BlueCrew - Community<p>BREAKING: Donald Trump's fascist ICE Director Tom Homan goes on Fox News and essentially boasts that his agents will be racially profiling people and "detaining them" without "probable cause."</p><p>And it get's so much worse...</p><p>"I've got to get your reaction to this, a Biden-appointed federal judge out in Los Angeles apparently expected today to issue a temporary restraining order halting your lawful operations," said the Fox host. "She says 'I think it's important for the court not burden otherwise lawful enforcement activities, your reaction there?"</p><p>He was referring to an expected ruling from U.S. District Court for Central California Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong. Yesterday, the judge indicated that she is inclined to order the Trump administration to halt its unlawful stops and arrests and "roving patrols" of agents that have been terrorizing the city.</p><p>"It's happening with people who appear Latino," said Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney for the ACLU.</p><p>When asked about the blatantly unconstitutional behavior of his agents, Homan gave a typically disgusting answer—</p><p>"Look the thing you got to understand, ICE officers and Border Patrol, they don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them," bragged Homan. </p><p>"They just need to tally the circumstances right? They just got through the observation, you know... Get our typical..." continued, Homan, mumbling his way through his stream of consciousness. "Our typical facts based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions."</p><p>The "physical appearance" piece is crucial here. It's not white Americans who are getting stopped, harassed, and denied due process by ICE. It's predominantly Latinos, the vast majority of which are legal citizens. Trump's deportation efforts aren't about upholding law and order, they're a form of soft ethnic cleansing. Republicans want less people of color in this country so that they can entrench white nationalist rule.</p><p>"Uh.. A... A... A uniformed Border Patrol policeman walks up to them at, at, for instance a Home Depot and they've got all of these articulable facts plus the person walks away or runs away," Homan continued.</p><p>"Agents are trained what they need to, uh, detain somebody temporarily and question them," he went on. "It's not probable cause. It's reasonable suspicion. We're trained on that. Every agent, every six months gets Fourth Amendment training over and over again. These officers are really good at what they do."</p><p>These officers are not, in fact, "really good" at what they do. They're poorly trained bullies carrying out a cruel and pointless war against innocent communities. The fact that so many of them hide their faces when conducting these raids demonstrates that on some level they know what they're doing is wrong.</p><p>"And if this judge is making a decision that's against what these officers trained and what the law is based upon, then they're going to shut down operation," added Homan. "I think that's their end game. They want ICE to stop doing this. But they base it on the rule of law. They're gonna find out Border Patrol and ICE is doing exactly what they're going to do in accordance with the law."</p><p>Let's hope that the judge does shut this operation down. These raids help no one, cause massive amounts of suffering, and exist solely so that Donald Trump can project a strongman person to his base.</p><p>When Democrats get back into power, we need to strip this mass deportation apparatus down to the studs. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" allocates $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border spending and funnels an additional $75 billion in extra funding to ICE. 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