'Even the cops don’t like us anymore': Under Trump, ICE is despised and divided

[schmidlap]

I’m betting that ordinary German police despised the Gestapo too.


'Even the cops don’t like us anymore': Under Trump, ICE is despised and divided

Across the nation, ICE has never seemed more visible, especially as anger continues over the separation of immigrant families at the border under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Protesters have rallied across the U.S., demanding that the agency be abolished — calls that have been echoed by politicians. Earlier this month, WikiLeaks published the identities and information of more than 9,000 supposed current and former ICE employees.

Being an ICE agent has always come with challenges. The agency has faced criticism for years from immigration activists, including during the uptick in immigration enforcement during the Obama administration.

But Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has made ICE much more of a target. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf won praise from many of her constituents and criticism from the White House earlier this year when she alerted her city to upcoming ICE raids.

Many California police departments have longstanding policies against working with ICE to arrest suspects on immigration charges. But since Trump took office, California has enacted even tougher “sanctuary state” policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration officials even more, and that has heightened the strains.

more at the link.

Patriotic Americans who respect the Constitution are now fighting lawless Trumpy authoritarianism, even in the least-educated, Trumpiest states:

Federal judges in one of the Trumpiest states in the country have suddenly become a firewall against Trump’s mass deportation agenda.​

District court judges in West Virginia describe rampant lawlessness by masked ICE agents, defiance of court orders and a wanton infliction of fear and intimidation by the federal government after the Trump administration deployed a targeted immigration enforcement operation in the state last month.​

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“Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government — masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind — are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process.”​

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“The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order...”​

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/west-virginia-immigration-rulings-00804575

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[Captain Caveman]

The cops are put out because ICE are doing a better job than them.

 

[Synthaholic]