source: Lynnn Tramonte
Summarizing of report: Ending immigration jail in Ohio (how and why)
Ending Immigration Jail in Ohio - Part Two: ICE is the Threat to Public Safety
Car Chases and Killings to Enforce Civil Laws:
While claiming to make the public safer, ICE is using tactics that endanger and kill community members. This goes beyond the medical neglect that has already caused a record number of people to die in ICE jail. And it isn’t limited to the unjustifiable killings of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, all U.S. citizens.
The Tactics of Criminals:
There’s another layer to all of this the fact that ICE agents conduct their “actions” in unmarked vehicles and often wear masks to hide their faces. We are taught that if somebody's coming at your car, you drive away. We are taught that if people are coming at you with masks, If somebody's trying to pull you over and they've got lights in their car on the inside, don't stop.
When law enforcement agents hide their faces and agencies, the public has no idea who is pursuing or arresting them. This fact has even been acknowledged by the Trump administration’s own Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
These criminal impersonations make it difficult for the community to distinguish between legitimate officers conducting lawful law enforcement action and imposters engaging in criminal activity, which damages trust between the local community and law enforcement officers. There are already several documented examples of ICE impersonators robbing, kidnapping, and raping people since agents began to wear masks. Ms. Magazine reported, “across the country, so-called ‘ICE impersonators’ are on the rise as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) itself has been violently arresting people without warrants, sometimes in plain clothes using unmarked vehicles. Nearly impossible to distinguish between real and fake agents, men have allegedly lied about their identities to intimidate, kidnap and rape women with precarious immigration statuses, according to survivors’ accounts.”
When the Police are the Perpetrators
The insecurity and danger ICE is bringing to local communities to another factor inevitably has to be linked to another factor which is the serious criminal histories that many ICE and BorderPatrol agents have, and the culture of impunity within which they operate.
OIA has been maintaining a list of current and former ICE and Border Patrol agents who have been charged with and/or convicted of sexual and/or violent crimes against women and children over the last decade. The number has grown to thirty-seven so far.
The men included on this list and they are all men have been charged with offenses like gunpoint sexual assault; child sex trafficking; aggravated assault; robbery; rape; torture; kidnapping; sexual abuse of a minor; and possession and production of child sexual abuse materials.
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