Yves here. While you may have been focusing on the Trump Greenland whiplash, ICE abuses are only getting worse, as image of the Common Dreams landing page below makes clear. We are posing one of its articles, on a policy of deliberate violation of the Fourth Amendment via entering homes without having the necessary judicial warrant (or the other legal justification, exigent circumstances) but also give short extracts from two others that exhibit an escalation of law-breaking: a detainee homicide and transportation of children across state lines.
In your humble blogger’s opinion, the most disturbing story is the one with national implications, that of ICE engaging in what amount to break-ins, by entering dwellings without a judicial warrant. Before ICE had started on its rampage, I had started watching videos by civil rights attorneys who describe the tricks cops use to get hapless citizens to sacrifice their rights during visits to residences, traffic stops, filming of police and other government activity, and even encounters on the street. Among the basic rules are do not answer any questions unless you have a lawyer present and never let them in your house, or even get a look into your house, without a warrant. If they say they have one, make them slip it under the door or put it against a window to see if it was signed by a judge and what it covers. Answering questions in a “knock and talk” amounts to consent and makes what you say admissible in court. Letting the cops inside will be depicted as consenting to a search. And be sure to say that you do not consent to a search and will answer questions only with an attorney present. For an overview of what to do when non-psychotic police come calling, please see a Hampton Law presentation, 5 Tips To Stop Cops When They Come Knocking!
I am waiting for someone to shoot a homebreaking ICE agent under state “stand your ground” laws. But they’d probably get the Renee Good treatment at double-plus speed.
The opening sections of the two other important stories, which I hope you will read in full. First from Common Dreams staff writer Julia Conley in ICE Detainee’s Death Officially Declared a Homicide in Autopsy Report. Critically, notice that the homicide finding was by a county medical examiner and not from a doctor hired by relatives to provide an independent opinion:
The Department of Homeland Security issued deportation notices to two people who witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos’ death, but a judge halted their deportations this week to allow them to potentially provide testimony.
The family of a man who was detained at the makeshift immigrant detention center Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas is preparing to file a wrongful death lawsuit following an autopsy report that officially declared his cause of death to be homicide.
“Based on the investigative and examination findings, it is my opinion that the cause of death is asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,” Adam C. Gonzalez, the deputy medical examiner for El Paso County, wrote in the report on the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55. “The manner of death is homicide.”
Next from Common Dreams staff writer Jake Johnson, in ‘Absolutely Vile’: ICE Snatches Young Kids From Minnesota Schools, Sends Them to Texas:
Federal immigration agents have detained at least four children from Minnesota public schools over the past two weeks, including a 5-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were both sent to Texas detention centers that have come under fire for grotesque conditions.
Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, held a press conference on Wednesday to provide details of the targeting of children and decry the menacing presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) agents, who have been terrorizing and abusing communities in Minneapolis and other major US cities at the behest of President Donald Trump.
“ICE agents have been roaming our neighborhoods, circling our schools, following our buses, coming into our parking lots, and taking our children,” Stenvik said. “The sense of safety in our community and around our schools is shaken, and our hearts are shattered.”
The superintendent said that ICE agents used 5-year-old Liam Ramos as “bait” to also arrest his father. The two were taken while in their driveway, “just having arrived home” from preschool. Both are currently at a Texas detention center.
And to the main event, ‘The Fourth Amendment Literally Exists to Prevent This’: Memo Claims ICE Can Forcibly Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants by Jessica Corbett.
“The United States government is looking for ways around that pesky Fourth Amendment,” an investigative journalist said of Wednesday reporting by the Associated Press on an internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo claiming that ICE agents can forcibly enter a private residence without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.
The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
ICE’s May 12 memo, part of a whistleblower disclosure obtained by the AP, says that “although the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the US Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose.”
The January 7 disclosure was sent to the US Senate by the group Whistleblower Aid, which is “keeping the whistleblowers’ identities anonymous even from oversight investigators,” according to the document. It notes that despite being addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” the seemingly unconstitutional memo “has not been formally distributed to all personnel.”
Instead, it “has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the memo and return it to the supervisor,” the disclosure details. “Newly hired ICE agents—many of whom do not have a law enforcement background—are now being directed to rely solely on” an administrative warrant drafted and signed by an ICE official to enter homes and make arrests.
Asked about the May 12 memo, signed by acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the AP that everyone DHS serves with an administrative warrant has already had “full due process and a final order of removal,” and the US Supreme Court and Congress have “recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement.”
However, as Whistleblower Aid senior vice president and special counsel David Kligerman stressed in a Wednesday statement, “no court has ever found that ICE agents have such legal authority to enter homes without a judicial warrant.”
“This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’—that is the warrantless physical entry of a home,” he noted. “This is precisely what the Fourth Amendment was created to prevent.”
“If ICE believes that this policy is consistent with the law, why not publicize it?” he asked. “Perhaps they’ve hidden it precisely because it cannot withstand legal scrutiny. Policies which impact fundamental constitutional rights, particularly one which the Supreme Court has called the greatest of equals among the Bill of Rights, should be discussed openly with the American people. It cannot be undone by hidden policy memos.”
Other lawyers, journalists, and critics responded similarly to the AP‘s reporting on social media. Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic declared that “the Fourth Amendment literally exists to prevent this.”
Bradley P. Moss, an attorney specializing in litigation related to national security, federal employment, and security clearance law, said, “Remember when the Fourth Amendment was still a thing?”
American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote: “It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!”
“This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda,” he continued, highlighting a footnote that suggests “they won’t even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!”
“In short, this secret memo explains SO MUCH of what we’ve been seeing over the last months, including this raid of a home in Minneapolis where ICE officers presented no judicial warrant before breaking in the door,” he said. “Turns out they were secretly told they don’t need one!”
While Reichlin-Melnick shared photos of a scene in which armed immigration agents used a battering ram to enter a Minneapolis home and arrest a Liberian man, federal agents also recently broke down the door of a residence in neighboring Saint Paul, Minnesota, and arrested ChongLy “Scott” Thao, a US citizen who was later freed.
In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking note, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach it! pic.twitter.com/VsDos3ISBw
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 21, 2026
The AP reporting and responses to the leaked memo came as the Trump administration on Wednesday surgedimmigration agents to Maine for what it dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day,” mirroring the federal deployment to not only Minnesota—where ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a US citizen, in her vehicle earlier this month—but also Illinois and California.
US Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, opened an inquiry into reports of unconstitutional detentions of US citizens by immigration agents in October and on Wednesday demanded answers about the new whistleblower disclosure.
Blumenthal sent lists of questions and requests for records to Lyons and US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as well as Benjamin C. Huffman, director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. The senator also wrote to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), urging them to call the ICE and DHS leaders to testify before their panels.
“Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door and storm into your home,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time.”
“In our democracy, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the government is barred from breaking into your home without a judge giving a green light,” he continued. “Government agents have no right to ransack your bedroom or terrorize your kids on a whim or personal desire. I am deeply grateful to brave whistleblowers who have come forward and put the rights of their fellow Americans first.”
“My Republican colleagues who claim to value personal rights against government overreach now have an opportunity and obligation to prove that rhetoric is real,” the senator added. “They must hold hearings and join me in demanding the Trump administration answer for this lawless policy.”
The ignorant and lazy behavior of Miller, Noem, and Bovino in trashing the Bill of Rights is positively un-American.
A warrant based upon probable cause is the easiest thing in the world to obtain if a law enforcement official is acting diligently and in good faith. These people are quite evidently incapable of either.
When our government blatantly acts lawlessly it undermines the integrity of the entire system.
As intimated above and in the body of the article, this sort of behaviour by the Organs of State Security is one of the reasons why the American Founders went to war against the Crown in the first place.
Where are the dedicated Lovers of Freedom when you need them? At first glance, feeding at the trough of corruption that is the American philosophy today.
It took the “original” Founders of America years to organize and build to the point where they could effectively challenge the authority of the Crown. I see little such forward looking thinking and planning, much less organizing on the ground in America today.
We have a long and bloody road ahead.
Stay safe.
re: “As intimated above and in the body of the article, this sort of behaviour by the Organs of State Security is one of the reasons why the American Founders went to war against the Crown in the first place.”
This year is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I tend to the view that the trashing of the Bill of Right is less un-American than straightforwardly anti-American.
Breakdown of the rule of law at home and abroad. A government that funds and enables genocide, regime changes, economic siege warfare and all sorts of illegal actions has no qualms about flagrant lawlessness. What good is the law if the executive branch does not abide or enforce it? The US regime can and does ignore the law, while Congress remains feckless. The institutional corruption and mockery of the law in the so-called justice system is becoming more and more flagrant as well. Checks and balances?
It looks like they have to murder and torture some folks to intimidate, frighten, coerce the population into submission. The masked, jackbooted thugs of Internal Secret Police (Geheime Staatspolizei) are a intimidation tool for political enemies of the regime.
If folks did start shooting back in states with “stand your ground laws”, the unhinged emperor would invoke the Insurrection Act and many more would be killed. However, that would not be good for business. If the stock market dropped as a result of the Reign of Terror, he might TACO.
Of course this is all extremely disturbing. and they are hiring even more thugs to terrorize the streets of US cities.ICE appears to be acting as an unaccountable armed force only loyal to the emperor. The politicization of armed force is also very disturbing.
The intention of these policies cannot be to deport the “illegals”, as they would have to round up millions and millions. I guess they could set up a bunch of concentration camps and have massive nationwide dragnets to round folks up, citizens or not. The law be damned, the constitution be damned.
I thought the ICE raids are mainly about keeping Trump’s approval ratings up among his hardcore base, this behavior being one of the key reasons they support him.
California is a “stand your ground” state. But it doesn’t allow indiscriminate response. The force you use must be proportional. And federal and state Tort statutes give broad immunity to “peace officers”.
Decline is accelerating!
I expect these goons will get into a shootout sooner or later.
It is obvious that a shootout is being deliberately provoked. Anyone reasonable would never leave men brushing so close to chaos on the streets everyday. It is admin policy to escalate this, towards more crackdowns and power grabs.
Shoot out = marshal law? No election? We’re just one false flag away.
Marshal Dillion law, or perhaps Martial?
Marital Law, divorce chapter: “git out and take your sh1t with ya”
I have thought a bunch about the 2nd amendment lately. It is obvious at this point most all of the private militia types have always been on the right. If this administration was Democrat and doing the same things, the rightwing crazies would be coming out of the woodwork. They would be brandishing weapons. We saw this in the Obama admin. Instead these protesters are blowing whistles. Obviously the threatened insurrection act is part of it. The left is not trying to provoke a new civil war. That is on the right and always has been since they lost the old civil war. Ishcabbiloo and the south shall rise again. That incantation was the KKK but was also uttered in Masonic halls in the south.
In response to your comment, there is another problem. The ICE agents are not only heavily armed but also wearing body armor. It will take more then a 22 or 38 caliber to make a dent. In order for a successful armed response a military armory will have to be raided to obtain the fire power. The only way that will happen without a large loss of life will be if a national guard unit rebels. Any solitary response with a bb gun will be slaughtured. At this point there is neither the will nor numbers
Ha! The militia movement on the right was crushed in the late 1990s and has never really recovered, outside of Bundy ranch at best as a scenario, and even that appeared more ad hoc than anything.
Note, I also see both sides brandishing weapons.
Personally, I think ALL sides need to step back and chill out before we do end up with some form of death squads, let alone a civil war. America’s “underbelly” of power distribution, pipelines, and rail traffic is so unguarded it would not take more than a few, dedicated men to cause some very real problems in this county (not advocating it, but I’ve read enough war gamed action reports to know what some military think). For some reason, this keeps coming to mind from Apocalypse Now:
“and then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
The best indicator that this ICE madness is serious are German media: No headlines.
Instead they are all falling for the annoying Greenland soap opera. Even Lisa Cook is in some headlines.
Or anything if it´s anti-RU.
What would they all do without Trump. Newsrooms must be opening champagne bottles every night.
I would like to see a discussion of how the ridiculous Supreme Court determination that the Executive has complete legal immunity has contributed, if not actually caused, this problem. IANAL, but it appears to me that the Feds have applied that immunity to everything they do, from top to bottom. They consider themselves above the law. This is what I’m looking at when I say that the constitution is dead- laws for thee but not for me as official public policy.
This is the West Bank-isation of the US population. Reduced by bureaucratic mendacity and judicial complicity to rightless denizens, ultimately subject to only unaccountable armed occupation. Rule of law eroded into a cynical mantra that none believe in anymore. Trump isn’t even deporting that many people compared to Obama. The destruction of rights is the primary goal.
Balan Aroxdale: “The destruction of rights is the primary goal.” Yes, absolutely. And terror, another main goal. And I believe the goal is to provoke situations leading to a declaration of martial law. Bibi has been the most effective tutor – the law means nothing when political will trends in a different direction.
The very first thing the Nazis did on coming into power was deprive Jews of their German citizenship and rights, regardless whether they’d been born in Germany or lived there for generations. Here we see that first step applied to certain groups, where the usual constitutional protections are considered not applicable.
If successful, it sets the precedent to be used against other groups. And a major clue as to which other groups is to be found in which Americans are being arrested, which Americans are considered not to be “true” citizens even with proof of identity or supporting official government documentation.
There sure seems to be a lot of closeted sadists in our country, filling positions at ICE shouldn’t be too difficult, bring your own mask.
I’m pretty sure plenty of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers are the ones filling the ranks of ICE.
Every Federal Law Enforcement agent swears a solemn oath to “Defend the Constitution against all Enemies Foreign and Domestic”.
It’s crystal clear how seriously DHS/ICE take that oath.
Do they even understand what the oath means? It looks like comprehension of the law and the Bill of Rights is beyond the ability of most of them. .
The leaked document attributes the home invasion doctrine to an opinion by the DHS General Counsel. That would be James Percival, a Federalist Society member. He is the source of the home attacks.
Percival was a missionary in South America, clerked for Judge Emmet Cox of the Court of Appeals for the 11th District, and was Chief of Staff to Florida AG Ashley Moody before he joined DHS.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-ice-enter-a-home-to-make-an-arrest-with-only-an-administrative-warrant
Some analysis, not favorable to ICE but looks into what they might be thinking.
If a homeowner does shoot, or shoot at ICE agents kicking in their front door without a warrant their house will be hosed down with full automatic fire and everyone inside killed or wounded.
They might even burn the place down while shooting anyone who tries to leave.
If you think that is an exaggeration you have forgotten WACO, where 26 Children burned to death.
But WACO is not the neighbor next door.
All it will take is for it to happen once and it will be plastered all over the news and the Internet. No coming back from that…
One should not forget the Mad Hatters in the SCOTUS for rubber stamping this reign of terror. They also deserve to be impeached, removed, tried, convicted and sent to prison in disgrace, but of course the AIPAC captured Democan’t Party won’t be bothered even if they win veto proof majorities in Congress in November. They’re pathetic.
Thanks for this post. It’s hard to read but important to know.
I’m waiting to see if tomorrow Walter justifies these illegal actions or sneers at the people opposing these illegal actions, like child kidnappings,(what else can you call it)?
(I’ve made a little bet with myself.)
Beneath you m’dear. You’re sneering at Walter yourself with this ad hom. Also, he’s part Romani, so you are risking some ancient spell.
Am I? Interesting comment. / ;)
The Border Patrol brought a group of new trainees by my place for a show and tell. I don’t think that any of them were more than 20 years old.
It’s not reassuring that they will soon be wandering around here alone in the dark with a gun.
When the First and the Fourth Amendments become routinely violable, the Second Amendment becomes operative. That is literally its purpose.
No, the 2A’s primary purpose is fear of a large standing army and instead having a non-professional citizen militia. After the Glorious Revolution England had a policy of not having a large standing army in country. They would muster the army then ship them off to Ireland, the continent, North America, South Africa etc and disband them when they got back. It wasn’t until WW1 that England mustered large numbers of troops and kept them England. The US founders were very influenced by Whigish thinking which viewed a large standing armies in country as the most important factor in absolute monarchies like France, Prussia and Russia maintaining their power.
A familiar argument. One I disagree with. It ignores the extant cultural fabric, then and now, and rationalizes the vilification of “non-professional citizen militias,” given we obviously now have a large standing army. How’s that working out for ya? This argument is only defensible if you presume that it is the state which should maintain a monopoly of violence, regardless of accountability. But, of course, such a carte blanche grant of that monopoly leaves the citizens entirely without recourse. (And now you can enlighten me about the wonders of the democratic process and how we can achieve all manner of reform and progress through VOTING! and maybe a little peaceful protest.)
As for voting, the most important votes are cast in the primaries. That’s how the Reaganauts rose to power, shocking the oldline, middle American, Main Street Republicans. The Reaganauts were organized and swamped the local primary elections. I know one long time GOP member remarked she didn’t know half the people who turned out to vote that year in the primary, in a small rural community. That’s also how AOC rose to power, by winning her primary, shocking the old line Dem elites. (The left used to have a saying about “Organize!”)
Complaining that neither party produces a candidate you want to vote for implies that only the old guard, registered party members bother to vote in the primaries. But, I suggest, if you are a registered party member then vote in the primaries for the candidates whose platforms you support. ( ok, I’ll step off my soapbox now. / ;)
Just sayin’
oh wait, stepping up on my soapbox again.
If you think strategic voting is a good idea then if you live in a Red state where the GOP candidate is bound to win the at large, open general election, then registering as a GOP voter gives you a chance to vote in the GOP primaries for the least objectionable GOP candidate to enter the general election.
Doesn’t mean you have to vote for them in the general if they’re worse than the Dem candidate. Sometimes keeping out the worst is as important and supporting the best. / my 2 cents
That was the founders thinking, they are as clear as day “A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state” if they had intend for the 2A to be about overthrowing a tyrannical government they would given that as a reason for the right to bear Arms, but they didn’t. Prior to the revolution they all thought themselves Englishmen and were steeped in English history and political thought. There is fair argument that John Locke was the single most important thinker to the founders and he was very much in favor of the Glorious Revolution. The whole concept of a citizen militia in the 17th-18th century originated in England. One of the problems with the US Constitution is that it is a product of the late 18th century, so for example the term “Arms” in the 18th century meant all weapons of war pikes, swords, flintlock pistols, muskets and cannons so a strict interpretation of that term would mean US citizens today have the right to own jet fighters, cruise missiles and nukes. That’s why I find strict constructionists a bit silly as the Constitution is not a predictive document and many things we deal with today were never considered when it was written.
If I were the governor of Minnesota, I would introduce articles of secession and begin talks with Canada about holding a referendum to join Canada as a new province. That would probably upset Mr. Market enough to change current trajectories (as many states would, if they could, follow rather than live under the growing chaos and dysfunction).
I don’t think Minnesotans would welcome the idea of King Charles as their head of state. / ;)
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-family/members-royal-family/king-charles-iii.html
Certainly more palatable than DJT
Not being Canadian I can’t say. However, we in the US can change our head of state ever four to eight years. So there’s that. / ;)
The separation of Head of State from Head of Government means that we can change our Head of Government faster than a lettuce wilts, which is a political good not to be sneezed at.
The US Army is the de facto large standing army. I’m dealing with the founders view of things. The US Constitution is a late 18th century document steeped in it’s era and not necessarily great at predicting what was to come. For example in the 18th century the term “arms” meant all weapons of war at the time pikes, swords, flintlock pistols, muskets, cannon, so by a literal reading of the 2A means citizens should be able to own jet fighters, artillery and nukes.
Today’s True Anon episode talked about the ICE situation for the last hour or so. It was recorded a couple of days ago (they said the 20th), so before the homicide finding (I think), but they mentioned that there were 6 deaths of people in custody just in 2026 – so 20 days.
Also they mentioned “Operation Return to Sender” which was in January 2025 (under Biden but IDK how transition work would fit in) and a test run: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/border-patrol-tactics-rural-california.html.
So domestic and foreign policy are one and the same.
Gosh …. we’re decades into everything being administered as a Market Place[tm] which delivers the most efficient/optimal outcomes ever … indisputable …
I mean its not like corruption and self dealing was not taking place before but, since the 80s in the U.S. its just accelerated. I’ll channel my inner Spud commenter, now decamped, Bill Clinton put the final nail in the coffin after reforming the Dem party. Now both parties were pro corporate[job creators]/absentee investors[financial capital/flow of funds] first and foremost, even before social cohesion. Only difference between the two now is some cockamamie PR/Marketing value image – branding as both attempt to gain dominate market share in the market place of ideas. Pitting citizans against each other as an outlet of anxieties created so they never can focus on the fundamental reasons for it – elitists.
Anywho … and is my want … its always about incentives and basic human [animal] behavioral psychology.
“Congress Approves $800 MILLION for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bonuses
On camera, members of United States Congress acknowledge that $800 million has been set aside for bonuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement—some reportedly reaching $44,000 per employee.
At the same time, the average American bonus hovers around $2,500, if workers receive one at all. Critics are asking why lawmakers claim there is “no money” for healthcare, housing, disaster relief, or cost-of-living support—yet massive cash incentives are available for an agency accused of detaining people first and verifying facts later.
This is reigniting a national debate over government priorities, accountability, and who the system is really designed to reward.” – 1/20/2026
https://youtube.com/shorts/JR4SVJqA0C8?si=LYrsN9EpHmvLmVhC
Then some ponder why the C-suite has become so detached or even anti social/anti family formation once it was incentivized via equities in remuneration. The ICE agents are lmmao~~~~ incentivized too behave as they do as rational economic agents[????] … so they can buy the right house in the right neighborhood, send kids to the right school, afford the right girlfriend/wife, or just live life large …
Amends in advance … phew … a disquisition reduced to absurdity is the prevalence of YT videos about playing the pokies or electronic gambling machines in the U.S. – its huge – blows me away for so many reasons.
As a Michael Moorcock fan, I am beginning to adopt an Arioch/Demon Lord of Chaos interpretation on current events. Perhaps these brazen acts of lawlessness culminating in the sacrifice of the innocent are a mass ritual intended to summon Arioch or similar-level of Demon Lord to unleash chaos on World. Obviously, using the metaphysics of a fantasy novel to explain current events is tongue-in-cheek, but there does seem to be element in these struggles that transcends the collection of egos involved into something metaphysical, Order versus Chaos, Liberty versus Despotism.
This is just another step in violations of the 4th amendment that have been progressing over the past 25 years.
1.See Patriot Act/NSA/Edward Snowdon.
2. Civil Asset Forfeiture by State and local police during traffic stops (with no charges filed).
3. Geofence warrants for cell phone locations.
It just keeps getting worse.