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NJCher

(43,535 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 04:38 PM Aug 2025

Could this be an ICE Maneuver?

Today I had to go to the town I used to live in, next town over. It is super-liberal and I think is even the home of the founding of the Million Mom March. Not sure on that, though.

Anyway, as I'm driving along, I see three ICE agents repairing a sidewalk. Yes, indeed, they were in their brown ICE uniforms with trowels paving a fresh patch of concrete sidewalk, trying to get it even. They were almost done. I saw no car, van, or truck that they had tools in or that they were working out of.

Upon looking a little closer, however, they were not ICE agents because they didn't all have masks on. One did. My mind was scrambling to make sense of this and then I realized they were immigrants dressed up like ICE agents.

So I would presume that if ICE came along, it would be dicey to go after them because everyone would get confused? Shooting or tasering might be less likely. The success of this would be highly dependent on how many ICE showed up.

I did check the headlines to see if ICE was coming in groups, and the few that I saw were arrests of 20, 9, etc.

Or is it just coincidence that they were all dressed like ICE?

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Could this be an ICE Maneuver? (Original Post) NJCher Aug 2025 OP
No idea, but good observation & question! SheltieLover Aug 2025 #1
No bagdes. No number. No face. No name. No warrant. usonian Aug 2025 #2
Actually NJCher Aug 2025 #3
Yes, could be a ruse. usonian Aug 2025 #4

usonian

(26,596 posts)
2. No bagdes. No number. No face. No name. No warrant.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:08 PM
Aug 2025

They can be, and some are:
Thugs
Ordinary citizens
Space aliens
Anyone

Here's an ICE recruiting poster I found in the post office.



trash bin

PS. postimages.org and imgbb.com both refused to upload this image!

NJCher

(43,535 posts)
3. Actually
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 09:39 AM
Aug 2025

What I was thinking is that immigrants might be dressing like ICE for confusion.

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Very funny poster.

Post images won’t let me upload my cat Oliver’s dead rat portfolio, either!

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