ICE is evolving into an extrajudicial army

[orangecrush]

They aren't comfortable with traditional police forces.

They want one that they recruit, train and control.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes. Trump has his own brutal, cruel, lawless military.

Who will do whatever he tells them to do.

[Happy Hoosier]

2. In other words, Trump's Brownshirts

As soon as I saw his plans to expand ICE to the size of a small nation's army, I knew he was building his own brownshirt force.

We're seeing the American SS form.

[dalton99a]

3. Trump's death squads, murdering Americans with anonymity and immunity

[Maru Kitteh]

4. ICE is an extrajudicial army answerable only to twump

ICE is evolving into an extrajudicial army

[Jbraybarten]

5. absolutely. that's why they got a shit ton of budget and cosplay militia brown shirts

[C_U_L8R]

6. Do we need state militias to combat them?

Not that we want things to come to that, but this seems to be exactly what all that 'don't tread on me' stuff is truly about (vs the phony magat version). Hopefully ours are more well-regulated than theirs. Ugh.

[Johonny]

7. They clearly arent just doing their job

They are also obviously breaking their mandate.

[sop]

8. 'Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act Creates an Unaccountable Slush Fund for the Trump Administration's

Deportation Force.'

"The new law provides an unprecedented increase in funding to implement the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda with zero accountability, after congressional Republicans rejected multiple requests to amend the bill to place checks on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) use of these funds. The law provides $45 billion—available through fiscal year 2029—to dramatically expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity to 100,000 beds. Additionally, the law appropriates nearly $30 billion for ICE personnel and enforcement operations. It pushes ICE’s overall annual budget of around $9.9 billion in fiscal year 2024 to $28 billion. The OBBBA will nearly triple ICE’s budget with this infusion of additional funding while taking away valuable support for vulnerable populations, including more than $1 trillion in cuts to medical care for children, the elderly, and disabled people. Even prior to the OBBBA, ICE and its contractors have operated without sufficient accountability and oversight. This funding increase will only enhance the Trump administration’s cruel immigration actions without making Americans safer."

"In response to the Trump administration’s arbitrary demand that DHS arrest 3,000 immigrants per day, ICE has operated with impunity. The administration has essentially dismantled congressionally created watchdog agencies that provided oversight of DHS, including monitoring immigration detention and ensuring the protection of detainees’ civil rights. Unless Congress steps up and demands accountability for the slush fund, DHS under the Trump administration now has at its disposal the additional funding provided by the OBBBA. This funding will be used to further escalate the Trump administration’s unprecedented and indiscriminate deportation agenda that separates families, detains students and children, and terrorizes communities. Although we are already seeing the effects of the administration’s cruel, anti-immigrant policies, the full extent of the economic and human impact on families and communities will only multiply as these funds are expended."

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/congressional-republicans-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-creates-an-unaccountable-slush-fund-for-the-trump-administrations-deportation-force/

[J_William_Ryan]

9. It's not only ICE.

The US military is just as lawless – engaging in extra-judicial murder and kidnapping.

So much for refusing to obey unlawful orders.

[sarisataka]

10. Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ⓘ; lit. 'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ᛋᛋ ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz ("Hall Security" ) made up of party volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–1945) it grew from a small paramilitary formation during the Weimar Republic to one of the most powerful organisations in Nazi Germany. From the time of the Nazi Party's rise to power until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, mass surveillance, and state terrorism within Germany and German-occupied Europe.

The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; "Death's Head Units"[2]), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organisations. They were tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi state, the neutralisation of any opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology, and providing domestic and foreign intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel