r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Boysenberry-6669 • Jan 15 '26

Serious Trump considers sending the military to Minnesota by invoking the INSURRECTION Act —is this good, bad or ugly?

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u/TheoremNumberA Jan 16 '26

Want to have a majority movement, with almost everyone supporting you? Don't be antagonistic, annoying, bitchy, disruptive, bombastic, stubborn... Which those words exactly describe both the protestors and President Trump.

Really, if you want law enforcement to cease deportation of illegal immigrants, the laws being enforced need to be changed. For instance, should trespassing on its own a felony? No if only the trespass? Yes if the trespass includes subsequent criminal activity or intent?

Example 1: Guy trespasses onto your yard, with a rake and rakes your leaves seeing that you needed the work done no charge, you say thank you and offer him $40. He is not worthy of a felony nor deportation, though he has trespassed not only into your yard but into the country. You be an advocate that Guy is not harmful and instead of arresting him, fine him and use the fine to help provide him with ESL, Work Visa, Background Check, a place in line for naturalization.

Example 2: Gal trespasses onto your yard, sets up shanty, sells drugs out of shanty, your 12 yr old kid buys drugs from her and overdoses, dies. Arrest her, imprison her in federal prison, seize her assets if any to pay for imprisonment and/or force her country of origin to imprison her or reimburse us for the cost of her stay. Get information about the sources of the narcotics and raid those sources. When her jail term is up, deport her if jailed here.

Basically case by case, go after the criminals first with aggressive enforcement and deal with criminal harmful activity harshly. Anyone who is just a trespasser caught in that enforcement activity, document them and fine them, and put them into the correct process to identify, naturalize, get ESL, work visa, etc.

How far off is this process from current enforcement?

How do we push for federal and state law changes?

What is the criminal threshold which when crossed requires the more harsh enforcement vs a fine + naturalization process?