• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Congress sits around while the executive branch rips power out of congress. LAWS are being broken and ripped apart and they do nothing. Secret police roam the street, the get YouTube clips.

        What to do?

        • Marshal support! take over agencies to support their investigations
        • they control money, money isn’t being used as the law requires, SUE THE FUCK OUT OF EVERYONE. stop fucking around clutching your fucking pearls “oh golly gee, I shall write a strongly worded letter to the White House, tee hee”
        • enforce requirements of executive branch to present and defend evidence of their actions
        • actions? Illegally dismantling institutions, extending the executive power to a madman billionaire, challenge bringing asbestos back (yes!)
        • get support from the senate to pursue, oh, I dunno an illegal bombing on a foreign country, completely being ignorant of your national security apparatus, issuing decrees on a social media site
        • sue the fuck out of the Trump family for enriching themselves on the executive tit
        • ANYTHING

        now I challenge YOU to tell me what congress has done

        Yes. I’m over the top, but it’s 1930’s up in here and my German grandparents and mother taught me all about yesmen and thuggery

  • boydster@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    DHS’ new guidance states that “ICE field offices are not detention facilities and fall outside of the Sec. 527 requirements. ICE does not house aliens at field offices.”

    Ok, got it, so these are not detention facilities.

    In their letter, the lawmakers take issue with this assertion. They say that ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce recently confirmed that some individuals have been held at 26 Federal Plaza for multiple days.

    Wait though, that’s literally a detention facility…