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Screenshot of posts: @inthehands Illegal. Completely illegal. But everyone agrees: nobody’s allowed to stop ICE from breaking state and local laws, only issue citations afterwards. To mismarked vehicles. With masked drivers who refuse to identify themselves. How do you cite •that•?! @wesdym I don't believe that's true, though I admit I'm not sure what the margin is. States may not interfere with federal agents doing their jobs, within the law. But local cops could stop and arrest an ICE agent for drunk driving, for example, even if they're on duty. That's not interfering with the performance of their duty, because drunk driving is not part of their remit, and it's a public safety issue requiring immediate responce. @inthehands Correct or not, the legal advice that cities are receiving is that doing anything that “obstructs” a federal LE operation — even doing a drunk driving check — would place the cop and the city in legal jeopardy. If you want to argue with that, take it up with the various lawyers who are dispensing that advice, because it is the •advice• — not the actual reality of the law, whatever it may be — that determines what happens on the ground. @wesdym I could lay all this out for you, and after a few thousand words you MIGHT start to understand it, but I'm frankly just put off by your smug attitude. Go be smugly wrong on someone else's time.