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Igel

(37,359 posts)
9. Not really.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:11 PM
Mar 2025

There were a lot of "amateurs" tracking down J6 rioters, and the FBI used facial recognition to ID a lot of them, mostly for federal misdemeanors. (There are a lot of federal misdemeanors, to be honest.)

But that was for federal charges. These are being reported for violating the terms of their visas (haven't seen much discussion about violating terms of green cards, even if there are terms that can be violated in that way). It'll be up to judges to decide if the language in the statutes or regulations is actually applicable.

If you're a citizen--naturalized or by birth--then I don't see that speech itself is something chargeable unless it's a direct call for violence. I don't even think that the pro-Gazan protestors' speech crossed that line with the occasional "oven" reference or desire for more "floods". Then again, I'm not a judge or legal expert.

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