Posted by WaitWaitWha 2 days ago
That's rich and i'll believe it when they respect the written law.
To be clear, I fully expect other departments have been investigating these sorts of things in past and present, but ice have conducted themselves differently now and should be treated accordingly.
Not sure how much of the heavy lifting is your "if" and the qualifier does, but I hope it's just sarcasm.
ICE is using biometrics on people who have not broken any law, then saying the federal government will be doing whatever it can in its power to penalize those people now that they have been identified as doing... absolutely nothing illegal but stuff the impedes ICE's ability to operate in secret (among other things a violate of those people's due process rights).
We don't do the whole 'secret police' thing in the USA, and we tend to get angry when the Government violates our Constitutional rights.
They're murdering political dissidents, they're kidnapping and torturing US citizens, they're terrorizing the streets.
Data is a liability, it's omnipresent. Permeating.
Doing basically the same for people who are on the Epstein list was OK, but now it's wrong?
I don't see people protesting en masse to take Clinton, Trump, Gates etc. accountable. Maxwell Ghislaine is alive and well, and they can't get a incrementing confession.
But somehow people loose their shit when some MS-13 gang members get arrested.
You say they're ICE, but I don't see any way to tell the difference.
People lose their shit when the Constitution is violated. When civil norms are violated in evil ways. When people following the legal process with pending applications before the Government get punished/unfair enforcement against them because grannies in the government system are easier targets than tracking down actual MS-13 gang members. When law enforcement hides their identity and act like a secret police force ABOVE civilian oversite (again against the Supreme Court saying civilians have a right to monitor police actions and against American norms of... not having secret police).
It sounds like you don't really care about the law, or people that want the constitution enforced, you care about the politics and if it the Constitution is politically inconvenient. Following the Constitution is ALWAYS the politically correct choice in the USA. Choosing the law over 'civil immigration enforcement' used as a loophole to bypass the law/Constitution is always the correct choice.
If they were getting gang members the protests would be useless because tactically they would be in and out every time before anyone could protest their operations.
My argument is that if you have two injustices A and B with severity of lets say 50/100 and 90/100. And injustice A is being globally protested, but injustice B is ignored, then your fight is not for justice, then you are being used as a political tool.
Sorry I sneezed