An idea that's time has come. And not the only one.

[Robert W]

Swalwell, Goldman to offer bill stripping ICE agents of qualified immunity​

Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are planning to introduce a bill that would strip federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of their qualified immunity protections.

The bill, called the ICE OUT Act, comes amid fervent debate over whether an ICE officer should face criminal prosecution for the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good on Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5681208-swalwell-goldman-ice-legislation/

Democrats across US propose state laws restricting ICE after Minneapolis shooting​

Democrats in multiple states have pushed legislation attempting to rein in federal immigration enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.

Good’s death sparked protests nationwide against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which have featured the deployment of ICE and Customs and Border Protection personnel to Democratic-run cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5691601-state-legislation-targets-ice-enforcement/

It's not only an attempt to spare people from the violence of ICE agents. It may be a way out of this mess for R's who see their chances of re-election shrink each day ICE is allowed to act as marauders in US cities.

Frankly, when I see ICE agents pulling a disabled woman out of her car, and arresting US citizens at their place of work, or roughing up detainees after they've been cuffed, I kinda think they like it. The partial immunity they enjoy along with the anonymity of wearing a mask has become intoxicating.

Swalwell and Goodman?

 

[Robert W]

Go away Gramps.

You were a Dem until they dumped the racist southern Dems

They never did do that. I left the Democrats partly due to Carter a long time past the civil rights laws. We in CA already had the same laws and I always approved them.

 

[Lesh]

They never did do that. I left the Democrats partly due to Carter a long time past the civil rights laws. We in CA already had the same laws and I always approved them.

Bwahahaha

Sure pops

 

[Lockback]

Bwahahaha

Sure pops

You want so badly to accuse him of being a racist, don't you?
You can just feel it. You want to so badly.
How pathetic. How ... how ... Democrat of you.

 

[Lesh]

You want so badly to accuse him of being a racist, don't you?
You can just feel it. You want to so badly.
How pathetic. How ... how ... Democrat of you.

You think I have qualms about calling Gramps a racist?

I don’t. He is. And I’ve called him on it many times

 

[Lockback]

You think I have qualms about calling Gramps a racist?

I don’t. He is. And I’ve called him on it many times

Well, you're so brave then.
Typical leftist: everybody's a racist except them ... and they're the worst racists of them all.

 

[Robert W]

Bwahahaha

Sure pops

Decide now, do you want to live to be my age, or die in the next 5 years?

 

[Lesh]

Decide now, do you want to live to be my age, or die in the next 5 years?

I’m not sure you ARE alive. You’re braindead in any event

 

[berg80]

Good thing both are in the minority party. ICE is doing the job right!

ICE killed an innocent woman. Recently released videos from a variety of angles clearly show Ross fires the third shot at Good with his arms extended, a few feet away from her car as she passed by. He wasn't defending himself. He was trying to prevent her from driving away. He should be charged with manslaughter.

 

[berg80]

Swalwell and Goodman?

Posting emojis as a substitute for a substantive critique of them or their bill, because you're incapable of writing one, is sophomoric.

 

[struth]

ICE killed an innocent woman. Recently released videos from a variety of angles clearly show Ross fires the third shot at Good with his arms extended, a few feet away from her car as she passed by. He wasn't defending himself. He was trying to prevent her from driving away. He should be charged with manslaughter.

It’s sad brownshirts like you think you can run people over with cars

You entitled punks

 

[Robert W]

Posting emojis as a substitute for a substantive critique of them or their bill, because you're incapable of writing one, is sophomoric.

Since you specialize in sophomoric statements, why complain to me?

 

[Robert W]

ICE killed an innocent woman. Recently released videos from a variety of angles clearly show Ross fires the third shot at Good with his arms extended, a few feet away from her car as she passed by. He wasn't defending himself. He was trying to prevent her from driving away. He should be charged with manslaughter.

Officer Byrd should be charged with murder and not this agent because her car is a weapon that she used against him. Byrd in his case was aiming at her even, plotting to murder her

 

[berg80]

Since you specialize in sophomoric statements, why complain to me?

Because "no, you" isn't an argument. It's what 10 year old's say.

 

[berg80]

A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight​

The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar.

“I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week, “and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing.”

The article has, in truth, been quite influential. It has been cited, for instance, in seven Supreme Court opinions. But it was also 96 pages long and touched on many issues.

“I was actually trying to do a bunch of different things — and get tenure,” Professor Amar, now a leading constitutional scholar at Yale Law School, said of the article, “Of Sovereignty and Federalism.”

His central point for present purposes was that state legislatures can authorize lawsuits against federal officials for violating the Constitution. If that is right, such state laws would close an odd gap in federal law that — broadly speaking — allows such suits against state and local officials, like police officers, but not against federal ones, like ICE agents.

Congress authorized the first kind of lawsuit in an 1871 law that most people call Section 1983. But Congress has not enacted legislation allowing suits against federal officials for violating the Constitution.

“It’s an enormous problem that federal officials are in some ways the hardest people to hold accountable for violating people’s constitutional rights, even harder than state and local officials,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former solicitor general of Illinois.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ice-lawsuits-states.html

One of the many things revealed by ICE's lawless behavior in MN (and elsewhere) is the importance of being able to hold agents legally accountable for their actions.