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    Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want, more agents in the communities and more worksite enforcement,” Trump border czar Tom Homan told reporters last month. “Why is that? Because they won’t let one [gestapo freak] arrest one [member of their community who is already] in a jail.”

    “I wouldn’t have to hit you so hard if you stopped putting your hands up” says the abuser

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    I swear these guys (and a lot of police/military too) just take these jobs so they can wear a bulletproof jacket and do that pose in the article pic to “look cool” and make their arms look bigger

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      Eh, hooking your arms like that is something I did with football shoulder pads as a youth too before ever wearing a vest, somewhere to rest your hands and you can move it around a bit for ventilation. (During snow games our hands would be straight down the pants to keep warm, not sure if that’s better or worse for these dipshits)

      You’re absolutely right that a lot of these assholes join just for that though, pretty much every photo of cops LARPing as soldiers shows at least one carrying no plates in a vest. They don’t use them for protection and remove one or two to cool off after rucking in full battle rattle for hours….all they care about is the intimidation factor of looking like a shooter so the real weight is never carried.

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      Nah, when you wear them they tend to hurt your neck or your back after a while. I used do that to remove the extra weight, like how you do with a backpack. The longer the string the lower the backpack the heavier it feels.

      -vet

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        I figured that could be the reason, like with the various ways soldiers find to carry their rifles more comfortably, but I just don’t understand the physics of it here. Pulling on a backpack straps, I get, you are basically offloading the weight from your back and into your arms (and, as you said, bringing it higher to make it a little more comfortable to wear), but here it looks like it would just strain your neck and possibly your back even more since there are plates on both sides (which I assume is the heaviest, most “problematic” parts of the vest regarding comfort).

        Guess I need to wear some body armor to understand it, physics and biomechanics do be weird sometimes.

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          I can’t explaining it honestly, just like I use to put my arms in thru the arm holes so the armor carried my arms. Just depends on what is uncomfortable and want to rest. Lol.

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      Tbf, whenever I’ve had to wear the vest for any length of time I stood that way too. That shit would put pressure on my neck which would be uncomfortable even if I wasn’t autistic (assumption).

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    Do red state jails and prisons respect ICE detainers at higher rates than blue states? Is this simply a situation where ICE does the laziest thing possible to meet an imposed quota?

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      if you read the article it talks about this, but it doesn’t make sense - the workplace detentions in blue states are often of people with no criminal record, so it seems more targeted.

      Maybe ICE is being lazy in red states and just picking up those who land in jails and prisons, but the Trump admin seem to be punitive of sanctuary cities by targeting workplaces in particular:

      But advocates for immigrant rights say the community arrests – from raids at factories and restaurants to surprise detentions at ICE check-ins – are punitive measures aimed at instilling fear in blue states and cities.

      The aggressive tactics reflect “a deliberate federal strategy to punish Massachusetts and other immigrant-friendly states for standing up against Trump’s reckless deportation machine,” argued Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, a Boston-based nonprofit that represents immigrants in court.

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      thanks for the link!

      Trump officials say the differing tactics are simply a downstream effect of sanctuary policies in many Democratic-controlled states and large cities, which can limit prisons and jails from cooperating with ICE. In many of those states, local authorities can’t hold immigrants in custody based on ICE orders alone – so they’re often released before immigration officials can arrest them.

      But advocates for immigrant rights say the community arrests – from raids at factories and restaurants to surprise detentions at ICE check-ins – are punitive measures aimed at instilling fear in blue states and cities.

      thought this was interesting

      The divide is especially dramatic in Massachusetts, where 94% of immigrants arrested by ICE were apprehended in the community, and 78% of them had no criminal record.

      with so many from blue states having no criminal record, the Trump administration’s claim that allowing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE would solve this seems like a straight forward lie - it would only apply to a minority of people being detained in workplaces in blue states…