FreedomAdvocate

Nah. People should not be in a country illegally. They want to migrate? Do it legally like the rest of the law abiding citizens.

But if they did criminalise my favourite hobby, and they had evidence that I’m continuing to do that hobby in plain sight, they see me doing it every day……I’d expect them to come get me. That makes sense. It makes no sense to have that technology there to be used to find some crimes but not others.

That’s completely irrelevant. If you can identify someone as being in the country illegally it makes no sense to not be allowed to act on it.

Entering the country illegally is a crime under federal law, not civil. Remaining in the country after your legal immigration status is up is a civil issue, but deportation is a lawful response.

Why do you think people should get to stay in a country illegally? I’m genuinely curious.

Well you would assume that some people might be able to appeal based on this.

A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.

Also on this:

State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.

Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers whenever they drove their car in public and legislators said “no you’re not allowed to use that to help find wanted murderers”. It makes no sense.