A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over whether the state should put a bounty on undocumented immigrants — set the tone for this year’s debate on immigration and the state’s role in border security.
1k? The fuck am I supposed to buy with 1k anyway?
Half a dozen eggs
Next order of business. Should we put bounties on legislators?
One eth to punch this guy so hard in the throat that he pukes? Any takers?
From TFA (emphasis mine):
The most aggressive approach, in a bill filed by state Sen. David Gregory, would award a $1,000 bounty for tips that result in the arrest of a person present in the United States without authorization. Gregory, a Republican from Chesterfield, wants to authorize bounty hunters, usually employed by bail bond businesses to catch absconders, to track down people identified in tips.
And if the tip proves accurate, the person arrested would be charged with “trespass by an illegal alien,” and subject to life in prison without parole if federal immigration authorities declined to take custody.
I expect cruelty from these people, but the harshest sentence that exists short of death‽ Solely for being undocumented, no other offense or aggravating factors. And held in conditions civilized countries wouldn’t allow for mass murderers (state and local prisons are generally much worse than federal).
I just can’t even …
That’s so they can get slaves. That’s what this is about. The south is still mad they lost.
Prison labor, for the fields.
He is a fascist. And should be treated exactly the same way soldiers treated fascists 80 years ago.
I truly don’t understand why we don’t treat fascists the way we did back then. It’s really the only proven way to keep the rest of the populace safe from them.
Do remember that Nazis were alive and well in the United States all the way up to the time it entered WWII. Only then did it become fashionable to hide the fact one sympathized with Nazis.
It literally takes war or great civil unrest to push back fascism for a time.
Nazis never left. They just went back into the shadows because they are nothing but cowards.
That’s a very good point. We had Nazi organizations happily operating in the open in that US until WWII.
I’ve been wondering about that: the
American GestapoICE is roaming around and arresting lots of people. I understand some of those arrests result from random ID checks. But a lot of them is ICE officers raiding houses and “places of interest” where the migrants are supposed to be hiding, and the officers seem to know exactly where to go.This started almost immediately after the Orange Utan gave the order, and they sure were able to nab a lot of people right off the bat.
Which raises the question: how did they know where to go get the undocumented migrants? Did they have lists of suspects and addresses before Trump was sworn in? And more importantly, if they did, who are the disgusting rotters who turned them in?
They’re taking people who were listed, but not in deportation proceedings. There’s a bunch of people who did stuff like overstay a visa, apply for residency, get denied, but were left alone because they don’t have a criminal record. We always knew where they were, the government was just focused on criminals. So now they’re really easy targets for agents told to meet a quota of arrests.
That’s not what’s happening, yet.
A dozen officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement gathered before dawn Monday in a Maryland parking lot, then fanned out to the Washington suburbs to find their targets: someone wanted in El Salvador for homicide, a person convicted of armed robbery, a migrant found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material and another with drug and gun convictions. All were in the country illegally.
It’s a little fucking alarming the government knew about such people and hadn’t acted already. WTH?!
some of those arrests result from random ID checks
Not quite. The Biden admin wouldn’t let ICE arrest any illegals they found as a result of a targeted search, as described above. Now they can.
So for now, I’m fine with this. Even the “collaterals” in this case were due for arrest or deportation.
Of those “collaterals,” one had an aggravated theft conviction. Another had already been deported once, and two others had final orders of removal.
Problem being, they’ll run out of legit targets before the electorate runs out of hate. That’s when the concentration camps really get rolling.
You bring up the one example of them going after criminals with multiple news articles in the last week about them going after people with no records? NPR had stories this morning about people with legal status being taken by ICE.
Get this bad faith bullshit out of here.
Facts are now “bad faith”. Is that like “alternative facts”?
Only thing I’ve seen is the school that turned the USSS away thinking they were ICE. (And we still haven’t heard why they were there in the first place, weird in itself.)
Many articles about the Navajo Nation being alarmed about “reports” of ICE sweeping members up. Well FFS, did they or didn’t they?! Not a single article confirming this, just “reports” that “maybe”.
Scanned NPR.com just now. Only 1 item related to immigration: How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools
Well? Just because a story is plausible and what you expect does not equal reality. Wait a minute? Are you a conservative?
No. What you’re doing is selecting facts that give a biased viewpoint. Just like when Fox News shows 9 crimes by minorities for every crime by a white person, even though there are more white criminals.
Even now you deny the existence of things that we’ve all seen on Lemmy.
It started under biden, that’s how.
