I see videos all the time of US police nowhere near the border just deciding to stick up a checkpoint and harass everyone in what's obviously a fishing operation and treat everyone as suspicious with zero actual cause.
The police then get angry when people know their rights and assert them.
With due respect no. You assume from videos you may have watched the above because you have preconceived political views that project what you want to see on the videos or they come from sources with political agenda.
Let's stand back. There are illegal aliens in the US. No one questions that, What Americans are questioning is whether the current federal government's priority should be deporting illegals who are WORKING. The US has always had an unwritten cultural belief that illegals who work and pay taxes formed the underclass that enabled the manpower for many businesses that would not otherwise be able to function because they get paid less than minimumw age and so in return for illegals being willing to be cheap labour and pay their taxes after 5 years they could ask for forgiveness to stay.
That changed with Trump. He now scapegoated all illegals as criminal rapists, drug cartel operatives and murderers. Under the Trump scapegoating, the vast majority of illegals who work and fuel the economy now became the people to hate. Its what fascists do. They need a visible group to hate and blame things on. Call the illegals if you wish Trump's version of Hitler's Jews. Underlying that scapegoating was a racial message and it was no accident Trump lied and made a fool of himself and embarassed all the US lying about South Africa to try justify saying "white refugees" must come to the US to escape genocide but anyone with a sun tan from a genuinely oppressive regime should and can not to the point where he now supports the Venezuela dictator.
Trump's policies and agenda, his using ICE as a gestapo to raid and instill fear in people, his calls to use not just the National Guard but regular forces as political agents are deplorable.
However as we speak LA police, California state police, have refused to engage in specific tactics and harassment of illegals as have other police forces across the US.
Police are placed in an impossible situation. They have to deal with street reality and understand they can not enforce every law on the books and engage in priority policing. That is never easy,
Please understand this-aside from what Trump is doing to discredit enforcement agencies by turning them into political control agents-they can not abandon their duties. One of them absolutely is stopping vehicles on the road. You do not know why they do but the point is every day cars and trucks are caught full of weapons, drugs, illegal people who are going to be used as slaves, prostitutes, child sex toys.
The trafficking of humans across the US and via its borders is a genuine issue and Trump's exploiting the people charged with monitoring that for his own political agenda should not colour your understanding that the human trafficking continues and must be managed-innocent lives depend on it.
The Americans protesting are not protesting genuine police or border control operations. They are challenging the abuse of power and refocusing from that to cheap busts to brag quotas are being met.
Hope that makes sense because turning on the police and blaming them will not address the real issue and that us using the police or military for political purposes that violate the US constitution or refocus priority to non violent working illegals from violent criminals and human traffickers.
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