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This goes back between 2015 and 2020. ICE cannot LEGALLY detain or deport US citizens. How many more have been exiled overseas into foreign gulags in the last 6 months? #ICE

Cool. The US Supreme Court now officially allows the US government to traffic people - often legally present, often guilty of no crime and often without any form of due process - to anywhere in the world. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Every business in the country should have this posted.

Welcome to #FAFO Round... 5? 6?

ICE detains Marine veteran's wife at an immigration hearing because her mother didn't show up to an immigration hearing in 2018. Adrian and Paola have a 3-month old daughter. In parallel, Marine recruiters still say joining is a path to legal status. #ICE apnews.com/article/ice-...

"Armed and unidentified thugs, possibly impersonating police, beat up an older man in Santa Ana today." Just another day in America.

I read Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" in 2017, to help me imagine what a homegrown authoritarian takeover of the US might look like. The unaccountable private army ignoring the Constitution was just one of the things in that book that seemed prescient.

Today, I think about the Constitution of the United States. Due process. The First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments: protecting Americans from government overreach. And also the separation of powers. Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War.

Um... Hooray?

ICE/Proud Boys/J6ers/bounty hunters changing tactics to appear even more like unidentified kidnappers. #ICE

"It may be hard to understand if you've never had a loved one ripped from your arms." Watch this. It's important to see L.A. through the eyes of the people experiencing it.

Reminder that we likely have the least competent SecDef in the history of the position at the top of the military chain of command. www.thedailybeast.com/defense-secr...

This requires a Yakety Sax mix. Would you willingly get in the vehicle? No identification, no license plate. #ICE

Pete Hegseth today working hard preparing for war in the Middle East.

"Good trouble, necessary trouble." - John Lewis

Pretty soon, we're going to see incarcerated people picking produce, cooking food and building houses... #ICE

Strongly-worded letter from NY Congressional delegation demanding access to ICE detention facility. At least there's a deadline: June 30. www.amny.com/immigration/...

So no one trusts someone purporting to be involved with ICE to tell the truth, right? #ICE

Stochastic domestic terrorism. #ICE

US citizens feeling they need to carry citizenship papers in order to have some feeling of safety from being arbitrarily deported to a foreign country. #ICE www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

The judiciary stumbles. Federalization of Nat'l Guard against wishes of governor is OK. It will be appealed.

Nashville making some good trouble. "I am far more concerned about the overall dynamic we have about unmarked, unidentifiable people whisking people away." - Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell #ICE

If you ever wondered how Germans could live in the town near the local concentration camp in World War 2, look no further than Jena, Louisiana. Ground Zero of US deportation processing. #ICE slate.com/business/202...

Florida Attorney General ignores Constitution and calls for deportation of US citizen. #ICE www.axios.com/local/miami/...

US citizen detained by #ICE, no probable cause, no due process. youtu.be/3iJWmFHJWtE?...

Hit 'em in the wallets. #ICE

Quite the framing from NY Times. Try ICE illegally prevents Congressional oversight of federal detention facilities #ICE

#ICE detains green card holder. Supreme Court has ruled legal permanent residents have same due process rights as US citizens.

Expected outcomes of #ICE refusing to clearly identify themselves and show badges. The behavior of ICE puts real law enforcement officers in greater danger.

US birthright citizen facing deportation by #ICE.

Stochastic terrorism. #ICE

@timmiller.bsky.social is right. The incentive structures are such that, even if Trump wanted to stop farm roundups, too many people whose jobs depend on deporting as many as possible. Or the rule only applies to rich donors. #ICE

I challenge anyone to definitively identify whether these individuals are #ICE, DHS, CBP, Proud Boys, human traffickers, unlicensed bounty hunters or J6ers.

California law enforcement routinely and illegally sharing license plate data with #ICE and other federal law enforcement. laist.com/news/califor...