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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by SauciestGNU on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:04PM (#16242883)
ICE is becoming a really disconcerting force in America. They are largely exempt from warrant requirements, and can demand papers from anyone they arbitrarily detain. Now they're tracking all of us who drive.

Not to put too fine a point in it, but ICE are perfectly positioned to be the shock troops in a fascist takeover of America.

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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by anigbrowl on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:11PM (#16242933)
Actually they do have warrant requirements, and those are more limited than for criminal warrants. Also, in California employers (of any size) are required by law to turn away ICE agents unless they have an appropriate warrant, and to provide notice to employees, subject to criminal penalties for non-compliance.

https://www.fletc.gov/audio/ice-administrative-removal-warra...

http://hrwatchdog.calchamber.com/2018/01/ice-raids-californi...

This has nothing to do with the license plate issue, but I wanted to clarify that ICE agents are not quite as legally powerful as they like to present themselves. You might be mixing them with the very broad search powers of Customs and Border Patrol, which is a separate agency and the one that can supposedly conduct searches within 100 miles of any border. Not that being a separate agency makes that better.

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