If they were it had just started since that was early in ICE's miscreant phase.
Act like thugs, get called out for it. Watching how they operate, they act like out of control punks again and again. There's no call for it; they're just flexing their authority.
We've seen but the tip of the iceberg, no pun intended. Of that little bit we have seen, most of it is staged. Anytime Kristi Noem poses for a photo, or the flip side like AOC, it's a cringe worthy curation that offends sensibilities unless you're a partisan hack. I whole heartedly agree with you on the ridiculousness of it. The other bit we see, like this week, is after things go off the rails. That's never gonna be a good look.
I don't see ICE as partisan thuggery running amuck starting brawls, leaving stacks of incapacitated bodies on the ground without medical attention, vandalizing businesses, and leaving without making arrests like the brown shirts actually did. I just see snippets of an undertrained LE agency occasionally respond poorly to interference. Kind of like the capital police did J6 when presented with unforseen circumstances.
I actually agree in principle with ensuring immigrants go through the legal process, but this clown show isn't how to do it.
Agreed, blue states need to cooperate. They can't keep refusing to share information and releasing illegal immigrants onto the streets then complain about ICE.
In theory, bipartisan legislation improving & streamling the naturalization process could work if we keep the border locked down from illegal crossings and continue prosecuting the undocumented. It would take 10 or so years, but it could work. It will never work if we keep vacillating on securing the border and don't prosecuting the undocumented because it's human nature to take the path of least resistance.
You think they don't, both sides?
Of course it's both sides. I said it was hyperbole but I'd play along. Biggest difference is brown shirts/gestapo & stasi literally dissappear magnitudes more than were willing to. Theirs stayed disappeared, too. Most of our show up a few weeks later under incarceration.
Arrests or convictions? Convictions should come up in an immigration hearing and be factored into the process.
What would those privileges be? Everybody gets due process.
If their green card or visa hasn't been revoked just convictions.
The privilege is not being housed in a asylum/refugee camp held to the impeccable standards of United Nations camps around the world. It would significantly ease the burden on our welfare system as a whole to provide housing, food, and medical care in the same place to refugees seeking political asylum.
I dare say allowing veritable unfettered residency to any immigrant on their own recognizance while they await their immigration court hearings is a privilege. It's undoubtedly a privilege when you allow them welfare and medicaid while awaiting their hearings.