You literally can't do what ICE has been doing and not also do it to citizens. Due process must happen. If an exception is granted to this, then no one is safe.

The "freedom" part in my country's constitution refers to freedom from random government arrest.

Weird that the secret police force with so much authority is doing anything wrong...

Doesn't seem like an arrest when it's on Illegal grounds. I call it kidnapping. Which is where the actual authorities should be stepping in to do something about it, but I guess they're seeing them as also officers in uniform and hey, got to support the blue, right? No matter what they're doing to people.

What do you call it when a goon drives a car with a US citizen toddler inside away while their parent is taken away? Because I'm pretty sure arresting toddlers isn't acceptable at any level. What possible crime could justify toddler detainment? Seems counterintuitive for the parents rights crowd.

Regardless of citizenship, they literally pulled every resident out of their homes at an apartment complex to n Chicago.

Why every single one of us wasn’t rioting afterward in the streets is beyond me.

Beginning to question the legitimacy of the entire process. Feels like we're just snatching up poor people and criminalizing them for being the wrong skin tone.

Since the article doesn't make it clear, it's important to note that the fourth amendment applies to everyone, not just US citizens.

Skip due process and this is guaranteed to happen.

There’s literally videos of them arresting Americans. One that comes to mind is when they grabbed Rodney roadsteamer from out front of the ice facility in his giraffe outfit for singing a song that hurt their Gestapo snowflake feelings

No shit, Sherlock.

Fucking scum!

Release the Trump/Epstein files

ACAB. Crack sprinkling, rapist, lying, thieves.

Those fucks stalked my wife while she was coming home from getting bloodwork a couple weeks ago. My lily white South Dakotan wife. She noticed an ICE vehicle staking out the blood draw place when she left. They start following her when she left through multiple turns including 3 consecutive right turns. She led them through a pharmacy drive thru and picked up some scripts singing loudly now about "Fuck ICE" then ditched them in the maze of one way streets in our neighborhood. Fuck them.

@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today thoughts?

So what will be done about it? Until there are actual consequences, clutching pearls over this means nothing.

I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there's a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.

This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I'm washing my car, even when I'm checking my mail.

I shouldn't be living like this, I don't deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.

I feel like there is a couple a constitutional amendments specifically for this situation. One in particular.

Ex Wells Fargo employee here, back in the early 2010s we used to have unrealistic sales quotas for bankers and high pressure to meet them, with sales phone meetings at the end each shift. The result was the scandal we're familiar with, millions of fake profiles and/or authorized accounts opened by those that couldn't take the pressure. I think something similar is happening, Miller had given them a very high arrest quota, and you can see how this could lead to them arresting whoever they can

Duh. Why else was their budget increased by multiples?

All Americans, even those for whom immigrants are instinctively “other,” should be disgusted by these abominations, which make clear that there is no foolproof protection for anyone, Americans included, from ICE’s rabid tactics.

There is foolproof protection - be white.