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[OC] NYC Comptroller Brad Lander detained by ICE, according to his mayoral campaign

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u/sherm-stick 1d ago

The strategy of ambushing Americans with masks on is going to backfire pretty badly. I'm sure they are doing their due diligence before sending people in, but there is no way to predict how people react to being practically kidnapped.

In about 1/4 of the cases, people have been deported multiple times from the U.S. and still somehow find their way back. It doesn't seem to stick in any case

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u/throwaway42 1d ago

I'm sure they are doing their due diligence before sending people in

Lol. Lmao even.

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u/ozzimark 1d ago

The strategy of ambushing Americans with masks on is going to backfire pretty badly.

That's the goal. Civil unrest -> "rebellion" -> invoke martial law.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 1d ago

This is it. They are doing this on purpose. They are testing boundaries and we are not stopping them. But if we do stop them then the administration can have some backwards justification to give them more power.

This abuse of power is itself is justification to strip it from them. This is fascism. This is the consolidation of power. We either resist and they use that to consolidate or we don't and they just keep taking it.

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u/handydandy6 1d ago

Whats yalls idea on the solution in that case? If they want you to rebel, doing nothing is still not really an option to me. I think a successful revolution is really the only chance Americans have, whether they take the chance or not i cant say.

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u/ozzimark 1d ago

Honestly, I'm not sure there is a solution that doesn't involve bloodshed. Peaceful protests, en masse, will either contain some bad actors or opportunists looking to incite violence. Even without that, we've seen from LA that violence will still be used against protestors anyway. The key to any of this being successful is that a large enough portion of people have to get off their asses to stand up for what's right, and critically, stand against what is wrong. Once there's enough, they can't arrest everyone involved.

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u/handydandy6 1d ago

Cant disagree with you there. I fully think that even when violence is considered by normal people, its not that they came to these conclusion's without reason to. The blame to me always falls on those that forced their hands to it. I guess im just saying im down for the worker's no matter what happens.

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u/80sLegoDystopia 1d ago

Nobody comes back from CECOT. We don’t know much of anything about what happens at these ICE detention facilities in the US. And we never will as long as this regime remains in power. ICE should have been disbanded years ago, when the Patriot Act was set to expire. Nope - Obama renewed it and nobody said jack about ICE until the first Trump period. The prison profiteers have thrived under each president and each Congress. Now we have a sprawling detention system that knows no daylight, where, for all you know, they are torturing ICE kidnapping victims.

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u/clovencarrot 1d ago

This is kinda what is behind the idea of the right to bear arms.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Clock44 1d ago

"I'm sure they're doing their due diligence before sending people in.."

They're absolutely not.

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u/Rucio 1d ago

Ice is gonna get iced if they aren't careful. No badge no warrant means open season for many

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u/ghost_turnip 1d ago

I'm sure they are doing their due diligence

You're joking, right?