> ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said.

Sounds like a real cool guy.

Wiretaps have always been a tool in law enforcement's hands, and if it's subject to a warrant, which the article goes on to say it was, I am completely fine with this. If the ability to tap phone conversations 75 years ago didn't cause us to descend into fascism, I don't automatically think this is scary.

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TheJoeMan 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm totally against running Stingrays willy-nilly at protests, but this story seems like a non-issue. They had a warrant to track someone down, narrowed it to 30 blocks, then used the Stingray for final location tracking. Doesn't sound like they were logging IMEI's or interested in traffic.

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whatsupdog 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm tired of people protecting these murderous criminals who don't give two sh*s about any laws. This lack of empathy (for the victims of these criminals) is appalling.

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JohnMakin 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The thing that annoys me most about such thoughts is not the callousness - it’s the extremely short sighted opinion that the same tactics won’t eventually be used on them, or people they care about. It never even occurs to them that can happen until it does.

Erosion of anyone’s rights is an erosion of everyone’s rights.

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bloomingeek 4 days ago | parent [-]

Absolutely, we older types used to argue with the term, "slippery slope". ICE is a classic slippery slope that will most likely be used, eventually, against all of us if the current administration isn't stopped breaking the law.

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brewtide 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

This 100%. It's like a private army is being built, especially with the masks/secrecy aspects of it. Terrifying.

	▲	bloomingeek 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		ICE and the use of the National Guard is very terrifying. The current administration could use them both to try to hold onto power when it terms out. The lunacy of SCOTUS and congress is beyond the pale. If, and I do mean if, the Epstein situation blows up on the big orange dummy, no one should doubt he will try to declare some type of marshall law to stay above the law. Then we will find out if the National Guard members really pledged allegiance to the Constitution.

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xp84 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	meesles 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I would point out that as of 3 years ago, green card holders felt completely safe in their legality as long as they were not committing crimes. This has now changed. The balance has already slid and change that people never expected has happened. Assuming it won't happen more is foolish IMO. There's also been recent talk about going after 'recently naturalized' individuals the admin considers criminals. How many years is 'recently'?
	▲	zephharben 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Wanting our government to treat our neighbors like human beings rather than vermin is not "partisan brainrot", it is actually a clear-eyed reaction to both the current circumstances, and human history over the last 90 years. Signed, a Jew with a personal background in these matters.
	▲	anecdatas 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> No, Immigration isn't going to be sent door to door to do something bad to citizens. You've got a whole lot of history to read. Because this is exactly what has happened in the past. You don't think this has happened to the Romans? The Russians? The Italians? The Germans? The Spanish? This is a classic maneuver of a state sliding into autocracy -- if you cannot find enemies outside the state, you find them within the state. Go read Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism then come back.
	▲	autoexec 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You realize that US-born American citizens are already being rounded up, kept prisoner, sent deportation letters, etc.
	▲	cruano 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		What do you think "Homegrowns are next" means exactly ?
	▲	fzeroracer 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The Supreme Court literally just signed off on doing just this based off of racially profiling people. Trump has threatened to deport even some of his biggest sycophants like Elon Musk. They've been harassing people that DO have a legal basis to be in the country and finding ways to deport them anyways. Hell, they've even admitted, openly, to looking for avenues to denaturalize people so that they can be deported. This isn't 'partisan brainrot', this is literally and explicitly what they are saying and doing.

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542354234235 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.” - Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

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chasd00 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I'm tired of people protecting these murderous criminals who don't give two sh*s about any laws. This lack of empathy (for the victims of these criminals) is appalling.

wait, are you talking about this guy and the people they killed in Venezuela or ICE?

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whatsupdog 4 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't it obvious? How many people has ICE killed extra judicially?

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nxobject 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do deaths in detention count? [0] 12 so far since the administration began through August (data only being published after 90 days.) Of course, nothing's stopping the administration from using "probable cause" to detain anyone suspicious - like citizens (or at least brown citizens.) [1]

[0] https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice...

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aero_code 4 days ago | parent [-]

No, ICE did not kill those people. I looked through the latest six this year. Two were suicides (one suicide was of a man who had state charges against him for several crimes including child molestation), one was someone who had diabetes and refused to take insulin, and the others seem to have had other health issues. They got medical care many different times.

I think it is misleading to conflate murder with people dying of health issues in detention after medical care.

	▲	nxobject 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's also misleading to call it people dying of health issues. But after years of knowing, under multiple administrations, that even the pre-Trump ICE detention regime killed detainees due to medical assessment delayed and care denied [0], the weight of the evidence points currently points to ICE being malicious, not ignorant: ICE currently knowingly detaining medically frail individuals, without care corresponding to their needs, knowing that a random subset would die due to circumstances that ICE could have chosen to change, but didn't. Therefore, I think that what is happening does rise to extrajudicial killing - killing that ICE chose not to prevent but to maintain; and inevitable killing without any corresponding sentence. Forgive me for not taking ICE at face value. I looked through the next four accounts – assuming that, at that point there would be sufficient independent reporting that would either complement or contradict ICE's accounts. The next four individuals died preventable deaths due to care ignored (e.g. in the case of Nhon Nguyen, who was detained with dementia), or denied (e.g. in the case of Maksym Chernyak, who was unconscious after fainting for hours until detention guards provided medical attention too late.) - Marie Ange Blaise's death (#7) was blamed by ICE on blood pressure medication noncompliance. The narrative stitched together from Broward County medical examiner reporting, along with detainee testimony, instead argues that she fainted after taking blood pressure medications, and it took at least 8 minutes for medical attention to arrive (after a guard walked away) [1]. - Nhon Nguyen (#8) was, according to his family, detained while living with advanced dementia, and according his death report, bounced backwards and forwards between hospitals and his detention processing center before dying of avoidable pneumonia [2]. - Brayan Garzón-Rayo (#9) died by suicide after repeatedly being denied a mental health evaluation - once due to short-staffing, next due to contracting COVID-19. [3] - Maksym Chernyak (#10) fainted - possibly due to overdose - but was denied care for hours despite attempts by others detained with him to draw attention; his death was attributed to a stroke. [4] [0] https://phr.org/our-work/resources/deadly-failures-preventab... [1] https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-08-01/haitian-ice-deat... [2] https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_7519bc08-a416-4275-a... [3] https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-05-13/missouri-man-who-died-b... [4] https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/04/24/as-immigrant-arrest...

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anecdatas 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Most likely in the hundreds if you count the deaths in detention, the deaths due to deportation to unsafe or unsanitary locations, and the suicides attributable to their actions.

This is based on a historical accounting of ~1 death a month in their direct care over the past 5 years, plus assuming at least as many due to other root causes. I expect that number to increase as they continue to expand operations and worsen protections for detainees.

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cindyllm 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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