This.
And as I take the time to learn more about what is happening in my state, it’s actually pretty frightening.
Yesterday I was reading something online, (I’m kicking myself for not saving the link) that described the literally textbook coordination being used to track, harass, and prevent ICE from doing their work.
I still believe that the 4th Amendment is being stomped all over, and ICE’s overall behavior and tactics are counterproductive, but to the leadership (or lack of) in Minnesota who are ‘literally’ telling their constituents to resist the Federal presence, what did you think was going to happen?
You’re playing chicken with the wrong President of the United States.
Anyone with any insurgency/counterinsurgency training recognizes it. Hell, I recognize it.
People say they're under-trained. I'm sorry, everyone is under-trained for a semi-permissive environment where you have hostile "civilian" agitators trying to verbally, audibly, and physically intervene with the performance of your duties.
The only way to do this more easily and politely is literally with local LE in a JTF where the locals actually end up functioning as a small check and balance because they won't help if it ain't legal to do so, and they could keep the idiots at a distance so that the entire apprehension process wouldn't be full stupid.
Hell, they could do the initial stop and confirmation that yes this is X, and then the feds take over from there, combined with everyone who's convicted for all the crimes that are immediate deportation check-blocks, get a citizenship lookup referral to ICE at which point they're already arrested, convicted, and in custody disarmed and in arguably the safest place to pick up people aka jail/prison.
But it's fucking sanctuary rules states where they're forcing the feds to have to do everything with zero help, including near zero support for when the public is breaking the law with regards to interference with law enforcement.
Look at all the states that cooperate with and coordinate with federal law enforcement and immigration enforcement. Note how many have issues with immigration enforcement activities. Local cooperation literally makes the job easier, safer, and more cordial (given you're arresting and deporting fuckfaces as a general rule).
