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> ... can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

$30,000 bonus? There should be an equal fine for each US citizen rounded up in the gamified dragnet

It shouldn't surprise, but it does, at how little people are willing to sell themselves, their humanity and integrity out for.

"for it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices." -https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.1.one.html#105

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> Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course.

You have to admire the sheer gall of this. Perhaps the masked thugs kidnapping US citizens would have more to gain from anger management training than this innocent teenager.

This is why I support the Guardian (imperfect or not) and other journals.

Fine. Arrest and deport illegal immigrants.

But this gestapo and these perverse financial incentives all have to go.