I’m doing what I can to spread the “Ice Ice Baby” (2 shorts and a long) warning honk. It’s short, sweet and easy to remember.
This was posted elsewhere here, but this teenager was arrested for trying to warn people about ICE in the neighborhood:
Question : has ICE been sued into bloody hell for all those excesses? It really seems (to a person abroad) that there is no rule of law with this regard in the USA
There isn’t, you are correct. This is what American Republicans wanted and voted for.
And as far as lawsuits go, no one in this administration is going to bring any criminal charges. Civil lawsuits are happening courtesy of the ACLU. But these individual agents are literally covered up and difficult to identify. As for monetary payouts, it’s like the Chicago police do: settle the suits with staggering numbers of taxpayer dollars. None of it comes out of their personal pockets, they don’t give a shit.
ICE has been sued a lot. Here is someone who was detained illegally for a week and got $125K in compensation.
Funny enough, that was in Tacoma, same city I work in most of the time.
But there are many lawsuits, just a Google search comes up with many. A lot are class action suits due to the wide overreach of the agency and the number of people victimized.
Individuals need to be sued, and found guilty of illegal condust or contempt of court. To do that, states need to pass “ID” laws. Police officers, including ICE, ought to be required to have their ID visible on their uniform. It doesn’t need to be a name that you can google, but it needs to be a unique identifier that your lawyer can force ICE to connect to a particular person, who can then be charged with crimes.
It kind of defeats the point of a secret police if they aren’t, you know, kept unidentifiable.
At best some very blue states might pass laws attempting to force identification but ICE has no obligation to follow them.
Isn’t ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ 2 longs and 2 shorts? Am I thinking of a different song?
If it’s clear that unidentified people attempting to disappear residents are kidnappers, and personally guilty of a felony, the real police will occasionally be called to arrest them. I don’t think the president actually wants to fight that particular battle.
I think either way would work.
If nothing else, ICE should be required to have their unit number on their uniforms. It couldn’t be used to dox them, but their unit commander could be held (somewhat) accountable.
In morse, dash dash dot dot.
You are correct.