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Need to leave this garbage country I hate it here so much
Exactly why I'm getting my engineering degree and PE license.
it fucking sucks
"...and providing networking and training opportunities for law enforcement agencies."
Get a fucking LinkedIn, fucko. Do that shit on your own time like everyone else. Why does "dumbass cops networking" involve wasting hundreds of peoples' time?
Papers Please
I just found out that the Agriculture checks at the Florida/Georgia border are now serving as ICE checkpoints as well. 
I wonder if they'll do the same in california
I assume so. Newsom will do fuck all to stop Trump's Gestapo.
weird anecdote time: 20 years ago, I was paid to drive a car from New Orleans to San Diego. It is important to know that I did not have a drivers license at the time and I was very stupid. Eventually, the drive took me on to Interstate 8, which runs directly on the US-Mexico border. Along this interstate, they had immigration checkpoints, where an armed border agent would check your license to make sure that you were not jumping the border (which was like 50 feet in the other direction) or carrying contraband. Not once, when stopped, was I asked to produce a drivers license that I did not have. I just told them where I was going, I was a white male, they let me go on my happy way.
TL;DR - they just want to check non-whites in more places, this is an expansion of something that has been in place for a good while
I bet you picked up a few gray hairs on that one lol
It thought cops were bad about unnecessarily escalating the tension in situations, but ICE is just next-level in how they create an out-of-control situation.
if i didn't know any better i'd think they all came straight from israel
death to America
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: