The number of reported arrests is relatively few, but immigrant rights advocates said the operation appears to mark a shift in ICE tactics. Before this operation, local activists said, agents had been targeted in their tactics, presenting warrants at specific homes or detaining people at immigration court. Stopping people on the street in what appeared to be a fairly random fashion is new, they said.
In short, the Supreme Court decision not to uphold an injunction barring the use of racial profiling a basis for arrest is having fairly immediate consequences .
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My point isn’t quite the same one you’re responding to.
I’m saying that what we’re seeing now is not what they’re doing “anyway.” Trump stretches his delusional reality as far as he can, but he cannot currently stretch it to the point he needs to actually institute martial law. We have to climb that ladder with him, and he’s trying to tempt us as much as possible to do it. Don’t take the bait.