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All those are just kinda naked assertions without support. Appeals to better training don't have a schelling point. No one has made a concrete argument that the ICE training academy has any specific failures. The officer in question had 10+ years on the job with no major incidents until someone hit him with their car. As to escalation, they are just doing their job and people are harassing them and obstruction them with cars, and often putting their own bodies in the street. That is naturally escalatory. If you did the same thing to state police en masse, people would also end up in officer involved fatalities. We know why ICE wears masks, its because of multiple credible threats to their families after they have been doxxed online.
Disagree that illegal immigration is not a large problem that requires a large response. Regardless, the set of ICE actions currently being undertaken is not unconstitutional. They are arresting people who have detention holds and/or removal orders, and then from time to time they also pick up people who are in the vicinity that they have probable cause to believe are also illegal.
More assertions not in evidence. Where is your evidence pertaining to some entrance exam or the like that the new ICE hires are akin to "Project 100000"?
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