fyi its actually bigger than this because airports are considered borders
time to move to liberal mountain
I was about to comment, but you got here first.
Airports, I think specifically ones that take international flights, are considered ports of entry.
also any airports that do layovers or whatever for international flights. so almost any airport really, even ones in the middle of the country
swear to god im having deja vu rn i feel like you said yupppp to me on a similar topic xD
regardless gonna go drink some water. its theorized that deja vu is caused by dehydration, at least from a dubious paper i read!
Citing your sources is for nerds. Just say it came to you in a dream.
:gigachad:
fyi its actually bigger than this because airports are considered borders
Do you have a link? I saw a tweet that said that too but I googled and I got nowhere.
Thanks.
The media is exhausting. Providing context is literally part of journalism. But they love to put that shit behind a paywall with article titles like "What the Supreme Court Border Ruling REALLY Means".
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We need a "Ryan from the Office pointing and nodding" emote
Oh fuck, ICE is going to need a fat ass check to make sure they get to go full Darth Vader 100 miles radially out from every international airport.
At some point, it will probably go that route. For now, I'm guessing that its more about giving Border Patrol authority to do things without needing to ask anybody.
i did a dive at one point, if i had sources written down for half the shit i say id have written a book at this point lmao. there was a court ruling on the effective range of the border patrol at one point
Fascism is the application of colonial methods of control to the imperial core. Here we're starting to see the status quo of places like occupied Iraq (where heavily armed goons were allowed to raid houses for any reason or no reason) being extended to the border zones of the metropole.
Yep, this is textbook fascism right here. Expanding unaccountable authority. Removing people's ability to challenge power even if they do it through the "state approved avenues."
My dark joke about this is at least the USA has done fuck all to expand rail infrastructure so at least I'll be forced into the bed of a truck or a prison bus rather than a cattle car when they shuttle me off to a work/death camp. Weeee. I love living here.
The US has done fuck all to expand passenger rail infrastructure. Our freight rail infrastructure is 2nd best in the world (we're gonna be freight lmfao).
how long until every police officer is considered a border agent in order to make the most use of this? next week?
My god, they're probably, actually going to say being a "deputized" border agent is a thing. It'll go to local court. Then a state court. And finally the GOP justices will say "While deputized border agent haven't been a thing codified into law - we are codifying it retroactively as of right now. What's our reasoning? It's based on this time honored axiom - we pulled it outta out ass. Also, fuck you..."
I'm watching liberalism decay into fascism in real time and I don't like it
Right now the dems have a top secret polling/focus group unit studying the hard topics such as:
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How the Democrats Can Benefit of Christofascism
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Democratic Messaging in an American Ethnostate
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A Trillion Dollar Military Budget Now
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Biden literally said just today the primaries prove that the people want politicians to get even more tough on crime...
Didn’t border agent killed uvalde shooter? I’m not saying :alex-no-supplements: but :alex-supplements:
BorTac, they typically are pretty insane though.
I heard over my shoulder from my wife that the BorTac guy wasn't on duty, he was related to a teach somehow and was getting texts.
the BorTac guy wasn’t on duty, he was related to a teach somehow and was getting texts
The only pig that did his job wasn't even doing his job. :agony-limitless:
They don't need conspiracies dude they're doing all this shit right on in the open.
Well, I meant you can feasibly see them do it right now, by saying police is dogshit, we need to retrain them as border agents, with a caveat they can do whatever now (even more whatever)
the real :alex-supplements: take is that this dude was a deliberate test case designed to further entrench/codify CBP powers
I mean the dude literally had a vanity plate that said
SMUGLER
Reminder that the US is no more fascist today that it was yesterday. They're just going through the motions of codifying/acknowledging an aspect of the fascism that already exists. The conditions that allow a fascist state to act with violent impunity were already in place, and the state has not hesitated in this sort of conduct prior to now.
In other words, this ruling doesn't make the US more fascist. It's simply yet more evidence that the US has always been every bit as fascist as we say.
The US is has laid down the infrastructure for modern fascist controls since 9/11’s Patriot Act
Even that was more a modernization and overhaul of the War on Drugs. And the drug war was a rebranding of Jim Crow. Which was a way to retrofit state law to reimplement slavery. Etc. Etc.
Certain cities and states wax and wane as opportunity and financing permit. But this tends to follow economic allowances as much as anything. Consider the UK police state, which is crumbling in no small part because the country is going broke.
the state used to keep the liberal pretense of political rights intact, and now the state is becoming more brazen and dangerous in exercising power and demonstrating political and legal impotence of the public
In a way, it never really mattered. Just as colonialists found ways of justifying killing, raping, enslaving, and stealing in the name of Christ centuries ago, the American state will find ways of justifying doing fascism in the name of freedom and democracy.
wonder how many of them will end up shot
no knock raid in texas seems like a fantastic way to get your head blown offI bet they'll ask for the aid of local law enforcement. For example - a local SWAT team can serve up the warrant, shoot some people (and the dogs) out of necessity, tenants (and a hapless neighbor or two) are shot and the rest cuffed, and then the federal forces can then bravely enter the building.
If that's not quite legal now - I'm sure it will be soon. The GOP justices are unleashed. Nothing will/can stop them. And they know it.
Literally the MO of US occupation forces in Iraq, no knock raids and black bags
hey guess what we're doing some oil imperialis— ow! where'd that boomerang come from???
People already don't understand or believe how the legal system de facto works. They won't believe or understand these rulings, ever. Lawyers will get it. Grad students studying American fascism in the 2080s will get it. Americans will never get it.
Grad students studying American fascism in the 2080s
I see you're an optimist
Precedent: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/texas-no-knock-swat-raid/
Yo, what? does the US really consider chicago to be on the border? Really?
Imagine the stupidest and cruelest possible thing. That's America.
Your average American talks about Chicago like it's Somalia, so this tracks
It's not Team Democrat vs Team Republican so it can't be that important, right?
It is the tiniest consolation that this bullshit is part of the whole #girlboss legacy of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. She torched her own legacy at the height of her borderline cult of personality by predictably dying at the worst opportune time. Sic semper liberal identity politics.
map doesn't include international airports, those are "borders" too IIRC
Apparently the 100 mile part doesn't apply to airports- they have a buffer around them, but it's not 100 miles.
But when push comes to shove I don't expect that technicality to matter
Wait is that real? Because that's most of the interior cities also right?
Louisville, Nashville, SLC, St. Louis, Cincy, Atlanta, Columbus, Des Moines etc etc, like all the midsized cities in the interior of the country have intl airports right?
Airports that accept international flight are considered Ports of Entry. And Border Patrol gets to play 100 miles from any Port of Entry.
Minneapolis isn't in the "100 mile border zone" but CBP was running recon drones for the cops in Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests. Just saying
minneapolis airport does international flights, they're in the zone
This will come in handy for keeping people out and/or in during the climate crisis. Can't let all the refugees in and you can't let all your workers leave. Lockdown the borders.
That's the plan, if my soothsaying has any merit. The whole "continue as normal" while ramping up the security state is one big smoke and mirror show. The reality is that the USA is gearing up to violently defend it's rotten core from the consequences of its actions. Billions will die because of the feckless "leaders" in charge of this shambolic engine of hate. "We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. And the machine is bleeding to death."
Did anyone read the facts of the case? What a weird ass country. Dude ran "Smugglers Inn" and would occasionally help but also snitch on migrants. Edit: I don't like the "everything is a conspiracy" mindset but this sounds like some corrupt shit was happening in the background of this case.
Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington. The inn abuts the international border between Canada and the United States. Boule at times helped federal agents identify and apprehend persons engaged in unlawful cross-border activity on or near his property. But Boule also would provide transportation and lodging to illegal border crossers. Often, Boule would agree to help illegal border crossers enter or exit the United States, only to later call federal agents to report the unlawful activity.
In 2014, Boule informed petitioner Erik Egbert, a U. S. Border Patrol agent, that a Turkish national, arriving in Seattle by way of New York, had scheduled transportation to Smuggler’s Inn. When Agent Egbert observed one of Boule’s vehicles returning to the inn, he suspected that the Turkish national was a passenger and followed the vehicle to the inn. On Boule’s account, Boule asked Egbert to leave, but Egbert refused, became violent, and threw Boule first against the vehicle and then to the ground. Egbert then checked the immigration paperwork for Boule’s guest and left after finding everything in order. The Turkish guest unlawfully entered Canada later that evening.
Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an administrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Egbert allegedly retaliated against Boule by reporting Boule’s “SMUGLER” license plate to the Washington Department of Licensing for referencing illegal activity, and by contacting the Internal Revenue Service and prompting an audit of Boule’s tax returns. Boule’s FTCA claim was ultimately denied, and Border Patrol took no action against Egbert for his use of force or alleged acts of retaliation. Boule then sued Egbert in Federal District Court...
I don’t like the “everything is a conspiracy” mindset but this sounds like some corrupt shit was happening in the background of this case.
I don't think it's a conspiracy that Boule might have been playing both ends against the middle. He could have been helping border crossers if they paid him enough. And I'll assume "payment" could also include sex. At the same time - he could have (un)officially been working for the government too and they could have been paying him or helping him as well.
Agencies and agents can be very lazy. For the Border Patrol (etc) it's very useful to be able to bump apprehension numbers in an easy way as opposed to freezing their balls off in the pouring rain week after week (or month after month) actually nabbing border crossers themselves very slowly one or two there and on or two there.
i looked it up the other week because I was remembering the 100 mile rule and i think my city is technically just over 100 miles away from the nearest ocean, but who am I kidding lol like that'll stop fascists from doing fascist shit. I gotta get out of this hellhole.
Courtroom dialog...
Lawyer: "Officer Fashy - according to google - Podunk City is 537 miles from any border. Does that sound about right?"
Officer Fashy: "Yeah. Sounds about right."
Lawyer: "Yet you stated under oath that 'The 100 mile rule protects us from prosecution.' Could you explain how?"
Officer Fashy: "We were in hot pursuit."
Later all officers are acquitted of all federal charges due to the 100 mile rule.
I've seen similar maps that include airports with international flights as borders. No idea if it's used that way.
Probably just a matter of time before some demi-lich judge makes it so.
the 100 mile rule does already include any international airport
Then this map would need a lot more yellow space to be accurate, right?
Yeah, it's just showing the areas within 100 miles of the border, but basically any airport that has international flights land at it counts as "border"
Upholding constitutional freedoms by contradicting them. Amazing.
