This is a funny story in its own way.
Cell phone video appearing to show masked ICE agents making arrests
in Milwaukee over the weekend has reignited debate over a city ordinance
banning law enforcement from wearing face masks in most circumstances
while on duty.
The Milwaukee Police Department confirmed
ICE agents are in the city for what ICE describes as targeted
enforcement against criminal activity. The operation is expected to last
a week...
....unless they decide to evict all the Syrian and Haitian illegals, too....
Moving on.
...Milwaukee prohibits federal law enforcement officers from wearing
face masks to hide their identities under most circumstances while
interacting with people in the city.
Alderwoman Zamarripa
believes that ban should be enforced, with agents potentially facing
fines of $5,000 to $10,000 as outlined in the ordinance if they continue
to wear masks in the city.
"I
think it breeds fear in the community to see these masked agents coming
into our neighborhoods with vehicles unmarked, no license plates,"
Zamarripa said....
Actually, that's the point. Better that they have the fear of God (and US law) instilled and self-deport than that the Feds have to muscle them outta here. But YMMV.
Some random bystander babe refused to go on camera, but wailed and snorted nonetheless.
...A Milwaukee woman, who asked that her name and face not be shared out
of fears for her family, described the emotional toll of the
enforcement operation.
"It's very heartbreaking because I
could definitely relate. I have family members that, as I said, they're
just scared to go out and do what they even have to go to a grocery
store," she said....
Then she went to the Heights of Irony script!
... When asked what it means to see agents wearing face masks, the woman
said: "It just feels like they're doing whatever they want and we just
have to take it in the chin, and it's just not right....
Kinda like the illegals, sweet cheeks? Just barging in, ripping off taxpayers for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps........and raising the cost of housing for US citizens along the way? And that's before we get to the drunk-driver-homicides, un-insured, un-licensed..........we could go on.
ICE had something to say to the Roaring Mouse Zamarippa:
... "State and local sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law
enforcement from wearing masks is despicable and a flagrant attempt to
endanger our officers. To be crystal clear: we will not abide by
unconstitutional bans. The Supremacy Clause makes it clear that state
and local sanctuary politicians do not control federal law enforcement,"
the DHS spokesperson said....
That was the very long version of "FU and the horse you rode in on."
Not satisfied with merely ranting for the suckers camera, Zamarippa has DEMANDS!!
... "If they continue to work here in a secret capacity with full masks on
like I've seen, then we are asking MPD and the city attorney to act as
the enforcement entity and write citations to ICE," Zamarripa said....
Dead silence from the Milwaukee Police Department, which cannot find one single solitary cop to volunteer for that task. And they never will, either.
Good.
