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ICE agents storm Disney cruise docked in California and arrest staff (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca
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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So if you are just working on one of these cruise liners and you aren't American you will just be arrested upon entering a US port?

Can someone with more knowledge on the subject explain how this is legal, or if I have misunderstood something - this cannot be legal, surely.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    So if you are just working on one of these cruise liners and you aren't American

    Over 90% of the crew on almost every ship (both passenger and cargo ships) is not a white American.

    ICE has opened a massive can of worms if this is going to be their new way of meeting their arbitrarily quotas.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Things don't need to be legal to happen, and no consequences are possible against state-sponsored violence. Well, not any direct consequences anyway. This is classic "who watches the watchmen" stuff. Who stops the police when they're committing crimes? More police? The super-police? What happens when the super-police start committing crimes too? What happens when they're even worse than the police? This is not a solvable problem, it is a manageable one, but only when it's being actively managed, which has not been the case for a long time.

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