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Leaked DHS Memo Reveals ICE Claiming Expansive New Warrantless Arrest Powers
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Link is a summary of this NYT article (archive.is link). The TLDR is: officers are given the authority to arrest anyone they personally suspect is an illegal immigrant who they think might not be "at the scene" later (e.g. a street corner).
Link fails to mention this:
This should terrify every American. Group round-ups based on one officer's vibes that day.
Why? They have 2nd amandma... /s
I see the /s, and it's kind of true. But man I really don't want to be put in a position where I have to exercise that particular right. I truly dread the possibility.
As everyone should.
Nobody should ever be looking at the 2nd Ammendment and think to themselves "oh god I just can't wait, please lemme do it now"
It should always be "please don't make me do this", while preparing to do this.
sorry I went on a bit of a rant but ORGANIZE, PEOPLE! is the gist. Hidden to save space.
The obvious republican mindset of "I can't wait to be allowed to legally murder people" has always been crazy to me. As a kid I heard adults round me talking about how they're "just looking for an excuse" and it very much seemed like someone who simply wanted to kill people.That said, I have always accepted the possibility that one day I might be forced to kill in self defense or defense of others if I plan to exercise my 2nd Ammendment right. The last 15 years have been a truly eye-opening experience since I left the sheltered religious life I was raised in.
To anyone reading who is in the US, start with organizing with friends and neighbors who are like-minded and believe nobody should be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp. I have a decent number of LGBT+ and immigrant friends , and have begun instructing some on the use of firearms. They have always been very anti-gun and for good reason, (I will not pretend the US doesn't have major issues with firearms) but now have decided since their lives very well might be on the line tomorrow they need some way of protecting themselves.
I am doing what I can in that regard, but the most effective thing is the act of organizing itself. Many of them didn't know each other. Now there's a network of people who can assist each other when something happens.
Just this week a few of us had to venture out to un-bury the front door of one of the group that is disabled and got snowed in. They lost power and only had their battery pack and a phone on low battery to call for help, and had we not been organized the way we are they very well could have been frozen by the time emergency services got around to their call. We set them up with a kerosene heater, a CO detector, and extra battery packs to keep the phone charged until power was restored.
It's a last resort