Fans of Taylor Swift have been shocked after it emerged that a contractor for the controversial Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was in attendance at her wedding.

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It appears that Steven J. Demetriou, the Executive Chair of a company called Amentum Services was also among the crowd gathered to see the happy couple say ‘I do.’

Amentum Services is currently the sole contractor for ICE’s Camp East Montana, a detention centre in El Paso.

The artist has faced swift backlash for her choice of guests, including online commenters who have shared their dismay on social media.

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[–] Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

What does excluding this person accomplish?

In like, this one isolated case? Probably not much. I'm not particularly invested in this one specific guy and whether or not he went to this one event. What's important to me is that every ICE agent or collaborator be made a social pariah for as long as they continue to be a part of the gestapo. I want it to be the case that everyone who considers joining or working with ICE has to weigh the fact that they're gonna lose most of their friends and not be invited over for Thanksgiving with their families anymore before they make that decision. I don't want to live in a world where someone can terrorize a community and kidnap and ship people off to camps, and then take off their uniform at the end of their shift and go out drinking with the boys like nothing happened. They shouldn't be allowed to live under the delusion that what they do is acceptable and free from consequence in a civilized society. There should be social deterrences against this kind of thing. We can't just be like "well that's just what he does for work but off the clock he's actually just a normal guy". Not with this. They can reintegrate into society once they've come to their senses and finally understood why nobody wants to talk to them anymore.