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The police should not be a sacrosanct thing that we live our lives around. The fourth amendment, and the constitution in general, put primacy on protecting people's rights over a police state. That is not me blindly adhering to my notions about the constitution. It's the society I personally want to live in. Leave people alone UNLESS there is a REALLY good reason. ... and you follow some very strict rules about messing with people's lives.

Sometimes people forget that we don't have to live our lives at the mercy of the police. The police are supposed to do their jobs around us, and the tie should always goes to the runner when it comes to them. I realize that non-Americans don't get the same exact entitlements that citizens do, but due process is due process, and more importantly, decency is decency. This is such a made up crisis. There are people living here illegally because they come from some really crummy places, and like the ancestors of A LOT of Americans they had the guts to uproot themselves and try for a better life. ... for them and their families. The rhetoric that has come from the assholes in the executive is not only xenophobic at best and racist at worst, it shows a lack of compassion that should bother people. These perverted notions of law and order and how we need to suddenly chase down people who have lived here for decades, not hurting anyone, are pure cruelty. There's no need for it.

In the case of ICE, I'd much rather a mostly unseen, small force that patrols the border to the best of its ability, than a roving band of stormtroopers hunting down people who, as a practical matter, aren't hurting anyone. ICE is now terrorizing people who have been here for decades, aren't bothering anyone, and have families and lives here. And for what purpose?

I have read so many things like this one from a few days ago: https://nypost.com/2018/06/25/longtime-waiter-deported-by-ice-i-didnt-know-what-hit-me/

It's just senseless and cruel.