Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now... by anigbrowl on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:34PM (#20958322)

Your question is quite loaded and rests upon false premises - for example, your assertion that people don't show up for court hearings rehashes an anti-immigrant trope that has little basis in fact. Attendance rates are actually quite high, close to 100% for those who have attorneys and still high even for those who don't: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/562/

It's a deep complex subject that can't be summed up in a short (or even a long) comment. If your understanding of it is based on misleading tropes that you've heard from pundits or political figures, it might be worth taking up the issue as a research project or taking some classes so that you are not taken in by slanderous misinformation.

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Re:Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now... by gotoeleven on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:16PM (#20958539)

I think you've been misinformed. The trac study is looking at people who have been here for years who have been going through the system. They show up to court at very high rates.

The "don't show up for court" people were part of a program by the EOIR (which is part of the DOJ) to expedite the cases of newly arrived family units in 10 cities. They very largely did not show up. You can read about it here:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Asher%20Testi...

So it seems like there's something very different about these two different groups of asylum seekers.

Anyway no need for the high dudgeon about 'slanderous misinformation.'

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