• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    20 hours ago

    I’m wondering if it’s because ICE can’t detain citizens. And I don’t mean they can’t legally detain citizens. I mean they don’t have places to do it. Do they have jails? If they only operate detention facilities for immigrants they would have to take detained citizens to a police station and in this case the police probably said they will not arrest her. And yes, they will often lie that someone is not a citizen but does anyone know of a case where they put a white citizen into a immigrant detention facility? Or do they take those people to jails?

    • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus
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      15 hours ago

      They can put anyone in the “detention centers” if they have suspicion that the person is illegally in the country.
      Of course the person can show passport or other sort of ID, but the SA goons can just decide they never saw it. Then that person is an unidentified alien in a “detention center” and will stay there until they disappear.

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          16 hours ago

          They won’t let members of congress in which they’re legally supposed to do. My guess is they have dozens of US citizens in their detention centers because they changed their name or whatever. That’s probably why they’re picking up people’s wives (marital name changes are the most common type).