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An ICE hotline set up to allow reports of crimes committed by "criminal aliens" has had a close encounter with trolls:
The administration set up the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office on Wednesday, in accordance with President Trump's executive order in January. The office, folded within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, aims to "assist victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens," according to the Department of Homeland Security.
"Alien" is a term used by the federal government to describe individuals who are not American citizens but who reside on U.S. soil. [...] Despite the line's intended purpose, callers have been reporting a range of abnormal activity.
1-855-48-VOICE to report all your encounters w/ illegal martians, rude Sasquatch, unleashed Texas Blue Hounds, Springheel Jack. Goblin army.
— Kathleen Dennis (@chelseabmw) April 27, 2017
ICE denounced the calls, saying such actions hurt victims of real crimes. Callers have even mentioned spotting "muggle-borns," a term from the "Harry Potter" book series referring to magical characters with non-magical parents.
Also at The Atlantic and CNN. Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday April 29 2017, @06:30PM (7 children)
Tommy Lee Jones, in Men in Black, to immigration patrol:
Please, keep protecting us from the dangerous aliens.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by jmorris on Saturday April 29 2017, @06:43PM (6 children)
While a throwaway gag line, look at the bigger picture. Even in that film, the MiB were enforcing immigration policy as one of their core functions. They were resettling aliens among the human population but they had to be vetted, go through a process and were monitored. Because even in a comic book (the original source material) the idea that US Gov would or should simply allow aliens to immigrate at will and with no controls into the Earth was too absurd to expect the audience to accept. But Cthulhu swims slowly but he always swims left, so now apparently there would be an audience for such madness.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @06:47PM (3 children)
Listen to yourself man.
You are now justifying draconian enforcement policies against immigrants based on a comic book.
A freaking comic book!
How delusional do you have to be think that's a logical argument?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:33PM (1 child)
Reading is fundamental. I was commenting on the writers of the comic book and what was and was not within the range of ideas considered plausible at the time. Even comics are limited to what the audience will accept as plausible, even when you have the general zaniness in MiB. Most people will accept aliens and wierd tech because they don't understand any of it enough to judge what is implausible, but they do understand the real world enough that you can't propose things they know are absurd there without a lot of world building to explain it first. And the MiB acting as the regulating authority on aliens coming and going from Earth and dealing with the threats they bring in with them is pretty much the core idea in that story.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:03PM
> Reading is fundamental.
And reading bullshit into comic books that isn't actually in those comic books is fundamentalist.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:35PM
Achmm... in other words: "where's my -1 Delusional mod when I need it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:42PM (1 child)
[begin coded message] Super Special SJW Task Force, jmorris Division; special report: Aliens! Subject appears to believe that MiB is a documentary. But as to be expected, with totalitarian spin. We suspect that jmorris may have attempted to contact "O" at MiB Headquarters, and begged to be instated as "Agent M". Certain similarities to the crazies who go to "defend" the southern USAian Border in order to persecute "aliens", but end up marrying a Mexican national. Surveillance continues. Special SJW jmorris squad out. (Oh, thank you for the personnel rotation. Morale much improved.)[end coded message]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:11AM
The part that amuses me most about that is that it doesn't actually suggest that there isn't some sort of MiB organization.