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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has run a secretive program for years where ICE agents have trained hundreds of civilian volunteers on how to operate multiple types of firearms, conduct investigations and surveillance of immigrants, and use lethal force on human beings.

The program, known as Citizens Academies, includes role-play scenarios for civilians to conduct fictional raids on immigrants and is active in New York and in more than a dozen cities across the country. The program is run by Homeland Security Investigations, the branch of ICE in charge of intelligence, international affairs, and surveillance.

According to thousands of internal documents obtained from ICE via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request litigation, published on Oct. 1 by a group of civil rights organizations, the program was piloted first in Puerto Rico in 2014 and turned national in 2019.

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[–] RageAgainstTheRich 15 points 2 months ago

Absolute cunts... In the netherlands we have this thing called BOA's. They're basically citizen wannabe cops that roam the cities. They're super fucking annoying. It can be people from the train company, etc but with cop powers. They WILL ticket the shit out of you for anything.

Here is the english wikipedia for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service_officer

[–] snekerpimp 10 points 2 months ago

That’s scary. And we are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The absolute fuck is wrong with America.

[–] ShunkW 11 points 2 months ago
[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does the organization vet its volunteers to ensure it's not training a guerilla force that is unanswerable to the government?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They use vetted experts in the field like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone to keep track of all the small problems like that.

[–] ikidd 2 points 2 months ago

Whacker Uni