Being on a construction site “does not open the floodgates to warrantless government intrusion,” a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by a construction worker who has been detained three times by ICE.
From the article it sounds like the ruling is limited to construction sites, but according to the Institute for Justice (the law firm taking on this case) the judge has ordered a stay on the broader policies that led to this:
- Warrantless Entry Policy (which permitted immigration officers to raid private construction sites without a warrant or consent),
- Preemptive Detention Policy (which permitted immigration officers to preemptively detain employees without a particularized suspicion that persons are illegal immigrants), and
- Continued Detention Policy (which permitted immigration officers to continue detaining workers even after they show evidence of citizenship or lawful presence).
Edit: Note that this is a temporary stay while the case proceeds.
It’s funny that they see the connection between immigrants and construction sites, but not the connection to the construction companies.
If they want to find and stop illegal workers, it would be a really easy low fruit to arrest the heads of the construction companies that apparently keep knowing everything about where to find illegal workers. It’s right there.
The narrative they spin to justify this is that the illegal immigrants are so dastardly and deceptive that the poor, law abiding business owners are victims as well.
A JUDGE? THAT will Stop them!
-The Law and Order Party!
Criminals don’t follow laws. This is what happens when you put a criminal in charge of your country. People always equate anarchy with lawlessness, but this represents an even worse kind of lawlessness where only the rich, powerful and privileged get to be lawless and suffer no consequences from it, while the rest of us get even worse laws to follow and even harsher penalties whether we follow them or not. Welcome to tyranny, fun isn’t it?
America has two parties that are fighting each other: the “corporatist party” (democrats) which want stable markets and international trade, and the “oligarch party” (republicans) who want to return to a feudal system where the “aristocracy” owns and controls everything and the peasants can barely scrape by on a diet of gruel (have you even said ‘thank you’?)
The Democratic Party used to be the party fighting for labor/working class. But in the 90s “third way” democrats (Clinton) decided they needed to embrace corporatists to be able to fund their elections and compete. NAFTA, three strikes laws, dismantling of broadcast regulations which required broadcasters operate in the public interest, ignoring anti-trust laws, happened as a result.
And recently the Republican Party which used to be corporatist moved further right into full-on fasiscism/oligarchy.
This country absolutely needs a party that represents working class Americans because there is none. And any claim to that democrats are “socialist” or “communist” is laughable on its face.
Accurate, but a couple really important notes that people here seem to intentionally overlook.
Even in your accurate negative assessment of both parties, one is a hell of a lot better than the others.
And I don’t think we need a new party. The system doesn’t really allow for it, a new party isn’t a hard requirement, and we shouldn’t add impediments to getting done what needs to get done.
The DSA is that “party”, and certainly for now working within the Democratic party is the way to do it. This has been demonstrated with both the Tea Party and MAGA co-opting and taking over the Republican party.
I’m generally in favor of things like ranked choice and proportional representation, but those things aren’t requirements to lead us in a better direction. Mamdani is working within the Democratic party. It can be done.
True Lawlessness means equal rights of enforcement and unenforcement. Anyone and everyone equally has the ability to enforce what they believe is correct with in their power with no fear of repercussions outside of those they directly try to impose their will on.
That’s the up and downside to it.
This is just corrupt law. It’s one way lawlessness.
Turns out it’s even a judge that was appointed by Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Beaverstock
How was any of that lawful to begin with? So there was/might be again a police force that can act without supervision, arrest anyone, keep them in jail even after been proven wrong. Wtf?
Link to the press release from the Institute for Justice: https://ij.org/press-release/federal-court-orders-dhs-to-stop-detaining-people-with-valid-identification-and-halts-warrantless-construction-site-raids/
