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In reply to the discussion: ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted [View all]tornado34jh
(1,468 posts)7. Did ICE really think that they would not get noticed in Charlottesville, given its recent history?
I would think that Charlottesville, the place where the University of Virginia is and where many of my friends went, would know a thing or two about right-wing thugs. This is the place, after all, where the Unite the Right rally occurred and white supremacists killed someone on August 11-12, 2017. I don't think people are going to forget them and not see what ICE is doing as being anything different than those who were at the Unite the Right rally. I bet you many ICE agents probably went to the Unite the Right rally.
Here is another site I found that might get some more context into the men in question:
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-04-26/dominguez-rodriguez-aparicio-marcelino-charlottesville-albemarle-ice-farmville
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ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 27
OP
By arriving in unmarked cars, wearing plain clothes and masks, showing no badge, and...
surfered
Apr 27
#5
10 U.S.C. 253 looks closely adjacent to ICE's ongoing "work", but does it overlap?
cadoman
Apr 28
#39
I'm still wondering if the people they are nabbing are being read their Miranda rights
Bayard
Apr 28
#28
Did ICE really think that they would not get noticed in Charlottesville, given its recent history?
tornado34jh
Apr 27
#7
it's bad enough they don't have uniforms or ID, what the fuck is up with the balaclava???
LymphocyteLover
Apr 27
#16
So an Unidentified Masked Gang grab a guy off the street and shove him in a van.
mackdaddy
Apr 27
#18
These are abductions & disappearances. Dry runs for abducting citizens. If they are official they can identify themselve
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 27
#19
So now they are intimidating witnesses. Conducting raids like criminals with covered faces and no badges.
Martin68
Apr 27
#20
ICE officers have no "authority". They are the enforcement wing of those with "authority" namely the US Congress
Cheezoholic
Apr 27
#24
ICE has become an organization of full-on thugs empowered by trump to kidnap anybody...
Hekate
Apr 28
#30
Why do they believe not IDing themselves and covering their faces like criminals
Figarosmom
Apr 28
#31