Section 1983 and Section 1985 of the Civil Rights Act stipulate that a person may be liable for violating constitutional rights, even if they’re not a state or local government employee, if they conspired with state or local employees.
So local law enforcement agencies assisting ICE may actually be setting them up for lawsuits?
The way I read that is that if you, a private individual, assist a state or local employee (cops) in violating someone else’s civil rights, you could be found liable. In other words, if you snitch or call the cops on someone, and that results in dozens of children being zip tied, you are just as liable for those civil rights violations as tye cops. Also, the feds might be immune, but the cops are not. The ACLU might drag the local cops and sheriffs to court, along with every MAGA shit that helped them.
I think it’s even bigger than that. It seems this particular law allows pulling the Feds in as well, bypassing their immunity.
In this case, the ACLU’s attorneys argue that federal officers worked closely with the county sheriff and city police officers to terrorize families at the racetrack raid, and were therefore part of a conspiracy.
Defendants in the Idaho case include officials from ICE and the FBI
