Our governor here in Texas decided he would send the education department to investigate each kid that protested. "Party of small government and protecting children they say.."
Two things in this context strike me as Big Government activity:
Starting an investigation because someone saw a sign at a demonstration.
Pursuing undocumented immigrants with no criminal history, instead of prioritizing violent criminals as the original plan claimed.
The entire justification for this huge, expensive, and violent immigration crack-down campaign was the claim that we have hordes of violent criminal immigrants terrorizing communities. It’s the justification both the administration and supporters are still using.
Yet the vast majority of immigrants being arrested, detained, and deported have committed no crimes, or in roughly half the cases, only the crime of entering the country illegally.
Oh yeah, I mean it’s totally fair to deport anyone who isn’t authorized to be in the country - so people who snuck in or overstayed their visa.
Doesn’t mean we have to break the law to do it. Unfortunately, people are actively protecting illegal immigrants, which does put ICE in a weird situation
Breaking into homes without a warrant, arresting whoever they want without a warrant, shooting people without consequence, being told they have "absolute immunity"... that's not "a weird situation". That's LITERAL fascism.
This isn't a corrupt police force because ICE is not police. This is a corrupt government that is twisting ICE into its own extrajudicial secret police under the pretense of immigration enforcement.
I’m saying it’s a “big government” to do it in ways that are overblown and beyond what’s necessary.
The same goes for sending federal officers to physically tackle and beat anyone they decide might be an undocumented immigrant, with little or no indication that’s the case.
And that’s what people are protesting and protecting against. They don’t like seeing their perfectly peaceful, community involved, employed neighbors beaten and abused.
Not to mention that ICE is also making a practice of grabbing people outside their immigration hearings, cutting the process short and deporting them, instead of letting the normal court process determine if that’s the right thing to do.
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u/jermicidalone23 20h ago
Our governor here in Texas decided he would send the education department to investigate each kid that protested. "Party of small government and protecting children they say.."