A growing number of reports suggest that some Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are engaging in theft during operations, including instances where detainees’ possessions, such as jewellery and personal belongings, are allegedly taken and sold or kept by agents.

The most recent and disturbing evidence emerged from Minnesota, where a photograph circulated showing an ICE agent wearing a gold bracelet. The bracelet was allegedly taken from a detainee during an arrest.

‘It now appears that some ICE agents are stealing from the people they’re arresting. This agent was photographed with a gold bracelet he took off a man in Minnesota,’ a viral post on X was shared.

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    From what I’ve heard they’re also keeping documents so the next time they get picked up they’re “undocumented”.

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    ICE are STEALING as they Murder and Kidnap American Citizens? That OBVIOUSLY means they need MORE Money so they Don’t HAVE to Steal anymore!

    -Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats!

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    Of course they’re stealing; they have no morality in anything else they’re doing.

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    I’m sure they’ve violently raped a lot of people as well…they’re being trained by the IDF

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      I’m sure a bunch of girls got shipped to whatever island Trump is using since he lost access to the last one.

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      Usually it’s just called civil asset forfeiture, so liberals don’t realize we’ve always been a fascist nation.

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        The fact that America’s liberals aren’t aware and aren’t against asset forfeiture is based on weird and deeply ignorant world view. I’m sure you some propaganda to back it up with the same level of validity the right always produces when they blame liberals.

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          The point isn’t that they support it, it’s that they are pacified by the theater while the US continues to build an underclass of person around the label of criminal that is predominately applied to black and brown people.

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        Civil asset forfeiture can be legally challenged and has documentation, even if the concept itself is bullshit. An unidentified ICE agent just taking and keeping it for themselves on a whim is significantly more severe.

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          This is the theater they use to justify the reality that they are functionally the same.

          Just because in theory you can jump through enough legal hoops to maybe get your stuff back doesn’t change the reality that they have your stuff unjustly.

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            ‘Cops robbing you at gunpoint with their faces covered is just like cops searching your home with a warrant and taking items you can legally reclaim’ certainly is a position.

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              Civil asset forfeiture does not require a warrant, and just because the gun is not drawn doesn’t not erase the threat of violence. Mixed with the ways the thin blue line and absence of consequence for cops lying, I will say again, the theater of it is different, but they are functionally the same.

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        Oh well, if it’s the same thing we’ve been putting up with for years, then the liberals can simply ignore this, too. Thank you for your service! /s

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    Hmm, it seems I recall hearing of a different regime doing this last century, somewhere, and this century somewhere else…

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    There was a story a couple of weeks ago about an American citizen kid who was detained, and later released, but they never gave him his phone back.

    He used Find My Phone, and tracked it to a used technology vending machine (that’s a thing, I guess) next to the facility he was held in. So some ICE Ape stole his phone, and sold it to whoever stocks that machine. When I read it, I wondered if all the other tech in the machine was stolen from detainees by ICE Apes. Sounds like a side hustle by someone in authority. Got a phone from somewhere? “Go talk to Carl, he’ll buy it.”

    I can just hear these motherfuckers saying “So what? It’s not like they’re going to need it in CECOT.”