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bluestarone

(19,712 posts)
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:56 AM Monday

I've been thinking lots lately about ICE members. Do you think i'm wrong feeling that Jan 6 parolees are big part

Of ICE? They were told to STAND BACK, STAND BY. Why can't we get their identities? Something awful wrong about ICE assholes. Just curious about this.

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I've been thinking lots lately about ICE members. Do you think i'm wrong feeling that Jan 6 parolees are big part (Original Post) bluestarone Monday OP
The thought Rebl2 Monday #1
You have to wonder what kind of morally bankrupt orc would take a job as an ICE agent these days. Ocelot II Monday #2
Exactly! bluestarone Monday #6
This! Mike 03 Monday #9
Tom Homan is one of the most morally bankrupt humans in the US. Initech Monday #20
You are wrong. 1) Most are not disciplined enough, 2) The ones we have heard about are doing other things. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #3
Well, maybe so, BUT sure would be nice to KNOW for sure bluestarone Monday #7
ICE was terrible before January 6, 2021. WhiskeyGrinder Monday #4
It's always been one of those agencies where authoritarian assholes are welcomed. Ocelot II Monday #8
I trained with them at FLETC 40 yars ago CanonRay Monday #14
Agree with your portrayal but... Wuddles440 Monday #17
True, the Border Patrol was the most militarized CanonRay Monday #21
Yeah, I was commenting above about those notorious Facebook pages Mike 03 Monday #10
Where bad cops go TommyT139 Monday #5
I know U.S. Marshals can deputize individuals for specific assignments or events so it wouldn't surprise me ImNotGod Monday #11
It would certainly explain why they wear masks, GoCubsGo Monday #12
Exactly! bluestarone Monday #13
Interesting thought Bluestarone. They needed employment flamingdem Monday #15
Agree! but how do we find out? bluestarone Monday #16
The pardons gave a lot of ICE and other assholes carte blanche. progressoid Monday #18
Yes, I think you're wrong Prairie Gates Monday #19
I have been thinking about this topic too. Could they be gang members or Proud Boys? Irish_Dem Monday #22
Without a doubt they would be BOTH! bluestarone Monday #23
Yes they are obviously not worried about breaking the law, Irish_Dem Monday #24

Ocelot II

(124,508 posts)
2. You have to wonder what kind of morally bankrupt orc would take a job as an ICE agent these days.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:00 AM
Monday

How do you drag off a four-year-old cancer patient, a US citizen, to be expelled from the country with no access to their medicine, then go home to dinner with your family like you had a normal job?

Mike 03

(18,427 posts)
9. This!
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:23 AM
Monday

It's unrecognizable from the law enforcement fantasies I had as a kid. It's hard to imagine some young person becoming infatuated with this organization which is increasingly associated with fascist terror, racism and a total reckless disregard verging on incompetence.

(Also, IIRC, some ICE Facebook pages were in the news 3 or 4 years ago (maybe) for egregious examples of misogyny and racism. I remember how disheartening those revelations were.)

Initech

(104,639 posts)
20. Tom Homan is one of the most morally bankrupt humans in the US.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 05:04 PM
Monday

After Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Pete Hegseth, Sean Hannity, and RFK Jr, he's probably sixth or seventh on that list.

Bernardo de La Paz

(55,127 posts)
3. You are wrong. 1) Most are not disciplined enough, 2) The ones we have heard about are doing other things. . . nt
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:01 AM
Monday

Ocelot II

(124,508 posts)
8. It's always been one of those agencies where authoritarian assholes are welcomed.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:17 AM
Monday

But it will be even worse now. You'd have to be a monster to do what they do every day, but apparently there is no shortage of monsters.

CanonRay

(15,222 posts)
14. I trained with them at FLETC 40 yars ago
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:15 PM
Monday

and even then they trained like a paramilitary organization, not like law enforcement. I can only imagine what it is like now.

Wuddles440

(1,683 posts)
17. Agree with your portrayal but...
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 02:15 PM
Monday

they were separate agencies (INS, Customs, and Border Patrol) during your time at FLETC.

Mike 03

(18,427 posts)
10. Yeah, I was commenting above about those notorious Facebook pages
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:26 AM
Monday

for ICE or Border Patrol, replete with misogynist and racist posts that (even though I know this exists) were nevertheless so disappointing. I think this was probably 4ish years ago, but it could be during Shitler's first term.

TommyT139

(1,320 posts)
5. Where bad cops go
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:08 AM
Monday

The thug who lied about Andry Romero (gay hairdresser sent to El Salvador) was a former cop who had lied about other cases and had substance use issues that got him fired. So you know they were so bad no other city would hire him. But ICE? Of course.

ImNotGod

(670 posts)
11. I know U.S. Marshals can deputize individuals for specific assignments or events so it wouldn't surprise me
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:27 AM
Monday

if ICE is doing the same with Jan 6 goons.

GoCubsGo

(33,776 posts)
12. It would certainly explain why they wear masks,
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 11:31 AM
Monday

when they really don't need to do so. I have always suspected that these guys aren't actual ICE agents, but rather run -of-the-mill MAGA thugs who were given uniforms, and told to go crazy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a bunch of them are J-6ers. It's not like a lot of employers are going to be interested in hiring someone who was fresh out of prison on a pardon for trying to overthrow the US Government. The only one interested in them is the guy who pardoned them...

flamingdem

(40,398 posts)
15. Interesting thought Bluestarone. They needed employment
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:19 PM
Monday

and it's right up their alley. Wow. Someone needs to find out for sure!

bluestarone

(19,712 posts)
16. Agree! but how do we find out?
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:44 PM
Monday

THAT is the question of the DAY, WEEK MONTH. Hell, how can we allow people to be KIDNAPPED off the street will somebody that DOES NOT identify themselves? THIS cannot be a legal arrest or detainment. Wish we could fix this. If we were in control of the Senate or House, we could hold hearings with subpoena power. But we don't. I would like to see someone try to bring it to the floor in Senate or House, Maybe, just Maybe a couple of republicans would sign on? I wouldn't hold my breath though. At least we can get their votes on record for the midterm elections!!

progressoid

(51,344 posts)
18. The pardons gave a lot of ICE and other assholes carte blanche.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 03:10 PM
Monday

Many of them have been waiting for someone like trump to give them the freedom to be as horrible as they want without consequence.

Irish_Dem

(69,130 posts)
22. I have been thinking about this topic too. Could they be gang members or Proud Boys?
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 07:19 PM
Monday

J6ers as you suggest. Or even foreign gang members.
Trump is obsessed with gangs and he is a mob boss.

Something is very off with the ICE gestapo nazis.

bluestarone

(19,712 posts)
23. Without a doubt they would be BOTH!
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 07:23 PM
Monday

P_lus they are getting away with it, because TSF will pardon them 50 times if needed.

Irish_Dem

(69,130 posts)
24. Yes they are obviously not worried about breaking the law,
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 07:31 PM
Monday

violating the US constitution and bill of rights.

They know they have immunity like Trump does.
He will pardon them.

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