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My take: If we can't defund ICE until we take back one of the houses of congress, then the next best thing is to give them pointless security theater jobs.

Shoving as many hired ICE agents into Airport lines is a good thing for America right now.

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 48 points 19 hours ago

Hi, I’m trans, now I can’t board a plane cause they’ll seize my passport and identification for reasons they call “fraud.”

But you do you. :/

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 34 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why don't you send them to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz? Like, in their swimming trunks, with hammers.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 6 points 14 hours ago

This post is to tell us that OP is not flying anytime soon.

It took TSA five years until they stopped consistently behaving like every single passenger was a terrorist threat. Gonna bé aweome when ICE décides who can and who cannot fly.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 15 points 20 hours ago

ICE against angry KAREN traveler should make for some good tiktoks that will be censored

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Sidenote here: Has anyone noticed that the push in recent years to force law enforcement to wear body cameras has resulted in a rather large increase in the amount of body camera footage content on sites like YouTube? Don't get me wrong, the body cameras are definitely a good thing, but a cottage industry starting around publishing people's worst moments to the Internet as cheap entertainment certainly seems a bit crass to me.

[-] solo@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

the body cameras are definitely a good thing

I am not so sure about that tbh. Where I live (another continent) they are used by some sort of officers to patrol boarders. Whenever these officers do push-backs/kill immigrants/etc their cameras are never on.

Th following article is more relevant to the US

The history of police body cameras is more complex and troubling than we’ve been told

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create “highly controllable evidence” against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating “comprehensive digital archives” of attendees at protests for social change.

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 points 19 hours ago
[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

fuck it I'm deleting the comment.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Great, another nazi bar to defederate. /s

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