Legal expert says the bipartisan Laken Riley Act is unjust, wasteful and a Trojan horse
NPRLegal expert says the bipartisan Laken Riley Act is unjust, wasteful and a Trojan horse NPR's Scott Simon talks to law professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University about the Laken Riley Act, a bipartisan bill in Congress that aims to expand the detention of undocumented immigrants. George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, who's also a Cato Institute scholar, argues in the libertarian "Reason Magazine" that the Laken Riley Act is unjust. SOMIN: Well, this potentially could lead to vast wastage of law enforcement resources on people who pose little or no threat to public safety and predictably diverts those resources away from combating real crime. SIMON: What about the argument the Laken Riley Bill is policy that the people of the United States voted for - and indicated to in public opinion polls, too?
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