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“It is very evil and it’s hard to watch—to wrap your mind around the extent of it,” Lansdale said. “But if you can find where to look, it’s not hard to be inspired by all the people standing up to fight it.”
US citizen detained twice in the same morning
DHS officers' contempt for brown complected Americans stands out here as it does elsewhere
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/baker-p...na-ice-cbp-dhsAceituno, 46, was grabbing breakfast before his construction job when he was accosted by border patrol agents. Confident that his U.S. citizenship would protect him from the perils of immigration detention, he bantered back and forth with the agents, figuring any time he could get them to waste would allow others nearby extra time to get away. Those agents, as the New York Times reported, eventually allowed him to go.
But after he got in his truck, a second group of agents rolled in and started to harass him, banging on his window. His friend Karina Sanabria told me Aceituno warned them not to break it because he would demand they pay for it. And then they went ahead and broke the window. Two agents pulled him out and threw him on the ground. A passerby recorded the altercation, imploring the agents to leave Aceituno alone because he had already shown his citizenship do entation to the first group of agents.
“They just ID’d him, don’t you guys ing coordinate?” the passerby asked.
Aceituno had kept his calm while dealing with agents earlier, but after this second group drove him to the ground and then threw him into a van, he started to get scared. Sanabria told me that another detained immigrant who was in the van wept as they were driven around. When he tried to share his wife’s phone number with Aceituno so that he could call her and let her know where he was, the agents started yelling at both men to shut up.
“They were yelling at them treating them like , as if he was one of the worst animals, that’s when he got scared thinking these assholes are going to take me somewhere and no one is ever going to see me again,” said Sanabria, who is part of Latino Tu Voto Cuenta, an electoral-focused group in North Carolina.
After Aceituno again told the agents he was a U.S. citizen, they finally threw him out of the van. By then, he was a twenty-plus-minute walk away from his car, which he still could not drive anywhere because the agents had taken his keys. Eventually, someone from a local advocacy group contacted the agents to get the keys back.
(If you want complicated, here you go: Aceituno voted for Trump in 2024 because of the border and the economy. He now calls it “the worst decision of my life.”)
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“It is very evil and it’s hard to watch—to wrap your mind around the extent of it,” Lansdale said. “But if you can find where to look, it’s not hard to be inspired by all the people standing up to fight it.”
this is morally tolerable statecraft why?
this is morally tolerable statecraft, why?
If democrats didnt leave the border open for the 4 years under Biden.....this wouldnt happening....oh well.
lol BM triggered by brown people
Trump would have done little better with the post-COVID economic surge -- it happened in the USA like no where else in the world because of the Trump MRNA vaccine and the 2020 Trump super dole.
The border surge had very little to do with Joe Biden
on a regular basis, US citizens are getting racially profiled and detained by ICE
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...ed-by-ice.htmlImmigration officers detained a McMinnville High School student Friday off school grounds, the student’s family said.
Christian Jimenez, 17, a U.S. citizen born in Newberg and a high school senior, was driving his father’s car around 12:30 p.m. during his lunch break when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stopped his car, Jimenez’s older brother, Cesar Jimenez, said in an interview.
The teenager told the officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him. In a video shared by Cesar Jimenez, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
Federal judge in Chicago has some words and releases some videos
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigra...ses-fall-apart“The court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. attorney’s office in this district to charge so hastily that it either could not obtain the indictment in the grand jury or was forced to dismiss upon a conclusion that the case is not provable, in repeated cases of a similar nature,” Fuentes wrote.
The extraordinary judicial determination is that DHS's word was no good
In each of the five cases, Fuentes pointed out, he obtained sworn statements that “not only were the affidavit allegations true, but that video evidence of the encounters existed, that the affiants had reviewed the video evidence, and that the video evidence corroborated the version of events set forth in the affidavits.”
He pointed to the ruling last month by U.S. District Judge April Perry, questioning federal agents’ “ability to accurately assess the facts.” He noted that Briggs had U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino on his witness list — and that U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis found he “lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village.”
Fuentes called these “extraordinary judicial determinations.”
criminals impersonating Trump's deportation goons is a motif
https://abcnews.go.com/US/houston-ch...y?id=127819727A church safety director is under arrest after being accused of posing as an ICE agent to extort a woman for money.Donald Doolittle, 58, is charged with impersonating a public servant. He's listed as safety director on the Gateway Community Church of Webster's website and noted he's worked at the church for 10 years in an affidavit filed with the court.
Eyewitness News has learned the victim of the alleged extortion plot is a massage therapist operating out of a northwest Houston office building.
Police say Doolittle booked and received a massage Thursday, but that problems arose when he went to pay.
Officers say Doolittle wanted to pay with a credit card, but that the victim told him she only accepts cash or Zelle payments.
At that point, police say Doolittle pulled out an ID card labelled 'ICE,' identified himself as an ICE agent and said he needed to see the victim's ID.
Police say she complied and showed him her temporary visa, but that he then demanded money.
"He demanded she Zelle him $500 or he would take her away and she would never see her family or children again," a magistrate said during Doolittle's probable cause hearing Saturday.
Zelle is a digital payment network that allows people to send and receive money between bank accounts.
After the victim sent Doolittle the money, police say he texted her that she wouldn't hear from any other ICE agents because he had marked her case for non-prosecution. He also allegedly asked her to delete the text messages.
Police say the victim told her story to officers whom she happened to run into the next day at a luncheon.
When interviewed by investigators, police say Doolittle denied getting a massage or going to the victim's business, but police say surveillance video proved otherwise.
detaining people at Green Card interviews
worst of the worst
“We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family,” he continued. “We're just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, ‘I'm sorry. We've tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders.”https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...3935482/?amp=1“She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, ‘What are we doing here? These aren’t the sort of people we're supposed to be arresting.'"
worst of the worst
deployment of US troops as a political stunt exposed troops to needless violence and death
Trump was the one who granted asylum to the shooter, in April of this year
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/20...Kk0ezlmfyTFsZo
Bovino lied and DOJ pressed false charges, which video evidence obliged it to dismiss
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-wat...-broadview-ice
terminally online BP chief and serial liar Greg Bovino singles out Nancy Sinatra as a main cause of violence
reputational damage for participating US companies
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/backlas...home-depot-attThere’s also speculation that AT&T data could have been used by DHS to target people during the shocking raid at the 7500 South Shore Drive residential building raid in Chicago. That raid featured multiple agencies coming from different directions at 1 a.m., including agents rappelling down from a Black Hawk helicopter like it was a Michael Bay movie. I asked AT&T spokespeople if they could confirm or deny the use of the company’s technology and services in the 7500 South Shore Drive raid and they did not respond to multiple requests for comment. No criminal charges resulted from the raid—it was just an embarrassing, made-for-TV spectacle.
Trump hates Americans and is on the warpath against them
https://www.reuters.com/investigates...ution-tracker/In his second term, Donald Trump has turned a campaign pledge to punish political opponents into a guiding principle of governance.
What began as a provocative rallying cry in March 2023 – “I am your retribution” – has hardened into a sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies, reshaping federal policy, staffing and law enforcement.
A tally by Reuters reveals the scale: At least 470 people, organizations and ins utions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies. The count excludes foreign individuals, ins utions and governments, as well as federal employees dismissed as part of force reductions.
The Trump vengeance campaign fuses personal vendettas with a drive for cultural and political dominance, Reuters found. His administration has wielded executive power to punish perceived foes – firing prosecutors who investigated his bid to overturn the 2020 election, ordering punishments of media organizations seen as hostile, penalizing law firms tied to opponents, and sidelining civil servants who question his policies. Many of those actions face legal challenges.
At the same time, Trump and his appointees have used the government to enforce ideology: ousting military leaders deemed “woke,” slashing funds for cultural ins utions held to be divisive, and freezing research grants to universities that embraced diversity initiatives.
racial profiling leads to detentions of Native Americans
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion...-ignoring-themOur most-read article on Native News Online this week involved Native American actress Elaine Miles, who was detained by four ICE agents while walking to a bus stop in Redmond, Wash., near Seattle.
Best known for her role as Marilyn Whirlwind in the television series Northern Exposure and in films such as Smoke Signals and The Business of Fancydancing, Miles is a card-carrying member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
According to what she shared with The Seattle Times, she did exactly what any citizen should do — she presented her federally recognized tribal ID when ICE agents demanded identification.
That should have been the end of it.
For those of us who are citizens of federally recognized tribes, a tribal ID is our primary form of identification. I have used mine to get past TSA agents at airports. Miles has used hers to cross international borders. Federal agencies accept it. Yet one of the agents told her the card was “fake.” Another said, “Anyone can make that.”
Miles said both her son and her uncle were previously detained by ICE agents who initially refused to accept their tribal IDs before eventually releasing them.
“What we’re talking about here is racial profiling,” Seattle-based Indigenous rights attorney Gabriel Galanda, who is not representing Miles, told The Seattle Times. “People are getting pulled over or detained on the street because of the dark color of their skin.”
In another story Native News Online earlier this month, Salt River Pima-Maricopa tribal citizen Leticia Jacobo was jailed in a small town in Iowa.
Jacobo was booked into the Polk County Jail in Des Moines in September on a charge of driving with a suspended license. She was set to walk free on Nov. 11, but what should have been a routine release was thrown into chaos — and delayed — after jail staff flagged her with an ICE detainer that never should have existed.
Jacobo’s sister questioned authorities: “How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?”
Both stories reveal a disturbing pattern. Separated by hundreds of miles and different cir stances, they share the same core problem: When federal or local authorities disregard tribal identification, they disregard tribal sovereignty. And when they dismiss our sovereignty, Native people pay the price — in fear, humiliation, and unjust detention.
No way! Not a good Christian church employee!
fees and requirements like this will harass and hinder US travelers starting next year
(as one does in a coercive and increasingly unfree society)
https://apnews.com/article/real-id-f...10d50cc2112eb7
(if you're not free to travel unhindered and unmulcted by the authorities, you're not really free)
Social Security hanging up the phone and slamming the door on Americans
Forcing elderly enrollees online seems to be the order of the day
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...ffices/409850/
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