We're in a bad place when the videos these agencies put out to promote themselves are as bad as the videos people put out to document their abuses.
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Seeing people compare this to stop-and-frisk. S-A-F, while abusive and unconstitutional, still requires reasonable suspicion that someone is armed and poses an immediate threat to public safety.
Being brown -- or undocumented -- is not a threat to public safety.
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This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here.
Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest.
And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away.
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It's just hilarious (in an existential dread sort of way) that SCOTUS didn't consider Covid and climate change emergencies meriting extraordinary executive action, but Trump's completely made-up migrant "invasion" and laughable fentanyl-tariff link get complete deference.
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The scariest Nazi Germany-adjacent thing happening right now is the courts treating the Trump administration's legal-ish justifications for power grabs, subversion of basic rights, and militarism as good-faith legal arguments, despite overwhelming evidence that those justifications are ruses.
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The 4th this year feels like a family reluctantly celebrating the birthday of an increasingly cruel, increasingly racist uncle who no one expects to be around much longer.
Imagine if instead of running like hell from immigration in 2024, Democrats had actually showed some leadership, defended immigrants, and explained how ugly and inhumane Trump’s mass deportations were going to be.
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