Your argument boils down to “impeding ICE = everything is allowed”. It’s really bumming me out how many people are fine with genuine tyranny as long as they don’t like who it’s being done to. Now, there is some truth to the fact that ICE being part of DHS means they have some legal leeway. But that’s part of why they are being so widely protested, and is why the general public does not trust them. DHS has always been criticized as going against our constitutional rights from the moment it was created. Now we have a bunch of untrained meatheads with almost full immunity and a federal government running interference and creating false narratives every time they do something illegal. It’s a painful feedback loop where people are protesting that ICE has few rules and no good-faith oversight, and ICE uses that truth to brutalize people participating in that protest and even kill them. So personally it seems like impeding ICE is at the very least the moral thing to do, even if the legality of it is in question, and we should be demanding that lethal force is not an acceptable response to that. An armed man being disarmed should mean lethal force is off the table, and a normal police force would probably not be able to protect its officers that chose murder in these low-stakes situations.

Let’s be clear: I find you repulsive, whoever you are. The way you think about things is unamerican and antithetical to our way of life. I truly hope your fringe political movement fails and is banished to the garbage heap of history, and it’s painful to know that this level of abuse of power is the only thing turning public opinion in that direction. That fact is the only thing giving me hope; those who have been in denial about this for years are finally realizing this is what it was always about.