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posted by on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the trolling-is-illegal-now dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:03PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:03PM (#501707)

    Nobody knows who these illegal immigrants are, and I imagine that can be frightening for a victim. Fingerprints are useless and semen samples would be useless for, say, a rape victim.

    Jesus keyrist, do you always pronounce with authority when you know jackshit?

    None of that shit applies for native-born criminals either.

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:10AM (1 child)

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:10AM (#501801) Journal

    > [...] native-born [...]

    [...] the Mankato, Minnesota, couple wondered how the doctor knew about Isabel's genes in the first place. After all, they'd never consented to genetic testing.

    It's simple, the pediatrician answered: Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the government, it's often done without the parents' consent [...] In many states, such as Florida [...], babies' DNA is stored indefinitely [...]

    -- http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/index.html [cnn.com]

    JUST 6 hours old. That’s the age of one participant in a recent study looking at ways to take the fingerprints of infants. “The pattern is there at birth,” says Anil Jain at Michigan State University in East Lansing. But it is hard to capture. Now Jain and his colleagues are developing a device that could be up to the task.

    -- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030782-200-we-now-have-the-tech-to-fingerprint-babies-but-should-we/ [newscientist.com]

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @10:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @10:35AM (#501817)

      That CNN article is from 2010. Things have got substantially better wrt to infant DNA retention. It still a problem in some states because there is no federal law. But Florida went from indefinite retention to 6 month retention in 2011.

      http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/385 [cchfreedom.org]