Not really. Any law enforcement can talk to people, but...you can't make them talk to you. Can't demand ID if you don't have probable cause that a crime has been committed, or at the very least, reasonable suspicion.
Immigration enforcement is *slightly* more open.
8 U.S.C. § 1357 is the spot to reference, and I'm not even freddie the feddie.
Snippet for ease of information sharing:
§1357. Powers of immigration officers and employees
(a) Powers without warrant
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant-
(1) to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;
(2) to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay for examination before an officer of the Service having authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain in the United States;
(3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle, and within a distance of twenty-five miles from any such external boundary to have access to private lands, but not dwellings, for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States;
(4) to make arrests for felonies which have been committed and which are cognizable under any law of the United States regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, if he has reason to believe that the person so arrested is guilty of such felony and if there is likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the person arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest available officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the United States; and
(5) to make arrests-
(A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer's or employee's presence, or
(B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony, if the officer or employee is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest and if there is a likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest.
(key regarding drive baby drive, since TECHNICALLY they had committed multiple infractions for road blockages, misdemeanors for interfering with law enforcement, and once instructed to leave the car by a FLEO and instead dropping it into drive to try to flee were in comission of a felony, nevermind the whole there's a FLEO in front of the vehicle in drive with throttle depressed the driver had made eye contact with before throwing it in drive)
Now, HAVING SAID THAT... does it mean that you can Ze pApErZ everyone you run up on? I'd vote no, not in my country, but I've also literally had Ze PaPeRz done to me in Thailand and Germany because I was speaking english with my friends at a bus stop. I presented DOD ID (which was my in country ID, no passport required for me at that point) and I was on my way... but yeah, I literally got PAPERS from a Polizei duo.
I do understand the use of it and the potentially articulatible in court component as a combination escalation AND deescalation tactic when you're having some random fuckstick run up on you.
I thought my tinnitus was kicking my ass at the start of the video. Wasn’t until the loudspeaker kicked in I realized it was whistles.
I might be disconnected from a bit of the happenings regarding ICE out there, but are people really following them around with whistles and loudspeakers? Like as a full time job?
I don't know if they're being compensated, but there's people who literally don't have anything better to do than interject themselves into situations they're absolutely not involved in. I don't understand how they can afford to do it other than they're living off of various disabilities etc that doesn't require them to be employed day to day.
