David Wallace-Wells: "ICE goes masked for a single reason " to terrorize Americans into quiescence," a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. "In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police," he continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to "cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan" and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a "full-throated assault" on freedom of speech."
ICE's budget for the 2025 fiscal year is now set to roughly triple from the year before, as is its number of deportation officers.
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Doc, if you pay for a subscription you should be able to use gift links when you post Times articles. Look for a link at the bottom of the page.
No surprise, the deaths of migrants in ICE custody have reached its highest level in 20 years. There will be more fatalities, as being a vulnerable migrant in the US is tantamount to either capital punishment or exile to Somaliland or an El Salvadoran jungle gulag: english.elpais.com
I don't recall any intelligence reporting of "hit lists" against anonymous USAF air crew flying missions in Iraqistan or Pashtunistan.
Vladimir Putin was reported to have offered a bounty to kill US personnel in Afghanistan, which I read about after I retired: www.newsweek.com
US personnel wear their ID tags ("dog tags") that has our name, SSN, religious preference, and blood type in case we are captured or wounded, so the enemy could ID us anyway, masks or no masks: upload.wikimedia.org
ICE sent 3 U.S. citizen children, including boy with cancer, to Honduras with their deported moms
An immigration group filed a lawsuit on behalf of two families, saying they were not given access to legal counsel before two mothers and their children were sent to Central America.
www.nbcnews.com
MadBomber will tell us ICE did not "deport" the citizens.
ICE simply "sent" the citizens to a foreign country.
ICE is clearly following KKK protocols with their masks.
#226 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
FTFY
No charge,
Furthermore, it's likely that the Trump Admin stepped in on the original $30 million lawsuit and offered $5 million to avoid inconvenient things from coming out.
If that were the case he wasted $5 million dollars. It obviously did not go away.
It's much more likely he did it to pwn the libs.
Byrd failed to de-escalate the situation, issue any verbal warnings or commands, or identify himself as an officer before firing.
If you have to lie to make a point then you don't have one
He issued verbal commands and she refused to obey.
Ashli Babbitt was repeatedly ordered to stop by Capitol Police before she was shot. She ignored multiple commands to stop as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door into the Speaker's Lobby. en.wikipedia.org
So he "deescalated" the riot by taking out the tip of the spear or most aggressive attacker. A common strategy.
It's nearly impossible to negotiate with a violent mob. So you take out the leader and the rest tend to get confused as to what to do next. Giving you time to get the situation under control.
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