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.
Who could have forseen this could happen?
genuinely, if i was american, i’d make sure to get a license to carry just in case this ever happened to me. anyone not identifying themselves trying to stuff me in an umarked vehicle is a kidnapper and will be treated as such.
So you’ll be charged with resisting arrest and uttering threats. So even if you’re innocent of the initial immigration charges you still get a felony arrest.
They are sending people straight to off shore black sites. If you wanna go to El Salvador or Guantanamo Bay, be my guest, but i have no plan on being sent anywhere.
My point was you can’t win. They’ll fuck you either way
You can’t impersonate an officer when officers are doing everything in their power to not be recognized as officers. No face, name tag, department, badge, uniform, warrant, marked government vehicle, standard issue side arm, etc. If no one is a cop then everyone can pretend to be a cop.
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.
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
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.
I’m engaging, violently, with a gun, any masked man that molests me or my family. My wife is a legal, brown immigrant. I am a gun nut. I am practiced and I train.
This isn’t bravado, it’s the reality I live. I leave the front curtains open so I can see incoming threats. I close those curtains at night so they can’t see me. I’m scared shitless.
Some of ya’ll “guns BAD” liberals need to take a history class. I’ll die with my boots on thank you very much.
Gun owning dirty liberal here. I now carry due to my mixed family.
Meanwhile, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Carl Thomas Bennett was arrested for allegedly impersonating an ICE officer and sexual assaulting a woman at a Motel 6 threatening to deport her if she didn’t comply, according to CNN affiliate WRAL.
Police reports indicated that Bennett, 37, “threatened to deport the victim if she did not have sex with him,” and “displayed a business card with a badge on it,” according to WRAL.
Ah, rape.
See, that’s what got him caught.
He showed some form of identification, even if fake. The real ICE would never do that.
They may have done the other stuff but we probably wouldn’t know.
Everyone should just dress up like ICE everywhere … you don’t have to do anything violent or illegal … just go about your day as an ICE agent.
Going shopping, dress up like ICE … anyone asks, just say you’re ICE
Going to the movies? dress up like ICE
Going to visit grandma? dress up like ICE
Going to a wedding? dress up like ICE with a hoodie, ball cap, sunglasses and mask
Once everyone everywhere is ICE … ICE will be less likely to bother people
The obvious answer is to beat the crap out of anyone who claims to be an ICE officer.
How is this Possible? The Republicans RUNNING our Country have made SURE ICE is Well Uniformed, Legally Acting and ALWAYS Identifiable! And if NOT the Republicans running our Country have been SWIFT to Promote them!
This article is from February, I’m sure there’ve been a bunch more since then.
