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Open Thread: ICE Melting Down, Just A Bit?

by Anne Laurie|  June 19, 20255:04 pm| 118 Comments

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fwiw, tea leaves of doing this imho is that ICE knows that denying members entrance to facilities is a losing issue for them.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM

Scrabbling for figleaves…

… Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are allowed to enter any DHS facilities “used to detain or otherwise house aliens” to inspect them as part of their oversight duties. The act outlines that they are not required “to provide prior notice of the intent to enter a facility.”

The agency’s new memo also seeks to differentiate ICE field offices from detention facilities, noting that “ICE Field Offices are not detention facilities” and therefore do not fall under the appropriations act provision.

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, called the move “unprecedented” and an “affront to the Constitution and Federal law.”

“This unlawful policy is a smokescreen to deny Member visits to ICE offices across the country, which are holding migrants – and sometimes even U.S. citizens – for days at a time. They are therefore detention facilities and are subject to oversight and inspection at any time. DHS pretending otherwise is simply their latest lie,” Thompson said in a statement.

Previous DHS language for lawmaker visitations said “ICE will comply with the law and accommodate Members seeking to visit/tour an ICE detention facility for the purpose of conducting oversight.”

The recent memo now says the department “will make every effort” to comply with the law and accommodate members, while listing circumstances like “operational conditions, security posture, etc,” that could impact the time of entry…

I mean this is continuing confirmation, imho, that the massive public pressure campaign is tanking morale internally.
Homan, et. al doing these sort of appeals to humanity really gives away the game a bit.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance.
When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

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— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Cops not letting ICE in? Perfect.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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    1. 1.

      trollhattan

      June 19, 2025 at 5:09 pm

      Ladies and gentlemen—The Chavez Ravine Massacre.

      Miss you, Kellyanne. Not really.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      JaySinWa

      June 19, 2025 at 5:10 pm

      LAPD doing doughnuts in the ICE’d out Dodgers parking lot

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Scout211

      June 19, 2025 at 5:18 pm

      The Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers

      Then it’s only fair that ICE provide 72 hours of notice before raiding farms, businesses, schools, immigration court, etc.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Indycat32

      June 19, 2025 at 5:20 pm

      Are they planning on deporting Shohei Ohtani?

      Reply
    5. 5.

      bbleh

      June 19, 2025 at 5:24 pm

      Glad to hear Dems are telling them to pound their unconstitutional sand where the sun don’t shine.

      Also glad to see PROFESSIONAL police — “even the LAPD!” say the astonished newspapers — telling those quasi-official goon squads the same thing.

      If (presumably when) Dems retake the House, I hope the starting point for the ICE budget is fkin ZERO.  “Sure, okay, let’s negotiate.  Maybe meet halfway.  Wait, can we set that at a negative number…?”

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Captain C

      June 19, 2025 at 5:25 pm

      Tom Homan on how ICE agents are people just like you and me and we shouldn’t be mean to them: “They’re mothers and fathers too. They have children too. They have parents too.”

      I think their parents and children and other relatives and friends should be mean to them as much as possible until they (ICE agents) cut it the fuck out.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Scout211

      June 19, 2025 at 5:27 pm

      Floriduh man proposes Alligator Alcatraz.

      Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed a new immigrant detention center to be built in his state to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with mass deportation efforts.

      The Republican posted the idea to X, formerly Twitter, dubbing the proposed facility “Alligator Alcatraz,” as it would be located in the Everglades, which is home to more than 200,000 alligators.

      Newsweek reached out to Uthmeier’s office and ICE for comment via email on Thursday.

      . . .

      Uthmeier posted a just over 1-minute-long video to X on Thursday, writing: “Alligator Alcatraz: the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

      DHS’s official response on X

      ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ. Under 287g authority, state and local law enforcement can now assist with immigration functions, including: arrests, transportation, and detention. 287g is a force multiplier in completing the President’s mission and making America safe again.

      I have no words.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Raoul Paste

      June 19, 2025 at 5:27 pm

      @bbleh: Half of zero?  Your proposal is acceptable

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Captain C

      June 19, 2025 at 5:28 pm

      Are they planning on deporting Shohei Ohtani?

      I’m pretty sure if they tried that, an angry mob of Dodger fans in the tens or hundreds of thousands would grab any agents involved and stomp them to death, if the LAPD didn’t do it first.  And any of the stompers who made it to trial would be ruled innocent by juries in less than a day.  The smart juries would wait until after they got one more paid for lunch.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      trollhattan

      June 19, 2025 at 5:30 pm

      @Scout211: 287g is a force multiplier

      That sounds like some video game shit. “I use my 287g on you and eject you from my fort!”

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Josie

      June 19, 2025 at 5:31 pm

      Tom Homan on how ICE agents are people just like you and me and we shouldn’t be mean to them: “They’re mothers and fathers too. They have children too. They have parents too.”

      I sincerely hope someone laughed in his face when he said this. What an ignoramus.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      no body no name

      June 19, 2025 at 5:34 pm

      Schnorkles is firmly Kamala Is a Cop and a Bernie Bro.

      Do you actually have a moral stand about this here, or as for any Clinton voters just cease to give one flying fuck about ethics when you can turn them to your side?  After all we are now since Clinton “breaking up big banks won’t solve racism and sexism” and Bigfoot says crazy things here.

      Y’all are even far worse than the right or left made you out to be.  Keep going!

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 5:37 pm

      The neighborhoods around Dodgers Stadium are predominantly Hispanic. Because people are afraid to go out and shop and workers are afraid to go to work, the Dodgers, working with the community, were to announce a program to support local communities.

      That’s why ICE targeted them.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Matt McIrvin

      June 19, 2025 at 5:41 pm

      @Scout211: Alligator Auschwitz

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Dangerman

      June 19, 2025 at 5:42 pm

      If an ICE agent can pitch, let him in!

      Reply
    16. 16.

      trollhattan

      June 19, 2025 at 5:42 pm

      One thingie Donny still really, really wants.

      White House announces Trump’s lunch with General Asim Munir was decided after latter called for nomination of Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for ‘stopping nuclear war between India & Pakistan’.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      Harrison Wesley

      June 19, 2025 at 5:42 pm

      I’ve lived in Florida for almost nine years and it still seems strange – there are many things I like here, but there’s some weird shit (as GWB might say). I just found out today that the county I live in is one of the Trumpiest in the country. That might explain some things.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      trollhattan

      June 19, 2025 at 5:43 pm

      @Dangerman: Every team can use a backup shortstop who can turn a double play.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      suilebhan

      June 19, 2025 at 5:43 pm

      I didn’t need another reason to love the Dodgers, but I’ll take it.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      June 19, 2025 at 5:46 pm

      On social media, the MLB team said that federal agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at the stadium and “requested permission to access the parking lots.”

      “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization,” the Dodgers said, adding that their game against the Padres will go on at the stadium as scheduled.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      bbleh

      June 19, 2025 at 5:46 pm

      @trollhattan: lol omg whenever you think “he can’t be THAT easy to manipulate,” he … ah … trumps the last time.

      Gotta admit, though, the logic is impeccable.  “See, there wasn’t a nuclear war!  Now where’s my Nobel?”

      If he weren’t so harmful and dangerous, he’d be pathetic.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      mrmoshpotato

      June 19, 2025 at 5:48 pm

      @Josie: Tom, do their children and parents also think they’re Nazi shitstains like we decent people do?

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Danielx

      June 19, 2025 at 5:49 pm

      To ICE agents: does your mother know what you do for a living?

      Reply
    24. 24.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 5:49 pm

      @trollhattan:

      Funny, Modi (spit) in the White Supremacy House made it clear in a joint presser that Taco Don had no involvement in the cooling of Indian/Pakistani conflict.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Steve LaBonne

      June 19, 2025 at 5:49 pm

      I am sipping neat bourbon because NO FUCKING ICE.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Omnes Omnibus

      June 19, 2025 at 5:50 pm

      @no body no name: You are fun at parties, aren’t you?

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Timill

      June 19, 2025 at 5:52 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: Provides the pie for dinner…

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Suzanne

      June 19, 2025 at 5:53 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: Everything there was very sentence-adjacent.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Kirk

      June 19, 2025 at 5:55 pm

      @Danielx:

      To ICE agents: does your mother know what you do for a living?

      After the release that some of the ICE agents who arrested Lander were immigrants, I’ve become convinced that is a significant reason they wear masks.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Danielx

      June 19, 2025 at 5:58 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus:

      Trolls R Him. Or Her. Or They.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Danielx

      June 19, 2025 at 5:58 pm

      @Kirk:

      Say what?

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 5:59 pm

      L.A. TACO
      ‪@lataco.bsky.social‬

      Follow
      L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~
      @eltragon.bsky.social

      2:11

      0:02 / 2:13

      June 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM

      Everybody can reply
      1.5K reposts
      192 quotes
      3K likes

      Video of the assault, kidnapping and disappearance of an American Citizen by ICE at link.

      https://bsky.app/profile/lataco.bsky.social/post/3lrtyi63izk24

      Reply
    33. 33.

      prostratedragon

      June 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm

      Tom Homan’s complaint

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Harrison Wesley

      June 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: That post has a distinct AI feel to me.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      bbleh

      June 19, 2025 at 6:02 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: arguably yes, depending on how drunk everyone is …

      I gotta admit, even as something of a professional communicator, I’m sometimes just baffled by some of the garbled stuff I see.  Like … what’s the point? what’s this even about? Sort of analogous to the famous “that’s not even wrong.”

      Reply
    36. 36.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      June 19, 2025 at 6:04 pm

      @suilebhan:

      The Fucking Yankees™ of the West Coast (to borrow a phrase from the late, great Steve Gilliard).  With that in mind:

      Fuck The Fucking Yankees™, of the West Coast.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      June 19, 2025 at 6:07 pm

      I see Trump says he’ll decide “within two weeks” whether to intervene in the Israeli/Iran war. Seriously? Do they not remember how that’s Trump’s default time span for doing something that he then never does?

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Another Scott

      June 19, 2025 at 6:07 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: There are bloots out there claiming that ICE said it wasn’t them.  “Maybe call the Border Patrol.”

      Grr…

      Good for the people of LA, and the Dodgers, for saying NO.

      They’re going to keep doing this crap, and worse, until there are consequences.  We have to do everything we can to enable increased majorities in the legislatures and in public opinion to put an end to this destruction of our governmental systems.

      Eyes on the prizes.

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Scout211

      June 19, 2025 at 6:13 pm

      @Another Scott:

      In response to the Dodgers post, the Official ICE X

      False. We were never there.

      LOL. Somehow that defense seems right out of some comedy routine.

      ETA: More from CNN

      But not long after that post, the Department of Homeland Security stated that the agents who were at Dodger Stadium were not from ICE and their presence wasn’t related to the immigration crackdown that has roiled Los Angeles.

      US Customs and Border Protection vehicles were in a nearby parking lot on or near the grounds, and one of them had a car malfunction that caused them to stay longer, according to a CBP official who maintained there were no operations related to the MLB club.

      There has been an influx of CBP agents in the Los Angeles area on the heels of the protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. The Department of Homeland Security surged agency personnel to the region, including border agents, to respond to those protests and many have remained in the area.

      “This had nothing to do with the Dodgers. CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

      Believable?

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Harrison Wesley

      June 19, 2025 at 6:14 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: We can only hope.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      dc

      June 19, 2025 at 6:14 pm

      @Captain C: Nazis were mothers and fathers too, and even were nice to their pets. Some were even vegetarians. They were still Nazis.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Kirk

      June 19, 2025 at 6:15 pm

      @Danielx:

      I saw it several places, but will link this Guardian article.

      The 13th paragraph of the article, emphasis mine:

      The Ice agents who arrested him knew he was an elected official, Lander said. He tried to learn more about them while he was detained. “I asked a few questions just to understand who they were,” he said. They were also immigrants – one a Pakistani Muslim resident of Brooklyn, the other an Indo-Guyanese man from Queens. “I asked about their shifts. I hear that Ice agents are working a lot of hours right now,” he said.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      scav

      June 19, 2025 at 6:17 pm

      @Another Scott: Easy to claim it was the other guys when everyones masked, id-less and out of uniform.  Still, a distinction without a difference: “It wasn’t us the pneumonic plague — it was the bubonic plague at the gates!”

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Dave

      June 19, 2025 at 6:17 pm

      @Kirk: Not at all surprised they are going to put as many diverse faces forward as possible.

      Cynical and predictable.

      Does show they haven’t decided they are above the impact of public opinion.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 6:17 pm

      Reposted by
      Kevin M. Kruse

      ‪Matt Ortega‬
      ‪@mattortega.com‬
      · 1h
      It is the official position of ICE that this very real event that did, in fact, happen was not them.

      Vigilantism is worse. It would be nice if federal agents had means to identify themselves as legitimate law enforcement.
      FWIW: ICE spokesperson tells HuffPost it “was never at Dodgers stadium, and thus never tried to gain access;” referring one of our reporters to Border Patrol
      ALT

      ‪Steve Marmel‬
      ‪@marmel.bsky.social‬
      · 2h
      Here is the LAPD telling ICE to GTFO of Dodger Stadium.

      The only reason they came was to start a riot. What they got was the boot.

      More of this, California.

      0:17

      0:14 / 0:32

      23

      186

      Reposted by
      Kevin M. Kruse

      https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social

      ICE say’s it wasn’t them, but they have been changing their lies all day.

      LAPD says it was ICE,
      The Dodgers say it was ICE,
      The Reporters say it was ICE,
      The Protestors say it was ICE.

      Remember the 2 helicopter 60 ICE “agents” raid on a LA Swapmeet a couple of days ago, where they went in armed and geared up as it they were raiding Bin Laden’s compound, all to make only two kidnappings?

      Well, ICE spent your tax dollars to use selectively edited footage of it to make a short “hype” video of it.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      Gvg

      June 19, 2025 at 6:22 pm

      @Scout211: He is an idiot of course. The Everglades is mostly already owned and run as National Parks (2) State parks (2) a state wildlife refuge and 3 wildlife management areas with laws about what can be done and built on them, plus access and travel.

      I am sure he is thinking of how nice to strand all those people he doesn’t like in the hostile environment but it’s also impractical to get them there. It’s a big swamp and it doesn’t have roads. You can’t transport lots of people there easily. I don’t think there is anywhere to transport people to. No land big enough. Maybe he doesn’t care, but others will and there are people who know the Everglades and can go check.

      Look, part of the reason the feds and the state were able to acquire such big tracts of land pretty close to already expensive coastal cities was that bottom part of Florida is really not good for building. It’s flooded all the time and the soil is soft. Roads cost a lot of money to build up.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      Nelle

      June 19, 2025 at 6:23 pm

      I realize this isn’t an open thread, but is related.  I just got word that my nephew, a DRC citizen who was picked up by ICE IN March, has been deported…to DRC!  He will shortly be arriving at the family home.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Baud

      June 19, 2025 at 6:24 pm

      @Nelle:

      I remember you were worried he would be sent somewhere else.  So good news indeed.

      ETA: Also, this is an open thread

      Reply
    49. 49.

      trollhattan

      June 19, 2025 at 6:27 pm

      @Nelle: Jesus. That’s mental.

      Related to nothing, the Minnesota assassin did his come to Jeebuz thing in DRC but failed in attracting a Jimmy Jones flock of admirers.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Professor Bigfoot

      June 19, 2025 at 6:27 pm

      @no body no name:Bigfoot says crazy things here

      Such as?

      Reply
    51. 51.

      brendancalling

      June 19, 2025 at 6:28 pm

      I saw that whine from Homan.

      Lots of shitty people are parents. I know, I work with their kids.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      WaterGirl

      June 19, 2025 at 6:29 pm

      Most excellent title!

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Omnes Omnibus

      June 19, 2025 at 6:30 pm

      @Professor Bigfoot: Well, that was pretty crazy….

      Reply
    54. 54.

      Matt McIrvin

      June 19, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: Sometimes it’s 90 days. Those are the new Friedman Units.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Professor Bigfoot

      June 19, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: As in, “don’t fuck with that Bigfoot guy, he’s fuckin’ CRAZY?” ;)

      Reply
    56. 56.

      scav

      June 19, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      @Captain C: Oh really, they have family?!? How unlike every immigrant there ever was!

      Reply
    57. 57.

      Flanders Other Neighbor

      June 19, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      IMO, every ice agent had an option to decline doing this job.  They didn’t and are guilty at the very least of association with this administration.  If you hide your face, you know what you’re doing is wrong.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Baud

      June 19, 2025 at 6:35 pm

      @Professor Bigfoot:

      don’t fuck with that Bigfoot guy, he’s fuckin’ CRAZY?

       

      Nominated!

      Reply
    59. 59.

      Odie Hugh Manatee

      June 19, 2025 at 6:35 pm

      I’d punch a NAZI and I’d punch an off duty ICE agent. There’s no difference to me. None. Sure they have families, just like the people that they are disappearing off of the streets. Why the fuck should we care about them when it’s clear that they don’t give a shit about us or our opinions?

      If you’re a family member or friend of one of these NAZI pigs and don’t get in their faces then you’re a NAZI too.

      Fuck’em.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 6:37 pm

      @Professor Bigfoot:

      It’s just sad how Covid made daydrinking and PUI, (Posting Under the Influence) acceptable.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      jlowe

      June 19, 2025 at 6:39 pm

      They are mothers and fathers and have children. Many of them attend churches and have pastors. Those pastors have a lot of deep soul-searching to do.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      bbleh

      June 19, 2025 at 6:40 pm

      &btw having thought about this, I think ICE should send agents into EVERY MLB game, maybe even march onto the field and grab a player or two, something something Heroically Protecting Our Homeland against the Invading Tide of Illegal Immigrants something something.  And make sure the cameras capture it all, live.  I think that would REALLY help Americans appreciate the job they’re doing!!

      Reply
    63. 63.

      hotshoe

      June 19, 2025 at 6:48 pm

      @Scout211: ​

      The Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers

      I saw that headline elsewhere. DHS is wrong, of course, does anyone doubt it? The House has already been fighting DHS about this for a month; the only reason why DHS is trying to “ask” for 72-hours notice nowadays is because they are getting bad publicity about their previous, completely illegal, refusal to let Members of Congress make inspections.

      Everyone who works for DHS at any level under this treacherous administration should be identified, arrested and prosecuted wherever they’ve broken laws — such as the specific law which requires them to allow Members of Congress to make surprise inspections.

      Don’t want to be hated for being a DHS pig? Then find a spine, find honest work somewhere else.

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 6:49 pm

      Don Moynihan
      ‪@donmoyn.bsky.social‬

      Follow
      So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later.
      Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.
      Clay Travis on Fox calling for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium

      https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lryep7zero2j

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    65. 65.

      Baud

      June 19, 2025 at 6:50 pm

      @Jay:

      Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media. our future leaders.

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Miss Bianca

      June 19, 2025 at 6:51 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: No brain, no pain…

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 6:53 pm

      @hotshoe:

      DHS is trying to “ask” for 72-hours notice nowadays is because they are getting bad publicity about their previous, completely illegal, refusal to let Members of Congress make inspections.

      And the inspections are finding inhumane conditions, rotten food, no food, no sanitary facilities, denial of legal aid, disappearances, torture, rape.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 6:57 pm

      ‪Sam Levin‬
      ‪@samtlevin.bsky.social‬
      · 2h
      NEWS: In one of the first major federal prosecutions of an LA protester, the DOJ has moved to dismiss the case. Jose Manuel Mojica was accused of assaulting officers, but came forward to Guardian to recount how he was brutally attacked by agents.

      “I feel a huge relief. The truth always comes out.”

      US drops charges against LA protester accused of assaulting officers: ‘A huge relief’
      Federal prosecutors reverse course in case of Jose Manuel Mojica, who came forward to Guardian to say he was brutally attacked by agents
      http://www.theguardian.com

      30

      663

      https://bsky.app/profile/samtlevin.bsky.social/post/3lrycmle5hk22

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 7:05 pm

      LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
      ‪@longtimehistory.bsky.social‬

      Follow
      ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate.

      He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other.

      The “agent” did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle.

      Pasadena, California.

      0:10

      0:05 / 0:16

      June 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM

      Everybody can reply

      Video at link,

      https://bsky.app/profile/longtimehistory.bsky.social/post/3lryaddpum22c

      Note to add, the plate has a plastic film cover over it, making it impossible to dash cams, traffic cameras, Police car cams and body cams from being able to read the plate number.

      In many States, that is a felony. In others, it’s a major traffic violation subject to hefty fines.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      hotshoe

      June 19, 2025 at 7:06 pm

      @Jay:

      Seems to me that DHS behavior is bad enough that they would need way more than 72 hours notice to perform a cover-up for themselves.

      72 hours ya can get rid of any dead bodies, sure, but ya can’t fix all the rest of the problems.

      At some level the bosses must figure if they can get away with illegally demanding advance notice from MoC, that will somehow allow getting away with the other crimes against humanity they are committing against their detainees.

      Although to be honest, I figure they’re right if they are counting on getting away with their crimes. I’m not hopeful.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      lowtechcyclist

      June 19, 2025 at 7:12 pm

      Tom Homan on how ICE agents are people just like you and me and we shouldn’t be mean to them: “They’re mothers and fathers too. They have children too. They have parents too.”

      Then maybe they shouldn’t act like a cross between stormtroopers and secret police.  I’m sure there were plenty of parents among the Nazi SS.  We killed as many of them as we could anyway.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Scout211

      June 19, 2025 at 7:13 pm

      A federal judge on Thursdayblocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding.

      Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims.

      The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

      The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a group of Democratic state attorneys general who argued the administration was seeking to unlawfully hold federal funds hostage to coerce them into adhering to Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.

      The states argued the US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, lacked the authority to impose immigration-enforcement conditions on funding that Congress appropriated to help states sustain roads, highways, bridges and other transportation projects.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      BlueGuitarist

      June 19, 2025 at 7:14 pm

      @JaySinWa:

      LAPD doing doughnuts in the ICE’d out Dodgers parking lot

      Hilarious line!
      Best ice is crushed ice.

      There’sa great photo on blue sky of cosplay stormtroopers in front of a huge LA donut sign taken by spacebunny1news.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Bupalos

      June 19, 2025 at 7:15 pm

      ICE needs 72 hours notice to make sure you don’t get the wrong impression about what goes on in these facilities.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Bupalos

      June 19, 2025 at 7:18 pm

      @scav: SPEND 72 HOURS WITH THEIR FAMILIES while waiting for approval and access to see how things are going with the other people, the caged people…who for sure don’t have families.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      hotshoe

      June 19, 2025 at 7:19 pm

      @Jay: ​
       
      I saw that. I was wondering why the guy trying to photo the plate needed to get up close in the street. Seemed pretty risky, traffic-wise, not just because the goon driver might be violent. Now I understand it’s because of the plate covering makes it hard to photo. Interesting.

      LAPD has apparently decided to defend the city against ICE (eg at Dodger Stadium), when they’re not violently defending ICE against protestors; who knows what the rules of engagement are and who knows which agencies are exempt, or not, from LA traffic enforcement.

      I do know that those license plate covers are definitely illegal in California.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 7:19 pm

      On the one hand, DHS want’s to destroy the Immigration process completely, the visa programs completely, tourism completely by brutal and arbitrary conditions,

      https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

      on the other hand, they know their actions are illegal as fuck and want to duck liability. An immigrant, a tourist, a visa holder can’t hold them liable, but members of the House and Senate can.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Bupalos

      June 19, 2025 at 7:19 pm

      Nothing screams “transparency” like “I need 72(!?!) hours notice!!”

      I’m super embarrassed about my living room. Really. It’s bad.

      I need 3 hours notice.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      lowtechcyclist

      June 19, 2025 at 7:27 pm

      @Another Scott:

      There are bloots out there claiming that ICE said it wasn’t them.  “Maybe call the Border Patrol.”

      Well so fucking what??  Since none of them identify themselves anymore, we have no way of knowing which government vigilante force is which.  Once they identify themselves to the citizens (and others) they are dealing with, then if they get mis-identified, it’s someone else’s fault.

      But right now it’s all theirs. And why should we believe a word they say anyway?

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Baud

      June 19, 2025 at 7:28 pm

      @lowtechcyclist:

      There’s also the delicious irony of them being the victims of misinformation.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Kirk

      June 19, 2025 at 7:28 pm

      re the 72 hours, ICE is trying to rewrite existing legislation.

      From Public Law 118–47 (my emphasis)

      SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
      made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this
      Act may be used to prevent any of the following persons from
      entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility oper
      ated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain
      or otherwise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification
      at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by
      a visiting Member of Congress or such designated employee, com
      pared to what would be observed in the absence of such modifica
      tion:
      (1) A Member of Congress.
      (2) An employee of the United States House of Representa
      tives or the United States Senate designated by such a Member
      for the purposes of this section.
      (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to require a
      Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the intent to enter
      a facility described in subsection (a) for the purpose of conducting
      oversight

      Section c allows a 24 hour delay if the investigator is not a member of congress but instead works for and is designated by the Senator or Representative to conduct this inspection.

      But by law Senators and Representatives have authority to make no-notice inspections of DHS facilities.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      indycat32

      June 19, 2025 at 7:42 pm

      @bbleh: Sure and after they deport all those DEI hires, mediocre white men can fulfill their lifelong dream of playing major league baseball.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Another Scott

      June 19, 2025 at 7:44 pm

      I got curious about the “2 weeks” thing.  And then I remembered a story that the USS Nimitz was on its way to the Middle East and wondered – where is it now?

      USS Nimitz location – AS OF 2 DAYS AGO, it’s still in the Strait of Malacca. Speed of 19 knots.

      I can’t quickly figure out how to determine the sea distance between, say Kuala Lumpur and Bahrain, but it’s over 6000 km by air. 19 knots = 35 kph so 6000/35 = 171 hours = 7+ days.

      Since the real distance is longer, maybe 10000 km?, that gets us to 12 days…

      :-/

      That assumes, of course, that the Nimitz speed isn’t going to change en route.

      And minus the 2 day delay in it’s location from that web site.

      This is feeling a little like the on-again, off-again buildup to W’s start of the Iraq War. But I think, without any inside information, that in this case it’s more of his usual bluster.

      But it would seemingly be malpractice to not have the Nimitz in place before starting something, if one were to start something… Grr…

      As usual, him telegraphic the constraints, if he’s planning on doing something, is not helpful if one wants the element of surprise…

      The GQP continues to take us down the stupidest timeline.

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      hotshoe

      June 19, 2025 at 7:46 pm

      @Kirk: ​
       
      Yep.
      BUT: ‪

      ‪@brandonfriedman.bsky.social‬
      · 2h
      To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can’t just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won’t allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws.

      The average Member of Congress, possibly with a few aides and/or journalist in tow, versus the guns of the goons … don’t bet on Congress winning.

      Who can Congress send to arrest and dis-arm the armed lawbreakers at DHS offices? Who would even dare to prosecute DHS for breaking the law when the DoJ is directly controlled by Dirty Don?

      Reply
    85. 85.

      Betty

      June 19, 2025 at 7:48 pm

      @lowtechcyclist: And why would the Border Patrol be at Dodger Stadium?

      Reply
    86. 86.

      Omnes Omnibus

      June 19, 2025 at 7:53 pm

      @Jay: When was it not acceptable here?  Covid had nothing to do with it.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Sister Golden Bear

      June 19, 2025 at 7:54 pm

      Tom Homan on how ICE agents are people just like you and me and we shouldn’t be mean to them: “They’re mothers and fathers too. They have children too. They have parents too.”

      Why it’s just like they’re the same as immigrants (documented and undocumented) and brown people in general. /s

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm

      @Betty:

      There are a couple of International Airports and an International Port in LA. Curtesy of the Patriot Act, the CBP has jurisdiction within 100 miles of any International Border crossing. Airports and Ports count.

      The original ICE lie was it was just a CBP Patrol taking a short 15 minute break before heading on patrol south.  That lie was exposed when the vehicles stayed long enough to attract protestors, demanded access to Dodgers Stadium and the Dodgers called the LAPD on them.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Sister Golden Bear

      June 19, 2025 at 8:02 pm

      @Another Scott: If not Gestapo, then why Gestapo-shaped?

      Reply
    90. 90.

      YY_Sima Qian

      June 19, 2025 at 8:05 pm

      Cops serve the interests of capital, & capital need cheap, marginalized labor to exploit to maintain their profit margins.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      Baud

      June 19, 2025 at 8:08 pm

      @YY_Sima Qian:

      The cops are currently deporting the cheap, marginalized labor.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      JMG

      June 19, 2025 at 8:09 pm

      The DHS cannot provide the hundreds and hundreds of overtime and paid detail hours LAPD cops get from details at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers can. So this time the feds lost. Also, MLB cannot afford to have the idea get out that a ticket to the ballgame possibly is a one-way ticket to El Salvador.

      Reply
    93. 93.

      YY_Sima Qian

      June 19, 2025 at 8:10 pm

      @Baud: ICE/CBP are, police is a mixed bag depending on the location & the situation.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Sister Golden Bear

      June 19, 2025 at 8:11 pm

      @Professor Bigfoot:

      You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
      You don’t spit into the wind
      You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger
      And you don’t mess around with Professor Bigfoot

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Princess

      June 19, 2025 at 8:12 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: you’d think the Trump people could at least come up with a few new arbitrary time spans for things that will never happen. TACO.

      Reply
    96. 96.

      Captain C

      June 19, 2025 at 8:14 pm

      @Another Scott: Using Sea Distance dot org, Malacca to Port Sultan Qaboos (Sultan’s Caboose?  Sounds a little kinky…) at 19 knots comes to 6 days and 15 hours, so roughly a week, perhaps a little less as the Nimitz might not want to get that close to the Iranian coast.

      edited to add the link

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Jackie

      June 19, 2025 at 8:21 pm

      @JaySinWa: ICE has denied it – in spite of photo evidence…

      “False. We were never there,” wrote the X account for the ICE field office in Los Angeles. ICE’s main account chimed in, too, saying the same thing word for word.

      Further complicating things, the official X account for the Department of Homeland Security posted, “This had nothing to do with the Dodgers. CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement.”

      Can’t even get their story straight LOL

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Sister Golden Bear

      June 19, 2025 at 8:21 pm

      @Jay: More to the point CBP has jurisdiction anywhere within 100 miles of a U.S. border—including coasts—which encompasses something like 70-80% of the entire population.

      Reply
    99. 99.

      Jackie

      June 19, 2025 at 8:25 pm

      @Josie: Is Homan’s family claiming they know him? He’s an evilly ugly creature.

      Reply
    100. 100.

      YY_Sima Qian

      June 19, 2025 at 8:25 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: Speaking of which (gift link to NYT article below):

      For Trump, ‘Two Weeks’ Is the Magic Number
      “Two weeks” is one of President Trump’s favorite units of time. It can mean something, or nothing at all.

      By Shawn McCreesh

      Reporting from Washington

      June 19, 2025, 4:42 p.m. ET

      …

      It is a slippery thing, this two weeks — not a measurement of time so much as a placeholder. Two weeks for Mr. Trump can mean something, or nothing at all. It is both a yes and a no. It is delaying while at the same time scheduling. It is not an objective unit of time, it is a subjective unit of time. It is completely divorced from any sense of chronology. It simply means later. But later can also mean never. Sometimes.

      ..

      At the end of the day, if TACO means avoids getting stuck in another ME quagmire that Bibi wants to trap the US in, I would gladly take it.

      Reply
    101. 101.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 8:26 pm

      @Jackie:

      emptywheel thinks ICE is trying to slither away from a 4th Amendment lawsuit.

      Reply
    102. 102.

      scav

      June 19, 2025 at 8:29 pm

      I think they’re a wee bit confused about the theme song of the All-‘Mercan game. Granted, many do enjoy the lyrics but . . .
      Good to hear the Dodgers had more spine than other orgs.

      Take them out at the ball game.
      Take them out before crowds.
      We have no ID and cracker masks.
      We don’t care if they never get back.
      Let us kick, beat, kick for the home team.
      If we don’t stomp it’s a shame.
      For it’s one, none, no strikes, you’re out.
      At the ICE ball game!

      Reply
    103. 103.

      Sister Golden Bear

      June 19, 2025 at 8:31 pm

      @Another Scott: Lining up military assets might be a factor, but “I’ll make a decision in two weeks” is a classic Trump move for a couple reasons. It keeps the “will he/won’t he” spotlight on him, as well as seeks to get those affected to kowtow to him in hopes of getting a favorable outcome. But this—like the latest delay in the TikTok deadline—also usually happens when Trump is terrified of making a potentially unpopular decision. I assume he’s torn between wanting to play the tough man, and at some awareness that things could go horribly wrong, for which he’d be blamed. Narcissists have no personal sense of shame, but they’re extremely sensitive to avoiding others seeing them as shameful.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      craigie

      June 19, 2025 at 8:33 pm

      I dunno, I think they should have let them in. Once a bunch of guys with no uniforms, no ID, and wearing masks, started trying to pull people out of the stands at random, I’m pretty sure the crowd would have stomped them to death. Would have made great TV.

      Reply
    105. 105.

      Jay

      June 19, 2025 at 8:39 pm

      @craigie:

      They were going after the vendors, groundskeepers and cleaning staff who were prepping for the Saturday game.

      They were also going to intimidate the Dodgers Org, who because of the impact of ICE raids on the surrounding Hispanic Neighborhoods, worked out a “mutual support” program and were going to announce it this afternoon.

      Reply
    106. 106.

      Another Scott

      June 19, 2025 at 8:43 pm

      @Captain C: 👍

      Thanks, Captain!

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

      Reply
    107. 107.

      Jackie

      June 19, 2025 at 8:46 pm

      @bbleh:

      I think ICE should send agents into EVERY MLB game, maybe even march onto the field and grab a player or two, something something Heroically Protecting Our Homeland against the Invading Tide of Illegal Immigrants something something.

      All MLB awards should only be awarded to lily white full blooded Americans! //

      I am totally being sarcastic. I’m parroting Miller, Homan, Noem, FFOTUS et al.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      Professor Bigfoot

      June 19, 2025 at 8:50 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: I think that applies within 100 miles of any international airport, too.

      Reply
    109. 109.

      Kirk

      June 19, 2025 at 8:51 pm

      @hotshoe:

      Congress has a police force that could technically be used. The Capitol Police has a specific mandate to protect the people who work there, and their role was expanded to include accompanying a senator or representative for such a mission. Even better it’s one of the few federal law enforcement agencies that do not answer to DHS.

      The problem, of course, is that they’re under the direction and control of congress which is currently Republican dominated. I /think/ that if the chief and the board wanted to they could send a team on one of these. But the political blow-back would be ugly unless handled carefully.

      Reply
    110. 110.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      June 19, 2025 at 8:53 pm

      @dc:

      The lesson of the Holocaust was not that the Nazis were uniquely evil. The lesson was that anyone can become a Nazi. We’re witnessing this with America right now.

      Reply
    111. 111.

      Shalimar

      June 19, 2025 at 8:54 pm

      ICE is acting like Gestapo.  Homan is very in-your-face about it.  I do not feel even a tiny bit bad for them that people are treating them like Gestapo.

      Also, too, if they are mothers and fathers with kids and parents too, maybe they should look into whether those family members are here legally.  Have to find someone to deport to meet quotas.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      Another Scott

      June 19, 2025 at 9:01 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: Indeed.

      I think that he saw that when his 2017 Tomahawk strike on Syria didn’t really change anything, that this war war stuff was more difficult than it looked.

      Similarly his blustering about an [phantom] armada, very powerful to bully the DPRK didn’t change anything.

      He lies about everything. His words are just mouth noises.

      But he really loves punching down if he thinks he can get away with it…

      Grr…

      Thanks.

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

      Reply
    113. 113.

      hotshoe

      June 19, 2025 at 9:01 pm

      @Jackie:

      Anyway this story is the fault of ICE — even if they happened to be telling the truth that this specific parking-lot incident was not them, as if it were Border Patrol.

      If ICE had previously shown that they always wear uniforms, always have nametags and photo IDs, always show their faces, always drive marked vehicles — then ICE could say here “those guys without badges, in unmarked cars, you know that couldn’t be us. We don’t do that kind of stuff. It’s some other agency”.

      It’s their fault for being such stereotypical bad guys. We would be fools to give them the benefit of the doubt this time.

      LAPD says it was ICE.

      Reply
    114. 114.

      Timill

      June 19, 2025 at 9:20 pm

      @hotshoe: Just shoot them. What’s hit is history…

      Reply
    115. 115.

      YY_Sima Qian

      June 19, 2025 at 9:56 pm

      As this is an Open Thread: use the AI ChatBots w/ care! (screen caps from the studies through the link):

      Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca

      BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn’t making us more productive. It’s making us cognitively bankrupt. Here’s what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we’ve been measuring productivity all wrong)

      83.3% of ChatGPT users couldn’t quote from essays they wrote minutes earlier. Let that sink in. You write something, hit save, and your brain has already forgotten it because ChatGPT did the thinking.

      Brain scans revealed the damage: neural connections collapsed from 79 to just 42. That’s a 47% reduction in brain connectivity. If your computer lost half its processing power, you’d call it broken. That’s what’s happening to ChatGPT users’ brains.

      Teachers didn’t know which essays used AI, but they could feel something was wrong.
      “Soulless.”
      “Empty with regard to content.”
      “Close to perfect language while failing to give personal insights.”
      The human brain can detect cognitive debt even when it can’t name it.

      Here’s the terrifying part: When researchers forced ChatGPT users to write without AI, they performed worse than people who never used AI at all. It’s not just dependency. It’s cognitive atrophy. Like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work.

      The MIT team used EEG brain scans on 54 participants for 4 months. They tracked alpha waves (creative processing), beta waves (active thinking), and neural connectivity patterns. This isn’t opinion. It’s measurable brain damage from AI overuse.

      The productivity paradox nobody talks about: Yes, ChatGPT makes you 60% faster at completing tasks. But it reduces the “germane cognitive load” needed for actual learning by 32%. You’re trading long-term brain capacity for short-term speed.

      Companies celebrating AI productivity gains are unknowingly creating cognitively weaker teams. Employees become dependent on tools they can’t live without, and less capable of independent thinking. Many recent studies underscore the same problem, including the one by Microsoft:

      MIT researchers call this “cognitive debt” – like technical debt, but for your brain. Every shortcut you take with AI creates interest payments in lost thinking ability. And just like financial debt, the bill comes due eventually. But there’s good news…

      Because session 4 of the study revealed something interesting: People with strong cognitive baselines showed HIGHER neural connectivity when using AI than chronic users. But chronic AI users forced to work without it? They performed worse than people who never used AI at all.

      The solution isn’t to ban AI. It’s to use it strategically. The choice is yours: Build cognitive debt and become an AI dependent. Or build cognitive strength and become an AI multiplier. The first brain scan study of AI users just showed us the stakes. Choose wisely.

      …

      Reply
    116. 116.

      Kayla Rudbek

      June 20, 2025 at 12:23 am

      @no body no name: ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about cashmere yarn

      Reply
    117. 117.

      Kayla Rudbek

      June 20, 2025 at 12:29 am

      @YY_Sima Qian: for those who don’t use Xhitter, here’s a link to The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/?td=rt-3a

      Reply
    118. 118.

      Barry

      June 20, 2025 at 7:53 am

      @no body no name: I would ask for this to make sense, but why bother?

       

      Pie for you!

      Reply

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