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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing ICE and Immigration, but I'm also going to take this opportunity to discuss what the Constitution in the United States refers to his Privileges and Immunities and I am going to sort of graft that, sort of broaden that out, to not just include Privileges and Immunities of US Citizenship, which is very important, it's a very important topic and I'll get into that here in a moment, but also Privileges and Immunities of citizenship generally speaking. I'll also be commenting on albeit rather briefly and sort of tangentially to the main thrust of this video but talking about Privileges and Immunities also for example of Thai citizenship and there are Privileges and Immunities that are just inherent to being a citizen of any given jurisdiction. 

I thought of making this video after reading something I found on X and all of this is, I know there is a ton of footage and discussion about ICE Agents, about this woman who was shot. There's a lot of debate about whether or not the actions taken were appropriate. I know there are different angles of this. Look I can't speak to that nor would I really want to. I think the cacophony of "influencers" piling on with their thoughts on what went down; it's kind of worthless frankly. It's not very useful in any real meaningful sense. It's a real tragedy what happened but understand, my position on this is not so much one side or the other between the person who was killed and the officer and all of that, it's the fact that the situation had to come up in the first place. I mean it came from what appears to me to be intentional policies of the last Administration to bring in illegals, to essentially facilitate invasion of the United States and it's my understanding now, Mr. Mayorkas, the former Head of Department of Homeland Security who that agency is ostensibly at least, tasked with dealing with these things, I know an impeachment motion was brought against him. I made videos on him when he was still in office and felt like his conduct was abhorrent because his sole job is to keep America safe from basically invasion, and what does he go on to do. He just let it happen. 

I'm going to throw this up on screen, this is from X. Quoting directly from Tactical Wisdom @DolioJ, so there was a posting before, I am putting this up on screen, but there was a posting above this where they were talking about "oh ICE aren't able to do this". This guy puts up: "False. ICE agents are graduates of FLETC and are accredited GS-1811s (Federal Criminal Investigator) with the same authority as the others. Any federal crime or equivalent state crime committed in their presence can trigger an arrest action, even outside the scope of their duties. JUST LIKE POSTAL INSPECTORS." 

So what is this FLETC? And that's the reason for the thumb. It is from Fletch Lives, it's the sequel to the movie Fletch, starring Chevy Chase back in the '80s. I'm a child of the '80s, so the minute I saw that FL which stands for Federal Law, I'll put this up on screen, excuse me from fletc.gov, quoting directly: Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Clarifies Training Operations Amid Surge Support for ICE. Quoting directly: "The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) would like to address recent media reports regarding its training operations. While there has been an increased focus on surge training to support the onboarding of 10,000 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations." Now again, this is one of those issues. Again I was vocal and had a real problem with the invasion of the United States that I saw - and I made a video at the time talking about how George S. Patton got into a gunfight with Pancho Villa along the Mexican border - if only to bring up the fact why wasn't the Army on the border, that's who we need on our borders to defend our country is our armed services, and that has changed. To Trump's credit that has changed since this administration has come in. It's not just a giant open border, or open wound in America where all sorts of problems are coming in via people entering illegally. And there is a word for those folks. They are illegal aliens at best, legally speaking, but it starts rising to the level where one needs to start using the word invasion when you see it happening en masse. That being said, quoting further: "personnel and 1,000 ICE Homeland Security investigations personnel by December 31, 2025, FLETC remains dedicated to supporting its partner agencies and continuing its broader training programs." So that’s what FLETC if you will, so again, a play on Fletch. Again if you're interested in that movie, and I like that movie, it's great. In that film he goes down to, I think he inherits a plot of land called Belle Isle and he has to go down to Louisiana to sort of collect it and it turns into a big run around. It's kind of a funny film but the fact that Fletch, FLETC that's the reason for the thumb; just kind of playing on that. 

The point of the video though is I've seen a number of videos here recently and I'm not going to put them up or get into them, but I saw one of a young woman who was basically taken to the ground and she's screaming out, "I'm a US citizen, I'm a US citizen" - and a lot of these circumstances - the whole thing is bad. We've had this last Administration that allowed all of this to occur and now we're seeing ICE agents who frankly in my opinion, are running around the US doing what they need to do which is finding people that entered illegally, finding illegal aliens, detaining them and deporting them; that is their function, they should be doing it. But in the process, we're now seeing really the Privileges and Immunities, the Constitutional guarantees, which by the way the Constitution in the United States merely enshrines pre-existing Liberty. It does not confer anything. The citizenry of the United States when they rose up and took America, they inherently have the Right, Liberties, Privileges and Immunities that exist inherent to them under natural law. The Constitution merely enshrines those things and it's there as a reminder that they exist, a reminder that Privileges and Immunities including those attached to US citizenship exist. One of those Privileges and Immunities I presume, was not to be bum-rushed by people when you yell out "I'm a US citizen" when their function is to be finding non-US citizens. If somebody says that fine. I can understand a reasonable "okay, can you prove that mam?"  But to just bum-rush somebody and apropos of I don't know, "we have illegal immigrants in the United States" is ridiculous. It's the same logic during COVID. Disease exists; therefore you can't have your freedoms! We have illegal aliens in the United States; therefore you can't have your freedoms. Notwithstanding that, it was caused by the very Government that is now trying to take away people's inherent liberties. There are real problems with this. Now again, I understand the impetus on the part of the Federal Government, especially the Trump Administration. He's serious about this. It needs to be dealt with. Having been invaded, we need to do what we need to do to halt that and turn it around. But that being said, it should not come at the expense of the citizenry's inherent Privileges and Immunities.  

I bring this up also in a Thai context because I've seen a lot of folks especially recently, and I can take a lot, I don't really care, but people have sort of needled me and things like this about my positions regarding Thailand, and one of the reasons I feel the way I do about foreigners coming to Thailand and taking advantage of this place, is precisely for the reason that I've seen the end of the slippery slope or the middle of it, whatever you want to call it, when this stuff starts to happen. When you start to let in a whole bunch of people for no particular reason, with no particular purpose, and they just are hanging around your country. That's called being invaded. That's a problem and there are Privileges and Immunities to Thai citizenship, notably yeah, you don't need work authorization as a Thai. Thais can work however they want. It's one of the inherent liberties of Thainess to be able to make your own living. Another thing is, look at the end of the day, one of the guaranteed rights under the Thai Constitution, again enshrining what is already there, is the fact that Thais cannot be deported. They are Thai, they're on Thai land. I've noticed this stuff a lot where people talk about work authorization and they say, "oh it's about whether or not you're taking a Thai job." No it is not. It is about whether or not you are a Thai inherently and have the Privileges and Immunities of citizenship. If you do not, then you don't fall under that rubric of law; you have to deal with things differently.

Now I don't bring that up to just be sort of, I don't know, imperious or something, but I bring it up because the exact problems that the United States is facing now could be faced by Thailand if we don't look this thing square in the face and say, "hey effective Immigration Policy could have stopped that from ever happening. It could have forestalled what's happening in the United States, and it wasn't undertaken, and now they're dealing with it; they are dealing with it as best they can. I have serious concerns about Privileges and Immunities when a woman is being subdued yelling out, "I'm a US citizen, I'm a US citizen"; that's a real problem. But that being said, it needs to be understood that Privileges and Immunities attached to citizens of a given jurisdiction, not foreigners who just happen to want to be there.