Wednesday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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BTW, It occurs to me that the approach that ICE has adopted to apprehend the “worst of the worst” is comparable to the Jeff Sessions “Family separation” tactic.
Broad support for the goal, but condemnation for the methods used.
Among other things, ICE somehow thinks they they do not need to be accountable. Specifically I would like to see the actual numbers of judicial warrants compared to the number of people that are being accosted (pulled from cars, confronted in stores, schools, courthouses, homes being broken into).
Personally, I am also distressed by the notion that an alien, having been convicted of some offense, served their time, and has successfully rehabilitated, is not acceptable in our society,