Originally published at: Dems Call WH Counteroffer on ICE Reforms Unserious: ‘ICE Is Brutalizing Communities’
The Trump White House on Monday evening sent a counterproposal to Democrats in response to the sticking points congressional Democrats laid out last week in a public letter and legislative text, outlining their priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms in the wake of two recent killings of U.S. citizens by ICE agents. Democrats…
How serious are the Dems? They had better be as serious as a heart attack and shut this down if all of the demands aren’t met.
As previously stated: public opinion is on the side of the residents and citizens of Minneapolis and everywhere else where people are being attacked and disappeared.
Don’t give in. The cost of giving in will be far worse.
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What is it about the Rethugs? If you have to hide your face to do your job, you need to rethink the job you are doing. Of course, these bullies like being able to bully with no repercussions.
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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. “
This is the 4th amendment. ICE is not abiding by its language. This isn’t hard to fight for, Dems. FFS, to do not cave on this is any way.
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Local cops have a much more dangerous job. They don’t hide their face and they live in the community.
CBP and ICE are cowards.
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The Trump regime and its congressional lackeys have zero interest in reining in their paramilitary arm (ICE/Border Patrol). They plan to use the paramilitary to meddle in the November election and to continue harassing, kidnapping, and murdering protesters.
We know the paramilitary plans to harass, kidnap and imprison arrest dissenters, since the new concentration camps being acquired and built are intended to house far more than immigrants.
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And it’s far from over:
Everyone’s physical safety is at risk, and you feel it when you walk around. Things are quiet, until they are not: symphonies of whistles and car alarms alert us to ICE’s possible presence every day. Many people do not go out. Day to day, distribution channels organise, pack and deliver food, toilet paper and art kits to those trapped at home.
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The other day, as I was standing at a street corner near my place with S, nothing visible to suggest we were on ICE watch, a woman rolled down the window of her small car and said to us: ‘I think that car behind me is ICE. Do you see the tags?’ I turned towards her but I wasn’t sure what she was asking me to do. She must have seen my pupils widen. She repeated herself and mumbled: ‘Maybe I’m being paranoid.’ I took a few steps to look. ‘It’s not ICE,’ I told her, and she looked relieved. I was relieved, too, realising the paranoia is shared.
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A new grassroots effort to track and slow down federal agents in the Twin Cities has turned into a game of cat and mouse — organized residents erect makeshift blockades to monitor the vehicles on their streets, and police officers tear them down.
One such blockade, constructed along the busy commercial corridor of Lyndale Avenue in south Minneapolis, was quickly taken apart by police on Feb. 7.
“Thank you, Minneapolis, for using your collective voice during this time,” the city wrote in a recent newsletter. “Let’s keep our streets open at the same time.”
Blockade organizers say they want to slow down any federal agents that may be rolling through and keep track of their whereabouts by checking for license plates associated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A few blocks away from the dismantled site on Lyndale, in a roundabout on Pillsbury Avenue, a small group of neighbors had been able to stay for much of the day Saturday — even after multiple conversations with police — by confining themselves to the island in the center of the street.
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Republicans aren’t negotiating in good faith. Heck, they don’t seem to be “negotiating” at all. At best, waiting for their orders to come down from on high (that is, the wreckage where the White House used to stand).
The ICE restrictions – and entire Homeland Security budget – seem to be going the way of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies: that is, all discussion simply dropped because Republicans won’t play ball.
What do we need with “Homeland Security”, anyway? Trump has been phasing out FEMA: he’d prefer governors come crawling to him, personally, and begging when their state desperately needs assistance. TSA? Heck, just let ICE at those passengers! If you’re too dark to fly, too bad. Coast Guard? We’ve already got a Navy, blowing up suspects in the Great Gulf of Trump and the Pacific.
Only Democrats are interested in a functioning, useful government. It’s their biggest weakness.
- Late breaking update: I left out the Secret Service! Fine – if Trump wants security, he can pay his own goons.
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It’s fair to say that if enhanced ACA subsidies are being dropped because GQP won’t play ball, then maybe DHS funding gets dropped because the Dems won’t play ball.
Why can’t we play the same game.
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I believe they’ve gotten the message.
Shri Thanedar has served as the U.S. representative from Michigan’s 13th congressional district since 2023
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Agree 100%… Schumer and Jeffries still have plenty of time to cave. Sadly, I expect eventually they will.
As Philip Bump has pointed out, the number of ICE/DHS agents who have been doxxed is ZERO.
On a somewhat related note: If you think all those warehouses ICE is buying is just for warehousing immigrants, you are sadly mistaken.
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Ooh…I like that attitude.
There is video out tonight of Nancy Guthierie’s kidnapper. He appears to be an ICD agent. Ski mask, rubber gloves, an overcoat, a backpack and he wears his pistol right next to his penis. Totally unprofessional. Totally ICE.
As Josh reported today, the total number of ICE and/or DHS agents who have been doxxed is zero. No one has been doxxed, so that talking points needs to be exposed.
I will wait and see on this. I have had a bad feeling about this since long before today that this was somehow a hit. And the I heard about Guthrie’s interviews of survivors.
Didn’t take much to connect dots.
If they have done this, and it is a mighty big if, the admin is finished.
I’ve kind of assumed it was a trumped-up kidnapping, too. But “finished”? While I like your optimism, I’m confident the Times and Post are perfectly capable of sane-washing and normalizing it, if it turns out to have been a deliberate federal job. He’s thinking out of the box! He isn’t bound by “norms”!! A president who Gets Things Done!
Once again, I’d like to be wrong.