Wonder what they'll get up to with all that tech when they run out of (illegal) immigrants to hunt?
ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
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Re: ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
#12Remember that the simplest answer for this kind of thing is often: pork for politically connected tech and defense companies.
Not saying it couldn’t be for bigger things, just that there does not have to be a rational need other than handing out money.
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#13ICE is being used as the tip of the spear to complete the transition of the USA to a police state
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So you're totally fine with the police state when it's turned against people you don't like, but you consider it a bad thing when you disagree with its aims. That's a pretty bare display of hypocrisy.
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#14ICE is being used as the tip of the spear to complete the transition of the USA to a police state
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Yes. Arresting people for civil infractions (such as overstaying a visa, or even citizens caught in drag nets or protests) and taking them to 3rd party nations for detention is definitely a tactic a totalitarian police state would employ.
Public health is equivocally one of the few places the constitution is defined for (general welfare of the people). This is something they used to teach in civics classes, I wonder when that stopped?
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#15They should focus on immigrant CEOs and politicians from South Africa and India who currently enrich themselves and deregulate and enshittify the tech industry.
Even MAGA didn't vote for this.
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#16ICE is being used as the tip of the spear to complete the transition of the USA to a police state
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ICE has more funding now as a domestic law-enforcement agency than almost every military on the planet.
If we need to fund the "arrest of illigal immigrants" to such an amount as this, can you please explain to me how other countries, as you mention in your comment, can successfully do this with nowhere near that amount of funding?
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#17I've been thinking a lot about ICE and how quickly we are escalating. I attend some minor protest and rallies against them but its not enough. I do like how Illinois has setup a commission to track accountability. https://ilac.illinois.gov/ I feel like those of us in the technology sector have a obligation to assist in the counter balance to the police state that is rapidly building up. After all the executives of ou…
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#18ICE is being used as the tip of the spear to complete the transition of the USA to a police state
This is really the only answer. ICE is a Trojan Horse. It's like "protect the children." It's just a justifiable means to get what they really want which is more control. America is desperately trying to turn into China in more ways than one.
“America is desperately trying to turn into China in more ways than one”
Except without the long term thinking and investment.
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#19Not a mystery; the tech is to assess capacity to harm upon brown populations before scaling out to suppress dissent from the rest.