Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? (YouTube video)

[usonian]

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Transcript.
https://pastebin.com/raw/XuKW55At

The TLDR:

• Lawyers have been calling for the abolition of ICE for years, not because we oppose immigration enforcement, but because ICE as an institution is extremely unusual in American law

• The legal mechanisms that define it are anomalous

• And those legal anomalies carry real constitutional danger.

And if that's too long, my take: ABOLISH ICE, because it has morphed into the Gestapo.

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Other links to info on that page.
Know Your Rights: If ICE Visits Your Home
https://www.aila.org/library/client-flyer-know-your-rights

Know Your Rights: If ICE Comes to Your Workplace (For Employees)
https://www.aila.org/library/know-your-rights-if-ice-comes-to-your-workplace-for-employees-1

8 USC 1357: Powers of immigration officers and employees
Text contains those laws in effect on January 30, 2026
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1357%20edition:prelim

Text of Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA)
https://www.aila.org/library/text-of-iiraira

The Federalist Papers : No. 47
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed47.asp

Chae Chan Ping v. U.S. (Chinese Exclusion Case), 130 U.S. 581 (1889)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/130/581/

Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/149/698/

UNITED STATES ex rel. KNAUFF v. SHAUGHNESSY.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/338/537

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I wholly agree.

Local Police are accountable.

County Police are accountable.

State Troopers are accountable.

Federal Law Enforcement/FBI is accountable.

Hell, even Crossing Guards are accountable.

ICE isn't.

[malaise]

2. Very important

Rec. Rec. Rec