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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After the woman was detained, her husband said he called his attorney. Shortly after, he received a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he has known for years.

"I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the husband told MPR, before encouraging the chief to make sure local officers were more visible during ICE operations. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law-abiding,” he said.

After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.

“ICE returned the female to our police department, I saw her, and I gave her a ride home,” Grochow wrote in a statement to MPR about the incident.

Two lessons from this:

  1. Cops do have influence over ICE and what they do.

  2. Cops won't use that influence unless it's a personal friend that also has lawyers on retainer.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm wondering if it's because ICE can't detain citizens. And I don't mean they can't legally detain citizens. I mean they don't have places to do it. Do they have jails? If they only operate detention facilities for immigrants they would have to take detained citizens to a police station and in this case the police probably said they will not arrest her. And yes, they will often lie that someone is not a citizen but does anyone know of a case where they put a white citizen into a immigrant detention facility? Or do they take those people to jails?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just chuck everyone in their concentration camps.

I saw a report yesterday that they are buying warehouses in many major metro areas

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago

They can put anyone in the "detention centers" if they have suspicion that the person is illegally in the country.
Of course the person can show passport or other sort of ID, but the SA goons can just decide they never saw it. Then that person is an unidentified alien in a "detention center" and will stay there until they disappear.