Civil Discourse
It’s hard to watch. People being treated like they are less than human because of their perceived immigration status. Like this six-year-old girl.
A witness said she saw “agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans,” and that “kids were separated from their mothers.”
DHS claimed the neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but offered no evidence in support and didn’t confirm that any of those arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.
Earlier this month, at West Loop Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, ICE was forced to release two sisters it pulled out of their car at a school pick up, because they have legal status under DACA.
Earlier this month, at West Loop Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, ICE was forced to release two sisters it pulled out of their car at a school pick up, because they have legal status under DACA.
But that didn’t stop the masked agents, captured on video by a quick-thinking teacher, from surrounding the car and smashing its windows before dragging the two out. One of the sisters cried out her name and where she lived to bystanders, an apparent effort to prevent being “disappeared” into ICE custody.
It is already horrible enough.
It is already horrible enough.
But we read The Diary of Anne Frank in school. Among the book’s important lessons is that where things start is not where they end up. Bad can become worse in the blink of an eye.
The propaganda used to dehumanize people, combined with fear, social pressure, and denial, can have devastating results. People who think it’s too dangerous to speak out may decide to take the path of least resistance and turn a blind eye, hoping it will stop. But a government that is already willing to commit the outrages we are observing is unlikely to do so. Fascism, as it did in Europe during World War II, takes its toll.
To be clear, we are already past the point where it’s only people in the U.S. without legal immigration status who are at risk.
In Portland, Oregon, on October 5, ICE agents threatened to arrest and kill an ambulance driver. The incident is documented by witness reports filed with the ambulance crew’s employer and its union by different individuals, as well as 911 calls, dispatch reports, and emergency communications.
To be clear, we are already past the point where it’s only people in the U.S. without legal immigration status who are at risk.
In Portland, Oregon, on October 5, ICE agents threatened to arrest and kill an ambulance driver. The incident is documented by witness reports filed with the ambulance crew’s employer and its union by different individuals, as well as 911 calls, dispatch reports, and emergency communications.
The ambulance was called to the ICE office to treat an injured protester, but agents refused to let the ambulance leave once the patient was loaded. When the driver put the vehicle into park, it rocked forward, and an agent responded angrily, saying the ambulance driver tried to hit him.
The driver reported that “they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”
A video filmed in September that recently went viral shows ICE firing on protestors and hitting Presbyterian minister David Black in the head with a pepper ball. The minister, who was injured, is now suing.
A video filmed in September that recently went viral shows ICE firing on protestors and hitting Presbyterian minister David Black in the head with a pepper ball. The minister, who was injured, is now suing.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin tweeted that the shooting was justified because “What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.” Apparently, the new standard operating protocol is that if an ICE agent decides you’re in the way, they can shoot you. “If you are obstructing law enforcement, you can expect to be met with force,” she concluded her tweet, complaining that the minister had “flipped the bird” at Secretary Noem the previous week.
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13 comments:
The issue with illegal immigration would never have occurred if the autopen had not opened the borders. Everyone being detained is a criminal breaking federal law. That includes children. If you need to blame anyone blame the autopen and the parents who knew they were breaking federal law. None of the illegals being detained are professionals. They are not doctors, lawyers, engineers’, scientists, nurses etc. They are losers who couldn’t make in in their country because of lack of education and high skills. This country doesn’t need any more losers.
Those children should be safe with ICE as opposed to some human trafficker. Unless Epstein's friends' get their hands on them.
Debunked story, Monty.
The autopen goes back to the days of Thomas Jefferson. May presidents have used the autopen. It is a common practice. Let me guess you learned the word autopen?
Fuck Ann Frank, if she were alive her grandchildren would be shooting Palestinian children in the head or have them dying of starvation. Good riddance.
The image of a young girl getting arrested is false. . .but the story of ICE agents in Chicago raiding an apartment complex isn't. Witnesses can verify the violence from ICE agents, it is documented.
Republicans are weak. They should have enacted tough immigration laws back in the days. What are they waiting for today? Have they tweaked the Citizenship law? NO. Have they closed down the borders? No. Have they stopped giving visas? NO. That is the problem. It is a Republican Problem.
Train your family. Have a document that you are legal in the USA with you at all times. Practice being detained by ICE. Answer questions correctly, do not run, do not try to protest etc
If you are here with no papers: Stay indoors. Do not go outside. Do not go to the stores. Do not go out driving. Play it cool for twenty years.
The so called violence from ICE comes from people resisting arrest. Why don' t you see those images? People resist arrest and later cry when they get a small cut or bruise.
There is no palestine. It's as make believe as Aztlan.
SCOTUS has green-light racial profiling. This is what Trump lovers have voted for. MAGA goons violate your rights by demanding documentation to prevent being scooped up. Latinas for Trump and all the rest of the Trump mamones have brought this BS upon themselves. They have blind hate for immigrants but have no problems with the oligarchs ruining their lives and pilfering the Treasury. Enjoy the crumbs.
A huh, OK. Well, IDF is killing Arab kids in Gaza and the Westbank. That's real, right?
Resisting arrest is bad but that's what police have to deal with, it happens everyday and yes people who resist get hurt and in rare cases die? Out the 27,000 arrests daily, there's a dozen arrests that are red flags, where they find wrong doing like excessive force, police brutality, violating their constitutional rights and again wrongfully killing someone. Then it's settled in a court of law, an officer loses their job, others lose their license, other's lose qualified immunity, other's get prison time, it happens . . .That's not the violence I'm talking about.
What ICE is doing is sinister, it is intimidation and terrorism. Yet there's a paradox of ICE claiming to be victims and needing money and personnel yet at the same time violating every person's constitutional right, unethical and hypocritical is what that is. Excessive force, no due process, no judge, no jury, no court. Why don't you read the BOR's?
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