The leak is great, but I can’t understand how we don’t already have democratic state legislatures passing laws requiring all ICE and other LEO to show their faces and identify themselves.
If they are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide, right? But Noem, Trump, Miller know that the inverse is true in this case: They hide, so they can do wrong. But no, the people with the state-sponsored monopoly on violence get to hide behind masks, while the law-abiding citizens and residents have to show their ID or get arrested.
I think legally requiring them, under threat of criminal charges, to show their face will reduce their aggressiveness substantially - when there are no other checks on their power, why is this easiest one not top of the list?
California has tried that and are being challenged by the USDOJ in court over it.
I think states should put to the courts, the question of whether the administration’s practice of deploying poorly trained immigration officers at Trump’s discretion to places he doesn’t like is in line with reasonable objectives of enforcing federal immigration law. Because so far it has lead to violent escalations, injuries and deaths caused by the mere presence of the operation at a scale not seen from this agency previously.
It appears they are yet some heroes among us.
