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It seems to me that ICE would be far better off conducting its business in such a way as to not be worried about being publicly identifiable. Regular police officers are able to do their duties without masks and with the requirement to display their badges, and I dare ICE to claim that regular police don't do work as dangerous as ICE.
Obviously undercover work is the exception, but when the entirety of ICE goes around masked, they'd be fools not to expect an overcorrection.
Regular police are still generally unaccountable thugs
Which makes it all the more crazy that ICE feels that it needs additional unaccountability beyond what already covers cops for so much.
It's because they know they're an authoritarian paramilitary group and they are doing things that they could personally be tried for treason if their side ends up losing, like they always do eventually.
They don't want to be personally identifiable if possible, because at any point someone could decide to Kirk them when they're not in their goon squad at work.
Deporting people to unrelated countries to be imprisoned or enslaved should open them up to trials in The Hague.
Don't give them too much benefit of the doubt, more than a handful in incidents where standard beat cops are quick to hide their badge numbers when being legally recorded by innocent bystanders
Just heard a report that said essentially there are more local law enforcement doing the job than actual ICE agents.
maybe we should treat locals like ice not the other way around? also, don't call them local. they don't live in the places where they enforce. say municipal.
Oh I can literally guarantee what ICE agents do isn't nearly as dangerous as what regular cops do. The only real danger ICE faces is self-induced by wearing masks to remain unidentifiable while they terrorize American citizens. Their jobs would be even safer than they already are if they weren't acting as a rapist's gestapo.
There is no reason for undercover ICE operations, period.
ICE isn't just supposed to be Nazi gestapo rounding up people the President is tarelgeting as a political distraction.
There is a place for undercover investigations of smuggling and human trafficking rings.
Yeah, and ICE isn't that place. ICE was created in the after math of 9/11 as a way to address the "terrorism" threat. It has failed spectacularly at the actual job they were created to address.
No disagreement that they've failed in their mission and have become a tool of fascism, but conceptually there's a place for an investigative law enforcement agency specializing in immigration and customs. Having undercover assets investigating human trafficking and smuggling would be appropriate as a part of that agency's activities.
It should still be abolished, of course. ICE is irredeemable at this point.
We have the CIA, FBI, NSA, and a number of other three letter agencies that can do that. ICE has no need to exist, and we did just fine before it was created.