The deaths of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti have shaken up the conversation about how states should respond to immigration crackdowns across the country.
Some Democratic leaders have vowed to hold federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers accountable — even charging them with crimes.
However, after Trump took office last year, many red states jumped to support the president’s mass deportation efforts.
In Tennessee, the state provides grants to law enforcement agencies that work with ICE. Since that was passed last year, the number of sheriff’s offices and police departments that have signed a formal agreement with ICE has skyrocketed.
Now, Republican lawmakers in the state are considering making that voluntary program involuntary as part of a bigger immigration package. Kentucky lawmakers are moving in the same direction.
Republican states are rolling out the red carpet because ICE hasn’t come to their states and started executing their citizens. Yet.
Then they will join them. The lines of the upcoming civil war can be drawn by plotting these agreements on a map.
Thank you Republicans for showing us which states to fly over 🫡
I’ve already skipped attending events in those states even though I’ve attended annually for 25 years.
And release the contents of the aircraft toilet tanks.
Yeah but it’s the states that the Nazis don’t care about harassing, there’s more undocumented immigrants in Texas than almost any other state but they don’t care
I believe they do care, because they:
A. Don’t want trouble in their own backyards B. Are aware of the lax gun laws in Texas and other red states C. Are all in to ‘punish’ blue states, as well as recon said states for upcoming election intimidation and interference
Bootlickers. I guess we’ll see how that works out for them
Great. Red States want carnage. I say they should get it.
Yeah, but they’re targeting the blue cities. They aren’t trying to hurt their country bumpkins.
I mean there are kids there who don’t deserve any of this
True
The article says “There is no structural or blanket barrier to states bringing a criminal prosecution against federal officials.”
This is good news. I was hoping there would be at least one example of it being used. Does anyone know if this idea has been tested via any cases in the past?
I wonder if the Institute for Justice will take up any of these cases on an individual level?
