Like most Republicans, these Long Island Republicans cannot express empathy at all until bad things happen to someone they know personally. So if there’s a silver lining to Trump’s pogroms targeting immigrants, it’s that they are so widespread that they are having the direct impact that will be necessary if these people would ever be able to see past the brainwashing.
Time and time again, these misguided people say shit like “I thought he was only getting rid of the bad ones”. News flash - it was never about the criminals, it was about getting rid of everyone who wasnt born here, and then moving on to other undesirables, like gays, Liberals, and so on. Given time, we will all be the “bad ones” for one reason or another…
So if there’s a silver lining to Trump’s pogroms targeting immigrants, it’s that they are so widespread that they are having the direct impact that will be necessary if these people would ever be able to see past the brainwashing.
They will cry , they will complain but in the end they will just vote Republican again.
It’s about getting rid of democrats, starting with the most vulnerable.
They’re done with elections.
This is only going to accelerate! They’ll be coming for other “undesirables” next. Us lefties should never forget that the right-wing wants us dead. That’s not hyperbole. They want to eradicate us. Remember that the next time you see men in masks terrorizing innocent people, you’re next!
So if she had been average it would be OK?
That’s beside the point. The point here is that we are shooting ourselves in the dick by acting like asscunts.
Sure, but the headlines are always like: son of war veteran took by ICE. Like: oh not the son of a terrorist or a good student, we only want the brown weirdos gone.
It’s to make them more relatable. People will read the headline and think ‘I know a person like that’ or ‘I am in that situation’ and want to know more about what happened.
Is anyone else starting to get some real Pol Pot vibes from ICE?
If not gestapo, then why gestapo shaped?
If it walks like the Gestapo, and quacks like the Gestapo; it’s probably the Gestapo.
That’s a Trump+10 county. The locals are probably overwhelmingly thrilled to see trump not only delivered but overdelivered his campaign promises.
Not this one.
The ICE agents claimed they were looking for someone else entirely when they entered the family home – but they chose to detain the two anyways.
In case anyone has any doubt what the intentions of all this are. PeterGriffinOkNotOk.jpg
Guys relax. It’s only a matter of time before they get Rafael Cruz
Does she have all the paperwork needed to live in the country?
The article doesn’t discuss details, only that she “legally migrated” and was in the “process of obtaining her permanent residency”. She could have been here legally on a student or other type of temporary visa, and looking to stay permanently. Or, she could have come here in a visa, complying with the laws, only to have the government yank that visa and make her illegal after the fact. (Edited because I missed the part where she came here legally…)
Not that it matters, the immigration courts here have been calling people into immigration court to cancel their ongoing applications, only to release them to ICE, waiting outside the courthouse door. So the status of her paperwork isn’t actually an issue. If the government wants you gone, they will get you gone, one way or the other.
The only real protection is US citizenship: and even that may not be enough if the masked ICE goon decides your proof is “fake” and confiscates it. At least citizens do have a better chance of getting out of detention, but first their lawyer has to find them, in a detention system specifically designed to lose people.
The article specifically says she came here legally and was in the process of obtaining permanent residency - a lengthy process.
