I am confused about the sheer volume of seemingly illegal actions these fascists are getting away with. The amount of US citizens unlawfully detained, the warrantless surveillance and raids, the refusal to identify themselves, and the clear pattern of violence though indiscriminate physical assault.
Where are the class action lawsuits?
Why are no Democratic politicians calling for ICE’s leadership to be investigated, impeached, imprisoned? Even if Democrats are kinda feckless and racist themselves, surely they’re not as stupid as the Republicans and can see the threat that ICE represents to the economy, if nothing else?
I’m just astonished by the absolute dearth of any resistance to these squads of lead-poisoned idiots who don’t follow any rules and are seemingly only motivated by a desire to hurt people.
Moreover… I want to believe in rehabilitative justice, and if we ever want to see former ICE agents get treatment and re-enter society as productive upstanding citizens, it would be best to stop them before they’re too far gone. Not to make it out like they’re the primary victims here, but I do believe what they’re doing is actively harming themselves.
Trump seems to have had connections to human trafficking, not only through Jepstein but possibly his own network. During his first term there was a lot of people who went missing both at the the border which some theorized was murders and cover-ups but could have just as easily been kidnappings. During the Floyd protests there was this same thing happening of unidentified masked men in unmarked vehicles grabbing, seemingly random, people. Again, this was thought to be simply feds doing extrajudicial arrests. There could be a darker thing happening here. It could be by design to give cover for one or several human trafficking networks. It would be extremely difficult to separate “legitimate” arrests from wanton kidnappings. As long as there is enough on-the-books chaos with real ICE and feds eating up attention, it would be hard to notice random abductions. The US already has a terrible track record with missing persons of color. These networks would be opportunistic feeders whenever there is social chaos. Even if officials don’t have any knowledge of this happening, or direct connections, the networks that do exist could still use the opportunity.
I don’t have any real evidence other than “people intimately involved in a widely known human trafficking scheme coincidentally do the thing that makes kidnapping super easy.” But it’s also the thing that nobility, royalty, and fascists have been doing. Alexander III deported people like this because he accused them of terrorism (and killing his dad). So it’s not like they need the trafficking reason to do this.