Watch Merz pretend this never happened.
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How is there not one person on these teams with the guts to speak up and do something. It's actually incredible that they are able to properly weed out anyone who has a conscience so reliably.
Exact same way there wasn't someone doing something when the Nazis perpetrated the Holocaust.
Same way all the other genocides happen. People usually don't like conflict and prefer to stay alive. Interfering with this stuff often ends with you losing your life and is a lot harder than shutting up and keeping your head down so long as you're not getting clubbed too.
Plus, these ICE goons are volunteering to be bastards - nobody is forcing them. That right there self selects for applicants who want to be a horrible human being. These are men and the occasional women who lack a conscience. They are straight up just morally reprehensible bad people whose disappearance would improve this planet.
Cowardice, that checks out.
Steve Bannon went around screening all the different racist militias to make sure they knew to apply for these jobs. They had years to make sure those groups were true believers before telling them to apply for the jobs.
I'm assuming. Idk what that guy was talking about when he talked to all the neonazi militias after trump won the first time.
They even specifically said you could still be accepted into ICE if you were pardoned from J6 related charges.
Probably got a signing bonus if you were charged
This is what USA is now. It may be an anecdote, but it is an anecdote that fit the larger pattern.
USA is a rogue nation and a terrorist regime. That's what happens when you let a criminal psychopath lead your country.
Yes, and 100 million regular American terrorists still support this. Some of them travel abroad unarmed too.
I can guarantee you that the ones who travel abroad are not the ones who support this.
Not the majority.
But I've found myself surprised at seemingly educated, well-traveled, sensible US Americans suddenly dropping the most obviously, embarrassingly unreflected nationalist supremacist bullshit as purported fact. While paying lip service to supposed US-specific virtues which they completely go against in everything else they say.
Nationalism is a poison on the brain. The privilege of travelling only affords you the opportunity to see it clearly for what it is. Most people subjected to its propaganda still stick with what they were taught rather than rebuilding their whole worldview.
There's definitely a media bubble, early childhood conditioning, social pressure, and other forms of brainwashing going on that can take a lot to break through and unlearn, not to mention relearning newer, healthier patterns. And even then there might be lingering assumptions and biases that just haven't come up yet to be examined in the light of reason.
Traveling for a week or two at a time can only do so much. And then they go back to the US where people treat them like they're weird if they don't conform to the USian ignorance. A person really has to live outside the US for months or even years to fully recover from it.
Rebuilding one's whole worldview takes time and effort, and it can be really uncomfortable. Also, without strong social support with a healthier worldview to emulate, it can be really disorienting and difficult to find the way forward. Basically having to build one from scratch, whereas most people learn theirs from growing up interacting with peers and role models.
Are you forgetting about the business class that has been backing trump the entire time? Or how about the embarrassed "Libertarians" (conservatives too cowardly to admit their own beliefs) that don't admit that voted for Trump but agree with his views on immigration and support the tariffs beyond all economic reason.
They all go overseas. Ken Paxton is in London right now.
Those are a small minority of travelers, and the business class likely travel with an entourage of armed guards, not "unarmed" like the other commenter said (which we can only assume implies he wants people to attack them at random).
As for the "libertarians", I don't know how many of them actually travel but if they do it's probably to tourist trap locations, which I don't consider actual travel. The average European isn't likely to encounter them in their day-to-day lives.
Yup. The ones supporting this don't even have passports, because they legitimately believe there is nothing they need to see / learn / understand anywhere else in the world. They were told the US is the best and they firmly and blindly believe it.
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Barely 15% of Americans ever travel outside of North America.
And most of those are not okay with what's happening in the US right now.
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Just the rapists and killers and child traffickers of course
Had he been 15-20 years older he probably could have said he was a former SS soldier, and received a medal and a citizenship
Isn't that a RATM lyric? Lol It does actually remind me of Settle For Nothing
I'm curious to see if our esteemed Federal Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has anything to say about this. Well, actually not, because he's more of a U.S. lobbyist than a representative of the people, and so he certainly won't level any criticism at his employers.
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I feel safer already. /s
I'm convinced this immigration and boost in ice employees is more about building a force to be ready for when the government opens up about Ai surveillance, profiling, and policing. Immigration is the beta test.
They're also bait to justify a lockdown. It's a wonder none of them have been murdered so far. One of them eventually getting killed is a core part of Steven Miller's goals for them.
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Sooo... is the EU going to apply some diplomatic pressure now, orr...
I don't remember specifics but I'm pretty sure this isn't the first European to die in ICE custody. I really need to sleep so I don't have time to look it up, but try a search, and no matter if you do I'll look it up tomorrow and add links here.
I wouldn't be surprised. There was that British woman who got shot and killed by her Texan father, and the courts let him walk. The British government did *nothing*
I looked this case up. It doesn't seem like the government could do anything useful - it's not like you can extradite him.
Yeah and he wasn't acting in the capacity of the state. Unlike ICE.
But the court was when it decided to acquit. It might have been the jury though, so that makes it harder...
An entire generation of world citizens are going to hate and mistrust the U.S. because conservatives/regressives just HAD to elect a low IQ felon rapist pedophile to own the libs (and themselves).
When are they announcing why this guy was in custody?
Too old to run
It's in the article.
According to the statement, the man had attempted to enter the US at the Laredo border crossing at the end of August 2025, but was refused entry due to a lack of valid documents.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency initiated proceedings and referred the case to a court under the US Department of Justice. One day later, the man was transferred to ICE custody. The agency placed him in a care home a month later.
The question for me is why he'd want to enter the USA. It sure as hell wasn't for the medical care.
A German man has died while in the custody of the immigration authority ICE in the United States.
The 85-year-old died in Harlingen, Texas, where he had been in a clinic since November, ICE announced on Thursday.
He had been receiving treatment there for dementia, high blood pressure, cognitive impairment and stomach ulcers. A doctor confirmed his death on June 24.
An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death.
Jesus. Everything about these facts are fucked up. Why was this man in custody in the first place? Fuck these fascist pigs.
Why was this man in custody in the first place?
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According to the statement, the man had attempted to enter the US at the Laredo border crossing at the end of August 2025, but was refused entry due to a lack of valid documents.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency initiated proceedings and referred the case to a court under the US Department of Justice. One day later, the man was transferred to ICE custody. The agency placed him in a care home a month later.
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Every Ice Agent should be violently fucking murdered. It's what needs to happen. I fucking hate Amerikkka.
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