[gamesbrainiac]

We have seen many stories like this. Some doubt the authenticity, but what is evident is that these things are happening again and again with impunity. Perhaps you don't think the situation is bad enough, or the details are exaggerated.

However, the fact that a man can be pulled of the street despite having legal status should be alarming. You don't need to care about the Irishman, but you should care about justice.

[mktk1001]

I I don't remember anyone harassing people on the streets based on their skin color, and shooting American citizens for exercising their rights.

[clipsy]

I must have missed the episode where Babu spent months in a concentration camp despite having his paperwork in order and doing nothing wrong.

[gamesbrainiac]

I'm afraid I don't since I was too young back then, and never really watched Sienfeld, but man oh man, that sounds terrible.

Perhaps we've been living a lie this whole thing.

[sjs382]

> The reality is the federal gov has been aggressive in its enforcement for decades. ICE took a break during the Obama and Biden years for some reason.

ICE was created in 2002 (24 years ago). "The Obama and Biden years" make up a full half of ICE's existence.

[JohnFen]

> ICE took a break during the Obama and Biden years for some reason.

This is simply not true.

[insane_dreamer]

> he reality is the federal gov has been aggressive in its enforcement for decades.

Sure there has been enforcement, but nothing that comes even close to what we're seeing today (except for Trump 1.0 when CBP were separating parents and children and putting them in cages; today we have that plus a whole lot more including murdering citizen observers). ICE should never have been created (more of the fallout of the Americans surrendering so much of their civil liberties while panicked about 9/11), but at least it was a regular accountable law enforcement org and not a paramilitary terrorizing American cities (which technically makes it a domestic terrorism org).