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More than that, give tickets and fines to companies doing business or sharing intelligence with them.
Identifying the Ice members and publicizing the information is a great idea, preferably after making it a law for all officers to not wear masks or hide their identities and to identify themselves as they work and not go around like a group of cartel members.
The administration will call it doxxing, but it's reasonable for police to show their faces and be accountable for their behavior, the only reason they are disguising it is to prevent them from being held accountable for their behavior. So an abuse that was committed cannot even be pinned on a team of officers as leadership of ICE obscures their identities.
It won't be long before we get more private groups of criminals, cartels, to pretend like they are ICE to murder and kidnap, and people won't know if they can defend themselves without getting murdered and then tarred as a terrorist, not knowing if it's federal agents (breaking the law, which you have a legal right to defend from I don't care what anyone says, it matters what a jury says and they would mostly agree, a badge does not give you the right to execute people without cause.)
The nation voted to deport illegals, it didn't vote to turn Ice into an extrajudicial paramilitary force accountable only to the president with a 200 billion dollar budget. They didn't vote to cancel the Bill of Rights, like the 4th amendment. They also didn't vote to deport the accused to foreign concentration camp prisons for life, or deport them to the shittiest countries they had never been to, just out of mean spiritedness. We've enough money to give ICE more than any military in the world outside of ours and china's, but not enough to honorably deal with illegal immigrants?
The administration wants to make precedents on this issue, they have the most support on it, to use later in stealing elections and crushing dissent. To nurture federal dickheads they can cherry pick for special units, and otherwise radicalize their federal agents and base with their Fox News bullshit and lies to fool their part of the population into not realizing they are trying to kill the republic and take what little working people have.