Posted on 01/14/2026 9:38:32 AM PST by bill andersen
I'm wondering if ICE can seize the cars of people using them to block enforcement actions. It seems to me these people are using a car to obstruct justice. If the drivers are arrested shouldn't their cars be taken as evidence of criminal conduct and impounded until their trial? This would take the car out of action for many months or longer. Other would-be assailants would think twice before doing this.
And who knows what could happen to the car while in the impound yard? Tires could go flat, batteries go dead, rain could get in open windows, silicon carbide grit could end up going down the oil filler pipe, etc.
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You’re a devious and unscrupulous type, thinking of all the bad things that might happen to their vehicles.
Keep up the great work!
They will start renting cars, if they are not already doing that (funded by Soros of course).
Great idea. The word on the street would spread like lightning.
Agree, not just tow them, but seize and confiscate. So that they still have to pay on a car they dont even own anymore because the government seized it. Ruin their credit if they refuse to pay.
Hit the mentally ill garbage where it hurts, their pocket books.
San Diego, California: In July 2025, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) brought back court-ordered car crushing after a 20-year hiatus.
The initiative specifically targets vehicles involved in illegal street takeovers and extreme reckless maneuvers like “donuts” and “burnouts”. Notable destructions included a Toyota Chaser and a Yamaha R1 motorcycle.
maybe do this also since there is liberal city precedent
That would be the clever thing to do, but then the rental company would just sue them for the lost value of the vehicle.
They will just start go fund me pages
revoke driver’s license for a decade
Less money to the DNC.
Wonderful idea.
Let’s make that the rest of their lives.
It would be easy, right on the spot. But that of course would require the AG to strap a broomstick to her spine.
That would be a fantastic idea.
Also, some reversal operations. Just have ICE go down a street and the usual crap begins, but the goal is the apprehension of people who attack them and block them in. Arrest them, take their cars etc.
And if we had some sort of federal investigative agency, they could use all sorts of 9/11 laws against the money sources and organizers of the terrorism against ICE agents.
Last, in my fantasy world, if the goal is to actually get rid of the aliens, instead of having ICE men dressed like soldiers grabbing random people here and there, you would see the Sec of Treasury stop all money remittances being sent back to any country south of our border, Africa, Syria, Pakistan etc.
You would see seizures of bank accounts for illegals. If I try to open an account in another country the US Government requires everything be reported. But illegals here can use banks all they want. But the banksters don’t like that.
You also might see things like an absolute cessation of ALL welfare and money for immigrants, legal or not.
You might see arrests of any employer who has more than 10 illegals on the payroll. But Grassley wouldn’t like that.
The stupidest, most counterproductive method is to send groups of men out dressed like the 82nd Airborne to chase illegals across the Home Depot parking lots and have street fights. Enforcement has a place, but it’s being done with poor tactics.
When ICE goes out, they should NEVER wind up surrounded and 100% defensive. There should be Marines or Guard in large numbers standing by to “kettle” them. Also any local agency impeding the effort should be seized by the Feds.
There is no good plan in operation. This current one is very ineffective and has barely made a dent in the 30 million that poured in. And it is enraging the left and building and insurgency that is gaining traction with everyone under 50.
So basically turn off the money, unleash Elon to put it all on the blockchain, arrest employers and turn off the magnet.
It would do more than mess up their credit. The rental car companies would go full legal postal on them. And they have the lawyers.
Still, even if the cars are simply being towed to the compound it costs pretty penny to get them back. And smashed windows are expensive. I hardly think Insurance comprehensive is going to cover the cost of broken glass incurred while breaking the law. So yes the cars ought to be confiscated but even still it’s got to be painful.
Unless they’re leftist backers are reimbursing them. Which I would consider a realistic possibility
No because judges
hmmm... it’s already too easy for government entities to seize private property. Why give them one more precedent to use against everyone else?
So only take the ones covered in bumper stickers.
Because they will always use it on us... might as well use it on the communists.
Also, it retrospect, I think I used to rather unfair to Augusto Pinochet.
That is the only thing that can save America now. One way flights over the ocean.
A lot of states have civil asset forfeiture laws on the books...
Busted in a car picking up a hooker, or selling drugs. that car is seized and acutioned.
I am not a fan of this for a lot of reasons.
BUT, in the case where the car is actually the weapon, it does make a lot of sense to seize the car as evidence and only release once the trial is completed.
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