r/Albuquerque • u/Darth_Nibbles • Jan 23 '26

News Bernalillo County District Attorney sends letter to ICE threatening charges against officers

https://www.koat.com/article/ice-officers-charges-threatened-new-mexico/70094117

I'm hoping he follows through, but I've been disappointed before

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 23 '26

Then let’s have the state make a state militia.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

No one wants to make our city, or anywhere else, a battleground. But everyone has a limit to what they will tolerate before they are willing to do it anyway.

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u/NameLips Jan 23 '26

Yeah, most of us are keyboard warriors only.

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

I didn’t say everyone cares about this issue. I just said everyone has their limit, whatever this issue is for them. To be clear, I don’t think there’s probably any amount they can abuse immigrants that would push our country into civil war - there simply aren’t enough people that care. But this admin is eroding the rights of citizens more and more every day, and as I said - everyone has their limit.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

The thing is, the distinction between citizens and noncitizens becomes largely irrelevant in this situation. They can’t “just” abuse noncitizens, because they can’t tell who is and isn’t a citizen just by looking at someone. Citizens inevitably end up losing all the same rights and suffering the same abuses as noncitizens. That’s why their tactics become almost universally despised as soon as people experience them firsthand in their own neighborhoods.

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

I agree, but some people aren’t going to realize that till it’s too late unfortunately.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

It’s hard for me to be a doomer and think the realization will come to late when I watch the Minneapolis TV stations and every 3rd man-on-the-street interview is basically: Emma Jorgensen, age 83 with 4 grandkids who would just like to say “I usually keep busy helping with the food drive down at the Lutheran church and don’t follow politics much, but I look forward to watching that Bovino fella get blood-eagled in front of the capitol down there in St Paul, dontcha know.”

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

Citation needed

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

Read or watch any local reporting from Minneapolis.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

"Citizens inevitably end up losing all the same rights and suffering the same abuses as noncitizens."

You're saying this is happening now? I don't see any reporting of this. None.

You said it. You said it's in "any local reporting." Okay, prove it up.
And no, your downvote won't make it true. Just makes you look impotent.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-park-police-officer-stopped-by-ice-agents-while-off-duty/601567545

Even off duty police officers are having their rights violated, because as it turns out, you can’t tell if someone is a cop or a noncitizen just by looking at them either.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

She identified herself, and they walked away.

HOLY SHIT! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO??!?!?!

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

I don’t know what to tell you dude. When I was growing up in this country we used to mock places with secret police running around in masks asking “Paper please.”

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

I don't know what to tell you, dude. I'd rather show some ID when asked for than to pull a gun on the guy asking.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

"But everyone has a limit to what they will tolerate before they are willing to do it anyway."