• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Good. If he was doing something worthwhile and useful he probably still would be investigated but then he would have an upswelling of support.

      These half measures make him eligible for sacrifice. We need prominent important powerful people to get targeted so they realize that they’re not safe any more than the rest of us are. We need them to have some skin in the game and if it means that a couple of these cowards get burned in the learning process then so be it.

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    The Mayor, State leaders, and the police are doing nothing here to stop ICE. It is all community led networks of thousands of volunteers which are fighting back against ICE. Several progressive city council members are on the front lines as well. Frey is not and never has been an ally to the working people of Minneapolis.

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      You can enforce immigration and border controls without ICE. It was functioning just fine until 2003. In your attempt to find a “middle ground” position I dont think your landing pint is reasonable.

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      The problem is not necessarily that we have immigration laws, or that there is an agency tasked with enforcing them.

      No it literally is the problem. 🏴🏴🏴 You’re just noticing now because they’re getting efficient and being more openly ruthless.

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      Border enforcement for the past two centuries have basically just been an international apartheid agreement to control the movement of undesirables while ensuring the free flow of capital. Borders only really exist for the poor.

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      This is a very ignorant take. ICE is less than 25 years old, and is inseparable from all the post-9/11 attacks on civil liberties.

      The problem isn’t ICE existing, it’s what ICE has turned into under Trump and that nasty Caillou-looking Stephen Miller. This makes me want to fucking pull my hair out. Are you old enough to remember Bush? ICE was always headed in this fascist direction, including under the Obama and Biden regimes.

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      It’s that this Administration has turned this particular agency into its own paramilitary wing, using immigration enforcement as an excuse to terrorize people who didn’t vote for Trump.

      “it was fine when they were committing an ethnic cleanse and forcefully sterilizing migrant women, but now they’re going after white liberals and that makes me slightly uncomfortable, but not uncomfortable enough to get rid of them because i still want to terrorize minorities”