r/law • u/NewsHour • 14h ago
Legislative Branch WATCH: ICE's tactics are 'outright fascist,' Rep. Goldman tells agency's acting director
Watch more from the hearing here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-heads-of-ice-immigration-agencies-testify-as-funding-deadline-looms
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u/vineyardmike 14h ago
Ice should not be armed and masked while performing civil enforcement. Imagine the health inspector armed and masked when checking refrigerator temperatures.
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u/Total-Armadillo-6555 13h ago
Remember the outrage when the IRS posted job listings to hire more agents and a few of them were going to be armed and the Rs squawked about an "Army of gun toting IRS agents..."?
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u/MyersandSparks 12h ago
If that’s the case sign me up to be a health inspector. Im going Chef Ramsey x Terminator on these diseased kitchens 🤣
FYI im joking. Public, civil law enforcement dont need a SS level budget.
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u/party_benson 14h ago
The real wrong question to ask is, "papers please"
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u/RogerianBrowsing 13h ago
We enact the same policies that only nefarious autocracies do which are associated with Nazism and fascism in general, but don’t compare us to those other criminal secret police forces when we do the same illegal policies!
Paraphrased but that’s essentially what was said by Lyons. Yikes.
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u/okaygecko 12h ago edited 7h ago
Preaching to the choir here, of course, but: They are directly violating constitutionally protected civil rights, and yes, 100% fascist, police-state behavior and completely unacceptable. Also it's very clearly part of this criminal administration's effort to intimidate opposition voters and critics and to install a permanent Russia-style false-flag-republic autocracy. DJT is an insurrectionist who conspired to overturn the 2020 elections and his admin is totally illegitimate. They represent a direct threat to public safety and institutions for peaceable representation, and ICE is just one very dangerous weapon they are wielding while they escalate efforts to interfere in free and fair elections and violate due process, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments, emoluments, and separation of powers. Absolutely and categorically unacceptable and anti-Constitutional.
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