Last week, top ICE officials ordered officers to increase arrests and to get “creative” in their methods, including trying to nab people the officers happen to encounter in what are known as “collateral arrests.” The orders come in the wake of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller setting a quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, along with a sharp rise in protests against the crackdown.
In Westbury, the HSI agents didn’t respond to the gathered crowd. After a few minutes, the agents drove away. A commotion erupted down the road, off-camera, and onlookers began rushing toward the corner.
One of the Nissans, carrying two of the HSI agents, had crashed into a black pickup truck that happened to be passing through the intersection. Three eyewitnesses told The Intercept that the agents’ car had sped away. Two of the witnesses believe the Nissan blew a stop sign, causing the crash. (Nassau County police referred questions about the accident to ICE, which did not respond to an inquiry.)
If ICE is meeting resistance even in a place like Westbury, then at least something is going right.
Where ICE fucked up is publicly and repeatedly showing they go after the weakest target.
Compliance gets you nothing and costs you everything.
And eventually, there’s going to be a point where there’s no easy targets that won’t resist left
Either they’ll already have been taken, or they’ll realize compliance is pointless.
This is America, we got more guns than people. If you’re already facing deportation to a fucking death camp, a gun charge ain’t gonna mean shit.
I’m not saying people should, because it’s gonna lead to horrible shit, but the writings on the wall, it’s gonna start happening if ICE keeps it up
You don’t have to say it. I’ll do it for you: we should all shoot every ICE member on sight. No questions asked.
That’s not what should happen and you should be ashamed of yourself. Murder is not something to take lightly.
Cry harder.
ICE’s behavior has emboldened criminals to impersonate ICE agents to rob and kidnap people. This is going to end very badly indeed because a reasonable person would arm themselves when this becomes as common as it is likely to get. And a lot of people are going to get shot and killed.