It happened because of mass protests which emboldened legislators to make it happen, and the press was willing to cover them that way.

It does have other value, but they’re often not climate-impacting value. So you don’t want to claim a temporary offset is equivalent to a permanent burning of a fossil fuel.

Congressmembers have managed to inspect some. They don’t provide medical care:

“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.

A fair number of people do seem to be deported to other countries rather than die in the camps.. Officially, the number who died in ICE custody is 32 during 2025, but it’s entirely possible that this number is an undercount. I will also note that ICE tends to deport people who are experiencing medical emergencies so that they die outside the US

ICE agents are literally going around saying it:

When they told the agents they were U.S. citizens, the couple said, one responded, “It doesn’t matter.” Another offered, “What you’re doing is illegal. This is like Germany 1938,” the court papers said.

That requires an extra contract with Palantir, so it hasn’t happened yet that I am aware of. They’re mainly beating US citizens to get them to point out which houses nonwhite neighbors live in.

The people in detention don’t get any choice when doctors who aren’t getting paid stop working. They just go without care, with a whole lot presumably dieing of preventable causes. Like this

“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.

The problem is not background checks or training; its that ICE and the Border Patrol see their mission as being to brutalize minorities. The whole agencies can’t be fixed, and need to go.

Its Minnesota Public Radio, running an Associated Press report. Fairly reliable as things go

Yeah, they apparently get a bonus for each kidnapping, irrespective of whether they have to subsequently release the person

The risk that you blow up a neighbor knocking on your front door, or a firefighter trying to get in and rescue you makes this not worthwhile.

A meaningful chunk is also from land use changes, where people decide to clear a forest, turning the trees into CO2. A decision to burn wood at scale like this has exactly that effect: you end up with a forest in various stages of regrowth, instead of a bunch of mature forest which is sequestering carbon.

Kind of; the decision to burn means that you end up with half a forest, instead of a whole forest, with the balance of the CO2 ending up in the atmosphere.

Juries are refusing to convict for more minor things right now, so you stand a decent chance at a not guilty verdict.

Problem is that ICE wildly outnumbers the typical household when they show up, so you are not likely to survive

I don’t know how he was chosen, but ICE is asking people at gunpoint which houses their Asian neighbors live in.

Not even “libs” so much; the Hmong were supporters of the US in Vietnam, and had to flee the country as a result. It’s more breaking any potential local support for overseas military action so that the US is universally hated around the world.

The main problem is that retail electric prices are mostly not about generating cost; the cost of maintaining wiring, transformers, and such dominates in most places. And rooftop solar is more expensive than utility-scale solar, so it would get crowded out.

Because that wouldn’t pay the fossil fuels industry back for the billion dollar bribe they paid

Yes, and ICE is required by law to let them visit with no advance notice. ICE has been refusing access when they show up in advance

You’re right. They were sent home by the courts, and had been limited to defense of federal buildings which as completely unnecessary.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles