Amanda Carpenter
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People are being disappeared.
You can't find them.
They're not getting adequate legal representation.
And so...
Thank God you're talking about people who have come out to do the right thing.
It's my understanding that this guy was like a training officer down in Georgia.
The incredible risk that he is taking to say, yeah, this is a policy is courageous, but also tremendously helpful because we need to establish that these aren't just one-off mistakes by under-trained officers.
that this is a policy, as we've suspected, because that's the only way we can hope to get any kind of accountability because this is clearly unconstitutional.
Yeah.
So this actually isn't election related, but it is super, super important.
It is moving in a number of states.
And let me tell you about what it does.
So in a lot of states where, say, you know, an ICE agent murders your spouse.
You don't have the ability to sue a federal officer like you would someone from the state or local police.
There's reasons for that.
It has to do with something that's called a cause of action that was winnowed by the Supreme Court.
But what states can do and should do now is address that accountability gap with some legislation that provides residents that cause of action.
And so we call it the broad kind of reform bill is the universal constitutional remedies act in the States.
Many times they have different names.
I think the acronym for the one in New Jersey is F U C K ice, um, which is very, uh,