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Peter's avatar

ICE goons think they will never be held to account for this. They are wrong. And frankly states should start charging them for the crimes they are committing. In the case of that Chicago invasion start with false arrest, kidnapping, destruction of private property, child abuse, etc. The dumbasses filmed the whole thing, enter that in evidence against them.

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Dotty Hopkins's avatar

Don't forget grand theft since the victims' possessions are being stolen too.

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Ginger's avatar

Being masked and no ID helps them escape justice.... they are cowards... if they believed in this evil they would show their faces.... I wish I had a strong Italian curse to put on them all

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Peter's avatar

The masks will not protect them forever. People know who they are - family, friends, neighbors, the guys at the bar. And how many of them have tattoos that give them away?

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NubbyShober's avatar

No. As long as they are not required to identify themselves like normal police officers who wear a badge, masked ICE officers will continue to break the law with impunity.

They'll break down your door, put you and your family in zip ties. For any reason. At any time. Without a warrant.

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Ginger's avatar

Truth

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Frank Lee's avatar

Hey Peter. F you. These are law enforcement officers that are simply following orders that are based on the laws of the land. Your dehumanizing label puts them at risk for the loons of the left to attempt to assassinate them. I have law enforcement in my family, and if you were my neighbor we would be talking out front. I would bring some of my Mexican American friends with me for the talk... including several retired from law enforcement.

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Peter's avatar

Law enforcement officers do not hide their faces. They also do not arrest people based on looks alone, nor do they crash down doors and trash apartments without a warrant. They also display badges and name tags. Of course, when operating under cover, or part of a SWAY team they do not. But these pigs are not undercover, nor are they SWAT. So, if you could kindly go fuck off with your defense of these thugs, that would be good. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Frank Lee's avatar

I have taken a snapshot of your posts as perfect Republican campaign asset.

Please keep it up. 2026 is gonna wipe the Democrat party off the face of the earth. And then JD Vance can really get rolling on the MAGA agenda in 2028.

It is fantastic seeing this once great party of the average American become the cesspool of "elite" moral decay. You fit in nicely.

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Gnomon Pillar's avatar

Frank. Things getting a bit slow over at Racket News? Taibbi's meretricious nonsense finally wearing you down? Finally wearing EVEN you down?

Nevertheless, it's good to hear from you. In a world of clumsy, copycat propagandists...always nice to encounter a genuine and honest shill.

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Daniel Kunsman's avatar

I have law enforcement in my family too, Mr. Lee. And if I found out that they were a part in lawless activity such as this, I would publicly KICK THEIR ASS!! And THAT is what all of us should be doing, if we know someone in our family is turning NAZI. I think you, sir, need a refresher on what is known as the Constitution!

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Frank Lee's avatar

You have zero law enforcement in your family, or otherwise they are Portland types that suck of the teat of liberal government without any commitment to law and order. Because otherwise THEY WOULD KICK YOUR ASS for supporting anarchy, lawlessness and high crime.

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Daniel Kunsman's avatar

We have identified another NAZI in our midst, folks. Treat him accordingly. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, frank; come on up for a visit, won't you?

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Gnomon Pillar's avatar

Frank's a wandering MAGA minstrel, a frequent dork-commenter over at Taibbi's cesspool of a substack. Racket "news" indeed. Treat him kindly and with all due condescension.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Godwin strikes again. Labels from a mental midget.

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Gnomon Pillar's avatar

Frank, Frank, Frank...

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Gnomon Pillar's avatar

A clown and a shill all rolled into one.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

Very brave of federal agents to be tackling people in their 60s and 70s minding their own business to the ground. Also, question to Brett Kavanaugh: What part of detention for several days constitutes "prompt" release? As if that would even make this OK in the first place.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Yes, Joseph, and heavily pregnant women as well are being kicked to the ground. Just inhumane. Ask Kavanaugh about the Fourth Amendment too: where are the warrants/ No more warrants?

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Robot Bender's avatar

If that poor woman lost her baby, would the agents be charged with manslaughter by the "pro-life" party?

Didn't think so.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

Brett Kavanaugh seems to think he is still a frat boy engaged in hazing and beer parties. He will never grow out of it.

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Katie Galvin's avatar

He also basically said, and if they don’t, you can sue them. Which is not true at all. We don’t even know who they are!! And most of the people they’re abducting wouldn’t have the funds to do so anyway

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Dotty Hopkins's avatar

It doesn't get more Gestapo than this. Those who are saying the US isn't yet an authoritarian regime (Heather Cox Richardson) are kidding themselves, IMHO. The real king of the US, Stephen Miller, is all about Gestapo, SS and Nazi tactics. The more frightening and unlawful the better and the Supreme Court has green lit all of it. Disgusting.

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Katie Galvin's avatar

She’s saying that bc people like her are still able to speak up for all of us and document everything. But it’s only a matter of time before that’s gone as well 😞

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Julie Rothstein's avatar

Guilty until proven innocent.

And the Supreme Court signed off on it.

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Ginny K's avatar

This is America under the #DirtyOldMan and his vampire Steven Miller. The Supreme Court is corrupt and will not save us. The next national day of action is October 18. Find a No Kings rally near you and get out there!! There are events planned in many locations. We need to be a show of force. Your country needs you.

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Larry Carr (autocarr)'s avatar

Miller & his 4some —Pete, Pam, Kristi, & even little Marco…

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A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

Reading this puts my heart in my stomach and makes me want to vomit. Dehumanizing and demonizing, creating an other is classic fascist behavior. Because of our history of generational slavery and subsequent Civil War, our country has a 150 year history of states law enforcement targeting black and brown people. The federalization of this behavior in the private ICE and Border Patrol army of the Queens borough real estate mentally ill mob boss posing as President and the normalization of the military on city streets is one more nail in the coffin of our fascist march to authoritarianism. I keep reminding myself that the only way out of this fascist crap he dumps at our doorsteps each day is through and the only way through is together, but damn, I’m tired.

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Sue Connaughton's avatar

I live in Chicago. The trump regime calls the immigration raids here- Operation Midway Blitz, named after the WW II military attack in the Pacific Theater of Operation. Now the military attack is in the Chicago Theater of Operation as part of the regime’s War against the Enemy from Within.

Make no mistake. The trump regime has declared war against the people of the U.S. Chicago is just the first stop in this now declared war.

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JenneJ's avatar

We the People will have to declare war on the enemy in our house!

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Nanalafulana's avatar

It is devastating to see the hate in front of us. I can’t see a possible, bright future.

I just wonder where are The Bundys and Weavers of anti federal government? Where are the very people who opposed the federal government outreach?

Yet, this administration has offered nothing about immigration reform except the dismantling of the 14th amendment and moving to the 19th. The goal (obviously) is not to govern but to scare. Well…i am scared.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Horrifying and parallel to the Nazis rounding up the Jews. We are piling on the shame of inhumanity and bigotry in this country. How will we ever have any moral superiority ever again? I hope all those white supremacists are happy. I hope their lives have improved as people are tortured and law enforcement rips up the constitution. Let's think how these over-the-top ICE actions are improving the lives of our nationalists Christians: oh, they are skinnier, soberer, better dressed, more intelligent and have all gotten significant raises in the jobs they hate. (Oh, now they love their shitty jobs.) Is that the result of these arrests? Brown people are treated like dirt and white people get better-looking? Where are the so-called people of God? Where are the ministers, reverends, priests, rabbis? Every town has some of those, cities have lots of those. Where are their voices? they should be calling for a general strike, damn the laws.

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Adam's avatar

"“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote, casually dismissing the violation of Constitutional rights."

Fuck you Kavanaugh! Your day and the day for all your ilk is coming. Yiou'll try to pull down the world before you go but you will not be allowed!

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Therese S.'s avatar

Disgusting. I don't know how else to phrase this without using foul language.

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Trump targets phantom “terrorists" again.Trump directed Def Sec “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland...I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

Depraved & utterly corrupt sociopaths..

Get up stand up & resist the fraudster authoritarians.

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Joyce's avatar

Who is organizing the class action suit?

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Paula Wolk's avatar

Thank you for the work you are doing. The legacy media is failing us terribly.

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Brenda's avatar

This should be blasted everywhere EVERYDAY!!! This is horrific treatment!!! The DHS has NO idea how to organize their ICE program and they just constantly hurt and harass people! I hope these folks get together and sue their a$& off, please include Nome and Miller!!!

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Trump targets phantom “terrorists" again.Trump directed Def Sec “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland...I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

Depraved & utterly corrupt sociopaths..

Get up stand up & resist the fraudster authoritarians.

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