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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

ICE Caught Lying in Court, Judge is Furious

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Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Thursday May 17, 2018 · 8:22 AM PDT
 Link: ICE Caught Lying in Court, Judge is Furious
Stephan:   A friend, the Deputy Chief of Police of one of America's largest cities, once told me at a meeting that fifteen per cent of police are heroes, everything a society could ask for. That fifteen per cent were to one degree or another thugs and bullies. The other seventy per cent went with the flow. There is a corollary to this I think: Whomever hires these men and women can bias the selection. And we can see that on the basis of data not partisanship. As time goes on under the Trump administration it has become clear that ICE members were selected from the thuggery side of the spectrum. Here's one of the reasons I say that.
Slate had a new piece yesterday about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents openly lying and trying to coerce a false confession out of a DACA protected Dreamer.

Last year, ICE agents tried to strip Daniel Ramirez Medina of his DACA status by claiming he was “gang affiliated” due to a tattoo of his birthplace.

The facts of Ramirez’s case are extremely disturbing. In February 2017, shortly after President Donald Trump unleashed immigration agents to amp up arrests and deportations, ICE agents went to Ramirez’s father’s house in Seattle to arrest him. (The father is undocumented, and brought Ramirez to the U.S. illegally as a child.) While there, they encountered Ramirez and asked him whether he was “legally here.” He responded that he was—a truthful statement given his DACA status, which he had renewed the previous May. Yet ICE officers detained him anyway. They took him to a processing center, where, once again, he told them that he had work permit.

“It doesn’t matter,” an agent responded, “because you […]

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2 Comments

  1. Will on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 4:49 am

    Black uniforms and darker inhuman behavior remind one of certain German and Russian police organizations.

  2. Bob on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 6:36 am

    You comment at the top by your policeman friend is analogous to society in general. Societies can filter for more heroes and fewer thugs in power by designing the primary incentive/reward feedback loops to filter for hero personality bundles rather than thug. Laissez-faire in which the one value rewarded for is maximizing personal material gain today, is probably the worst instantiatation of a 10,000 year old pattern of oligarchic competition ever. Its actually worse than Aristocracy in at least one way in that there are no concepts of downward fealty or obligations from rich to poor built in at all. A counter example is to imagine a market economy dominated by democratic corporations (ie worker co-ops) rather than our current shareholders decoupled from employment version. I a market democracy the mind-set of much more equitable distributions and power sharing would be built in at a deep incentive level, yet we would still have the efficiency controls built into markets.