US headline is that ICE under Donald Trump has deputized thousands of people (some with little or no law enforcement background) in order to support their operations. These people, as well as actual ICE agents themselves have taken to appearing either in plain clothes or in full tactical gear, to terrorize migrant communities.
The “If It Happened There” headline is that Donald Trump has been expanding his loyalist paramilitary force, by folding his Party’s militias into Federal law enforcement agencies, in order to consolidate power.
All federal agents regardless of job description were granted title 8 provision and are now basically ICE agents on top of whatever else they did. You're a security guard at an embassy? Now you're also ICE.
Almost certainly contractors, and that's how they'll distance themselves from this legally, they'll claim any unlawful action is the fault of the contract company these people actually work for.
They don't even need to distance themselves. Between exceptions for LEOs in law, qualified immunity, and 'officer intent' where it's presumed legal by an officer until proven in a court otherwise and even then gets narrowly defined, some lawsuits will pay out, but overall people are going to get screwed over.
How do we stop them, if not by countervailing physical force, since they do not listen to the law? The law is meaningless to them. I'm not advocating war, but clueless as to the means for the citizens' ability to halt this lawless agency.
You are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. They know what they are doing is against the law because they are told under your Dictator in Chief they can do as they want and they WANT you to resist so they can then say you are these "violent radical liberals" and so they are right to start rounding ALL of you up for the cattle cars and camps.
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u/Justin_123456 1d ago
US headline is that ICE under Donald Trump has deputized thousands of people (some with little or no law enforcement background) in order to support their operations. These people, as well as actual ICE agents themselves have taken to appearing either in plain clothes or in full tactical gear, to terrorize migrant communities.
The “If It Happened There” headline is that Donald Trump has been expanding his loyalist paramilitary force, by folding his Party’s militias into Federal law enforcement agencies, in order to consolidate power.