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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by potato3732842 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:08PM (#45508905)
>It's either right or wrong for ICE to run a dragnet through a city, cuffing everyone, checking their papers, as they hope to find someone undocumented.

What does the fact that ICE is doing it to catch illegal matter? Because as far as I'm concerned ICE has no bearing on this. It's wrong no matter who does it or what their goals are.

Being an illegal is barely a crime. Whoops, you overstayed your visa, big fucking deal. If we are going to take issue with this sort of enforcement behavior used on such minor infractions then we need to do so on principal, because not giving a shit when it was used on drug dealers and terrorists and tax evaders and everything else that's "bad" is how we fucking got here.

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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by softwaredoug on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:16PM (#45508989)
ICE is just particularly egregious example. But a lot of Federal agents on the ground are participating in Midway Blitz.
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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by potato3732842 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:26PM (#45509092)
You're missing the point. No agency should be behaving this way over a paperwork crime.
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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by mothballed on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:28PM (#45509117)
It's not even a crime. It's an administrative infraction.
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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by k33n on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:15PM (#45522775)
Majority of Americans want immigration law enforced. Democracy worked last November.
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Re:ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy... by k33n on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:14PM (#45522767)
I voted for it. Happy that rational Americans are now getting what we want despite the best efforts of those with poor judgment, who should never speak on policy.
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