in this country a decade after a felony conviction and deportation order? 1/
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And you know how there are stories about someone getting arrested/threatened with deportation because Mom and Dad forgot to fill out a form one time? 2/
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Well, what if what’s happening is the the ICE agents responsible for the first example I gave are lax because they read headlines about the second, and vice-versa? 3/
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An under appreciated mental model/intuition pump: the people written about in news headlines read news headlines. They also care about how they’re covered, and behave accordingly. Sometimes, this can create a vicious cycle. 4/4
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