Bills aim to make ICE employees ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education and state civil service

Supercharged by billions in dollars from Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has hired thousands of new officers to carry out Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign in an effort it has likened to “wartime recruitment”. In several states, Democratic lawmakers want applicants to think twice about taking part.

Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service.

None of the proposals has been signed into law, and potential legislation may face legal challenges. The bills nonetheless underscore Democratic state lawmaker’s determination to undermine Trump’s hardline immigration policy, even as a similar effort in Congress that has resulted in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutting down faces uncertain prospects.

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      I expected California and Washington, but Maryland comes in once again as consistently based but easy to forget that they are

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    They should be imprisoned or permanently placed into some of those “work camps” Kennedy keeps talking about.

    Also on the topic of punishments for crimes against humanity, I propose scaphism for the collaborators and clients of the Trump-Epstein-Israel pedo ring.

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      TIL

      [The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lie down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, then forcing him to ingest a mixture of milk and honey before pouring all over his face and body. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

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      The USA probably isn’t losing a war any time soon (at least, not to the extent that their own soil gets invaded and occupied) and American media will work overtime to whitewash everything that’s happened over the last few years. We’re going to have to do everything we can to make sure that Americans won’t be writing this chapter of the history books.

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    It’s easy and not unrealistic to imagine a scenario where ice goons mutate into MAGA’s fascist army.

    This feels very important.