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silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week | The use of the facility would send another signal of deterrence amid immigration crackdown.17·2 days agoThe cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season23·2 days agoIts when the Sharpies give you a bad trip
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•DHS secretary seeks military arrests in Los Angeles in leaked letter34·2 days agoIts who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•LA Protests Live Updates: California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Newsom Says9·3 days agoMostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•LA Protests Live Updates: California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Newsom Says172·3 days agoThey do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.
It’s worth doing in parallel with other efforts.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal | Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.91·4 days agoIt takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.
Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.16·5 days agoICE has been raiding elementary schools in the past few days.
I dont expect 2nd graders to read the article.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.22·5 days agoGood luck once locked up without the right to an attorney
Thanks for letting us know what is going on.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.8·5 days agoMost kids don’t have the set of photos you describe in government databases.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.22·5 days agoif they care to
ICE doesn’t care if your skin is too dark, or your name sounds vaguely Arabic or Spanish.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.11·5 days agoThe problem is that you’re probably not lying in wait with a mythical concealed-carry shotgun. Realistic sequences that have happened in the recent past:
- A couple guys wearing utility company uniforms ask to step inside to diagnose a problem. They then jump you and arrest you.
- Your camera system stops working due to jamming. Then 15 armed men break through your door and surprise you while you’re asleep in bed.
- Several people in the crowd at your kid’s graduation ceremony suddenly surround you and zip-tie your wrists before you realize what’s going on.
You’re going to be dealing with a situation where you don’t see in advance what’s happening, and where you’re confronted with a whole batch of people who are heavily armed and wearing body armor. That’s a situation where one individual acting alone is very unlikely to succeed in killing an assailant with a gun.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.71·5 days agoOdds of shooting somebody in face when you are ambushed by a larger group of armed men are low.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.151·5 days agoThey’re wearing body armor. Dude with a concealed gun likely ends up dead, and ICE gets no charges because they were afraid.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.6·5 days agoProbably be stuck in customs for life.
silence7@lemmy.worldOPto News@lemmy.world•Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.89·5 days agoPretty much. The fact is that ICE does stuff like beat up and arrest a state-level union president because they don’t like the color of his skin.
It’s very efficient at funneling money to contractors.