The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking for anyone non-white enough to be foreign, all rights were considered expendable.
The DHS made swift work of the Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendments by denying arrestees due process and access to legal representation. Officers grabbed people, sent them far from their home states, and shoved them into planes headed to foreign hellhole prisons as quickly as possible in hopes of nullifying the inevitable legal challenges.
The 14th Amendment got kicked while it was still down when the administration decided birthright citizenship was no longer a thing. And the entire administration simply pretends the First Amendment doesn’t apply to anyone who says things or does stuff it doesn’t like.
The Fourth Amendment got turned into a doormat last May when the DHS Office of Legal Counsel (usurping the role usually held by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel) told federal officers they no longer needed judicial warrants to enter homes so long as they could semi-credibly claim the person they were seeking was subject to immigration court order of removal.
Edit: here is the nyt article this is based on. Thanks lemming n0respect https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html
“Yeah, we’ve determined that the Constitution won’t let us do whatever we want, so we’re going to do it anyway.”
The posted article is excellent and everyone should read it [techdirt always writes great stuff]. The story’s primary source is [this NYT article via archive.is. Every secondary source fail to mention “collateral aliens”, and I’m here to rectify that.
ICE is already arresting people just because an officer is suspicious. the NYT article is 2 things:
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the director changing the justification of why it’s ok. That being: “the person might not be here later, so we have to arrest them now” … In reality they call this “likely to escape” (same difference).
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The new thing is using this justification to arrest anyone who is nearby, who they call “collateral aliens”, in group round-ups.
In summary: A single ICE officer can think a dude on the corner looks wrong; can arrest him because he might not be there later; then arrest you just because you’re nearby. Now you’re a “collateral alien”, and have no due process and cannot plead your case.
Great context and additional info. The archive link is throwing an error for me
Tried updating it. it’s https://archive.is/eU1K9 And Here’s the NYT article
*edit * had to update this too
The archive link is still throwing an error for me saying it’s not safe and then dead ends but the nyt link works. I’ll add it to the main post
Hmmm. This will not go well.
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ICE can fuck right off with their Nazi gestapo bullshit.
You’ll have to fucking kill me to get me in that van
Either way you’re dead. Might as well fight you know.
And do it in public where someone might witness/record it. Better than being murdered silently in a warehouse in TX.
Yes, I’m allowing myself to do the same
I wonder how many non white trump donors there are that are within reach of normal people
Depends on your definition of reach. The rich like lots of windows, and those are pretty accessible points of entry to small fast moving metallic objects. The tools that use those small metallic objects are also pretty easy to acquire in most of the US for a pretty reasonable cost.
Like it was stopping them before.
If the authorities can now ignore the law protecting the citizens, how can they expect the law to protect them?
mmmm…FALSE…i’m gonna go with false, here…bit of a trick question, actually.
STUPID Libtards! The Constitution ONLY Allows ONE Thing for Americans to do - SHOOT UP SCHOOLS! That is the ONLY Constitutionally Protected Action!
-Pro Life Constitutional Republicans!
What he says and what holds up in court is probably different.
Can’t get to court if they murder you in the street
I love that an agency is just running off and doing this while the rest of the government is shrugging.
Don’t worry Dems are fighting hard for
fre…checks notes…More aid to Israel.
that’s because they want us to give them “constitutional feedback” enough so they can manufacture enough consent to go even more nazi than they already have.
stop dreaming about what a world would look like during ww3; we’re in it.
World War Greed
