• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    In the past month, Homan told reporters, 158 people have been arrested for interfering with federal law enforcement, a crime for which penalties range from one to 20 years in prison. Of those cases, he claimed, 85 have been accepted for prosecution. The rest are still pending.

    Over five a day…

    And it seems a safe assumption they’re all citizens, or else they’d have just been deported

    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      Nah even the ones they’re “deporting” as I understand it most of them are being sent to the camps in the hopes that the cruel conditions with convince them to leave willingly and give up due process rights.

      On some level they still think they can only get away with actually deporting so many with zero due process before they actually face consequences. So if looks like they’re trying to be as cruel as possible in the hopes that they’ll just waive those rights and allow themselves to be deported.

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      We’re a police state. Whenever you hear Republicans or neoliberal complain about anything in the justice system is because the system isn’t draconian enough. Chuck and Jeffries are bought by the prison industrial complex.

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        Dude, we invented police. Literally. We are the original police state, which can be easily backed up by the fact that we have a higher percentage of incarcerated individuals than any other nation. And that has been true for a very long time.

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          I believe the original police was created in Britain in the late 1820’s by Robert Peel. It was another 30 years for it to be copied in the US. As a UK citizen I can only apologise although much like your government you created something much much worse. Quite the achievement based on how bad our own police are, and government.

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            The Scotland Yard or whatever they started with did not really even resemble modern policing.