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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paranoid@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 199d
In New Jersey, it's called the FUCK ICE bill 🤗
DillDough@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 199d
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.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 199d
TIL
darvocet@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 199d
ugh, only 17 days? With modern medicine maybe we can pump these numbers up.
notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 198d
83 sound better to you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 42 pts · 199d
Maryland, New Jersey, California, Washington
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 199d
I expected California and Washington, but Maryland comes in once again as consistently based but easy to forget that they are
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 199d
The Nuremberg Trials : Part 2 are gonna be wild in 4 years.
PantaloonMonsoon@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 198d
And who, exactly, is going to be running these trials? The same group that didn't prosecute any crimes for 4 years last time?
thlibos@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 198d
Maybe some extra-judicial trials followed by "sentencing"?
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 198d
Best I can do is zero federal convictions in four years.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
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.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 199d
It's easy and not unrealistic to imagine a scenario where ice goons mutate into MAGA's fascist army.
This feels very important.