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[–] flango 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, basically the American deportation squad

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I just want to add the context that ICE did not exist prior to 9/11/2001. it was a consolidation of previously separated powers of investigation, intelligence gathering, enforcement, and incarceration into a single agency under "Homeland Security" and became the largest enforcement arm under "Homeland Security".

there have been calls for it's disbanding since it was started, as it's pretty clearly a dystopian paramilitary with extralegal, unconstitutional powers to run absolutely wild, but as with all Patriot Act related moves, there has been a consistent effort to memory hole it's short history and pretend it is an eternal agency that existed in the US since the dawn of time.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

American stasi if the stasi actually did what capitalists claim they did

[–] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

i prefer calling them the gestapo, the stasi were based anti fascists

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

stasi were actually good people and are largely overvilified by actually existing nazism BND