Hollywood actress Amber Heard has deleted a tweet where she said, “Just heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in hollywood, a few blocks from where I live. Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight…”
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1014160285962326016
Sorry, Amber! Screenshots are forever:
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1014170591669170177
It looks like she deleted it after TMZ picked it up:
AMBER HEARD Warns Nannies, Housekeepers & Gardeners WATCH OUT FOR ICE CHECKPOINT!!! https://t.co/VmHjYQvI2f What are your thoughts on this?
— Harvey Levin (@HarveyLevinTMZ) July 3, 2018
Anyway, the border checkpoints … especially in California … are nothing new and are not “police-state like”:
Checkpoints on your home streets…. Is this the “great” America we’re aiming for? Raids, fences and police-state like checkpoints don’t feel like the ‘land of the free’ our immigrant ancestors built.
— Amber Heard (@realamberheard) July 3, 2018
As far as the alleged ICE checkpoint in Hollywood, we have no idea what rumor Heard was referring to but whatever it was, she was probably wrong about it:
Folks, there was not an ICE checkpoint in Hollywood last night.
First of all, ICE doesn't do checkpoints. (That would be CBP.)
Second, have you ever been to Hollywood? It is geographically unsuited for checkpoints, seeing as it's an urban grid. https://t.co/D4OdcLS8SJ
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) July 3, 2018
These rumors happen all the time. For example, an ICE checkpoint in Cleveland turned out to be just a normal DUI checkpoint run by local cops:
A tweet claimed that there was an ICE checkpoint at the intersection of W. 150th St. & Lorain Ave. Tuesday night, but Cleveland police said they conducted a routine drunken driving checkpoint at the intersection and that ICE had no involvement. https://t.co/AUZEca40pS
— clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) June 27, 2018
And often times the rumors are just outright hoaxes, like this recent report of an ICE checkpoint in New York City:
@NYPDCT Hey NYPD counterterrorism–can you confirm an ICE checkpoint at 23rd St in Manhattan, at the N/Q train. And if so, is NYPD cooperating?
— Erik Larson (@exlarson) June 27, 2018
When people investigated, guess what? NO CHECKPOINT:
I’m in the 23rd St station and see nothing that looks like it might be ICE. Other people reporting similar.
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) June 27, 2018
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