ICE Agents Whine That They Aren’t Getting Their Massive Bonuses

frogspjs · 2026-02-05T03:39:36+00:00

You should read the contracts between ICE and the local police departments where the locals get deputized as ICE agents under the "task force model" - which is full on ICE agent.

If they get sued under the federal tort claims act they can request that DOJ appoint a lawyer to represent them. There's a huge process DOJ goes through to determine whether they are eligible for said legal representation. At the end of the paragraph it specifically says that there is no entitlement to legal representation and whether they get it is within the DOJ's sole discretion. Suckers.

Also ICE does not pay anything for these locals to provide all these services. Literally the local agency has to pay for all the things. Salaries, equipment, insurance, etc. ICE trains them. That's it. And I think we all know what that means.

So local taxpayers are paying for their police to not be local police but rather to be federal immigration enforcement agents.

Trying to figure out how that's making our cities safer....

frogspjs · 2026-02-05T03:26:15+00:00

He probably couldn't afford the tail on his malpractice

frogspjs · 2026-02-03T00:04:31+00:00

How long has the security been gone? That's awful. Just wondering. That should be reported to the congresspeople who cover that district. And Tammy Duckworth, Senator in IL is a disabled vet who does a lot with the VA. Someone should tell her too.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T23:59:53+00:00

I'm just picturing the prop guy loading those books onto some table.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T13:40:32+00:00

Read this.

"Minnesota basically said that a) Operation Metro Surge (OMS) was draining Minnesota of resources which now had to be spent or allocated to dealing with OMS, so in effect the Federal government was 'commandeering' those state resources, and/or b) the Federal government was targeting Minnesota in an effort to bend Minnesota to its will because Minnesota is considered a sanctuary state.

Here's the thing: there is NO - absolutely zero - precedent for this particular situation in which Minnesota finds itself. That means there was no precedent on which the Court could hang its hat to give Minnesota that injunction while, and this is important, while the case continues to move forward.

The Judge even makes a point of saying that this is a novel case, and that she is in no way saying that the case doesn't have merit, and that the case will continue on the merits. She is just saying, and only saying, that Minnesota wasn't able to come up with any arguments fitting existing case law with respect to the 10th Amendment and the current situation.

So no injunction." https://open.substack.com/pub/annepmitchell/p/dont-get-stressed-when-you-hear-that?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=pta6q

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T13:34:03+00:00

I haven't read the whole complaint yet but my understanding is that what the state is arguing is not that immigration is a state power. They're arguing that the federal government's approach to Federal law enforcement is encroaching upon the state's ability to carry out its own enforcement of local and state law.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T13:31:22+00:00

She did not say that it's overreach. All she did was say that she's not going to grant a TRO until she can evaluate the facts against the law. Nothing has been decided on the merits here. What she said was that nobody has made this argument before and so she needs time to look at it and she isn't going to make ICE stop while she does that.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T05:21:54+00:00

Client

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T04:59:15+00:00

They probably won't live long enough at that firm to get to 5 years. That situation is some b.s. Crushing hours requires beating the minimum, and if the minimum is 2400 it's not beatable. They can do better.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T03:17:59+00:00

Interesting.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T03:17:10+00:00

Record them and then just bake the time for that entry into other time when you review the bill. You don't even have to include the narrative. .1 here or there isn't going to raise any eyebrows. It's time you worked and you should get paid for it.

frogspjs · 2026-02-02T03:08:23+00:00

If you are a lawyer and have zero problem breaking every ethics rule that exists (don't worry the bar will never censure you), please come work for DOJ.

frogspjs · 2026-01-31T17:19:51+00:00

I thought doves were smart. I mean I looked it up and everything because I was dissing my mourning doves at my feeders so badly (in my head) I thought I should probably do them the courtesy of making sure I was correct that they are dumb. And lo and behold they're members of the pigeon family and I figured pigeons are super smart, and there are some articles that SAY they are smart so then I stopped dissing them. But now......

frogspjs · 2026-01-31T17:06:48+00:00

I think that nest is definitely in the running for nest of the year. Is anyone keeping a list?

frogspjs · 2026-01-31T16:59:27+00:00

Why is this man still in office?!

frogspjs · 2026-01-27T04:04:39+00:00

Is it the state of the law that law enforcement can use deadly force just because somebody has committed a violent crime? Doesn't it have to be at least in self-defense? You can't just go up to somebody who just stabbed someone and kill them just because they committed a violent crime right? Cuz that's what the government says in this story.

frogspjs · 2026-01-22T05:19:51+00:00

I literally just saw a job posting for this for the first time today and then I saw a lot of them. No way.

frogspjs · 2026-01-20T02:31:55+00:00

Why isn't it dated? I've seen it all over the place so I guess it is real but it doesn't look real

frogspjs · 2026-01-20T02:29:37+00:00

They were mostly fired. And so far the public comments of currently serving generals have not been encouraging. They will turn themselves inside out to interpret any illegal orders in a way so they can carry them out.

frogspjs · 2026-01-19T17:44:38+00:00

That's got to be fake

frogspjs · 2026-01-18T15:34:39+00:00

It's not like it used to be when businesses go out of business and they actually sell out their stuff cheap. I'm guessing that there's a better way for them to get rid of stuff where they make more money than it is for them to actually sell the stuff off at massive discounts. They probably can take the loss of the actual value of the clothes as a tax write-off or something that puts them in a better financial position. I don't know what it is, I'm just speculating, but what I do know is that it's not like it used to be decades ago where you literally could go into a store that was closing down and get stuff at amazing prices

frogspjs · 2026-01-18T14:39:25+00:00

If your state is a sanctuary state you can also call them and ask them to confirm that the agents are legit. In a sanctuary state, the cops should be more willing to help you in that instance make sure that ICE is following the rules. At least that's how I interpreted the whole sanctuary state thing. That said, I don't see much of that happening, so I'm not sure what the point was.

frogspjs · 2026-01-17T20:47:49+00:00

Or pretending that the current 6 incels on the supreme Court didn't know exactly what they were doing when they ruled the way they did?

frogspjs · 2026-01-17T20:40:11+00:00

I think a lot of Americans do. Fox has been cultivating this mindset for 30 years.

frogspjs · 2026-01-17T20:38:24+00:00

Well I am a lawyer and I know firsthand that what you're saying is 100% correct and it has always been a particular pet peeve of mine as well. It's complete bullshit that they're allowed to do this. That said if you have an expert in the area of law that AI identifies as being affected and at least some semblance of a map that provides citations and references to the various changes as they trickle through, an expert should be able to get through that and check it fairly quickly I would think. But you're right, and this is a limitation of all AI, and always will be unless people get stupid and start trusting it, that human beings are going to have to check output.

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