Hotels across the country are housing ICE agents as they carry out violent raids, detention operations, and street abductions. Of course people are pushing back. Activists have been calling for boycotts of hotel chains like Marriott and Hilton that cooperate with ICE, arguing that businesses should not be providing material support for an enforcement regime built on mass detention…
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Even better, ALL businesses could be encouraged by the Minnesota government to refuse to sell anything to anyone that is over the age of 12, without the person presenting an ID - which will be photographed and kept by the business unless the State needs it for any investigation of a violent crime perpetrated by the federal government that they would be looking in to.
The leverage should be that it’s an emergency state declaration, (given the exigent circumstances) it is not mandatory, but the State will support the legal right of any business that requires full identification from any customer.
The one caveat, is that the businesses using this “protocol” will need to face a stiff state penalty if they just doxx a customer that happened to be an ICE agent for no reason. It needs to be the threat that keeps the ICE assholes in check, and to work, the businesses need to sit hard on what they’ve got, until/unless the State of Minnesota comes asking for evidence after they kill another Minnesotan…
It’s time to take control back from the outlaw ICE agency, and starting with the threat of them losing anonymity from what is basically a volunteer program that businesses may follow at their own discretion
Aren’t “gay wedding cakes” great?
Don’t tread on me, unless you tread on brown people harder!
