Comment by thrance
5 hours ago
Wonder why people would take issue with the unqualified, armed, masked thugs abducting innocent people off the street and deporting them without recourse or due process. Must be all about Trump, surely.
The only thing defying logic here is the MAGA cult rationalizing away the brown shirts now patrolling the streets of America, they who are supposedly so attached to freedom.
>Wonder why people would take issue with the unqualified, armed, masked thugs abducting innocent people off the street and deporting them without recourse or due process.
Congress can whip up a law making immigration infractions more serious crimes (which comes with better process) and day it chooses.
ICE can send better qualified better trained agents any time it chooses.
They can likewise be more fastidious about who they choose to go after such that far fewer innocents are caught up in it.
Would that make it ok?
You're missing the point of Trump's ICE. Scaring the opposition is their entire raison d'être. Abducting citizens randomly, wearing masks and using uncalled-for violence are their tools to achieve this.
However reasonable your propositions are, it's pointless considering them. This administration is completely uninterested in refocusing ICE on their original mission.
You're the one missing the point. Even if ICE were "acting like professionals" it would still not make it ok to have roving bands of fedcops. Heck, change their issue of enforcement from immigration and customs to something else and it's still not acceptable.
The government should not have this type of force projection power domestically without going through at least the states or picking the nuclear-ish option and using the national guard.
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