What a weird framing. Why are we talking about "battles" against Americans inside America?
Shows you just how far around the bend the conservatives have gone.
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That's what the article is about.
"We're tired of getting our feelings hurt at protests. Can you send is somewhere we won't get caught when we kill people?"
That's all I hear. Nobody forced them to work for ICE and they can quit any time they want to.
The five year retention bonus will never be paid out because they will all be fired in four years and replaced with a more formal military occupation force.
Night of the long knifes style
I thought they’d have to pay it back if they quit, anyone know which it is?
They only get their 50k bonus if they stay for five years, and they have to pay off all those macho pickups they bought ....
They'll never get that, the US government is so amazingly good at fucking people out of signing bonuses.
Fire every last one of them at the admin change. Just like their pardons, en masse and day one.
Maybe they should be sent to the areas thick with the 20% or so of the country that supports ICE.
See how well they are received there when they strut around in their tacticool cosplay outfits, shoving bystanders, tackling random people, kidnapping children, thinking they can batter down doors without a warrant and demand "papers" from anyone they come across.
Send them to texas. Send all garbage humans to texas
Please, no. Some of us are trying really hard to unfuck this shit.
Send someone to go take care of that datacenter they're putting up in Abilene. I don't want that shit next to my beloved Potosi.
texas is really big tho. we could send them to texarkana and you'd hardly notice
I'd prefer them and their trucks patrol about 50 miles southeast of Galveston
too close, not on fire enough.
There there. *pat* *pat*
There there.
Aww... Thanks for the- HEY!
No, they’re digging in at military base nearby
Fort Snelling, a historic decommissioned military base in an unincorporated area next to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, to house federal immigration agents, weapons, vehicles and aircraft.
Fort Snelling is already the site of a U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement field office and a DHS immigration enforcement and detention processing center. CBP will use land on a U.S. Army Reserve base there.
according to the two articles: command has them digging in at the base. boots on the ground feel they've lost "the battle", want to go home?
american media is PR for the gubmint, gotta weed through, maybe read bbc, cbc, other media for better takes.
Hague.
If they sent them to the Hague, then Trump would just send the US military to the Hague to rescue them by "all means necessary" and it would all be entirely legal, frankly because the USA is a country run predominantly by criminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act (aka Hague Invasion Act)
funny thing. ICE ain't service members.
It doesn't just cover service members, they would classify as appointed officials.
"a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government"
Nah, this is worded poorly enough I am confident they fall outside the wording. Does it change anything except maybe we could sue the military for starting a war illegally (hah!)
“the brand new agents are idiots.” He blamed what he saw as lowered hiring standards
But, in both cases, the instigator and murderer was a veteran of the ICEstapo for 8-10 years.
That's right, its like the new guys don't even have experience shooting unarmed protesters
I thought the nazi that killed Pretti wasn't ID'd yet?
Oh poor babies.
as it turns out, when your only requirements to join are touch your toes and run a mile in 30 minutes, you get every dimwitted 3rd grade reading level zero discipline morons chomping at the bit to pretend they're in call of duty
I doubt they can touch their toes.
I bet they can. Just get me a hatchet.
I’ve never heard the noise I made when I read this come out of my mouth before. I’m dying.
never said they couldn't bend their knees
Maybe they did it as a group activity
Threat briefings are now fixated on alleged “retaliatory” plots against ICE and Border Patrol after the deaths of Pretti and Good. “Lots of people are freaking out,” one officer told Klippenstein, saying agents are “getting seriously paranoid, afraid of being targeted by ‘retaliators,’” and talk as if “we are fighting insurgents,” turning Minneapolis into a domestic Baghdad.
What's that Battlestar Galactica quote about the people becoming the enemy of the state?
The result, officers say, is an overstretched and physically and emotionally shattered force. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) teams are “being squeezed heavily” to police protests rather than tracking down immigration targets. This, they say, leaves “lots of guys totally exhausted out there with a lot of pressure on them” to conduct non-immigration missions, one officer said.
Poor babies. You can always quit.
Another warned that the FBI is now “reluctant to participate” in any Minneapolis task forces.
Interesting.
One senior ICE agent summed up his reaction to Pretti’s killing in two words: “F--k this.”
Fuck ICE.
what they should be afraid of is people wondering how many other bodies ice has left along the border. if that agent was confident enough to shoot a restrained man in the back while being filmed by multiple people. thats not his first.
If you want to help check out https://standwithminnesota.com/
If anybody is interested in doing anything further let me know, I can point you to resources or more.
Is there any form of support that doesn’t rely on financial donation? Not that I’m too good to donate or anything… I’m just broke as fuck.
What I posted is an aggregate of a lot of orgs doing work. I know sometimes they need calling folks and the like. Also you can always pass the info on to others who you think can help. Or if you have the time you can seek out "rapid response" teams in your local area.
Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources
this might help some people: do you have good advice from getting reliably from the larger regional organizations down to a good local area organization? I know who my good local orgs are just because I've lived here forever, but if I had just moved here I might not be able to tell from a search.
https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/find-a-local-group/
That's also pretty general, I would look at the DSA chapters and the Food Not Bombs chapters above. Looks like a couple links are dead for the other groups.
Finding local groups should be pretty easy where you are. Go to a protest, there will be people handing out flyers. The ones trying to help, the people who are advocating aid, the people who are wearing medical or aid vests. Ask them what group they are with. Ask them how you can help.
Literally just search anarchist online usually you'll find some social media presence like bsky or mastodon or instagram. Never talk direct action in a public forum. Take whatever name someone gives you at face value. Always offer public spaces to meet.
Speaking of public spaces, used book stores, independent coffee shops, record shops, granola hippy grocery co-ops, hell even at the library I've found stickers and flyers for local action groups.
COINTELPRO never went away https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO. So segment all comms. Have a friend group, an organizing group and a public group. If you’re able sign up for a burner number. https://www.phreeli.com/ or any of these apps https://beebom.com/best-burner-phone-number-apps/ Obviously practice due diligence and only sign up for what you think is applicable.
That being said, you can still trust people to show up and do the right thing. I got into this by going to a punk show and after the show I got invited to a food not bombs gathering to prep for the next day. Slept on the couch at the punk house there and the next morning after we made some breakfast we finished prep and went to the park. We fed a lot of very friendly people who were going through some shit. Seeing people genuinely grateful for what was donated food, made me so goddamned happy. I never stopped.
Icehole: "Wait, the people here stand up for themselves, wtf?. I was told they would cower in fear and run away, but they film us and blow those damn whistles. I was told no one would say anything when we beat the shit out of people and shoot them. Also, it's cold. I wanna go to a nice warm red state where they hate the same people we do and cheer us on when we fuck 'em up."
LOCK THE GATES
Nah, weld em shut.