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Link is a summary of this NYT article (archive.is link). The TLDR is: officers are given the authority to arrest anyone they personally suspect is an illegal immigrant who they think might not be “at the scene” later (e.g. a street corner).
Link fails to mention this:
The memo tells agents who make warrantless arrests to fill out a form afterward that documents the factors they considered in determining that someone was “likely to escape.” That includes situations in which agents set out to arrest a particular person and then take others in the vicinity into custody. Mr. Lyons called that group “collateral aliens.”
This should terrify every American. Group round-ups based on one officer’s vibes that day.
Why? They have 2nd amandma… /s
I see the /s, and it’s kind of true. But man I really don’t want to be put in a position where I have to exercise that particular right. I truly dread the possibility.
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I find it important to dogpile and emphasize your point on the importance of organizing. I hope my echoing your message makes it louder to everyone.
The second amendment doesn’t mean shit if you don’t get some fucking friends and organize. Dropped some feds trying to unlawfully break into your home because you have the right to defend yourself in your own home? Neat, you’re a target now. Have a support network of people? You can relocate quickly, you have places to hide while the initial heat dies down, you have greater access to acquisition of legal council, you have help with cleanup, you have that many more voices to speak out on your behalf for media coverage and legal defense, you have more places to reliably keep your pets and kids safe, and if/when it really comes down to it, you have more guns to point toward your oppressors with multiplied efficiency. People tend to neglect to consider what to do in the aftermath in these situations, and the answer, like literally every other political scenario, is to have some fucking friends in the first place.
Guns or no, the most important thing is always to have a community. There is not a single scenario where gun ownership is more important than securing and cultivating a community. Guns, much like food, water, shelter, other tools, cars, medical supplies, etc is just one of the words that come after “community and”. For any political movement or even just plain survival, community is NOT optional. Go make some fucking friends. Go network. Go organize. It has been and always will be step one.
It’s a last resort
In other words, the conservatives never meant anything they ever talked about when they claimed to care so much about:
- Freedom
- Rights
- The Constitution
- States rights
- America
Conservatives’ whole deal can be summarized as “picking and choosing who gets to have rights.”
I was raised in their bubble of a world. The moment I figured that out through too-close observation and a critical mind I changed forever.
It’s almost like they were just parroting propaganda without understanding what any of it actually meant
