Democrat’s bill would let people sue ICE over misconduct
It’ll be a nonstarter for the Republicans, but will demonstrates the scale of change Democrats now believe is needed.
It’ll be a nonstarter for the Republicans, but will demonstrates the scale of change Democrats now believe is needed.
The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week.
They say if you bet on yourself, you’ll never lose. That might be why, at 3 a.m. on Saturday, January 3, an anonymous trader made a $30,000 bet on the prediction app Polymarket that Venezuela’s president would be captured before the end of the month. A few hours later, the brand new account hit the jackpot: Donald Trump confirmed that Nicolás Maduro was in U.S. custody and the user scored a whopping $436,000. The account cashed out shortly after, according to the Telegraph, and has not been active since.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is leaping into action to protect American citizens by banning … something that is already illegal. Speaking at a press briefing at the Capitol Thursday, Jeffries announced that, as a condition of supporting legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security as it continues its deadly immigration enforcement crackdown in Minneapolis, Democrats will demand a ban on deporting American citizens. “In what country are we living in if it’s controversial to prohibit [the deportation] of American citizens?” Jeffries said. “That shouldn’t even be a discussion.”It shouldn’t be up for discussion because it is already illegal. Deporting American citizens is not permitted under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which outlines the rules for deporting noncitizens. It also violates a 1958 Supreme Court ruling that found stripping a person of their American citizenship violated the Eighth Amendment protection against “cruel and unusual punishment.”But the Trump administration is still doing it anyway, sweeping up American citizens as part of its dragnet immigration enforcement efforts. Senate Democrats also pitched immigration reforms such as requiring federal agents to wear body cameras, banning the use of face masks, and enforcing a new code of conduct. But they’re missing the point. It seems that Jeffries, along with his Senate colleagues, haven’t quite grasped the fact that the cruelties of Donald Trump’s lawless immigration crackdown are not subject to reform because they are already lawless. Instead, Democrats will continue to find ways to soothe their conscience while filling the coffers of federal agencies that allowed American citizens to be killed in the streets.
“I said in March, if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed,” said Homan.