realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHouse GOP bill targets Venezuelan gang allegedly taking over Colorado apartment complexwww.foxnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIf a gang had a legally taken control of an apartment building why would they need a bill in Congress to fix that? Couldn’t law enforcement fix that?
minus-squarerealcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI understand wanting to intervene but I agree, this seems like an overreach. A more reasonable federal approach would be to have these folks investigated for violations of federal law, which I doubt the FBI is interested in doing in this case.
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI wouldn’t even say overreach, this is just a political stunt from the looks of it.
minus-squareczech@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoOf course. But their target audience will not consider that for a moment.
If a gang had a legally taken control of an apartment building why would they need a bill in Congress to fix that? Couldn’t law enforcement fix that?
I understand wanting to intervene but I agree, this seems like an overreach. A more reasonable federal approach would be to have these folks investigated for violations of federal law, which I doubt the FBI is interested in doing in this case.
I wouldn’t even say overreach, this is just a political stunt from the looks of it.
Of course. But their target audience will not consider that for a moment.