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No. I said that retaining an immigration lawyer AND having the proper paperwork would mitigate the risk of ICE. And it will. Here's my analysis of the situation. tl;dr: ICE is busy with other things, and will be for some time. ICE pushes (and exceeds) the boundaries of both good taste and the legal framework of the Constitution. But it's not random. There's a method to the madness. Now, check the headlines from the last week. No, really! Please? Take a moment. Search for ICE in a fresh incognito browser, one that doesn't track your personal preferences. Grab a newsfeed from Google or DuckDuckGo. Look at stories from the past week. Two weeks. Don't see much, do ya? No high-profile demonstrations, no murder in the street, there's even news of a detention center getting cancelled. ICE is undergoing a shift. It's intentional. The TSA wasn't being funded during the shutdown, so ICE is now 'helping' out at the airports. They are on their best behavior. Squeaky clean, just trying to keep things running. Yay! It's not an accident that ICE, of all organizations, was called in to help. (National Guard could offer the same level of expertise, which is absolutely zero.) Another notable development is that Trump has, several times now, floated the idea of having ICE at the polls, to ensure election integrity. Again and again, Trump babbles about the dangers of mail-in voting and stuffed ballot boxes. And the misinformation parrots are all over that bandwagon, sowing seeds of doubt in the already gullible MAGAts. So, here's the play: Keep the world distracted by blowing up the oil supply. Shift ICE to high-visibility roles. Deploy them to the polling booths in the fall. Steal as much of the midterm elections as you can. Get a rubber-stamp majority in the House, Senate and Supreme Court. At that point, you can do whatever you want. Pass an amendment to the Constitution revoking the 22nd amendment? Sure, at the very least. But whatever the case, ICE's focus is no longer on terrorizing students in blue cities. They'll be present and visible now, but they won't be conducting raids en masse. They will now be low-key policing American citizens while pretending to be helpful, multi-purpose federal agents. Nazis disguised as Boy Scouts. Right now, Illian Omar is leading the fight by holding up funding for DHS. Ilhan Omar said her caucus will 'oppose all funding' for immigration enforcement **unless militarized policing ends.** She understands what's going on. She'll lose, probably, just because sometimes politics is heart-breaking like that....