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Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

techdirt.comAbolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More MurderRenee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight, shooting her multiple times at close range in the head. She had stuffed animal toys in the glove box of her SUV that rammed into another car after she’d been killed for no reason at all.

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Jurjen Smies
@clogsoveralabama.bsky.social

Modest suggestion: in dismantling DHS and its subordinate agencies, any agencies that replace them should have their jurisdictions severely limited in black letter law. E.g. INS enforcement shall have no jurisdiction over US citizens. Border Patrol shall have no jurisdiction in the interior.

Jurjen Smies
@clogsoveralabama.bsky.social

If such agencies require action to be taken that is beyond their own remit (e.g. to arrest a US citizen involved in human trafficking, or maintain public order while conducting operations), they'll have to call in other agencies to provide that, and such agencies will not be under their control.

Jurjen Smies
@clogsoveralabama.bsky.social

Not exactly: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/border-... Border Patrol can search vehicles without articulated suspicion within "a reasonable distance" of an external border, and the CFR defines that distance as 100 miles. But the BP can operate anywhere in the country if [...]

americanimmigrationcouncil.orgWhy You’re Seeing Border Patrol in Places Like Charlotte and Atlanta, So Far From the Border - American Immigration CouncilBorder Patrol has more authority than most people realize—and politically, President Trump is leveraging every ounce of that authority.
Jurjen Smies
@clogsoveralabama.bsky.social

[...] they claim probable cause. An additional loophole that's being exploited is that the BP is notionally assisting/supporting ICE ERO in the latter's operations. Assuming I'm understanding that correctly, those loopholes need to be closed.