First Amendment? We ain’t got no First Amendment. We don’t need no First Amendment. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ First Amendment.

Yesterday, from Mark Alford (r):

Congressman Mark Alford
[July 10, 2025]
Proud to join Congressmen Roger Williams & Pat Fallon in demanding an immediate investigation into the ICEBlock app.
The Trump Admin is getting dangerous criminals off our streets, and any attempt to interfere with lawful ICE operations cannot be tolerated.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Have the officers in uniform and displaying what department they are.
Stop grabbing brown people. Ask if a person is a citizen.
Several reports from US citizens of having masked men with no ID/ patches running up and grabbing them. Being roughed up, put on the ground and cuffed . Then a hour or too later being able to show ID. Often then charged with obstruction or resisting the officer.
Do US citizens need to obtain a passport and carry it on their person at all times?

“Your papers, please.”

Nothing else will do.

Perhaps if the ICE agents were wearing uniforms and badges, and not wearing masks, and behaved like respectful law enforcement with warrants, citizens wouldn’t feel threatened!

they do wear uniforms! And they are dealing with mentally unstable people who are trying to block them from doing their job!

Probably thinks Klaus Barbie was just misunderstood.

No they don’t. They have plain clothes on, and no identifier within plain view. There are bounty hunters running around as well, there is no accountability for these people, that is the issue.

participating in arrest, detention, and confinement without due process is a violation of the Constitution. Deporting to another country other than their home country, to be jailed, is participating in concentration camps.
Why do you not understand this?
Do you value due process? The Trump administration and the man himself has greatly abused due process in the other direction as well, by using every step available, even patently false arguments forwarded to extend the due process timeline.

Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nüremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950.
Principle IV
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

we have already seen many accounts of the judicial branch setting the record straight on the rights of citizens AND holding the Executive departments accountable to the rule of law they violated.
Just doing orders means you are equally complicit in said crime. Remember we determined that decades ago as well.

why are you supporting an agency that violates US Law against its own citizens?

he supports a man that pardoned hundreds of people who attacked and injured law enforcement officers. The two are not compatible

Congressman Mark Alford, Really, yet the Felon is still in office.
What about “Freedom of Speech”?

Please post the statistics for the number of undocumented criminals and non-criminals ICE has kidnapped. Or would those numbers not match your rhetoric?

“Dangerous criminals?” A few.
But overwhelmingly, the Trump Administration is grabbing ordinary immigrants who are following US laws on their path to citizenship.
Meanwhile, the guy ordering these immigration raids is a 34x convicted felon and serial sexual abuser whose name and image appears frequently with that of pedophile and serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein. He also happens to have fathered an anchor baby by an illegal immigrant who overstayed her visa.
So let’s be clear, Alford.
You don’t hate criminals. You hate dark skinned people.
You should read up on what your Bible says about Liars and Hypocrites, pal.

It’s time that ICE quit messing around and start using lethal force against people that throw rocks at them or anything for that matter. And when one of the protesters wave a flag handcuff and send them back to the country of the flag that are waving get them the hell out of the United States. 😡😡😡😡

St. Patrick’s Day is gonna be lit!

So much for freedom of speech, I guess
How many have been taken off the streets, Representative?
How many of those have been proven as ‘dangerous criminals’, because that’s not at all the stats I see.

Getting dangerous criminals off the street? You mean like beating a father of three Marines who was mowing the lawn of a local business? Or perhaps arresting non criminals who are attending scheduled immigration hearings? Or do you mean arresting and deporting a citizen who worked as a make up artist who had no criminal record. ICE isn’t going after criminals. They are going after minorities. They are trying to ethnically cleanse the country.

Awful, you’re a fn useless bigot. When are you going to light the ovens?

“Dangerous criminals” at job sites and federal buildings? BS! Human beings trying to live.

Another pathetic move from a spineless fake conservative. You all want small government and free speech, until you have control.

We’re just reporting unmarked, military-like activity to warn our neighbors of suspicious activity. Are they ICE? no idea. 🤷🏻‍♀️ they could be those Venezuelan gang invaders y’all were going on about.
If y’all want to identify and conduct yourselves as legitimate federal agents, then we wouldn’t have to be on the lookout for shenanigans. Seems pretty simple, really.

You have become as big of a joke as your golden idol. You can’t serve two masters. We know which master you have chosen.

Congressman Mark Alford is a fucking idiot if he thinks sharing information about ICE raids is illegal. The dumbass must have forgot about the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution. Citizens are like journalists. In fact, citizens that communicate news and information are journalists. ICE raids are a significant interest to the public. We have a right to know what government agents are doing on public property. We have a right to know what government agents are doing in public spaces. Furthermore, private property owners have a right to know what is happening on their own property. So Congressman, stop the tyranny. Stop the rediculous claims. Stop being a total government asshole

Trump’s little dog, woof woof.

According to TRAC Immigrations, over 71% of detainees have no criminal convictions. People have to do something to protect themselves. Here’s a question Mark, why isn’t ICE going after immigrants who are not Black and Brown?