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		ocschwar 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sig... Perhaps you should read the law. "Unlawful presence in the United States" is a civil offense, just like a parking ticket. What other civil offenses you think should be enforced with secret police and concentration camps?

brandonmenc 4 days ago [–]

You can be arrested for not paying your parking tickets.

ocschwar 4 days ago | [–]

And you can be arrested for overstaying a visa. It used to be that after a process that does not include being swiped off the streets by masked thugs. Now we're doing it this way.

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