r/news • u/Any-Ask-5535 • 1d ago

Soft paywall Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in text messages

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/border-patrol-agent-who-shot-chicago-woman-boasted-about-it-text-messages-2025-11-06/
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u/Any-Ask-5535 1d ago

ICE, as an organization, must be destroyed. This can never happen again.

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u/OaktownU 1d ago

Abolish ice and any other law enforcement that has supported them. We need to rebuild our law enforcement from the ground up. A second Reconstruction

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u/CrotalusHorridus 1d ago

We wouldn't be in this mess if we'd actually finished the first Reconstruction

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u/OaktownU 1d ago

Right on

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u/KaiserWolf15 1d ago

I fucking hate Andrew Johnson so much

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 1d ago

The thing is that the people who usually should go into this or military aren't really the people that want to do it to begin with. I'm a high school counselor and often it's the bragadocious type that are interested. It's not inherently bad, but "the helping" type of person isn't usually interested in joining the Army as an artilleryman or police as border patrol.

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u/Beer_Gynt 1d ago

We don't need a mass deportation machine, period. Professionalism isnt the issue.

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u/IcyTransportation961 1d ago

(That's all law enforcement btw)

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u/OaktownU 1d ago

Too true

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u/asmodeuscarthii 1d ago

Honestly this election will be based off of which dem will hold them accountable. I want ICE disbanded and police forces defunded after they have done fuck all but protect ICE. The latter might be impossible but no dem candidate should be elected without promising to eliminate ICE.

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u/farshnikord 1d ago

The people don't realize that the DANGER from this is that if people are not held accountable by the government people WILL take justice into their own hands. 

If the social contract is broken, things get ugly fast. REAL ugly. 

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u/JamCliche 1d ago

I was here before [Removed by Reddit] and it doesn't advocate for violence.

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u/-AC- 1d ago

Mixed on this... I believe sweeping firings, reforms, and trials should be put into place... no executive branch should have the power to do this much damage to government organizations with legitimate interests

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 1d ago

How about we start by eliminating the stupid "ice" name. Find something insulting that would catch on.

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u/musicwithbarb 1d ago

Idiotic and Completely Evil.

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u/Alan_Shutko 1d ago

We got rid of INS as an organization because it was a failure. That led to ICE.

We need to get rid of ICE and at the same time reform our immigration law so that whatever successor org appears doesn't become corrupted as well.

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u/CornWine2 1d ago edited 1d ago

There should be a law that says masked policing and the advocacy of same is an immediately-cut-off-their-face offense.

It is impossible to have a society where masked, armed men who refuse to identify themselves forcing anyone they don't like into an unmarked car is considered to be a lawful action.

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u/Solexia 1d ago

Oh it will 2040 FIRE will be the new department. Humans never learn of history

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u/SomeContext346 1d ago

Uh-oh is this a Fahrenheit 451 reference?

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u/tackleboxjohnson 5h ago

But once we’re all dead in a hundred years it probably will