[commandlinefan]

> focus on the criminals and dangerous people first

That's what they say they are doing? Every time I read about them arresting somebody who was "just picking their kids up from school", it turns out to be some professional agitator who was trying to get arrested in exchange for a photo op.

[cmtm4]

If that were true, they'd be showing up with real warrants (super easy if these are convicted felon illegal immigrants as they claim! But of course there are nowhere near as many of those as, say, the "thousands" they claim exist in Minneapolis) and mostly dressing in much more ordinary federal agent clothes and it'd all be boring and uneventful and legal enough that most of what they're doing would hardly even be noticed.

Going several thousand(!) strong into a US city and rolling around town in paramilitary convoys questioning people who don't "look American", to... "support fraud investigations" apparently, LOL, WTF... among other things, is why they're a hot topic right now. If they were doing what they claim to be doing, this would all be boring stuff.

Frankly I don't feel like I should be having to explain why guys in SUVs wearing plate carriers and comically overloaded with blinged out Call of Duty gear driving around a US city and sometimes jumping out literally going "papers, please" to people who "look foreign", all while universally masking up to hide their identities, is extremely fucking bad, to the point that I think that language is way too mild, but here we are I guess.

[spit2wind]

How does one become to be a professional agitator? Indeed.com comes up with no results. I have a friend who's bored with their job.

[timeon]

> That's what they say they are doing?

Hardly with president convicted of sexual assault (among other things).

[commandlinefan]

See, this is exactly why I don't believe the things I read - his only actual conviction was for falsifying business records. (He is a convicted felon, though, that's indisputable).

[buffington]

> Every time I read about them arresting somebody...

You're clearly not reading enough and are a part of the problem if you believe what you're saying to be true.

[commandlinefan]

I'm not 100% sure what to believe, but I have been around long enough to take everything I read with a grain of salt.