Cuccinelli: Totally Legal and Totally Cool How CPB and ICE Now Control Your City

[turbinetree]

By Josh Marshall
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July 18, 2020 1:28 p.m.
Last night I noted that Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli told NPR that not only were they not pulling back on their actions in Portland but that they planned to take them nationwide. The brief NPR interview is important because along with other reporting that came out over the course of Friday it helps understand just what the White House is doing and the purported legal rationale under which they are doing it.

As we’ve discussed, even as protests have subsided in much of the United States, they’ve continued in Portland, with an especial focus on Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in the city. There has been a faction of protestors who’ve set off fireworks, painted graffiti and thrown bottles at police in nightly standoffs. This federal building is key.


The Federal Protective Service is the federal police agency with jurisdiction over federal buildings and other federal facilities and property around the country. There’s nothing particularly controversial or surprising about this. When you go to a federal court house and see police you probably know that they’re not from the local police department. They’re federal officers. The FPS has been housed within the Department of Homeland Security since the Department was created in 2002.

Unconfirmed political appointees at DHS (which include the Secretary, the Deputy Secretary and the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection) say that the FPS in Portland and other cities has been overwhelmed by ‘violent agitators’ so they’ve sent in CPB, ICE and other federal police agencies housed within DHS to support FPS’s mission and, critically, under FPS’s jurisdiction. In other words, in their view, it’s really not ICE of CPB. These are just other federal officers supporting FPS since it’s overwhelmed. The jurisdiction of FPS is being used as a hook or loophole to give CBP and ICE police powers over citizens in American citizens for purported crimes entirely unrelated to immigration enforcement.

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[madashelltoo]

1. The demons are off and running!

The Orange Infant has someone who is as evil as he is with a bone to pick with America for rejecting him. If something is not done real quick they will, without a doubt, try to corral the country. While I don’t believe they could summon that kind of force in time, one never knows.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. What's the next step? To declare that the American people as a whole have risen up against their...

own federal government and declared insurgents by the feds to warrant any kind of despicable actions against all of us?

[grumpyduck]

3. One more cocksuking asshole who will fall big time.

You like repressive regimes, fucker, there are lots of countries out there that fit your bill.

Ours. Ain't. One. Of. Them.

So eat shit and choke on it.

[kimbutgar]

4. I expect a lot of people will be out in the streets of Portland tonight

And I bet some people are driving up and down there now to push back!

Stay safe everyone!

[Newest Reality]

5. Just out of curiosity...

When do they start the freedom camps, or will people just disappear to an undisclosed location? Guantenmerica?

Are lists already being prepared and prioritized?

Just asking for a friend.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. This has gone from maddening to flat out scary in a matter of days

these are the beginnings of a complete take over of the US by OrangeAnus.

[Grasswire2]

7. Portland's so-called mobs of violent agitators have caused just $5,000 in graffiti damage.

Yet the Trump base is willing to give over our liberty in exchange for that $5,000.

The propagandized base howls about the actions of the protesters, characterizing them in terms that only brainwashed dupes and tools use.

They talk tough. But they sold out our Constitutional right to free speech and self-determination for a measly $5,000.

[2naSalit]

8. I think they're lying...

These are more likely to be Erik Prince's goons and that is why they are trying to make excuses and bullying talking points about who they are.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

9. If they are Erik Prince's goons, then the death penalty is in order.

[2naSalit]

10. I can't wait to find out...

But I will have to. I think that he's totally involved in this with Barr and Pompouseo.

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. Its a coup.

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They know they are losing the election. They are ready to take over.

[Thunderbeast]

12. Border Patrol has broad powers within 100 miles of a border

They have virtually unlimited authority to stop and interrogate "suspected illegals" beyond the confines of federal facilities. Portland is less than 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean, and therefore subject to abuse by Border Patrol and ICE.