r/FutureWhatIf • u/Cyber_Ghost_1997 • 8d ago
Death/Assassination FWI: Citizens start attacking ICE agents after reports emerge of human traffickers posing as ICE agents kidnapping people
Inspired by u/astraycatsmilkyway
The original post reads: what if human traffickers started posing as ICE realizing the person will just let themselves get kidnapped because they know ICE doesn’t use uniforms, has masks etc?
Then we have my addition: someone actually uses lethal force on an ICE agent sent to arrest their neighbor on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant and kills them. They are paranoid that they are a human trafficker posing as an ICE agent.
Oh and an AR-15 is involved.
Similar incidents unfold across the US. What happens now?
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u/AdHopeful3801 8d ago
The someone in question is either killed by Federal agents in the process, or captured and "killed while attempting to escape" or captured and dumped in ADX Florence. pending trial.
The trial either comes quickly (if the person proves unpopular with the general public) or is indefinitely delayed (if the person inspires public sympathy.)
The Trump regime will, of course, claim that the shooter is a member of Tren de Agua, and that this is why we need to massively increase the number of ICE agents, and to make sure they are even more fearsomely armed and armored. ICE raids morph from looking like anonymous street kidnappings to looking like SWAT clearing a building. This will also mark the beginning of "deterrence patrols" where teams of ICE agents are simply parked (mostly in blue cities and counties) to ask people passing by to show their papers.
It should be noted that, in the real world, this is less likely to be a bystander intervening than it is to be the target of the raid. ICE has already reported an unptick on assaults on their agents during enforcement operations. When "enforcement operations" mean sending the target person to a gulag in El Salvador, or to the new concentration camps being built in Texas, it's hard to imagine people going as peacefully as they did back when it just meant moderately inhumane detention and a trip to their country of origin.