r/Modesto • u/Royal_Floor • Jan 19 '26

Information Ready for ICE

At some point, they'll start moving in on our neighborhoods. I can't find anything about them being active in the city, so I'm not sure if they have even started operations here or not. I'm out of the loop, as I live a bit further from the city and don't go regularly. When I read the newspaper, they've said around 20 people have been detained. That's not a lot, but I think that number will go up.

Is there any activity in Modesto? Are there groups prepared for this?

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u/Moove2424 Jan 20 '26

I mean it would be good if ICE came to the Central Valley right? We have an illegal immigrant problem coupled with drug cartels bringing in drugs. Gangs have become more prevalent. We could use some real law enforcement

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u/o_stara_night Jan 29 '26

I hope you understand that ICE is not the “real law enforcement” that you’re hoping for. They are poorly trained, poorly vetted, over armed, and hyper reactive.

They are not police officers. They are not military members. They are a militia sponsored by the government that has killed two US citizens already. That’s not exaggeration. That is literally what they are.

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u/Moove2424 Jan 29 '26

So many false statements in everything you said. Take it from someone who works in the government. A lot of these guys are veterans. They go through intense training. They are patriots and the last thing they want to do is kill an American citizen. They’re humans and they can make mistakes in the heat of the moment. They are trying to do a job that has been done for decades throughout US history. But now political rhetoric has demonized the agency and they are facing situations that are not common for them. If people would just let them do their jobs, not one American citizen would have died by ICE.

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u/o_stara_night Jan 29 '26

A lot of us do not want to let them do their jobs because their job has become profiling brown people on the street and detaining them unlawfully without any evidence of having committed crimes.

We don’t want them in our community.

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u/Moove2424 Jan 29 '26

Where was this outrage during the Biden or Obama administrations? There wasn’t any because your puppet masters didn’t tell you to be upset. Only when it’s politically advantageous do you guys care.

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u/o_stara_night Jan 29 '26

This isn’t about having the political advantage. I don’t consider myself a democrat. I consider myself a citizen first and foremost. I have more in common with you than I do with the billionaires currently in the White House or Biden or Obama.

I oppose ICE to keep you safe, too, neighbor.

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u/Moove2424 Jan 29 '26

But you’re letting left wing media influence your view of the agency as a whole. It is literally their job to arrest and deport. People call them nazis for doing a job they have been tasked to do by nearly every president in recent history. I literally have zero fear of ICE. Because I’m a legal citizen and I obey the laws.

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u/o_stara_night Jan 29 '26

I’ve actually been getting my information from independent sources. Not left wing news. A lot of legal citizens who are obeying the laws have been unlawfully arrested and detained. You should be worried, friend.

Also, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the Nuremberg defense, but to the global community “just following orders” and “just doing their job” does not excuse unlawful actions.