Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-29/californa-prisons-ice-records-us-citizens

“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states

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Jaysyn@kbin.social · 45 pts · 2y

This is exactly what was predicted when "Homeland Security" was created.

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y (4 replies)

there needs to be a punishment (ideally financial) for false reporting of citizens

Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nah fuck the financial, let them keep their blood money. Let's take away the one thing they can't buy with money, freedom.

regular_human@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Turns out, you can buy plenty of freedom in the states

douglasg14b@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Hell no, criminal.

dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It would have to a damn big fine for it matter.

roguetrick@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Who could've expected this of prison workers. They're the paragons of virtue.

KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

When you're too stupid to be a cop, despite the absurdly low bar: corrections officers.

It's like if the people who worked at the animal shelter got off on abusing the animals.

ArugulaZ@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

I was born in East L.A., man!