Authorities in at least three states have arrested individuals allegedly impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a time when real ICE agents have ramped up immigration enforcement efforts under the Trump administration, adding to existing fears of law enforcement among migrant communities.

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    8 minutes ago

    authorities issue national warning

    Instead of just stopping the behavior that makes this even possible lol

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    6 hours ago

    Wait, you mean criminals are impersonating the guys that look and act like criminals? How odd.

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      Don’t people realize that ICE are the people with masks that don’t have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply and that criminals are the people with masks that don’t have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply? Come on, sheeple.

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    The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.

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    “Johnson was charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count each of impersonating a law enforcement officer, petty larceny, assault and battery, according to jail records.”

    This is what cop behavior is legally described as when you aren’t a cop.

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    Fucking excellent.

    Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.

    Do your part assholes.

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    6 hours ago

    Who knew sending unidentified masked domestic terrorists to abduct people off the street into unmarked vehicles could lead to problems?

    Fascism, folks. Always stupid. Always dangerous.

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    The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.

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    Fucking excellent.

    Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.

    Do your part assholes.

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    15 hours ago

    genuinely, if i was american, i’d make sure to get a license to carry just in case this ever happened to me. anyone not identifying themselves trying to stuff me in an umarked vehicle is a kidnapper and will be treated as such.

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      Yup. I’m shooting anyone in the face who tries to abduct me without properly identifying themselves. I’ll deal with the repercussions after I potentially save myself from being human trafficked or having my organs harvested.

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      The problem is you might not get the chance to make such a defense in a courtroom. If it is an actual ICE agent, they will just disappear you.

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      9 hours ago

      What if these fake ICE officers identified themselves as ICE though? At what point does your identification become truth? The official ICE gestapo already doesn’t have to fully identify themselves.

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      So you’ll be charged with resisting arrest and uttering threats. So even if you’re innocent of the initial immigration charges you still get a felony arrest.

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        actually, legally speaking you are 100% in the right for defending yourself from kidnappings. any officer is required by law to identify themselves, and seeing as they didnt, thats on them.

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        You’re already being kidnapped and potentially sent to an out of country prison with no hearing. There is no downside under these parameters.

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        They are sending people straight to off shore black sites. If you wanna go to El Salvador or Guantanamo Bay, be my guest, but i have no plan on being sent anywhere.