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ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'
- angryantant 1y ago> The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, 'No, he's not the one,' like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, 'Take him anyway,'
- tocs3 1y agohttps://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
- betaby 1y agoDo they read those messages? In Canada they definitely not - I've never received a reply even from the secretary.
- rbetts 1y agoI regularly receive responses from my reps here in Massachusetts. They also hold town hall meetings where you can ask questions and listen first-hand. I attended one last night and spoke 1:1 with my Congresswoman for a moment afterwards. I'm sure there are districts where this is not the case in the US - but I hope everyone with concerns reaches out to their elected officials and takes an hour once or twice a year to listen to them in person when they are present in their districts. If your rep doesn't answer you, tell your neighbors and vote for one who will.
- _verandaguy 1y agoThis would depend on your riding and what you're writing about. I've received replies from my MPP, MP, and a handful of cabinet ministers over the years writing about a few at-the-time hot topics. Doug Ford, for all his faults, is apparently quite responsive if you just text him (that's secondhand knowledge from a friend, I can't tell you if it's actually him on the other side of the line, but it's a thing that exists. Make of that what you will. )
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- hiddencost 1y agohttps://newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-federal-agents-detain-guatemalan-man-29-with-no-criminal-record https://newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-federal-agents-detain-gua...
- CharlieDigital 1y agoPossibly 45 more months of this nonsense; kinda insane.
- UncleSlacky 1y agoBold of you to assume that there will be any more elections.
- recursive 1y agoTrump has announced the possibility of a third term.
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- bluefirebrand 1y agoDonald Trump is 78 years old and seriously unhealthy He's going to be lucky to make it through this term, forget running for president again at 82
- exe34 1y agoproject 2025 has a huge crowd ready to step in. the cruelty doesn't need to stop just because the orangefuhrer isn't around. the fourth Reich is developing quite successfully.
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- wnevets 1y agowhy is ICE wasting millions of dollars arresting the wrong people but DOGE is cutting cancer research? Its time to abolish ICE.
- ty6853 1y agoBecause they are cowards and taking innocent gay barbers, sheet metal workers that are family men, and teenage barely men is easier than facing a tatted up legit MS13 gang member who fires back and fights back.
- lokar 1y agoI really think ICE has quotas to hit. It would explain a lot of their behavior, and it’s clear the king really cares about the weekly numbers.
- exe34 1y agowhen a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become the king. the palace becomes a circus.
- lokar 1y agoWe changed to a system of elected kings last year, see “Trump v. United States”
- int_19h 1y agoI don't think it's just the quotas. My past experience with CBP and specifically things I witnessed at border crossings led me to the conclusion that the very nature of the job attracts people who basically have a sadistic streak and enjoy having that kind of power over others and exercising it.
- duxup 1y agoImposing their will isn't waste as far as the administration is concerned. All acts, right or wrong can be spun as them doing something. And the current administration doesn't care about "waste", they only care if the given policy, department, money advances their goals / corruption and etc. They're happy to waste in that context.
- adamnemecek 1y agoIs the US legit fascist now?
- UncleSlacky 1y agoYes, has been for a while.
- doesnotexist 1y agoWell there are now many instances of enforced disappearances.[1] To what the administration likes to call jails in Ecuador, except for the fact jails and prisons are part of legitimate criminal justice systems with judicial review/due process. These can be more accurately described as concentration camps given that they lack the features that would make them legitimate jails or detention facilities. [1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-disappearances/about-enforced-disappearance https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-disappearance... " [Enforced disappearance] is characterized by three cumulative elements (defined in A/HRC/16/48/Add.3): A) Deprivation of liberty against the will of the person; B) Involvement of government officials, at least by acquiescence; C) Refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person. " If you think about the administration's unwillingness to comply with the court's ruling to return the individual, who by their own admission, they mistakenly took away due to an "administrative error" there are many open questions. How do we know that the individual is still alive? For that matter, how do we know that all the other people who they say were removed from the country are still alive? We have no independently verified information as to fates of these people. More likely than not, in the course of these actions by the government, the number of deaths is some number greater than zero. Even if they have not performed outright executions, some deaths as a result of the conditions and or their treatment in custody is almost certain. So is that state sanctioned man slaughter/murder? Does this make ICE a death squad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad
- cmurf 1y agohttps://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentrat... What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
- MisterTea 1y agoHow much money is the USA paying El Salvador to run this human torture operation? What a disgrace.
- tharmas 1y agoI think its $6 Million.
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- arresin 1y agoIf the facts of this case are true: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego... then this is an unthinkable crime and has to be the red line for both sides of politics.
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- duxup 1y agoI think the bystander effect is real.
- generalizations 1y agoI think I don't believe that source without better evidence. It could be totally accurate - or, chances are, it's spinning a story.
- bloppe 1y agoIt doesn't have to be a red line for maga. In fact, for them, the cruelty is the whole point. They want the fear and simply don't care about laws.
- tharmas 1y agoYes, this is exactly it. Eventually the cruelty and fear become the ends themselves rather than a means to an end.
- generalizations 1y ago> don't care about laws Look at the legal analysis, not the sensationalist story: this is IIRC preexisting legal machinery, now being used for a different purpose. You dislike how it is used; I dislike that it exists. We are not the same.
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- dawnerd 1y agoYes. Read the article. Edit: even if he wasn’t, there’s a proper process for deportations. Sending someone without due process to a supermax prison let alone a country they’re not even from isn’t it.
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- somenameforme 1y agoHe was not. As per the article: "In May 2023, Wilmer Gutiérrez left Venezuela with his son Merwil and nephew Luis, traveling through Colombia and the Darién Gap into Panama. The monthlong journey eventually brought them to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where they applied for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) through the CBP One app. While waiting for their immigration appointment, they took temporary jobs and slept near the border to keep their place in line." The CBP One app [1] was a means to enable mass pseudo-legal migration by automatically granting 'humanitarian parole' on a massive scale to hundreds of thousands of people. The app and any pending appointments from it were cancelled January 20th, ending said parole. The app was later updated to help people looking to self deport. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBP_One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBP_One
- dawnerd 1y agoNo, Trump tried to end TPS on Jan 20th but was blocked by a court order. The Venezuela TPS still stands and was valid when Wilmer was sent off to prison. https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-statu...
- somenameforme 1y agoCheck the dates. The order was issued March 31st. The date in this article mentions March 16th as the date of the individual's detention. he was deported "days later." It's also unlikely TPS was granted, as the article remains ambiguous on this point which is suggestive of the fact that he was still on 'humanitarian parole' pending a hearing. If there were any other possible angle to try vilify and/or hyperbolize these actions, it's highly unlikely that the media would miss it.
- murph-almighty 1y agoIt's beyond disgusting to me that the "News Bias meter" on the bottom of the article claims this is "unfairly" biased towards the left. Just because it doesn't reflect well towards your side doesn't mean it's biased.
- drfuzzy89 1y agoI think that's just a poor UI choice. That seems to be its default position until you vote. Once you've voted for how biased you think the article is, it shows you the "Most Popular Rating" which is currently "Center/Fair".
- helle253 1y agoMy wife is a naturalized citizen (and a brown one with a muslim name, at that)), and to be perfectly honest I'm no longer confident this admin won't start looking into denaturalizating people like her, for no reason except their ethnicity. It's clear they're taking a 'the Court has written their law. Now let them enforce it.' approach, and it's not clear anybody is going to stop them.
- shepherdjerred 1y agoAre you planning on emigrating? Just curious. I'm starting to worry it might be the only right option
- helle253 1y agoNot explicitly planning on it currently, but it is something that's in the back of my head. If denaturalizations do start happening, we would have a frank conversation about what to do. I don't know that we would stay in America. The tail risks would simply be too high. I don't know, its frightening to think about. I don't think its LIKELY, yet. but i cant say its UNTHINKABLE anymore.
- dhritzkiv 1y ago"If denaturalizations do start happening" sounds much too late to start talking about it. Best to be prepared sooner than later with how quickly everything is regressing.
- shepherdjerred 1y agoI agree. I really hope it doesn't get that bad, but there are still 3.5 years left...
- mdhb 1y agoThey very very obviously at this point aren’t going to voluntarily leave office.
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- outsidein 1y agoWake up, American tech people (or anybody with remains of intelligence and humanity). Solve this issue from inside before the system implodes or sets the world even more on fire than it has done already.