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douglas9

(4,900 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 07:42 AM Thursday

ICE agents will patrol gates of Oahu's Marine Corps Base in pilot program

WINDWARD OAHU, Hawaii (Island News) -- In a new pilot program with the Marine Corps and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ICE agents will be at the gates of Marine Corps Base Hawaii to prevent unauthorized entry from foreign nationals.

ICE agents will guard entry points with Marine gate personnel but they will not be actively patrolling the inside of the base, according to Military.com. In this pilot program, military and law enforcement roles will continue to follow federal guidelines and remain "clearly delineated."

https://www.kitv.com/news/ice-agents-will-patrol-gates-of-oahu-s-marine-corps-base-for-pilot-program/article_87a1b8e5-68c0-4740-bf7b-3fd1be64dd99.html

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2naSalit

(97,317 posts)
1. So what happens when...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 07:55 AM
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They start hauling off Marines trying to go to work or leaving from work?

sinkingfeeling

(55,879 posts)
4. What the hell is the need for ICE to defend Marine bases? Or is Oahu just
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:16 AM
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a good spot for dark skinned people?

Biophilic

(5,873 posts)
5. Ok Marines, I had no idea that you needed help guarding your own bases.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:33 AM
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This should be so embarrassing to any Marine. How did they let this happen?

lapfog_1

(31,089 posts)
6. I was just talking to a friend of mine today
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:41 AM
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about my years at NASA Ames Research Center. Ames was located on an active Naval Air Station ( Moffett Field ) in Sunnyvale, Ca when I worked there. That meant the base had marines manning the entrance and doing patrols around the perimeter. The marines were always professional and never bothered the civilians that work on the base.

Then about 4 or 5 years after I start... the Navy left the base and they replaced the marines with private security. What assholes. random stops to look for drugs, tickets for minor infractions ( I got one for rolling through a stop sign which I could not do because my car gear box lost synchromesh ). all kinds of crap because the company wanted to "prove they were needed" by the number of incidents reported. These traffic tickets are not local or state... federal traffic tickets... meaning no traffic court, regular federal court. I am in the defendants box with a large number of drug dealers and murder suspects in orange prison jump suits. Judge calls my case ( there is no pay a fine and walk out )... and the judge was already tired of these traffic tickets from NASA... she asked me "you won't roll through the stop signs right" and I said no your honor... she said case dismissed and then proceeded to ream out the US district attorney for a good 5 minutes "I don't want to see any more of these cases in my courtroom, do you understand that!".

Having ICE goons guard a marine base is the single most stupid thing I've heard in the last 24 hours.

Ray Bruns

(5,384 posts)
9. Having ICE goons guard a marine base is the single most stupid thing you've heard so far.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:31 AM
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The day is young

lapfog_1

(31,089 posts)
10. that is why I chose my words carefully
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:38 AM
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"last 24 hours"... could have been longer but for the transcript of the county meetings posted here from the Kern county Texas where the good ol boys talked about flood warning systems and the offer of money from Biden to pay for it... and the reasons for the rejection of that money.

And, yeah, the next 24 will likely have a new "stupid thing I will hear"... given that the number of stupid things is really piling up fast.

Autumn

(48,150 posts)
7. Seems very unnessasary. Anybody been into a military base lately?
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:42 AM
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Pretty good security at any military gate.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,222 posts)
8. "will remain 'clearly delineated'" ... so we can tell the Marines from the ICE agents, ...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:49 AM
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... Marines don't hide behind masks.

(Bozo, Army, '66-'68)

GP6971

(35,743 posts)
11. To state the obvious...DHS will charge the Corps at
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:26 PM
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inflated rates for this "necessary" service. Another ripoff.

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