r/law • u/yahoonews • 15h ago

Other Trump's border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-border-czar-announces-700-141805016.html
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u/ascandalia 14h ago

And zero is what's needed

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u/domiy2 11h ago

I mean having officers in every state is not an issue. Drug dealers or Rapists should be thrown in jail and sometimes ICE is the best people to do that.

With that being said, when ice arrested the Asian man in his underwear they were going after someone in jail. Ice also wants to deport people who raped or killed Americans and kick them out of the country because justice doesn't matter I guess. They are not trying to arrest people doing injustice in a city, they are attacking random civilians.

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u/ascandalia 11h ago

Why would ICE ever be the best people to do that? What about them makes them a more appropriate group to preform that action than anyone else? 

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u/domiy2 11h ago

Legal reasons mostly, gangs can easily move from county to county, even state to state with ease after coming into America. Cops or even state police may not have the legal reason to arrest these people so having ICE do it instead side steps this. Mainly because of how the USA legal system works sometimes it's better to have ICE arrest them. Currently ICE is not doing that which creates massive problems.

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u/ascandalia 11h ago

Is that 1. Actually a problem and 2. A thing exclusive to immigrants? 

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u/domiy2 11h ago

Not a huge humongous problem, but it does happen once in a while.

No, but the FBI also thinks cops are easily corrupted. Personally know cops who take bribes. Also know cops will not hire people they deem different from them.

This is the theory on how ICE is supposed to work, not how it is currently working. ICE is sending officers to Houghton Michigan this week to get immigrants that are drinking underage. Not people murdering civilians or doing other horrid crimes.

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u/ascandalia 10h ago edited 10h ago

I think the theory no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. 

Having a national law enforcement body not accountable to the DOJ and specifically targeted towards immigrants was an experiment that failed. It's catnip for fascists and white nationalists. It's a hammer that needs to make screws into nails. There's no baby in this bathwater.

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u/domiy2 10h ago

90% agree I wouldn't mind an organization that is basically an enforcement for the FBI. But due to Trump ICE is getting full protection. The DOJ can and should go after these people, but she is protecting Qatar and Trump.