FreedomAdvocate

Do you think a person should be seperated from thier families

This argument is such a stupid one that is purely made to pull at people's heart strings. If someone commits murder should they not be sent to jail because doing so would "separate them from their family"?

People in the country illegally should be removed from the country. Full stop. They're just deported back to their country of citizenship, unless they're one of the gang members in which case they are going to prison.

If law enforcement had access to all of your social media, e-mails and live video feeds from inside your house then they would be able to catch criminals more effectively.

This isn't the same because law enforcement don't have access to all of your social media already. This is more like if they did but were only allowed to arrest you for you posting a video of you murdering someone, but not for you posting a video of you raping someone.

Protection against unreasonable search is written into the constitution, after all

Your car registration being checked to see who it is registered to and if you have any outstanding warrants etc is not an "unreasonable search".

when ICE has degraded into a largely lawless and authoritarian organization

I think you're mistaking actually enforcing the law as being "lawless and authoritarian".

Now, what I’m a bit confused about is why you are so up-in-arms about the existence of this law instead of the violation of this law.

I'm not so "up in arms" about anything, just questioning why the authorities are handicapped on what they can use one of their systems for. Sure, the violation of the law is bad - but the law itself seems ridiculous. The only people it benefits are literally criminals.

For being illegal immigrants? No they're not lol.

Edit: lol at the reply that you deleted. Unlucky for you I can still see it. They deported an illegal immigrant, and her underage kids went with her. Would you have preferred they separated the kids from the mother? Just leave the 7 year old in the USA alone?

Nah. People should not be in a country illegally. They want to migrate? Do it legally like the rest of the law abiding citizens.

But if they did criminalise my favourite hobby, and they had evidence that I’m continuing to do that hobby in plain sight, they see me doing it every day……I’d expect them to come get me. That makes sense. It makes no sense to have that technology there to be used to find some crimes but not others.

That’s completely irrelevant. If you can identify someone as being in the country illegally it makes no sense to not be allowed to act on it.

Entering the country illegally is a crime under federal law, not civil. Remaining in the country after your legal immigration status is up is a civil issue, but deportation is a lawful response.

Why do you think people should get to stay in a country illegally? I’m genuinely curious.

A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.

Also on this:

State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.

Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers whenever they drove their car in public and legislators said “no you’re not allowed to use that to help find wanted murderers”. It makes no sense.

If a government says they’re doing something “for the children” or “to fight terrorism”, it’s neither of those things - it’s for control. Those are just the go-to reasons they use to push them through because they can push the narrative that anyone against it supports terrorism/child abuse.

Source please?