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JumpCrisscross · a month ago
Why is this unacceptable for immigration enforcement but acceptable for even petty criminals?
clanky · a month ago
My understanding is that bounty hunters are generally sent after people who fail to appear for their court dates or prison sentences? This would be more akin to "Walmart got a shoplifter on video and the local sheriff sent a bounty hunter after them."

The use of mass surveillance Palantir dragnet data in this case is also unique, and a precursor/practice for using it in domestic counterinsurgency and war on the broader populace.

toomuchtodo · a month ago
The disproportionate application of force is the issue.
add-sub-mul-div · a month ago
There are innocent people and others for whom being hunted is a disproportionate response, and that shouldn't be acceptable either. You just may not see it because you think it will never affect you, only people who can be handwaved as beneath you.
pfannkuchen · a month ago
The slope is slippery?
yladiz · a month ago
Define acceptable.
beardyw · a month ago
I don't understand. What are you refering to?
JumpCrisscross · a month ago
> What are you refering to?

Normal bounty hunters. I’m asking why this feels different. (Civil v criminal doesn’t seem to be meaningful. Maybe it’s the bond?)

actionfromafar · a month ago
A LOT of money is about to be redirected into the GOP/Trump/Maga private military.
DANmode · a month ago
Palantir stock price and federal contract movement are already performing well.
toomuchtodo · a month ago
The trick is to figure out how to grift the grifters.
AnimalMuppet · a month ago
So now, if you don't like someone, you can ICE them instead of SWATting them. Great.
saubeidl · a month ago
See also: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-01-adfg-bou...

Everything old is new again. Never again is now.

yogorenapan · a month ago
Even if I was a citizen or legal immigrant, I would just leave at this point. First they came for the communists...

(Yes I know a lot of people can't leave. Maybe the US needs to do a Nepal and overthrow this corrupt government)

JumpCrisscross · a month ago
> Maybe the US needs to do a Nepal and overthrow this corrupt government

What do you think the current crop want? In any new revolution, the rich consolidate power. Same as has happened in pretty much every non-communist popular revolution over the last two centuries.

saubeidl · a month ago
... you are mentioning the solution yourself.

What is needed is a communist popular revolution, it's the only hope left for the country.

sodokuwizard · a month ago
someone better get on a private bounty hunter job portal and sell it back to the government to make some real money on each cash reward.

Or crowdfunded hire a bounty hunter to hunt the bounty hunter network /s

Our society is so damn dystopian now sheesh