tahfromslc.bsky.social
Retired lawyer and public policy analyst, leftist humanitarian. I don’t look like this anymore.
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Masked ICE agents just returned to 55 Monroe in a Dodge Caravan to attempt more pickups.
A woman immediately sat in front of their van at the parking garage entrance.
The van backed up and turned around.
A building security rep emerged and told ICE watchers he's called Chicago Police.
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Meanwhile:
BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) -- A Wednesday morning crash in Boyle Heights was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon involving federal agents who left the scene, authorities said…
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We live in a world of limited resources. There are millions of undocumented immigrants. Been true since the late 70s. With only a few thousand deportation officers, ICE can’t deport everyone.
This is why ICE has for decades focused on targeted arrests of specific people over worksite raids.
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All of this is leading to a system that is breaking under the strain.
Case in point, my friend had to file a HABEAS to find out where his client was. She never did show up in the Detainee Locator.
That’s a sign of more and more mistakes being made — and ICE wasn’t great at compliance to start.
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Body cam footage showed Tyre Nichols crying out for his mother, as he was violently beaten by five officers — “a public execution”
And yet, despite the evidence, a Tennessee jury chose to acquit
So, @realcatbrooks.bsky.social and @aptpaction.bsky.social responded:
“The system protects itself”
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Never forget
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This article is from last week. It is worse now.
In three weeks, the detention population has gone up by 5,000 people. ICE is arresting people so fast the holding cells in ICE’s LA officer overflowed—and rather than release anyone, they locked people in the basement of the federal building.
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He was the only one.
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If you were wondering why the volume is so much louder, it was because of this.
Miller told every ICE Field Office Director to stop following normal procedures. Stop worrying about targeted arrests and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.” Those were his exact orders; and ICE followed.
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The White House is demanding that ICE get deportations up, and ordering any career law enforcement who objects to get the hell out of the way.
The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas!
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Our legal aid orgs are stretched thin by demand & Congress has launched investigations that threaten the funding & existence of local stalwarts like @chirla-org.bsky.social and others.
Local gov't staff could carry out know your right trainings, etc. & represent those the feds are prosecuting.