ICE, ICE, baby - Immigration Enforcement in the US

[grumbler]

I tend to wonder if their thinking is the opposite...that some cynical folks at the top are hoping such a thing will happen in order to give a pretext to escalate.

What the bosses want is not all that relevant to the guy facing a shotgun blast to the face.

[viper37]

ICE deport 100M$ jewelry thief before trial

There was a huge jewlery theft in 2022, in California, the 7 thieves got away with 100M$.

5 of them got caught, they were each facing up to 25 years in prison.  The stolen merchandise, nor the value of the product have been found since.

One of the thief got snatched by ICE, he was Salvadorian.  He appeared in front of an immigration tribunal for "voluntary deportation" given his criminal status.  Guy didn't deny anything of his criminal charges, was self represented, agreed for deportation.

At his criminal trial, his lawyer was surprised to hear he couldn't be there because ICE had deported him to Salvador, but that wasn't his fault he couldn't be there to face trial, see, that was ICE doing...

Well, one less criminal in the US, I suppose.

[DGuller]

Another shooting by ICE in Minnesota.  ICE magdumped an unarmed guy while struggling with him, probably after one of them accidentally discharged while pistol-whipping him.

[DGuller]

That clap by ICE at the end  : https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/comments/1qlqu86/124_mn_ice_shooting_another_angle_from_farther/

[grumbler]

Again, where is the NRA?  This guy was apparently attacked and then executed for having a legal handgun. Where are all the "mah Secon''Mendment" slappies now?  Behind masks?

[The Minsky Moment]

Everytime I see footage of ICE activities in Minneapolis or Chicago, or any other city then been deployed to terrorize, there is a gaggle of ICE agents milling about with their giant SUVs and tactical gear.  The whistles are really superfluous at this point, as they stand out so glaringly even undocumented Hellen Keller would know whenever ICE is in the vicinity.  It doesn't seem like these people have the slightest clue what they are doing. 

The budget for the agency is now greater than the entire Justice Department (including the FBI, DEA, US Marshalls, ATF, Bureau of Prisons, the US Attorneys' office in all 50 states and fed districts, and Main Justice).  It's higher the entire defense budget for either Israel or Italy. It's about 10 times higher than it was under Obama, who still managed more deportations. What a colossal waste.  It would take every Somali fraudster in the world 1000 years to screw over the taxpayer more.

[Tamas]

It's only a waste if they can't create a situation bad enough to serve as pretext for Trump's third term.

[Zoupa]

There is no upside to wasting mental bandwidth on US internal issues at this point except in a national security sense. They're not a role model for governance, civic amenities, or culture really. Mentally downgrade them to "Brazilian government decides to employ the military to clear out Venezuelan migrants". You glance at the headline and move on with your life.

Quite right and nicely put.

[Tamas]

There is no upside to wasting mental bandwidth on US internal issues at this point except in a national security sense. They're not a role model for governance, civic amenities, or culture really. Mentally downgrade them to "Brazilian government decides to employ the military to clear out Venezuelan migrants". You glance at the headline and move on with your life.

Quite right and nicely put.

Would be the right approach for my mental health for sure.

[Tamas]

I have watched the latest incidents from a few angles and this is very obviously another execution.

[Grey Fox]

As expected Tyranny reigns.

[Valmy]

Yep. Once it was ok to shoot citizens of the United States and only leftwing weirdos were against it it was a slippery slope to just having it be ok for law enforcement to kill us.

And it is just a smart thing to do. Dead people tell no tales. Dead people have no rights.