Trump declares war on Americans

[Winehole23]

another US citizen arrested, manhandled and taunted by ICE

more blatantly uncons utional conduct

What we know:

The woman was arrested while running an errand near Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. Her cousin said she was confronted by multiple federal agents, who zip-tied her and brought her to the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River.

He also said the agents mocked her hijab and touched her inappropriately. The woman was released on Thursday after more than 24 hours in custody. She was let go after her husband showed authorities her passport card, proving her citizenship, he said.
The woman was too shaken up to speak publicly, he said.

What they're saying:

"'What could you be hiding under your hijab?’ and stuff like that. And then they even made a joke, saying, ‘This would be the wrong attire to try and run away from us in,’" he said of his cousin’s interaction with federal authorities. "I feel upset. Obviously, it brings me a lot of anxiety and stress because this is my family, and I call Minnesota home."

https://www.fox9.com/news/u-s-citize...wn-family-says

[Winehole23]

US citizen put in a headlock, tackled in the snow, detained and fingerprinted, not permitted to show his US passport

A Minneapolis man said federal immigration officers chased him on foot in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Tuesday, tackled him and handcuffed and arrested him even though he’s a U.S. citizen.

He shared his story Tuesday, identifying himself as Mubashir, but declining to share his last name. Mubashir spoke at a news conference organized by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) after video of his arrest was widely viewed on social media.

“I just felt targeted,” Mubashir said. “That shouldn’t happen to anyone, that’s not right.”

In the video, a federal officer is seen putting Mubashir in a choke hold and forcing him onto his knees in the snow as he was on his way to get food. Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.

The video also showed witnesses chasing after the car in traffic; one person stood in front of the vehicle at one point.
The arrest occurred as federal agents walked into nearby businesses in the Somali-heavy neighborhood, questioning people and asking them to show their passports.

Mubashir said he was in the car with officers for about 20 minutes, asking them repeatedly if he could show them his I.D. They refused, he said.

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Officers asked if they could take a picture of him to check if he was a U.S. citizen. Mubashir told reporters that he declined their request, because, “How would a picture prove I’m a U.S. citizen?”

Officers took him to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling, which houses immigration court and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices. They took his fingerprints and then one of the officers allowed Mubashir to show his I.D., proving his U.S. citizenship, Mubashir said. He was then immediately allowed to leave.

Mubashir said he asked if the officers could take him home to Cedar-Riverside, but they refused. They told him to walk home, he said, so his parents picked him up.

“I deserve to be here like anyone else — I’m a U.S. citizen,” he said. “I can’t even step outside without being tackled — no question — because I’m Somali.”

Mubashir has lived in Minneapolis since he was a year old, according to a newsletter published by Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman.

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration...is-somali-man/

[Winehole23]

detaining people without particularized probable cause is unlawful

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy

[Winehole23]

is eating while black good probable cause to check people's immigration status?

Osman said armed ICE agents went to East African restaurants in the neighborhood Tuesday, closed the doors and demanded people's IDs. They found only U.S. citizens and made no arrests, Osman said.


“Luckily everyone had their passport, because I've been telling them to have their passport with them,” Osman said.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...of-minneapolis

[Winehole23]

(fwiw, the vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota -- 85%-90% -- are US citizens)

[Winehole23]

if mass detention of Americans to check their IDs is acceptable statecraft now, I'd like to hear why

anyone?

[DarrinS]

Doesn't seem that the admin is at war with me. But I'm not an illegal alien ripping off the American taxpayer.

[ChumpDumper]

You can be disappeared by secret police regardless of your personal status or do entation, Darrin.

Because the secret police decide you look squirrely.

Do you really want that for yourself?

For your family?

Yes or no.

[SnakeBoy]

So scared

[ChumpDumper]

So scared

Why should I not be scared of secret police who can disappear any US citizen at any time for no reason?

Why do you want that for yourself, snacks?

Please explain why you want this.

[SnakeBoy]

On a scale of 1-10, how scared are you?

[ChumpDumper]

On a scale of 1-10, how scared are you?

Your fear of my simple questions: 11

fragile snacks

[Winehole23]

Doesn't seem that the admin is at war with me. But I'm not an illegal alien ripping off the American taxpayer.

No arrests were made at the restaurant -- all US citizens and permanent residents

how is it ok to mass detain a whole restaurant on no probable cause?

[ChumpDumper]

No arrests were made at the restaurant -- all US citizens and permanent residents

how is it ok to mass detain a whole restaurant on no probable cause?

Darrin has intimated here he is not white.

He's fair game for the secret police.

Honestly he is even if he is white.

That's how secret police work.

[Winehole23]

iirc, this was an FBI raid, not DHS

not that that makes it much better

One citizen recalled that federal agents pointed guns at her youngest children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a pickup and zip-tied her.

The citizen, Anabel Romero, told investigators that an agent threatened to “ ing blow your head off” during the chaotic raid at a rural Idaho racetrack. Romero also said agents “wouldn’t let people get diapers or food for their kids.”

Romero and her children were born in Idaho.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news...sity-shooting/

[ChumpDumper]

One citizen recalled that federal agents pointed guns at her youngest children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a pickup and zip-tied her.

The citizen, Anabel Romero, told investigators that an agent threatened to “ ing blow your head off” during the chaotic raid at a rural Idaho racetrack. Romero also said agents “wouldn’t let people get diapers or food for their kids.”

Romero and her children were born in Idaho.

Yep, this is exactly what Darrin and snacks want for full natural born US citizens.

[Winehole23]

ICE calls for back up in a panic, receives police escort

Minneapolis police said in a statement that they responded to an “officer needs help” call, but confirmed that no one was being assaulted and that no “life-safety conditions” warranted further officer involvement. A spokesperson said Minneapolis police left the scene within 10 minutes.


The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office referred MPR News to a statement on their Facebook page, which included audio of a panicked call from a Department of Homeland Security supervisor requesting assistance because “we only have a few officers but we have 60 to 70 agitators fighting them.”


The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies didn’t witness any attacks on agents or any injured agents. Deputies helped agents leave the scene but did not make any arrests themselves or deploy any chemical munitions, according to the statement.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...s-traffic-stop

[Winehole23]

is it a free country when people are afraid to leave their houses?

The MPD has reported success—large declines in serious crimes reported since the feds arrived. The feds are getting something out of the arrangement, too; local cops are chauffeuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers around town, leaving many immigrant families afraid to leave their homes. Some refer to the task force as “the occupation” and say the feds are using the crime issue as a Trojan horse. “I feel nervous—I have to protect them and myself,” Diego’s 12-year-old daughter tells me as she sits beside her parents in the dark.


“I’ve lived here for a long time,” Diego adds, “and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”


Neither have I. Though I’m new to Memphis, I’ve been reporting on the criminal justice system for more than a decade and have spent time in cities with a lot of law enforcement. I’ve also lived in an authoritarian country overseas, yet I’ve never experienced a police presence like this. Some Memphians critical of the surge liken the city to a war zone, with helicopters circling over neighborhoods, National Guard officers patrolling downtown, and unmarked law enforcement vehicles in the streets. Immigrant citizens carry their US passports, lest they be detained. One volunteer I spoke with compared the vibe to 1930s Germany.


Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, has welcomed the task force, and Memphis Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, has cooperated, crediting the effort for reducing 911 calls about gun violence. But Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, another Democrat, compares occupied Memphis to a failed state. “Our risk is that [America is] gonna become a Yemen or a North Korea, or something else altogether, where there is an armed individual with a semi-automatic weapon and military fatigues on many corners,” he told me. “There may be zero crime, but we also won’t be leaving our houses. I know that’s a dark scenario, but that’s kind of where we are.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...rtations-287g/

[Winehole23]

another US citizen detained, Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them,” Perez said.



“It is something I’ve never encountered in all my work as an attorney,” Perez said. “It’s infuriating.”



Diaz Morales’ situation is somewhat unusual. After being born in Maryland, she went to Mexico as a child but never obtained a U.S. passport. At some point, she entered the United States without do entation, fleeing what her attorneys described as an emergency, life-or-death situation. Diaz Morales’ father referenced the danger posed by Jalisco Nueva Generación, a cartel.



Reentering the country without do entation does not affect whether someone is a U.S. citizen, Diaz Morales’ attorneys noted.



“If you’re a United States citizen — which she is, she was born a United States citizen — you have the right to return to the country,” Perez said. “She’s never been denaturalized. I want to be very, very clear on that.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-ci...b018dc36f254c0

[Winehole23]

warrantless invasion of property for needlessly violent arrests

WHEN LEO FELER GOT HOME, there was blood everywhere. On his front door, the window sills, the foyer. This wasn’t some tragic accident or a murder scene; rather, while he was out of town to run a marathon, immigration agents had decided to attack the workers replacing windows on his house.


Footage from Ringsurveillance cameras around the house, as well as cell-phone videos from protesters outside, tells the story: Masked agents sent to Chicago as part of “Operation Midway Blitz” saw workers taking items to a dumpster in front of Feler’s home. The agents then hopped his locked gate. They trampled his property, aggressively manhandled at least one worker, and entered Feler’s garage. They even tried to pull a bleeding worker out of a second-story window.


They did it all without ever presenting badges, identification, or a warrant.


“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” Feler, who is a U.S. citizen, told me the day after this happened in October. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?”


As far as Feler has been able to discern, his house and the crew working on it were targeted at random. The Department of Homeland Security did not reply to detailed questions about agents’ actions or why they were there, but did send me a statement complaining about “agitators” (i.e., protesters) in the street who “obstructed federal law enforcement and ignored multiple warnings to disperse.”


This wasn’t an isolated incident. Rather, it was just one of a rash of warrantless raids on private, residential construction sites recently—raids that are sweeping up basically anyone who looks Latino, including U.S. citizens, and subjecting them to dangerous and sometimes life-threatening conditions.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-i...ion-businesses

[Winehole23]

On a scale of 1-10, how scared are you?

minimal but nonzero, by far more pissed off than scared

[Winehole23]

Doesn't seem that the admin is at war with me. But I'm not an illegal alien ripping off the American taxpayer.

that's factually mistaken, immigrants contribute more than they take

the recent immigration influx was one key to our swift recovery from the COVID dip, the others being the 2020 Trump super dole and the Trump mRNA vaccine

immigration correlates statistically with greater public safety and economic growth, going back 20 years or so

[Winehole23]

y'all been demagogued by Republicans and right wing media

[Winehole23]

tow truck driver exonerated

[COLOR=rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9)]A Los Angeles tow truck driver accused of towing a federal SUV during an immigration enforcement operation was found not guilty by a federal jury Friday.

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[COLOR=rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9)]Bobby Nuñez, 33, was arrested and charged with theft of government property in connection with the mid-August arrest captured on video outside a downtown Los Angeles apartment complex.

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[COLOR=rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9)]The four-day trial concluded Friday afternoon with Nuñez being acquitted of the single charge. The 33-year-old was free on bond before the trial, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.

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[COLOR=rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9)]"We are pleased to confirm that the jury exonerated our client Bobby Nunez. We thank the jurors for their service as an essential backstop against prosecutorial overreach in our cons utional system," wrote Nuñez's attorney in a statement to NBC4.[/COLOR]

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...uilty/3819043/

[Winehole23]

Minnesota