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murder
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Mon Jan 26 05:05:31
Libertarian National Committee chair: ‘Abolish ICE’

Steven Nekhaila, the chair of the Libertarian National Committee, was unequivocal in the wake of a Border Patrol agent fatally shooting an American citizen in Minneapolis: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be abolished, he said.

In a lengthy statement the Libertarian Party posted Saturday to the social platform X, Nekhaila said ICE “was created in a national security context, blending immigration enforcement with counterterrorism culture, equipment, and mindset.”

“Do not be fooled,” he added. “Every justification for state violence will be depersonalized, amplified, and systematized until it is a permanent feature of governance.”

“Abolish ICE. Reform the broken immigration system. Do not give the police state an inch.”

ICE was formed in 2003 by the Homeland Security Act, passed in the wake of the terror attacks oF Sept. 11, 2001. But Nekhaila, whose party backs a welcoming immigration policy and supports protecting civil liberties, said the tactics of ICE and Customs and Border Protection embody “occupation-style policing.”

The fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both 37-year-old U.S. citizens, in Minneapolis this month has sparked renewed backlash against the Trump administration’s widespread deployment of ICE and Customs and Border Protection personnel to Democratic-run cities nationwide.

A memo signed by acting ICE Director Todd Lyons last year and obtained by The Associated Press earlier this week also authorized agency personnel to enter homes and arrest migrants without a judicial warrant, if they have a signed administrative warrant and a final order of removal issued by a judge.

The Fourth Amendment, though, protects individuals against “unreasonable searches and seizures” and requires authorities to obtain a warrant with probable cause to justify a search.

Nekhaila cited that memo Saturday, saying ICE is justifying its officers’ ability to enter homes without a judicial warrant via “an assertion by fiat, not a principle recognized by the Constitution, statute, or the courts.”

“The Fourth Amendment does not bend to agency memos,” he noted.

https://th...ertarian-party-criticizes-ice/
murder
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Mon Jan 26 05:07:43

This may be where some American "libertarians" discover that they are actually not.

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Habebe
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Mon Jan 26 05:11:09
According to CC this is radical leftists.
Forwyn
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Mon Jan 26 06:58:49
Breaking news: right libertarians and left libertarians break on abortion and immigration, as they have since their inception
Im better then you
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Mon Jan 26 07:55:04
How many votes they have in Senate or House?

0 so who gives a fuck.
jergul
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Mon Jan 26 09:51:58
You may identify as a Libertarian in the same manner that I may identify as an attack helicopter Forwyn.
Dukhat
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Mon Jan 26 10:27:13
Foreskin thinks there are “leftist” libertarians.

Fucking retard has to categorize everything he disagrees with as leftist.

Bootlicking, propaganda-swallowing imbecile

Him and Cherub should breed. They would produce the dumbest fucking kids the world has ever seen
murder
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Mon Jan 26 13:23:33

"You may identify as a Libertarian in the same manner that I may identify as an attack helicopter Forwyn."

If you can be a Christian without embracing the teachings of Jesus, then you can be a libertarian while supporting big right wing authoritarian government. This is America after all.

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