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Shantha Smith's avatar

It feels like the zombie apocalypse. The Republican party has succumbed to the corrupt brutality of Trumpism and is promoting and enabling the superspreaders to infect everyone around them. Brutality breeds brutality.

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JB's avatar

Child soldiers

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David Hurwitz's avatar

My understanding is that some of these ICE dummkopfs are military boot camp washouts with very low IQs, along with them being mentally unstable.

They are wannabe law enforcement officers as opposed to real ones and, hence, are unworthy of being treated respectfully. Of course, physical violence should only be used in self-defense in a democracy and no one has the right to ever break the law outside of civil disobedience in a democracy.

This ICE Gestapo needs to be officially designated as a terrorist organization and abolished immediately before its agents’ moral depravity leads to anyone else getting hurt or killed.

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Davis's avatar

For context, I'd like to point out that Dean Cain's own grandparents were rounded-up and put into the Japanese internment camps. And now he's doing this, with zero sense of the irony. Sorry if I'm making anyone want to hit themselves in the head with a hammer, because that's how I feel.

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Very Tired's avatar

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> he fears ICE may end up composed of agents who were rejected from every other law enforcement agency.

I read a while ago that authoritarian governments usually have a distinct police force that exists to do the regime's bidding, and the officers are people who may have wanted to be "real" police but could not make the force due to attitude, education, ability, or past history. A side effect is that the officers are compliant with demands on the force because it may be the only well-paying job they can get.

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David Hurwitz's avatar

That terrifies me.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

come on down!!!..J6th experience prefered, Police Academy wash outs and Military dishonorable discharges accepted!!

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Rich Delmar's avatar

Lower standards to boost numbers.

Recall the Army’s Project 100,000 back in the ‘60s, and Lieutenant William Calley.

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Drea's avatar

Wow. I lived in a boys’ high school dormitory for years and we got good kids. But I can confirm that boys do mature more slowly and an 18 year old boy is very much a work in progress. Attracting some of them with access to cash, weapons and the opportunity to catch “bad guys” seems destined to lead to impulsive behaviors and take downs. This will hurt the immigrants captured by ICE but also young people at a formative age.

As for young women applicants, I wonder how many will apply? And what their motivations would be? As a mother & grandmother, my instinct is to offer aid & comfort. It’s hard for me to imagine a woman wanting an ICE job but yet some obviously do.

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Mick's avatar

Imagine an army of Kyle Rittenhouses.

I mean, it seems like Kyle needs a real jobby-job but still…

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Matt H's avatar

Came here to say the same thing. ICE is going to end up with thousands of kids just like Rittenhouse. who sign up because the money is good and they get to shoot people IRL, free of legal consequences.

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Pete's avatar

What happens when an 18 year old ICE thug opens fire on a group of Migrants, or worse, American Citizens?

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Tai's avatar

He will get promoted or becomes hot property for Turning Point USA.

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Nets Katz's avatar

One thing I've been reading a lot about Dean Cain's ICE gig is that he should be ashamed of himself because Superman doesn't wear a mask. But on further reflection, it doesn't really hold together. Superman makes himself unrecognizable simply by removing his glasses. The fact it isn't realistic doesn't absolve him. People who assume secret identities in order to fight crime don't have automatic moral superiority over masked law enforcement.

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Carol Ann's avatar

Disturbing. Also the upper age limit gone - seems to me that the most fervent racists are often over 40. All so disturbing.

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Karla Cole's avatar

People are going to get shot by teenagers with itchy trigger fingers.

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C M's avatar

Great idea. Target a group with under-developed prefrontal cortexes that has felt disentitled over the past decade, load them up on fascist and white supremacist propaganda, offer them huge cash incentives and unchecked power, and let them loose. What could go wrong?

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amalie's avatar

Unacceptable. These kids can't even buy a beer.

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Susan's avatar

The Idaho Press has this headline “Accused of racism and retaliation, this Idaho sheriff is now working for ICE”.

Guess Trump is creating jobs for the unemployable. Disgusting!

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