Comment by lokar
10 days ago
I accept that US law, and its execution on border crossings and asylum was disastrous. Over many administrations.
That in no way justifies this move to an unaccountable paramilitary force attacking US citizens who are legally exercising their rights.
Many people have been pointing at Waco for years. Even Janet Reno later admitted regretting that episode, and yet you do not hear the left in the US saying at all that this was a problem - in fact it is stereotypical far right recruitment material.
This is why it is clear the problem with ICE is not their mode of enforcement, which is far less egregious than the Waco situation, but the fact they are remotely effective.
> yet you do not hear the left in the US saying at all that this was a problem
Sure you do. The left has been very critical of this sort of police militarization. They gave the cops an M1 Abrams to play with, FFS.
No, they merely complain when it is deployed against them, as with ICE.
Otherwise Waco would be a rallying cry of the US left, and it isn’t.
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