Today is the 43rd anniversary if that is the right word, of the first resignation by a U.S. President.
Begging Your Reader's indulgence, I want to depart a little bit today from our Insurance Bad Faith theme and tell you about a reporter I heard on the radio yesterday.
This was in the context of a longer report featuring many people talking about whether the federal government can make local police officers hold suspects in jail until federal immigration and customs agents can come and take them away.
An exchange that caught my attention on this radio reporting was when one reporter asked another if it is important to the federal agents to have local police officers hold suspects for the federal government. The reporter who was asked this responded very like this: "It is necessary for the federal agents to do their job of deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes. How can the federal agents do their job unless local police officers identify these undocumented immigrants so that they can be deported?"
Wait a minute. People who are held in jail by local police officers are suspects. They have not been convicted of anything.
So what this guy was saying on national radio was that federal agents can deport "bad" people who are suspected of committing crimes.
If people can be deported because some other people think they are "bad," then in the eyes of at least some, a whole lot of people in Washington would be deported.
And seriously. If federal agents want to find undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes so that the federal government can throw them out of the country, the federal agents can check the public records of the nation's prisons. That may not be as much fun as wearing a gun and terrorizing people, but it is way more efficient if the goal is to deport undocumented immigrants who are convicted criminals.
So, thank you for indulging me today. As it turns out, my errant thoughts are not so errant after all: How do you insure against ignorance? And who told you that ignorance is good faith?
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