Trump declares war on Americans

[Winehole23]

warrantless intrusion of private property, illegal detention of Americans

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer do ents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer.

https://bsky.app/profile/davidjbier..../3malz3xiawk2o

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/1...bar-plant.html

[Winehole23]

US citizen deported

All they have to do is claim your papers are fake, then deport you without a hearing

A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose attorneys say is an American citizen but the government insists is Mexican.


Agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, on December 14 in Baltimore while she was heading home with her sister.
Despite her saying she was born in the U.S., she was held in ICE custody after failing to prove citizenship, the agency said. Attorneys rushed to get a court order keeping her in Maryland, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved her to Louisiana anyway.


Speaking to the media Monday, attorneys representing Diaz Morales said they had not been able to reach their client, who they say has no criminal record, after being told by ICE to call the detention facility holding her earlier in the day.
“There is law here. There is law written. There are systems and cir stances of mandatory detention, this is not one of them,” Zachary Perez, supervising attorney at Sanabria & Associates, based in Maryland, told Newsweek Monday. “Not once has the government alleged to us in our communications that this falls under mandatory detention for X, Y, Z.


“It is irregular. She could have been released yesterday, she could have been released five minutes ago. We’re not seeing the government assert that there are criminal proceedings, for instance, or any additional charges that would necessitate holding her and transferring her, now twice.”


Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing. Perez and colleague Victoria Slatten said they had not been able to confirm Diaz Morales' whereabouts.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains...enies-11257159

[Winehole23]

Trump loses the emergency appeal, SCOTUS upholds the stay on deploying the National Guard in Illinois

(Trump has won 20 of 24 emergency appeals this year)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against President Donald Trump and refused to lift a block on National Guard deployment within the state of Illinois, finding that Trump invoked a law that required him to first be unable to execute federal law with help from the U.S. military.


The justices wrote, in an unsigned opinion, that their conclusion means the law only applies in situations where the military has legal authority to execute criminal law — cir stances the high court called “exceptional.”


“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” they wrote.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-...guard-illinois

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Evanston, Illinois, Mayor Daniel Biss reportedly confronted Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino during a le 8 enforcement operation in Evanston after protesters gathered. Biss accused agents of violence and racism, while Bovino argued the operation was intended to make the city safer.


Biss said, “The abuse has not been acceptable, the racism has not been acceptable, the violence has not been acceptable.”
Biss added, “The only ‘violent mob’ in Evanston today was Greg Bovino and his masked thugs, terrorizing innocent people and then lying about our city to try and sow chaos. Evanston is safe in spite of ICE/CBP, not because of it. Don’t come back.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/do...on/ar-AA1SV8Be

[Winehole23]

recap of Midway Blitz in the Chicago Tribune

The tear-gassing of Chicago neighborhoods. The rousing of suburban mothers in bathrobes, drawn into streets to yell at agents and shame them. The attempted deployment of the Texas National Guard, on Trump’s command, only for a federal judge to order the troops to stand down almost immediately upon their arrival in Illinois.


The agents who pointed guns and other weapons at bystanders. The arrests of more than 4,500 people in a mission, the Department of Homeland Security said targeted “the worst of the worst.” The reality is that most of them were people with brown skin who were at the right place — their landscaping jobs, the hardware store, a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru — at the wrong time.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/...idway-blitz-2/

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In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime.

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What happened here for more than two months is unlike anything in recent American history: the federal government sending agents dressed for war into neighborhoods of the country’s third-largest city to arrest mostly people who look Latino and to ask questions later. To target people largely on the basis of their skin color, on the presumption that they may be in the country without do entation, or that they may have a criminal record, or an association with a gang.


Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, a former history teacher, said she had never seen anything like the autumn raids in her lifetime and she believes the operation will be judged harshly.


“Historians are not going to be kind to us in this moment,” she said. “We should all be ashamed of what our country is doing in our name.”

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When the Border Patrol gathered at Millennium Park, it was two days after one of the agents executed a drive-by pepper-spraying of a young couple and their 1-year-old daughter in Little Village. Five days after they stormed a Spanish-immersion preschool in North Center and arrested a beloved teacher.

It was less than two weeks after a dizzying stretch that left Chicagoans stunned in late October:

On Oct. 23, agents tossed tear gas behind the discount mall in Little Village, the proud Latino neighborhood that, from the beginning of Trump’s immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, had remained a focal point.

On Oct. 24, agents lobbed more tear gas in Lakeview, a wealthy neighborhood that up until that moment had been relatively unaffected by the chaos.

Oct. 25, agents deployed even more tear gas, this time right before a children’s Halloween parade in Irving Park, where a resident raced out of his house, still in his Chicago Blackhawks pajamas, to confront feds who’d tackled a man in his front yard.

On Oct. 31, agents fired pepper balls in Albany Park, pointed weapons and assaulted residents in Evanston and grabbed workers in Edison Park, Hoffman Estates, Skokie and Niles.

Federal immigration officers detain a person in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribun

[Winehole23]

The National Guard was never deployed in Portland

[Winehole23]

not sure whether this is a TACO or a feinted TACO

DHS's subquota performance will continue in the background

[Winehole23]

impounding appropriations just for blue states is a war on Americans

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...&smid=bs-share

[Winehole23]

not the first time something like this has happened

According to a bystander video shown to a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter by local attorney Daniel Suitor, the driver of a purple Honda Pilot blocked in unmarked federal vehicles on the street, impeding their path. The driver then slowly backed up and started to accelerate away before the agents fired three shots into the vehicle.

https://www.startribune.com/ice-raid...tm_source=gift

[Winehole23]

An observer at the scene said a woman was shot and received CPR after what appeared to be an immigration enforcement operation near E. 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis.

“I live right here, so I came over, tried to figure out what was going on,” said Venus DeMars, who described arriving after hearing reports of activity near Central Elementary School. DeMars said there were reports that federal agents had detained parents dropping off a child at the school.

She said she later heard that someone had been shot at the nearby intersection and went to investigate.

“I saw them doing CPR behind the snowbank,” DeMars said. “They did CPR on her for about a minute. And then the ambulances came and they loaded her onto a stretcher.”

DeMars said she did not see how or why the woman was shot and could not confirm who fired the weapon. She described the woman as white and said she appeared to be an observer.

[Winehole23]

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

local updates can be heard here:

https://www.mprnews.org/listen

[Winehole23]

Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse

[Winehole23]

this is acceptable statecraft, why?

A Valley couple says a dream vacation turned into a nightmare after immigration agents detained the husband on a cruise ship.

Jose Martinez said he was taken into custody on a Carnival cruise ship Monday morning. He and his wife, Tamara Verhas, are U.S. citizens.

The couple says three armed agents dressed in black busted into their stateroom before sunrise, handcuffing Martinez.

“Flashlights in our faces, screaming my name, barking commands, telling me to get out of bed, put me up against the wall and handcuffed me,” he said.
Martinez, a Coast Guard veteran, said he was escorted off the ship and taken to a concrete holding cell at the Port of Miami.

“Just a steel bench in the back of the room that I sat on waiting for them to verify my iden y,” Martinez said.

He says the wait lasted 1.5 hours before he was finally released, without an apology. Martinez was told someone with his same name had warrants out for his arrest.

“I’ve never committed a crime, so much as maybe a traffic infraction, a speeding ticket,” Martinez said. “I’m a law-abiding citizen. I’m a veteran.”

The incident happened at the end of a nine-day Caribbean cruise to celebrate Martinez’s and a friend’s birthdays.

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/07/...m-cruise-trip/

[Yonivore]

impounding appropriations just for blue states is a war on Americans

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...&smid=bs-share

You start where the fraud has been identified. Sue him.

[Winehole23]

*yawns*

57 Biden-era DOJ prosecutions say otherwise

[Winehole23]

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

[Winehole23]

it's based on pretextual racist bull

Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"

[ChumpDumper]

You start where the fraud has been identified. Sue him.

You learn that at Trump University?

[Winehole23]

Update: not deported but could face deportation hearings, despite having been born in the USA

how is this an acceptable way to treat US citizens?

US citizen deported

All they have to do is claim your papers are fake, then deport you without a hearing

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains...enies-11257159

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday released a Maryland woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the United States and is a citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, walked out of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Wednesday afternoon in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was met by members of her legal team, according to one of her lawyers, Victoria Slatton.

We were afraid that it wasn’t really going to happen, and then when we saw her, it was very surreal and we were really, really happy,” Slatton said in an interview. “There was a lot of tearing up.”

Slatton said the case against Diaz Morales has not yet been dismissed by the governmentand she could still face deportation proceedings. But Slatton is confident her client’s claim to citizenship has been established.

“She is a U.S. citizen. She was born here. I think that we’ve presented more than enough evidence, but we will continue to fight it until every single court accepts and acknowledges it,” she said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...-released-ice/

[Yonivore]

"I think that we’ve presented more than enough evidence,..."

Thinking and knowing are two different things. I'd accept a birth certificate, supported by records at the County Clerk's office.

What was the evidence they provided.. And, Winehole, how do YOU know she was born in the United States of America?

[Winehole23]

the evidence they provided was a birth certificate and hospital records

the person in question has always resided in the US, but for a short spell in Mexico