The costs of having bad judgment about what to put online will continue to rise in this context of intensifying mass repression.

Anyway the point is, legality or not of these practices is basically irrelevant. For 99% of people ICE targets this way, the law will not pose any obstacle—even though there's basically a consensus that what they're doing is illegal.

(And as a bonus, in a few months SCOTUS is almost definitely going to give the private jailers ICE hires to run its gulags immunity too: .

to file a special kind of federal lawsuit (habeas) that most immigration lawyers don't even do, your choices are: go to court and risk being illegally kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared, or skip court and take a deportation order indefinitely blocking any path to status.

This is from one of several court decisions finding this whole thing illegal. But a few years ago SCOTUS barred class actions to challenge illegal ICE jailing practices. And recently they said you can't do a nationwide injunction. So basically if you don't have your own lawyer. .

Many people have seen ICE officers brutally kidnapping people going to immigration court. Fewer seem aware that ICE is then torturing them: caging them in packed holding rooms where they have to sleep upright, don't get fed, can't bathe/change clothes—often for more than a week.

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RT @aaolomi: this is exactly what they brag about

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"That was assault on an ICE officer" is the cops-fainting-from-fentanyl-exposure of 2025. Did you assert a right to an ICE pig? That's assault. Did you help someone else assert their rights? Assault. Did you think a bad thought about ICE? Definitely assault.

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