.@KamalaHarris might point out “what ICE really does” includes some other links. Thread? Okay.
2/ Sexually assaulting people in prison and not investigating it? ☑️ theintercept.com/2018/04/11/imm…
3/ Systemically failing to conduct meaningful investigations of its own prisons in order to comply with the Performance-Based National Detention Standards governing these facilities and their private, for-profit contractors? ☑️ oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
4/ Allowing the most in-custody deaths in a decade? ☑️ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
5/ refusing to correct demonstrably false statements by the attorney general? ☑️ cbsnews.com/amp/news/forme…
6/ training agents on how to skirt the Constitution’s warrant requirement? ☑️ theintercept.com/2018/02/23/ice…
7/ working internally to juke the stats on who they arrested during raids to support the president’s narrative? ☑️ static.theintercept.com/amp/ice-raids-…
8/ Throwing an attorney to the ground, breaking her foot to deny her 3 year-old client access to counsel? dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
9/ hostage taking to thwart federal court injunctions? ☑️ motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
10/ Creating a fake algorithm in its Risk Classification Assessment tool to make it seem as though everyone ICE encounters is a “risk” and must be detained dailydot.com/debug/ice-risk…
11/ and, apropos of this latest bit of authoritarian propaganda, falsely claiming a kid was MS-13 and trying to put a fast one on a federal court. theintercept.com/2018/06/27/fed…
12/ there are good men and women who work for ice. They love their country and want to do their jobs in service of it. The agency, its leadership, and their union thwart those goals. Even some of these ICE officers agree foxnews.com/us/2018/07/01/…
13/ as do more than a few ICE lawyers. amp.usatoday.com/amp/730859002
14/ the agency is structurally incapable of combating the worst impulses of the most malicious agents and supervisors. Those impulses have become policy. They are the rule, not the exception. And it’s tearing the ranks apart.
15/ So it’s time to #AbolishIce because no federal law enforcement agency should be allowed to operate outside the constitution, as this one does. Constitutional compliance and adherence to the rule of law are not radical leftist positions. They’re what this whole thing’s about.
