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ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning

www.cnn.com ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN

Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.

Authorities in at least three states have arrested individuals allegedly impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a time when real ICE agents have ramped up immigration enforcement efforts under the Trump administration, adding to existing fears of law enforcement among migrant communities.

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You know what I bet would help? If actual ICE agents showed their faces and IDs and had warrants instead of just jumping out of a rental F150 in masks and tactical paintball gear and grabbing people's babies and punching old people. Just a thought.
- Hey now, no one could've seen this coming. It's almost like going on the Internet and telling lies, the horror!
  But seriously, yeah if they even had a single gram of official procedure and not some slapstick renegade style means of operation, this would be easily bypassed. But I suppose the copycats help the dickheads in charge, so I suppose treat every interaction as a hostile impersonation.
  
  At this point, if "ICE" is trying to arrest you, you should fight back with life or death consequences. You should be fully of the belief that if you go quietly, if you allow them to take you, you WILL die.
  And that's not only true of the fake ICE impersonators. It's true of the real ICE too. They've been shipping people to countries they've never been, in places they don't speak the language, to camps where they're tortured for information that not only do they not have, they also can't understand the questions, because again, they don't speak the language.
  Someone explain to me how we're better than 1940s nazis at this point. I've never been patriotic, but at this point I can't even say we're above literal nazi tactics.
  
  Considering the average American, I'm actually shocked there haven't been more shoot-outs*. What's the point of everyone being strapped if you're just going to let yourself be yoinked off the street?
  *Not super keen on guns but, like, this is the reason (we) Americans profess to be armed, right?
  
  My state allows open carry and permitless concealed carry.
  
  Because that's not the "average American", thats that average Right Wing Nutjob, the type of person that supports what is happening and ICE isn't going after.
- You're obviously a far left radical! What radical ideas are you going to demand next? Due process and the rule of law? Preposterous!
- And if they only went after violent criminals in their territory, instead of being such cowards they'd rather grab law-abiding people at hospitals and schools and churches.
  
  Hey, be compassionate. You at least should understand that they need to show big and beautiful numbers to impress the genius man with strategic thinking. It's hard to do if you come after the actual criminals
  
  Were you under any illusion that when they said one they didn't mean the other?
  
  It came out of Trump's mouth, ergo it was a lie.
  And the masked gang conducting the abductions are obviously a pusillanimous pack of bullies.

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