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32 people[0] have died in ICE custody, and an additional 4 this year alone[1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detentio...

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* died while trying to flee from their crime.

In the USA we don't condone extra-judicial killings, especially by our government officials.

It's not extra judicial when they're literally criminals in captivity or fleeing from it.

Judicial, i.e. the courts. What isn't judicial is law enforcement determining/imposing sentences on their own, at the scene of 'crime'.

One is a system of laws and justice.

The other, which you are arguing in defense of, is a police state with unchecked authority given to police/no system of balance.

What you are defending is an un-American policing system. Something more in line with the Judge Dredd comics (the point of which is that sort of thing is bad, in case you miss it).

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