> Tell me what legal rationale ICE had to detain and kidnap a 5 year old US citizen.
They did not "kidnap" the child. Detaining someone is not the same as arrest. I saw sensationalists talking about the kid being "in cuffs" which is objectively false. An officer stayed with the child because he was abandoned by his father, the target of the operation who fled the scene. The alternative would have been to abandon the child, and face the "separating immigrant families" rhetoric that we've seen in previous news cycles.
> Tell me the legal rationale for ICE abducting an employee from a Target beating him up and dropping him off bruised and covered in blood at Walmart at miles away.
I genuinely have no idea what story you're talking about, but I assume it involves resisting arrest and/or obstruction of justice. I am quite confident that I would find the use of the word "abducting" entirely inappropriate; note that you don't get immunity from arrest simply by being in one particular building or other.
> The appropriate reaction to being admittedly ignorant about a topic is looking it up or requesting a source.
What you quoted implies a request for a source. It is not unreasonable to state my priors. That is not "a priori deciding". Your insult is uncalled for and contrary to HN guidelines.
They did not "kidnap" the child. Detaining someone is not the same as arrest. I saw sensationalists talking about the kid being "in cuffs" which is objectively false. An officer stayed with the child because he was abandoned by his father, the target of the operation who fled the scene. The alternative would have been to abandon the child, and face the "separating immigrant families" rhetoric that we've seen in previous news cycles.
> Tell me the legal rationale for ICE abducting an employee from a Target beating him up and dropping him off bruised and covered in blood at Walmart at miles away.
I genuinely have no idea what story you're talking about, but I assume it involves resisting arrest and/or obstruction of justice. I am quite confident that I would find the use of the word "abducting" entirely inappropriate; note that you don't get immunity from arrest simply by being in one particular building or other.