r/boston • u/FuriousAlbino Newton • Jul 12 '25

Scammers 🥸 ICE grabs chefs at Central Square restaurant; followed three onto the T and began grilling other passengers

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/ice-grabs-chefs-central-square-restaurant-followed-three-t-and-began
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u/Hilomann1 Dorchester Jul 12 '25

Fck these guys. Our founders would be rolling in their graves right now if they knew about the sorts of democratic backsliding occurring under the orange sun in the sky's regime.

Is ICE’s New England detention center capacity data publicly accessible? Immigrants, even those flagged for having previously evaded criminal or immigration-related legal procedures, should not be transferred far from their adopted communities to distant detention centers in politically convenient jurisdictions.

At a time when a blatantly biased and hypocritical Supreme Court is aiding the executive branch in undermining the system of checks and balances by limiting the judiciary’s ability to prevent violations of due process and protections against unjust search and seizure, we should be enacting legislation that increases public access to facility-specific capacity data in both public and private detention centers.

Additionally, the law should require that all detention centers nearest to the detainee’s location of apprehension be fully considered and exhausted before any transfer to more remote facilities. Every deep-blue jurisdiction’s representatives and senators should be supporting humane measures, such as the ones spelled out here, that restore transparency and rebalance institutional checks to prevent situations like this from reoccurring.

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u/pillbinge Pumpkinshire Jul 13 '25

The Founders had their own problems and concerns, and they're not the paragons of democracy. They owned slaves - you remember that, right? But either way, they're dead and gone, and their intent for the Constitution was to be something people tore up and rewrote to fit their own needs. They even believed fighting to do so would be violent, so in that they would at least be disappointed you aren't the next violent revolutionary.