Gregorio Casar: "rogue federal agency ... arresting people for political purposes."

[L. Coyote]

"Now, in open court, a judge has confirmed what we all know… We have a rogue federal agency that is not only tearing families apart, but threatening our very democracy by taking public safety actions and arresting people for political purposes." - Austin Councilmember Gregorio Casar

ICE Retaliates Against Immigrants in Austin After Sheriff Limits Cooperation with Federal Agents
March 28, 2017

Texas U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin said in open court that federal agents had alerted him that ICE would be targeting the area of Austin, Texas. The raids would be retribution for Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez’s new policy that limited cooperation between local and federal authorities. For more, we are joined by Austin City Council member Gregorio Casar. When he first won election in 2014, he was the youngest council member in the city’s history.

In 2007, the New Haven City Council and mayor agreed to adopt the first municipal ID card in the nation. The move sparked fierce backlash from federal immigration authorities. Forty-eight hours after the Board of Alders approved the new ID cards, ICE conducted the largest raid in the history of the state, sweeping across immigrant neighborhoods, kicking in doors and arresting 32 people. For more on how the community found back against the illegal raid, we speak with Michael Wishnie, clinical professor of law at Yale Law School, where he oversees the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. How is Donnie going to pay back his prison industry cronies

If he isn't filling up their internment camps so that he can charge the taxpayers for the complete upkeep for two or three years....

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/private-prison-stocks-are-soaring

[L. Coyote]

2. How is he punishing the majority that voted against him?

First they came for the brown-skinned liberals .....

[KittyWampus]

3. I think it's a fair statement to say ICE is arresting people for political reasons over criminality.

Why aren't ICE agents who do unconstitutional actions held liable?

Detaining American citizens? Searching their devices and FB pages?

[L. Coyote]

5. Reminds me of Nazi guards at death camps, merrily carrying out orders ....

Police are selected for a purpose and are filtered to those willing to follow orders without question.

[mopinko]

4. do believe they are targeting chicago, too.

arresting long naturalized citizens, and doing so brutally.