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lawtig02 said:
We've had a couple of "flood the zone" threads on here and this probably fits better with those, but I won't resurrect them. As we all know, Trump's MO is to send out an endless firehose of bullshit and controversy, assuming it will be impossible for most people to distinguish between what's truly important and what's a distraction. There is zero doubt in my mind, though, that Congress, after doing virtually nothing for the past two years, just enabled one of the most serious and dangerous things we have seen in this country in the last 150 years. The only good news is it could be rolled back by a sane president. The bad news is this development makes it less likely we'll ever be able to choose one.


The megabill Trump signed last week will elevate ICE in the American consciousness and on American streets.

ICE will have more funding in the coming years than any other federal law enforcement agency, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at pro-immigrant American Immigration Council.

The new law allocates $75 billion for ICE through 2029 to order as many as 10,000 new agents and to build detention facilities for more than 100,000 additional people.

“It makes ICE a higher-funded law enforcement agency than the entire FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons combined,” Reichlin-Melnick explained, after averaging that $75 billion across the next four years, more than doubling ICE’s budget in each of those years.

With all that money and the OK to hire new agents, ICE will become even more visible.

“Most people in the United States are going to experience immigration enforcement for the first time in their lives,” predicted David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.

The future Bier foresees looks like this:

“US citizens being interrogated on the streets about their citizenships; ICE agents in apartment buildings knocking down doors; National Guard troops on the streets blocking traffic. At your workplace, your home, your neighborhood, your park, in a very visible way and intentionally so,” he said.

Making raids and actions as visible as possible may be designed to scare immigrants out of the country and deter anyone who might otherwise come.

Bier also anticipates a “mad dash to spend all of this money in the next three years,” before the next presidential election.

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Immigration enforcement is not criminal law enforcement, which means agents don’t have to adhere to the standards of FBI agents or local law enforcement.

“You get an agency which is primarily oriented at non-citizens, but also authorized to arrest citizens at the same time for certain violations of law,” Reichlin-Melnick said.

ICE agents have also operated intentionally in anonymity, an adjustment for anyone who expects law enforcement to identify themselves.

The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to protect agents from doxxing.

“I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, and their family on the line, because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” said ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons during a press conference in Boston in June.

Trump officials also seem ready to arrest local officials if it comes to that. Border czar Tom Homan said anyone, including local and state elected officials, could be arrested by ICE.

“You can protest if you want; you have that First Amendment right,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in June. “But when you cross the line of putting your hands on an ICE officer, impeding our enforcement operations, knowingly harboring and concealing illegal alien, that’s a crime.”
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How does this fit into the small government fiscally responsible efficient government narrative?
 
UNCatTech said:
How does this fit into the small government fiscally responsible efficient government narrative?
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It doesn't, but that's no longer the Republican Party. The GOP is now a protofascist authoritarian party no different than Fidesz. And the creation of a massively powerful and unaccountable national police force under the complete control of the executive is EXACTLY the type of thing Orban would applaud.
 
superrific said:
Sotomayor did no such thing, unless by calling out you mean agreeing with. The first sentence of her one paragraph concurrence was "I agree with JUSTICE JACKSON that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with congressional mandates."

These are not Supreme Court victories. A victory is a decided case. An unexplained stay, issued despite the government failing to meet any of the relevant stay factors, is just corruption.
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The Supreme Court overturning activist district court judges staying Trump’s policies are victories in my book.


nycfan said:

10 Charged With Attempted Murder in Officer Shooting at ICE Detention Center​

One police officer was wounded after at least two people shot at officers outside an immigration detention center in Texas, according to a criminal complaint in federal court.


10 arrested in connection with Texas detention center shooting that was ‘planned ambush,’ U.S. attorney says​


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10 arrested in connection with Texas detention center shooting that was 'planned ambush,' U.S. attorney says

A police officer was wounded in a shooting outside of a Texas immigration detention center, where people in black military-style clothing fired at authorities.
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“Ten people have been arrested on attempted murder charges in connection with a shooting outside of a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer, where people in black military-style clothing fired at authorities in a "planned ambush," a U.S. attorney said.

The officer was shot in the neck on Friday, the night of the Fourth of July, after reporting to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado. He was treated at a hospital and released, the Johnson County Sheriff's office said.

Before that, the group dressed in black began shooting fireworks, damaging cars and a guard structure, and writing words such as "traitor" and "ICE pig." All of that "seemed to be designed to draw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel outside the facility, and it worked," Nancy Larson, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said at a Monday night news conference in Fort Worth.

Two unarmed corrections officers came out of the detention center to speak with the group. At some point, the Alvarado police officer arrived and was shot by someone who was in the woods, Larson said.

"Another assailant, who was across the street, nowhere near the corrections officers, shot 20 to 30 rounds at these unarmed corrections officers," she said. "There was an AR-style rifle found at the scene" that was jammed, she said. A flag saying "Resist fascism, fight oligarchy," and flyers with words such as "Fight ICE" also were recovered near the center.

The group fled. Sheriff's deputies stopped seven people about 300 yards (274 meters) from where the officer was shot.…”
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Nothing more than the Brown shirts for the left. Notice the group includes two [transgender slur] (why are they so violent?). The good news is that this will be prosecuted in Texas and these 10 will spend the rest of their lives in jail. FAFO.
 
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lawtig02 said:
It doesn't, but that's no longer the Republican Party. The GOP is now a protofascist authoritarian party no different than Fidesz. And the creation of a massively powerful and unaccountable national police force under the complete control of the executive is EXACTLY the type of thing Orban would applaud.
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Proto? Think that ship already sailed
 
Ramrouser said:
NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. Comey and Brennan are Deep State weasels.
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I agree with the bolded statement.

So much so that I don't believe a convicted fellon should be allowed to run for public office, especially President.

I don't really believe in the deep state. If these two are guilty then they should suffer the consequences. Unlike all of the guilty people that trump has pardoned.
 
farce© said:
“I agree with raising taxes along with cutting government spending.”

Yet the ratio of posts advocating raising taxes (practically never) vs posts complaining about spending (multiple daily posts) would indicate this poster is full of shit.
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It would indicate a significant preference for downsizing the federal government as options one, two and three... before raising taxes. Unfortunately, the hole is so deep, because Congress has been too weak to do the right thing, that there really isn't any choice but to raise taxes.
 
Ramrouser said:
The Supreme Court overturning activist district court judges staying Trump’s policies are victories in my book.



Nothing more than the Brown shirts for the left. Notice the group includes two trannies (why are they so violent?). The good news is that this will be prosecuted in Texas and these 10 will spend the rest of their lives in jail. FAFO.
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What's a trannie?

So, you feel the need to point out a completely irrelevant fact about 20% of those charged? Why? Do you just hate people that are different than you?
 
ZenMode said:
It would indicate a significant preference for downsizing the federal government as options one, two and three... before raising taxes. Unfortunately, the hole is so deep, because Congress has been too weak to do the right thing, that there really isn't any choice but to raise taxes.
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Wow, so you are taking the trump approach and focusing on 4% of the budget. That should balance the budget quickly.
 
Ramrouser said:
The Supreme Court overturning activist district court judges staying Trump’s policies are victories in my book.



Nothing more than the Brown shirts for the left. Notice the group includes two trannies (why are they so violent?). The good news is that this will be prosecuted in Texas and these 10 will spend the rest of their lives in jail. FAFO.
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Trannies?

OK asshole, no need for that. You can spew your nonsense without being intentionally bigoted.
 
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