Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark(www.themarshallproject.org)
134 pointsby Jimmc4146 hours ago10 comments
  • smallmancontrov5 hours ago
    First you try to record the ICE officers, then the ICE officers pepper spray you, then Alex Pretti steps in, then they tackle him, take his gun, and murder him in cold blood.

    Then the feds grab the evidence to make sure the investigation has as little to go on as humanly possible.

    Now this.

    The information lockdown continues apace.

  • throw0101a4 hours ago
    "Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations":

    * https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/pol...

    “For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.” ― Oscar R. Benavides, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Óscar_R._Benavides#Later_life

  • jameskilton5 hours ago
    Same thing happened the last time we went through this circus. I'm only surprised it took this long for them to shut off access.
  • lenerdenator4 hours ago
    I don't think this will have the effect that the administration thinks it will.

    People aren't ignoring all of the things they have been up to. They're keeping track, regardless of the data that the government puts out.

    Still, the administration thinks people will just forget. In their minds, it will all simmer down, and since they now control the government, they can avoid consequences from voters and from the courts.

    The problem is, history shows that there are worse things for those who abuse human rights than losing elections or facing trial. It would be better for them - and the country - if they kept the data open, disciplined the officers who can't abide by basic professional standards, and re-evaluated their approach.

  • jb19914 hours ago
    That's alright, I've been counting them myself to keep track, since I knew other sources of the data would eventually disappear. So far, eight people have been deported.
  • fellowniusmonk4 hours ago
    You see this very often, these kinds of things keep escalating and with the destruction of the rule of law and the need to suck up to an executive a country basically becomes a black hole for investors.

    Every time the chain of evil is allowed to persist it corrupts a widening tranche of people and the inertia for compromise just increases until sudden system collapse.

    It's just normal error propagation in the network. Only taking ethics and morality seriously at the grass roots level can stop this, but people have gone absolutely wacky for ingroup and apocalyptic thinking and the lie "everyones doing this" has been really pushed hard as a thought stopper.

  • superkuh5 hours ago
    Lets not forget the the FBI recently announced they will no longer investigate any crimes ICE commits.
  • ck24 hours ago
    imagine what this looks like in three more years by 2029, 1000 more days

    they are lying more and more to courts, they immediately move people out of state at great expense to prevent lawyers from access

    we only know of the warehouse prisons they gave up on, there are likely many moving forward or already exist in secret buried inside military bases without press or congressional access

    if the Dems don't win the Senate the country is done, House is not enough, House will just be a dog-and-pony show since they have no enforcement powers

  • 0xy5 hours ago
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    • Johnny_Bonk5 hours ago
      What about the extremism causing all of this, three years ago we didn't have folks with legal right to work here being executed in the street, separated from their families, deported right after getting out of a hospital for life threatening illnesses... politicians calling other people subhuman, animals, all criminals.. odd you dont mention THAT extremism.
      • macintux5 hours ago
        I'd definitely prefer random disturbed violence by civilians over a government militia with zero accountability.
      • 0xy3 hours ago
        Your critical error assuming that an Employment Authorization Document confers residency status when the document itself explicitly states it does not aside, no other Western country tolerates people overstaying visas, entering illegally or the massive identity theft that follows from people with no status stealing people's identity (sometimes leading to ruined lives for innocent people).

        You would never call out the Dallas extremist accidentally mowing down two INNOCENT detainees because it's very inconvenient for your case, despite your entire argument purportedly being driven by care for these people (the same people that were collateral damage in Dallas).

      • sedivy944 hours ago
        Americans’ apathy to your concerns and their support of this administration is a direct consequence of the emotional blackmail tactic you employ. I share some of your concerns, but also have an awareness that enforcing the law to correct for past immigration policy failures will be ugly. The emotional blackmail is a learned behavior fueled by social media campaigns that effectively traumatize the hell out of us by amplifying violence and often removing their context.
        • Tyrubias3 hours ago
          I don’t think there’s any context that would make executing a father in front of his daughter and actively suppressing accountability any better. You might call it emotional blackmail, but many of us would consider it “pointing out basic human rights”.

          Enforcing the law is not inherently good. It is only as good as the morality behind the law and the manner it which it is enforced. This administration and the forces backing it possess neither morality nor the ability to impartially enforce any of these laws.

          Even if your insistence that asking for basic empathy encourages apathy is true, it only says something disturbing about the Americans supporting this administration. On that topic, polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans do not approve of how the current immigration crackdown is being handled.

          • 0xy3 hours ago
            It is not a basic human right to enter a country illegally, or to overstay a visa. You also show absolutely no concern for human rights when an ICE activist mowed down two ICE detainees accidentally, tellingly so. You allegedly care about ICE detainees, but will happily ignore their deaths if they were slaughtered by an anti-ICE activist. It's not a good look, is it?

            The activists also continually highlight the plight of people with sordid backgrounds, like Seamus Culleton. He was plastered throughout the media as a sympathetic deportee, until you also learn he was a wanted fugitive drug dealer in Ireland. Whoops, memory holed!

            On the topic of polls, the vast majority of Americans support deportations. 56% of registered voters support deporting ALL illegal aliens. Not just criminals - ALL.

    • smallmancontrov5 hours ago
      The data is also used by lawyers to "target" gleefully lawless government agencies with legal accountability.

      ICE is much more intimidated by these than by the handful of fools who serve them pretext on a platter.

      No, ICE should not be allowed to hide from legal accountability.

    • LocalH4 hours ago
      You keep referring to the freedom fighters as "extremists".

      The extremists are the ones infiltrating our government and turning it into the Fourth Reich.

      • 0xy3 hours ago
        Given the Dallas extremist slaughtered two ICE detainees, how many collateral bodies are you prepared to accept?
  • zapkyeskrill5 hours ago
    Of course. Think of the chil... no, it's a matter of natio... no. Hrm .. well we have nothing to hide! Same as you, yet you keep your doors locked and bank account hidden!