I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there’s a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.
This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I’m washing my car, even when I’m checking my mail.
I shouldn’t be living like this, I don’t deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.
The thing is, unfortunately, they’ll call your drivers license fake and disappear you all the same if their app says you’re not legal. Apparently their facial recognition app is never wrong and no matter what documentation you may have on you at the time, if the app says you’re going on a plane to El Salvador, well buddy I got bad fuckin news for ya.
White many-generational American here.
In addition to license, I’ve always kept passport card and CBP Global Entry at all times.
Who did you and your friends vote for?
Harris, blue all the way, all of us
I feel like there is a couple a constitutional amendments specifically for this situation. One in particular.
But the implications of the report go considerably further, suggesting an agency completely out of control and flouting the Fourth Amendment at every turn.
Narrator: “It is not just the agency.”
Ex Wells Fargo employee here, back in the early 2010s we used to have unrealistic sales quotas for bankers and high pressure to meet them, with sales phone meetings at the end each shift. The result was the scandal we’re familiar with, millions of fake profiles and/or authorized accounts opened by those that couldn’t take the pressure. I think something similar is happening, Miller had given them a very high arrest quota, and you can see how this could lead to them arresting whoever they can
Off topic but the fact that anyone still banks there, and that they’re even still allowed to operate, is just crazy to me.
I agree. Without disagreeing with how evil some of the people in charge are, this behavior is entirely explained by unreasonable quotas and lack of accountability.
Individual agents struggle to meet an impossible quota, see a huge bonus dangled in front of them, and learn there are no consequences for taking shortcuts. Clearly designed to bring out the worst in people, to reward bad behavior, yet maintain a veneer of plausible deniability by those who intentionally created the situation
All Americans, even those for whom immigrants are instinctively “other,” should be disgusted by these abominations, which make clear that there is no foolproof protection for anyone, Americans included, from ICE’s rabid tactics.
There is foolproof protection - be white.
Being white doesn’t make you immune from being oppressed. Eventually, they will come for you, just like with everyone else.
I was commenting specifically about what ICE are doing right now. The point is that it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that American citizens can be victims, because the driving principle is simply racism.
And not too vocal online.
Duh. Why else was their budget increased by multiples?
