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It’s the trump admin. They don’t care about the decorum you’ve described. They would have no qualms about looking racist. Have you not seen what ICE has been do
by this-is-why 7mo ago
It’s the trump admin. They don’t care about the decorum you’ve described. They would have no qualms about looking racist. Have you not seen what ICE has been doing? Racism is a badge of honor, and so is flipping off the courts and public opinion. No I believe this is simply paranoia and racism driven by Miller and his cronies.
- titanomachy 7mo agoIt's not about "looking racist"; or at least, it's not about public opinion. A racially targeted measure would violate specific laws and would be challenged in court, likely successfully.
- sigwinch 7mo agoThe Kavanaugh rule specifically permits it. If you’re taking odds that this Supreme Court will challenge the Kavanaugh rule, I’ll wager 1:1 against.
- rolandog 7mo agoIt could also be a signal that they intend to take on the world; so they could technically not be racist if "everyone else is a threat".
- pixl97 7mo agoThat was so years ago, this is the point we're at now. SCOTUS: Nothing Trump does is illegal. Trump: "does illegal things" Courts: You can't do this, it is illegal. Trump: "ignores courts" Courts: "shocked pikachu face"
- watwut 7mo agoNot sure if you noticed, lower courts ruled against administration many times ... they were ignored. And as a bonus upreme court practically ruled president can be lawless as he pleases.
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- ReptileMan 7mo agoThere have been cases of British, Bulgarian, Canadian, German and Irish nationals also gotten in their claws. Seems pretty race agnostic to me.
- agrounds 7mo agoThis is a naive take. Are there specific instances involving individuals of many nationalities/ethnicities? Yes. Is ICE then ignoring race during its operations? Absolutely not. ICE agents are arresting people based solely on their physical appearance and accents. It is band faced racism.
- ReptileMan 7mo agoIf it was racism there would be extremely high false positive ratios. Is it observed?
- mrguyorama 7mo agoAre you fucking kidding me? Pay attention. ICE came into Maine with almost 2000 "targets". They arrested about 200 people. They ended up bragging about 17 "bad guys", and even that list is possibly filled with lies. Some of the 200 arrested that weren't actually immigrants include a brown man who passed a background check and flew to Texas recently to fulfill immigration requirements to work for our local Law Enforcement. It includes tons of people who are legal residents and had papers on their person to that effect. Those papers are often left behind when the person gets kidnapped, which includes an unmarked van filled with ICE nuts screeching in front of someone's SUV in city traffic, jumping out, breaking the window to the SUV, dragging the man out, and speeding off, leaving a still running SUV sitting in the middle of the street, with papers. A literal kidnapping scene from a movie, but sure, totally normal and upstanding law enforcement activity. Our own cops, not exactly liberals, are finding it hard not to publicly call them stupid assholes. These cops are mostly Trump voters. Don't stick your head in the sand and cry when people point out how uninformed you are. Their entire operation is almost entirely false positives. They've sent people who live here legally to other countries without authority.