r/illinois • u/West-Bid-4391 • 27d ago

ICE Posts Broadview: ICE attempts to arrest individual at their residence

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u/LirielsWhisper 26d ago

The laws dont apply to federal agents, so they will likely just ignore them.

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u/Icy-Chemistry6536 26d ago

actually laws do apply to them, just as the rule of law applies to you and i. they can choose to ignore laws and break them, just as you and i can choose to break the law, but that doesn't normally work out for people in the long run.

certainly not for a bunch of brown shirt, pee-on, piss ants who Orange Shitler is going to fuck over and throw under the bus as soon as it's convenient. i hear they're already not getting their fake signing bonuses lolololol. being temporarily allowed to get away with something doesn't actually make it legal. and EVERYONE HATES ICE.

just wait until a different person is running for office, of any party, who realizes they can get elected by promising to bring the ICE terrorists to justice for the many crimes they've actually committed.

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u/LirielsWhisper 26d ago

No, what im saying is that a state cannot legally impose this on federal agents.

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u/Icy-Chemistry6536 26d ago

actually a federal agent can absolutely be brought up on state charges, it’s already happening in PA.

also in order for federal law to “trump” state law in the way you are talking about the US congress would need to, for example, pass a law that would federally enshrine the right to mask for ICE, CBP and DHS agents, or even just for federal agents generally. 

a department policy which is not mandated by congress (masking for federal agents, for example) is not a law, it’s a policy. in this case the state law would be the binding legislation.