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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 08 2019, @09:37PM   Printer-friendly

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age:

The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come and go. Rather than gaze at the bay or the boats or the building-size piles of bleached shells, two men — one thinner, one thicker — stared at the shellfish workers. The strangers sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks. They watched the workers grab their gear and walk to the docks. The workers watched them watching, too, and they soon began to realize that the men were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When the workers made eye contact, the officers nodded politely, but they said very little. For weeks, they just watched. Then the workers began to vanish.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:06AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:06AM (#904465) Journal

    Make hiring illegals a corporate death penalty offense, and from the head down: the entire C-suite not only goes to prison for at least a decade, but get stripped of all income and all assets, solid and liquid. That will put a stop to this shit real quick.

    Never going to happen, though; as others have pointed out, the Republicans are going to turn a blind eye because MUH MONEYZ and the Democrats are going to ignore it for fear of alienating (hurr) several of their voting blocs. And if you think food is expensive now (and I do, even goddamn oatmeal and rice and beans are expensive...) just wait until the shadow workforce of as-good-as-slaves disappears. The reason no one in power is going to touch this is that when they do and meat *starts* at $15 a pound for cheap questionable lips'n'arseholes, there will be countrywide riots.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @02:27AM (#904474)

    Oh, right! Good! Let's immediately do that for all similar laws! After all, all corporations have all the evidence available to the police, right?

    .... right?

    I mean, the government does play open cards with the corps, right?

    ... they don't?

    Well, shit.