SBGold said:
oski003 said:
socaltownie said:
oski003 said:
sycasey said:
Zippergate said:
Your assessment is completely dishonest. She tried to run over the ICE agent. The officer had every right to protect himself.
My assessment considers the whole context. The ICE agents should not even have put themselves in that position. They did so because they were looking for a confrontation. You want to consider only the narrow portion where a car started maybe moving towards one of them, because it's more comfortable for your narrative.
And you contend that they should just let her be, that the agents should let a woman block half the street while her wife yelled f bombs at them and just go on their merry way. The agents had EVERY RIGHT to ask her out of her car, even if you really really want people to be able to follow around ICE, block streets for minutes, and cuss them out while they are trying to do their jobs. She should have complied.
yes!!! BECAUSE IT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. ICE'S POWER IS EXTREMELY LIMITED!!!
That is really the sad part of this. ICE can not enforce traffic laws (they could not give her a ticket). They can not detain people they know are lawful citizens.
Now the President - you know one that had half a functioning brain - would have known this and gone to congress and gotten the laws changed. He could have made the case that to deal with the invasion of our country and the moral outrage he needed X, Y and Z. If failed he could have gone and asked for a mandate in the midterms. Democracy is messy and often difficult. God bless our constitution that it is.
So no. She should NOT have "complied" because ICE had no power to order her to do anything unless she was ACTIVELY obstructing (I don't see that) their effort to do their job. Being annoying and honking a horn or blowiing a whistle (or what the administration has pointed to in other cases - telling people their rights through flyering and websites) is NOT obstructing.
God we have so many little authoritarians. Our grandfathers who fought facism would be embarassed.
ICE can temporarily detain citizens. Full stop.
ICE can order someone out of their car if they are violating a law while obstructing them from doing their job.
ICE cannot lawfully detain U.S. citizens
Well you're just flat out wrong.
ICE agents can lawfully arrest or detain a U.S. citizen if they impede, obstruct, interfere with, resist, oppose, or assault the agents while they are performing their official duties such as during an immigration enforcement operation, raid, or arrest.
The main statute is 18 U.S.C. 111, which makes it a federal crime to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with federal officers or employees (including ICE agents, as designated under related sections like 18 U.S.C. 1114) while they are engaged in or on account of their official duties.
This covers actions like physically blocking an agent's path, refusing lawful orders to move aside during an operation, shielding a target, assaulting an agent, or using force/threats to hinder enforcement.