ICE driving without plates

[orangecrush]

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T19:06:43.450Z

Banana Republic shut.

[sakabatou]

1. So, they're illegal cars and kidnapping people

Yep, ICE is definitely a criminal gang.

[Deuxcents]

2. I never want to hear no one is above the law..ever again. Time for some disruption

[DBoon]

3. you know who else drives without plates?

burglary crews,

[yaesu]

4. a lawless fascist pricks. nt

[struggle4progress]

5. Masked gangsters in plateless vehicles

[Jim__]

6. Can Illinois police stop them?

[Bluetus]

8. Yes, absolutely.

If there is a vehicle driving illegally, they can absolutely make a traffic stop. There may be some Federal law that would preclude an arrest. I don't know about that. But I bet they could impound the vehicles for sure. Let the ICE bastards call Uber.

[Jim__]

13. Thanks. That's good news. I hope they do stop them.

[Bluetus]

15. It would be an escalation. I am sure they are debating that privately.

Once you start arresting ICE, it is on, so they will want to make sure they are 100% on solid legal footing. They last thing we need is a court ruling that the Gestapo are good to operate completely out of control.

[bluestarone]

7. Time for slashed tires on every ICE vehicle that is breaking state law

[swong19104]

9. I suggest we, the people, do everything that ICE does

If they drive around without plates, then all of us drive around without plates. We all wear sunglasses and balaclavas.

[Seinan Sensei]

10. Take a picture of the VIN

Vehicle Identification Number is on the dash, visible through the windshield
Or slap an Apple Air Tag on the vehicle to track it.
You can buy GPS tracking devices for under 20 bucks all day long

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. There may be some sort of code on them

that local cops are privvy to, courtesy of the DOJ, and under orders to leave them alone.

Maybe it's a stretch, but it's the kind of thing that's believable now.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. That's one thing that gets me:

ICE "agents" are wholly anonymous. No badges. No numbers. No license plates.

If I were wrestled to the ground and shoved into an unmarked vehicle and thrown into a detention center despite lack of probable cause and sustained an injury, I couldn't sue as I wouldn't be able to identify one or more plaintiffs.

[MineralMan]

14. Of course they do, which instantly identifies them as ICE.

In the 1970s, I worked for a while as a mechanic in a fleet garage for a county in California. Among the vehicles I regularly worked on were the "undercover" cars used by the Sheriff's Department. Mostly, they were assorted cars seized by the Sheriff for being used in some crime. So, they got used by the drug enforcement and other undercover operations.

But, the Sheriff's Department was incredibly stupid about this. They put official license plates on them - the same type used on other county vehicles. And then, they had the garage install new tires on them - the same black sidewall tires we installed on the sheriff's other vehicles. So, you'd see some beat-up Ford Econoline Van coming, with government tax-free license plates and brand new black sidewall tires. "Cheese it - The Cops!" Truly!

[republianmushroom]

16. Just more of Americas Gestapo tactics.

[uponit7771]

17. Now they're going after peoples kids ... its always about the kids with MAGA