🔥 WHAT STATES MUST DO WHEN ICE AGENTS CROSS THE LINE

Because two U.S. citizens are dead in Minnesota — and silence is complicity.

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🚨 When federal agents cross the line, states cannot afford to flinch. Two U.S. citizens are dead in Minnesota, and the federal government has offered nothing but silence, shadows and lies. This is not “immigration enforcement” — it is a breach of public safety, a violation of state sovereignty, and an assault on the people states are sworn to protect. When federal power becomes unaccountable power, states must become the firewall.This explainer lays out, in uncompromising terms, the actions states must take the moment ICE agents step outside the law — because the cost of hesitation is measured in lives.

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🟥 1. Treat ICE violence as state crime, not federal inevitability

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States are not vassals. A federal badge is not a permission slip to brutalize the people they claim to “protect.”

States must:

• Open criminal investigations the moment an agent harms someone

• Arrest agents whose actions clearly fall outside legitimate duties

• Charge them under state assault, battery, or homicide statutes

When people die in custody, “federal immunity” cannot be the burial shroud draped over the truth.

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🟥 2. Lock down evidence before the federal government buries it

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When ICE harms someone, the countdown to disappearance begins.

States must:

• Secure video, witness statements, and officer identification immediately

• Demand facility logs and communications before they “go missing”

• Require local police to document every interaction with federal agents

If states don’t seize the evidence, ICE will smother it.

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🟥 3. Use state civil rights laws like a weapon

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Federal agencies may dodge federal oversight — but they cannot outrun state constitutions or state courts.

States must:

• Bring state civil rights actions for excessive force

• Seek injunctions against repeat offenders

• Enforce state constitutional protections that exceed federal baselines

If ICE tramples state rights, states must strike back.

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🟥 4. Ban masked, unidentified federal agents from operating in public

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No functioning democracy tolerates anonymous armed agents dragging civilians across pavement like a secret police force.

States must:

• Require visible identification for any federal agent operating in public

• Demand advance notice before tactical deployments

• Mandate reporting for every use of force on state soil

If an agent can’t show a badge, they have no business laying hands on anyone.

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🟥 5. Cut off state cooperation with unlawful ICE activity

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States cannot obstruct federal law — but they can refuse to be co‑conspirators.

States must:

• Bar local police from participating in ICE raids without judicial warrants

• Prohibit sharing state databases for civil immigration enforcement

• Decline participation in operations lacking clear legal authority

Non‑cooperation is constitutional. Enabling abuse is a choice.

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🟥 6. Build state oversight structures that federal agencies cannot ignore

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ICE has demonstrated, repeatedly, that it will not police itself.

States must:

• Create state inspectors general for federal‑state interactions

• Open public complaint portals for federal misconduct

• Require annual reports on federal enforcement activity

Oversight is not optional when residents are dying.

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🟥 7. Use state tort law to hit misconduct where it hurts

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If criminal charges get blocked, civil liability becomes the pressure point.

States must:

• Allow victims and families to sue agents personally

• Permit state AGs to bring actions on behalf of residents

• Create statutory damages for unauthorized use of force

If ICE escapes criminal accountability, they should still face civil reckoning.

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🟥 8. Empower local prosecutors to act — not wait

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Federal removal statutes don’t stop local DAs from shaping the narrative or exposing misconduct.

States must:

• Launch parallel investigations

• Use grand juries to compel testimony

• Subpoena body‑cam, facility footage, and internal logs

Local prosecutors move faster than federal courts — and speed saves lives.

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🟥 9. Codify what “federal duty” does not include

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States can draw the bright red line federal agents cannot cross.

States must:

• Declare that assaulting civilians, seizing property without cause, or using force outside an arrest context is per se outside federal duties

• Require judicial warrants for any federal action involving force in civil immigration contexts

• Define “reasonable force” standards that apply to all law enforcement actors

If ICE wants to hide behind immunity, states should narrow the shadows.

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🟥 10. Use the bully pulpit to strip away the illusion of federal infallibility

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Supremacy Clause immunity is not just legal — it’s political armor, and states can crack it.

States must:

• Publicly condemn unlawful federal conduct

• Demand transparency from DHS and ICE

• Stand with victims and communities

• Frame this as a sovereignty crisis, not an immigration debate

When two U.S. citizens die in ICE custody, states cannot whisper. They must roar.

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🔥 THE BOTTOM LINE

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Federal power is not sacred.

State sovereignty is not negotiable.

And no agency — especially one with a death toll — gets to operate above the law.

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