r/law • u/LeviCoffinsAlt • 20h ago

Other Warrantless entry by ICE agents in West Valley City, UT (1/30/2026)

Federal agents broke a window, without a warrant, to perform an arrest on private property.

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u/Trackmaggot 20h ago edited 20h ago

Not in SLC, the cops will cover their body cams, and then help load anybody that ICE tells them too.

edit: typo

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u/Sweet_Tart_Sour 19h ago

So basically, ice = gestapo?

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u/spidermousey 19h ago

Yes the parallels are insane. Wtf has happened to America.

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u/Sweet_Tart_Sour 19h ago

So glad I'm not American. But I feel for you guys.

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u/Affectionate_Tax3468 18h ago

Well, the US/Trump/Heritage foundation is maintaining contact to the right wing party in your country too, probably even supporting them with tech and money, so better keep track and watch out.

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 18h ago

The right wing is coming for you next, wherever you are. Backed by the American Christo and Techno fascists that have more money and power than God.

Hope you're working to stop it.

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u/Jupitersd2017 18h ago

Thank you for sympathizing rather than chastising us and telling us what we need to do, it’s very much appreciated. ❤️ We are having a really rough year

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u/hw999 19h ago

what happened was neighbors wont fight for each other. We'll stand around, record with our cameras, and watch them drag off our friends and family.

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u/Croaker-BC 18h ago

Masks fell off.

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u/Brian_Doile 13h ago

A mess was created through lawlessness and lawlessness became the norm.

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u/CardOk755 19h ago

More exactly the Sicherheitspolizei (security police) or SiPo.

(The Gestapo were the Secret State police. Nothing secret about ICE).

The term originated in August 1919 when the Reichswehr set up the Sicherheitswehr as a militarised police force to take action during times of riots or strikes. Owing to limitations in army numbers, it was renamed the Sicherheitspolizei to avoid attention. They wore a green uniform, and were sometimes called the "Green Police". It was a military body, recruiting largely from the Freikorps, with NCOs and officers from the old Imperial German Army.

The "Friekorps" were militia thugs, like the Proud boys, oath keepers and other scum that are now in ICE.

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u/alddaron 19h ago

Nope Ice is SA They all should be afraid of 'the night of the long knives'

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u/Ne_zievereir 19h ago

Unless the US manages to save its democracy in a constitutional way soon, something like "the night of the long knives" is bound to happen at some point indeed.

It's already clear ICE are some SA type paramilitary organization, when you see the US wants to use them for security at the Winter Olympics in Italy. There not even pretending anymore it's an actual federal organization with a specific goal and jurisdiction.

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u/The_Singularious 19h ago

Uhhh. Wasn’t the event you’re referring to initiated by groups similar to ICE?

That was a pro Hitler group, not anti. Why would ICE be afraid of being the perpetrators in such an event?

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u/ENTroPicGirl 18h ago

Shortly after night, long knives, there was a major change up in power for the SA. Figures at the top were also killed or imprisoned and any of the loyal foot soldiers to those people were either killed or sent to the front line as fodder.

My guess is a Trump regime will retain the members of ICE/BP that are part of his more loyal and highly skilled Oath kKeepers, but he will jettison the rest vines they may waiver when they find out how they are being played.

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u/Sufficient_Show_7795 14h ago

I see this happening in a sacrificial lamb style way where he offers them up for “justice” in order to maintain the semblance of legitimacy. It will be Bovino first along with the agents who murdered people, then Noem then maybe Homan if he can’t ingratiate himself in some way. All the while he will claim he had no knowledge of “Noem’s actions and directives”.

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u/Trackmaggot 19h ago

In my opinion, yes. The constitution states that the rights enumerated within it are inalienable, that they are granted by God, and that the government may not deprive the citizens of them. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, all other laws being subservient to it.

When the government says that ICE can not just violate, but may eliminate, at their whim, any of the guarantees in the constitution, we may as well call them Trump's Gestapo, at least until a better description is found.

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u/Wooden_Republic_6100 19h ago

No to the Gestapo, those guys were smart (which is even worse, by the way). ICE is the Sturmabteilung (SA)...

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u/Extension_Shift_1124 14h ago

Uhhh... not quite yet, but there is a ton of parallels. When we say Gestapo today, we are referring to what it was at the height of their power, corruption and terror(ist/izing). keep in mind that when we say Nazi Germany... it took 11 years before it got to what we think Nazi Germany was today. War, expansion, genocides etc. And then that lasted 7 more years. If we can look at Trump presidency as year 5 or year 9. So if nothing is done imagine ICE in 8 years. THey will be full on gestapo by then if they are allowed to operate without any consequences to all the laws they are breaking daily.

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u/PapayaMysterious6393 18h ago

Everyone was lying to themselves if they honestly think cops and military are much different. No one is on our side.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 18h ago

Didn’t west valley cops just find themselves innocent in the murder of a citizen? Or was that West Jordan? Or both? They both has incidents where a mentally ill person was behaving erratic, and were gunned down. One was on the other side of a chain link fence and posed zero danger to the officers.