Some More News - Some More News: Where ICE Came From And Why It Needs To Be Abolished

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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Keep it down Ma! I'm doing my YouTube show! Sorry, so sorry. Couldn't make it to the studio today because of all the... National Guard. Interesting how until ICE and the military showed up, it was perfectly safe and easy to go downtown. Almost like there wasn't a problem until they made it one. Anyway, here's some news. I don't know why, but I kind of feel like talking about ice.

So let's. Ice, cops, but somehow worse. Just go, okay? Get out of here. I'm trying to do my thing. I'm not hungry. Just get out of here. I'm trying to do my thing, okay? I'm not hungry! Just get out of here! I love you, I'm sorry!

No, I feel bad. She's in town for only a week. Wanted to surprise me. Her and... Greg. So, to catch everyone up, last week, ICE began to show up in Los Angeles to conduct raids and scoop people up,

along with honorary ICE agent, Dr. Phil, a title we should continue to use for him until he dies. The people of Los Angeles noticing their neighbors being kidnapped began to protest and revolt. Donald Trump being a very good president who knows how to unite the country and deescalate situations, called in the big guns to keep the peace

and also maybe crash on your couch if you got room. He also claimed the city was under siege, but weirdly isn't invoking the Insurrection Act, but rather potentially illegally invoking a different, more obscure law instead. Perhaps because the Insurrection Act requires actual evidence of the city being under siege. Maybe he just meant that Steven Seagal lives here,

which also actually isn't true, I think. Five Pinocchios for Mr. Trump. Anyway, sure seems like he wants to do a martial law and give ICE a reason to be even worse and more violent. But this video isn't about that, or these specific raids, or how big of a tool Dr. Phil is. After all, this will be and has been just one of many stories

of civil unrest and general chaos caused by a group of masked and often un-uniformed dudes going around kidnapping people from random cities in America. Unless you're deemed useful by Trump and his rich friends, of course, specifically in red states and rural areas, until he changes his mind again at some point. It's hard to keep up.

There was a possible political assassination or two today, a military parade, countless protests, a war. By the time we finish filming this, we all might be some kind of mutant moth men. And while we will surely have multiple videos about these crises, for the purposes of this video, we are going to ask a few straightforward questions. What is ice and where did it come from?

Who are ice and is this normal? And when I say normal, I of course mean normal for America, a country that isn't really normal. So let's start with what's new with ICE. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been around for a little while, which we'll get to, but what is happening now that's making everyone way more pissed off and scared?

For one, and perhaps the most basic and metaphorical example of the larger problem, ICE didn't always wear masks to hide their identity. That is a new trend, one that the current ICE director Todd Lyons claims is to protect the agents themselves. People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves.

So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not gonna let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don't like what immigration enforcement is. Yeah, it must be scary when people go after you and your family, Todd. I'm not for threatening the lives of anyone, not even Greg.

But I feel like people have been threatening cops for a while now. It's kind of part of the job. People have been making songs threatening cops for decades, good songs often. You walk around with a gun telling people what to do, one imagines those people would want some accountability for those gun carrying people

and to identify who is doing that. And some people go too far, which doesn't mean we shouldn't have that right. Anyway, wah, says Todd. Todd is sad that their agents might have their personal lives disrupted because people are mad that they are breaking into homes without a warrant.

That is new, by the way. It used to be that ICE couldn't just smash your door down, but they found a new fun way around that. Specifically, Trump is abusing an old wartime law, AKA the Alien Enemies Act, to game the system so that ICE agents can bust right into homes if they suspect there's a gang member inside. His reasoning here is that the Trende Aragua gang is an invading force, which doesn't really make sense and makes less sense

since ICE is seemingly considering everyone from Venezuela a member, or rather, anyone existing in a building they suspect has Trende Aragua inside of it. Doesn't really matter who you are. ICE has actually created a point system they use to determine if you are in that gang or not. I guess once you pass a certain high score, you get booted out like a kid

with too many tickets at an arcade. Some of the things that will get you points are, and this is real life, communicating with any known gang members, having any tattoos or clothing they've decided is associated with the Trendy Aragwa gang, or being in any group photos that also have gang members in them.

Boy, if we did this with other crimes, then Elon Musk would be gonzo by now, huh? Certainly the actual current president would be. You also get a lot of points for saying you're a gang member, either verbally or in writing. And I know that sounds like a slam dunk, but this includes, quote, lawful interception of communications,

meaning that you could jokingly say you're a gang member in a text and probably get nailed. And of course, this has a snowball effect, right? One of the things that gets you tagged is if a cop or witness IDs you as a gang member. But say they are wrong. Well, that doesn't just affect you now, but anyone you live or hang out with or take pictures with and so on. You could, in theory, six degrees of Kevin Bacon this all the way to anyone you wanted, including Kevin Bacon. Also, and this is pretty key,

even if they were a gang member, none of this makes sense because gangs aren't the same as wartime invaders. And even if they were, which they're not, it still doesn't make sense because everyone has the right to due process, period. No! Exclamation point! The Alien Enemies Act still requires due process. The Supreme Court, assuming they are listened to, have made that clear

because how else do you know if they are criminals? You have to do the process to find that out. That's why they call it that. No, it's not. Shut up, Cody. Currently, many of the Venezuelans who were sent to the prison in El Salvador had no criminal record

besides being in the country without documentation, a civil offense. Oh, wow, I guess having a point system is bad. In terms of whether Trump can legally use the Alien Enemies Act in general, the Supreme Court seems to be avoiding the issue, opting instead to rule on the logistical aspects around the bigger question.

Probably because they're cowards, maybe, I don't know. I don't know. They've also been walking into elementary schools and churches, ice, not the Supreme Court, which isn't new, by the way. Turns out that Trump didn't need some fancy wartime loophole to do that. They could just always do that,

but had an Obama era policy saying they wouldn't. Trump simply undid that policy, which perhaps was a good policy to have. Even if you like Trump and think that gangs are a problem in the United States, certainly the purpose of detaining them would be to make the streets safer and more peaceful. So how does this achieve that? Definitely a chaotic scene on Eureka Street Thursday as Worcester police and ICE agents detained a mother and her 16-year-old daughter. this achieve that? they say the teen daughter was holding a newborn baby in her arms and standing in front of the ICE vehicle that was trying to leave with their mother inside. That is a story of Roseanne Ferreira de Oliveira,

a Worchester resident who... Worcester? No way. Do I have to? A Worcester resident who got a phone call from her daughter saying that she, along with her three-month-old baby, had been pulled over by ICE, who were now going to arrest them.

They needed Roseanne to come and get the baby because they were being detained. And when Roseanne went outside to help, ICE arrested her instead. The entire situation was a ruse to get her outside. Her kid and grandkid were bait, and the daughter and neighborhood reacted accordingly. The way you'd react if someone came into your quiet street and kidnapped someone you knew. Not a gang member, not even in selfies with a gang member. According to the Department of Homeland Security,

Roseanne was a quote, violent criminal, illegal alien, with a prior arrest for quote, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. That weapon, a phone charging cable. She got into a fight with her daughter with a phone charging cable. And because of that, Ice came and slammed her daughter on the ground and arrested everyone,

including a bystander who got involved, while everyone else screamed and cried and tried to help. Justice served, served, justice served, so much better than someone hitting someone with a phone charging cable. You get it, right? It's like evil, perhaps if Los Angeles or other cities were actually overrun by gang crime,

like in a Robocop or a Death Wish, I'd actually be concerned with that. But currently, the only gang causing trouble is ICE. They make everything worse, including crime. We'll talk about this more in another episode, but undocumented immigrants are extremely useful when it comes to helping police deal with gangs and other crimes.

They report crimes, are witnesses to crimes, even step in and stop crimes themselves. Imagine if you're in a domestic situation or being mugged or getting murdered and the only witness is undocumented. Don't you want that person to feel safe reporting that crime, stepping in to help, even in less dramatic situations?

ICE is objectively making things worse, even for themselves. Allegedly, they've started questioning the citizenship of the people working at hotels they are staying at, people making their food and cleaning their rooms. You think the person making your eggs Benedict is gonna appreciate that? You know how similar eggs can look to spit?

You want to detain the person cleaning after you, even if you have zero morals. That is logistically stupid, right? It's like sawing the branch you're sitting on. This is stupid and evil and making everything bad. And it's only going to become worse. The Arizona Mirror reports that Lyons made the comments at a border security expo in Phoenix.

He said his goal would be a system like Amazon in which trucks round up immigrants for deportation across the US. Poor Todd doesn't want people to harass his agents while they do their Amazon style truck deportations. Hey, maybe make it a train system, Todd, so very efficient. I should note that Todd isn't the emperor Palpatine of this operation.

He's not Vader, he's not a grand Moff. I don't think he's even on the Council of Moffs. He's probably like Tarl Sokoley or Captain Phasma. You remember Captain Phasma? You remember that knife map that led to the Death Star? The fuck was that about? Todd, what was that about? Todd's unimportant is my point.

He's like a Star Wars movie that everyone forgot existed. Todd's will come and go. So after the break, we're gonna talk about the bigger beast, the Vexus under the sand that we randomly find and then magically heal because I guess we have that ability now. Also, they fly now. Okay, enjoy the ads or don't.

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Thank you. Hello. She's wonderful. Unlike Ice, which is the opposite of wonderful. We were talking about Todd and how he sucks. And so we should probably explore who and what ICE is. Because sure, I'm genuinely against violence or threats

and I want Todd Lyons and the rest of the senior ICE officials, Madison Sheehan, John Feare, Marcos Charles, Derek Gordon, Susan C Dunbar, Jennifer M Fenton, Charles Wall and Jennifer Cleary to be safe and granted the restraint that they are not granting others. I really do. But at a certain point,

these people need to be looked in the eye. Perhaps some of them need to stand trial someday. They all need to be known just like Donald Trump or Stephen Miller or Kristi Noem. They can quit ICE and denounce this at any time, and they aren't. So they must all like this. They must like that ICE has detained over 51,000 people,

with only 30% of them having criminal convictions. According to the American Immigration Council, 8,000 of them have literally no criminal record at all. And that number balloons to 22,000 if you include people detained by other agencies who are in ICE detention. And even more only have minor offenses like traffic violations.

They must like, or are at least okay with, the fact that nine people that we know of have died in ICE custody since Trump took office, some under questionable circumstances. For the record, 12 people died last year, which is also bad, but we're already up to nine in half of that time. After all, these detention centers

are absolute garbage holes, or rather the ones in the United States are, because we're also sticking people into El Salvador prisons with limited or no access to lawyers and family and all kinds of health hazards. And so Todd and the rest must be okay with all of this. But as I said, Todd is just a small cog in a larger machine, a waft of stink in the big glass bowl of turds.

And when talking about how ice came to be, it would be irresponsible not to point fingers at some of the bigger turds in that bowl. Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local governments, have responsibilities affecting Homeland Security. These efforts must be coordinated. There he is!

There's our guy. For all you youngs, it should be noted that ICE is pretty new. Originally the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE was an offshoot of the Department of Homeland Security, which was officially in operation starting in March of 2003. Finn Wolfhard is older than ICE. Heck, Finn Wolfhard was conceived eight months

before ICE was. It is absolutely not a necessary or fundamental part of our country, nor is the right-wing antagonism toward immigration. In fact, before 9-11, a chunk of GOP lawmakers, including A1 George W. Bush, was in favor of creating legal pathways for immigrants. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all unicorn farts,

but there was a time when this country was on a far different trajectory than it is now. It's almost as if 9-11 was successful in destabilizing the United States by accelerating a descent into fascism through paranoia, trauma, and xenophobia. But who can say? Maybe we need to do a video about George Bush

and the damage he caused, he said, foreshadowingly. For the sake of this conversation, what's important to note isn't just that the Department of Homeland Security was formed, but that it was formed poorly. Keep in mind, this is considered the largest governmental restructuring since World War II. 22 agencies were stuck under a single cabinet position.

And at the time, many people pointed out that the process by which these agencies were picked seemed flawed and confusing. For example, neither the FBI nor CIA's anti-terrorism departments were included, nor was the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees immigration court judges. That's significant because the agency that provides immigration prosecutors was rolled into DHS. Also, the Secret Service is under Homeland Security, which is odd, but in fairness, it was previously under the Homeland Security, which is odd, but in fairness,

it was previously under the Treasury Department, so nothing there makes sense. And speaking of nonsense designed to hurt us, there was, of course, another legislative response to 9-11 we should probably talk about. Today, the president signed a big new anti-terrorism bill that would expand the government's ability to track down terrorists, but at some cost.

Oh, I wonder what that cost is. I'm sure it's nothing important. Kids, the thing you gotta know about post-9-11 America is that almost everyone lost their entire goddamn minds. According to polls, a slim majority of Americans thought it was necessary for some civil liberties to be seeded in order to defeat terrorists. Xenophobia and racism skyrocketed specifically on the right.

So we did a Patriot Act, which allowed law enforcement to collect our records and search our homes without notifications. So long as they could prove they thought we were doing a terrorism, which at the time simply meant that you looked Arab or Asian. There was a fucking registration system where mostly Muslim men were required to be interviewed and fingerprinted. From that program, only 11 people were ultimately found

to have connections to terrorists. Out of 85,000, there were also ICE workplace raids, which are largely seen as ineffective and in fact are often triggered by disgruntled employees or employers tipping off agents for their own personal reasons. Much like how today, you could probably just tell ICE your neighbor is a gang member with no evidence

and get them disappeared if they were brown enough. So that answers the question I asked earlier. Where did ICE come from? As for who is ICE, like besides those dipshits I named earlier, there are about 6,000 deportation officers and 7,000 special agents employed by ICE. And yes, we should perhaps abolish the jobs of those people. Take it from radical Bill Kristol. But to actually abolish ICE,

it's important to know that ICE isn't just those jobs. Thanks to the Patriot Act, ICE is everything. It's multiple agencies because every law enforcement agency has the ability to share information with each other. They work directly with cops around the country to ensure that if an immigrant gets arrested for any reason, ICE will know about it.

Who is ICE? ICE is the natural conclusion of a system we've been creating for the last 25 years and more. They wear masks because there's no law saying they can't. That's why they're able to lie to people, lure them out like they did to that woman in Worcester, because it's part of their handbook. Literally, there is a section of their operations handbook

written at least 15 years ago titled Ruses. All this bastard shit was in place for decades. All Trump had to do was say it's okay to do it more and to do it to innocent people. Officers with the Department of Homeland Security recently attempted to enter elementary schools in Los Angeles, but were not allowed in. Agents claimed to have been conducting a welfare check,

not an immigration enforcement action. School administrators say DHS lied about having permission from caregivers to speak to students. After being asked by the principals to provide some degree of identification, they did present credentials that identify them as agents of the Department of Homeland Security, which they went to great lengths to actually explain

to the principals that they were not with ICE. They're just showing up at elementary schools, lying and scaring everyone. Not exclusively because of some new thing Trump did, but from decades of reduced civil rights justified with imaginary terrorists. Except now, those terrorists are not Al-Qaeda, but vague fears about gangs.

Or as Trump said on the day he first announced his candidacy for president, Mexicans. Though some of course are good people, he assumed. You got to assume because there's no due process. So I guess you just have to assume. That superintendent goes on to say exactly what we're saying, which is that there's just no way that these people weren't also with ICE

because everyone is with ICE now, especially the agency in charge of ICE. Again, who is ICE? Besides those agents and those tendrils across all agencies. They're literal cops as well. They are everything we have deemed problematic or broken about our law enforcement. Supercharged with a broad anti-terrorism mandate

that allows them to ignore our rights. Literal cops. Thanks to one specific law, ICE has the ability to literally deputize local law enforcement for detainment operations. Did Trump make that law? No, Bush didn't even make it. That ability came from the fucking

illegal immigration reform and immigrant responsibility act of 1996, signed by the godless Democrat pervert, Bill Clinton, with a statement that began with quote, this bill is good for America. Thanks Bill. Your local cop had the ability to participate in the detainment of immigrants before ICE was even a glint

in Trump's puffy little eye. If you're wondering why this wasn't talked about before, well, it turns out that the government didn't really take advantage of the program after it was revealed to be, you know, bad. Because your local cop is a racist, you see. For example, when Joe Arpaio was caught profiling Latino men,

he claimed he was doing it through this program. According to the ACLU, two thirds of sheriffs involved in this partnership had a record of racial profiling and running detention facilities accused of abuse. But these days, ICE loves it now. They want to smooch it forever, smooch it right on the tip. Tom Homan, your conservative uncle

who is apparently the current border czar, which is basically a fake job, wants to make it easier for ICE to recruit more cops by reducing the required training time. Oh good, that's what they need, less training. And again, this is all thanks to Bill Clinton, who then passed the torch to George W. Bush for a little more fascism,

who passed the torch to Obama for a little more authoritarianism, but with more charisma and finally to Trump to run with it. But not before Biden briefly grabbed that torch back and allowed 23 people to die in ICE detention centers during his term. Don't get me wrong, they're not all equally bad.

And in fact, under Biden, it seemed that ICE was much more limited and even expressed frustration about that. We don't do large scale roundups. Every individual that's here today has come to our attention because they've been rested by a local municipality. Do you have enough resources to do this? No, no we don't. And that's one of the problems that, you know, when jurisdictions don't cooperate with us,

we have to go out into the community, which puts our officers at risk. Oh my goodness, is that Todd? It is you. You were just some cop guy from Boston this whole time. That makes so much sense, Todd. Hey Todd, Wooster wants to have a word with you. How do you like Demapples, Todd? I do not care for Todd, but I digress.

Into Todd, who again, is but a tiny little stormtrooper compared to the larger Death Star. What is ICE? It's just America, bro. It's the institutions we've given unchecked power to over the decades, the end result of the Patriot Act and our broken law enforcement system. And to truly abolish ICE,

we'd need to abolish a lot more than some guy named Todd who sucks, like Greg. We should probably take another break, but we have more ice to discuss after that, specifically what the future holds for the agency, unless we perhaps do something. But first have these ads. Take them.

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Can you hear them? They're nonstop out there. All right, hi, I guess it's Cody. And we were discussing how ICE is ultimately the product of a system of police overreach that we've been building since even before 9-11, because it sure is easier for the people in charge if everyone had no privacy or rights.

I get it. You think I lord over my Minecraft villagers with aspirations for democracy? No, it gets real dark in Castle Cody. But here, in reality, it seems pretty bad if the system we're all used to is built on the gradual dismantling of civil liberties, because that's the thing, we're used to it. If the gradual dismantling of civil liberties. Because that's the thing.

We're used to it. If Trump has any positive talents, it's his ability to make evident that which was already there. He is so grotesque and loud in his terrible goals that, in pushing the limits of his power, he's exposing the seams that everyone ignored. He's the guy who makes the mall security guards realize that technically there's no rule against skinny dipping in the fountain.

This is all to say that Trump and ICE are quite horrifyingly working in tandem with a system that most Americans consider functional. So in order to disrupt or protest the things they are doing, you have to disrupt that system as well. But for most people, it's easier to simply allow this machine to keep moving, even if that machine churns out dead people as a byproduct

or the main product. A pretty clear example is detention facilities. Migrant detention centers have been, even before ICE, notoriously terrible places, And no one really cared. I mean, most people don't seem to care that our prisons are, in general, terrible and ineffective for reform. That is the system in place.

And so it's simply easier for that system to keep on keeping on. ICE is currently looking to expand their detainment abilities through contracts with private prison companies and local jails. And why wouldn't they oblige? Private prisons are there to make money. Not to mention that local jails also get paid by federal agencies like ICE and the US Marshals

Service to hold more people. Local police forces depend on that money. In Butler, Ohio, for example, they are now making money through a federal contract that pays $68 each day for each detainee, plus $36 an hour for transport. That contract is more valuable to them than the actual job of serving and protecting their community.

How do I know that? Because Butler PD allowed ICE to arrest a father and son who were working construction in the jail. They were imprisoned in the same jail they were there to renovate for the police. And then the sheriff went on X, the everything app for groveling to the president to boast about it.

They drove past the sign. They know who I am. They know what this is about. And we had two illegals that came into the jail. They had fake identification. You can't make this up. And it was done at the Butler County jail. They came in, but this shows you the gall.

They don't care. And for those of you that are listening, this shows you the gall. They don't care. And for those of you that are listening, this is one of many. I've told you, we're getting the training. We're gonna be able to do this very soon. He thinks it's about gall? Like someone dared these two people to sneak in and do work for him?

You know why they were there, Sheriff Mustache? Probably because they fucking needed the work and hoped or maybe trusted that their community wouldn't screw them over. And they were wrong. That Coen Brothers ass sheriff even boasts that his cops will soon be doing what ICE did, punishing and detaining people

who are just trying to work and help and exist in their cities and towns. That is horrifying and ghoulish, and also the system our government created. We have this fantasy of a small town that protects their own. Like, do you remember in Iron Man 3 when the lava lady pretends to be Homeland Security

and flashes a badge, and the local sheriff actually challenges and tries to detain her? Sheriff, is it? Yes ma'am, it is. And you are? Homeland security. We good here?

No, we're not good. Yeah, that's a nice, beautiful lie. It would be neat if that happened, but the truth is that the sheriff in that scene would be right there next to the lava lady doing lava crimes. That is the actual baseline for America. The fact that Trump is making billion dollar deals

with private prison companies like CoreCivic and GeoGroup to build migrant detention centers is just capitalism working. The fact that these private prisons have been described by a district judge as a hellhole filled with violence and suicide attempts doesn't matter. Because they also get to pay the detainees one dollar a day for labor.

And because someone decided that it's good for the local economy, even though studies show that to not be very true at all. Slave labor, we're rounding up people, splitting up their families and making them do slave labor for us. And yet when people protest this process, they are the disruption.

And I guess that's true. We have to accept that in order to change this, we have to disrupt a system that some people think is working correctly and are comfortable with. But it is necessary and effective to be that disruption. Here is a news story out of Los Angeles from the beginning of June. Glendale Police Department housing some undocumented immigrants at its jail. The

reported action goes against California sanctuary state rules that prohibits law enforcement from assisting in federal immigration enforcement. According to city records from 2017, the federal government pays Glendale $85 per day for each ICE detainee temporarily housed here. In 2016, the city reported receiving just over $6,000 under that agreement, and either party can cancel the contract with 60 days notice. That's right, it isn't just in small towns. The city of Glendale had a very similar contract

with ICE that the police in Butler do. Theirs existed before Los Angeles became a sanctuary city. The only difference is that people spoke up about it, went to city council meetings, and then right around the time the protests began, Glendale broke their contract with ICE. Did they want to do that? Absolutely not.

In fact, the mayor of Glendale flat out said that they'd rather keep the contract with ICE, but felt pressure to break it. Good. The DHS assistant secretary is of course now accusing Glendale of siding with the criminals. Trump will probably weigh in and say we should nuke Glendale. People will want to punish the city and claim that they are encouraging lawlessness. From their computers in like rural Maine or whatever, Christine Noem is clearly using these protests to plant the seeds for, I don't know, seems like they want to usurp the state

of California. Sure would be useful for them considering the state's economy. We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city. Pretty chilling, especially considering what happens immediately after that. I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent criminals that you're rotating on your, on your

heads off. Lay flat, lay flat. Other hand sir. Other hand. That is, as I'm sure you heard about, a United States Senator, Alex Padilla, being pushed out and handcuffed for trying to ask Christine Noem a question while she was up there musing about using the military to, big quotes, liberate Los Angeles from its leadership. By the way, he's not just a Senator of the state they were in at the time, but he is

also a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, which means he leads the consideration of immigration reform proposals as well as oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities. Even if he didn't identify himself, which he did, she should know that guy. I know this all seems very big and very scary. I know that Trump probably wants any excuse he can get to declare a state of emergency in California.

He wants us to feel scared about speaking out, to tell ourselves that it would be easier just to back off lest the New York Times paint you as rude. But this is the right thing to do. We have to push the people in charge to put their asses on the line now because very few of them will do it themselves, you know, unless they think it's good for them politically,

which I guess it is. But if that's what it's gonna take for Gavin to take a break from his podcast to actually stand up for his citizens and sue Trump over deploying the National Guard, so be it, I guess. If it's going to take regular people standing in the street and saying no,

then that's what it will have to take. Very few politicians are going to do the right thing unless we demand they do it. Period. Exclamation point. 100 emoji. Also a Fern emoji to make it look nice. There are laws and levels of policing that we can,

I guess, accept in order to maintain our society. And there are ones we cannot. And ICE is one we absolutely can't accept. We cannot accept, under any circumstances, a roving group of masked thugs kidnapping people off the streets, harassing schools and churches, lying about who they are and why they are there. Doesn't matter if they have a badge, ICE is butting into our lives to nobody's request,

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