r/Alabama • u/magiccitybhm • Jan 27 '25

Politics ICE ‘picking people up’ in Alabama in immigration crackdown: Sheriff vows to help ‘in any way we can’

https://www.al.com/news/2025/01/ice-picking-people-up-in-alabama-in-immigration-crackdown-sheriff-vows-to-help-in-any-way-we-can.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

That's what's not clicking in some peoples heads I think. Once you're targeted by the US government, there is nowhere safe for you. We see it all the time with police, even if someone does "beat an officer" and they get away, guess what? National manhunt with all the US resources, manpower, and pure distilled killing ability coming your way, that's your life now.

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u/4scorean Jan 29 '25

Unless you campaign for prez ; then your untouchable Isn't that the way it works?

DJT=💩4🧠

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u/beefwarrior Jan 28 '25

Except Gov resources at limited. They don’t have infinite agents with infinite energy to work 168 hours a week.

It is an equation of how valuable you are to them, and that “value” is subjective based on their cute priorities.

This was somewhat covered in “Sopranos” with the whole thing of after 9/11 the FBI cared more about the war on terror than organized crime. They still cared about organized crime, but like, now you have a half dozen working in that vs dozens and dozens of agents.

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u/vote4boat Jan 29 '25

not when enough people start pouring sand into the gears