A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.
Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a detention centre where she was denied medical care and lost consciousness. The Department of Homeland Security said she was an agitator who was obstructing ICE agents conducting arrests in the area.
That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents make arrests amid protests against what local officials have likened to a “federal invasion.”
Rahman says she was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she encountered federal immigration agents at an intersection. Video appears to show agents shouting commands over a cacophony of whistles, car horns and screams from protesters.
Jews dragged from their homes by Gestapo were German citizens also.
The migrant vs citizen thing is the thinnest of pretences.
Sooner or later theyll just say theyre getting rid of anyone they dont like, say something about purity or whatever.
They are already mounting a Supreme Court Challenge to birthright Citizenship, and reviewing citizenship documentation for others.
Bottom line: If you weren’t BORN here of American citizens parents, they want you gone.
When they’re done dealing with those people, they’ll start looking at other demographic groups.
They already claimed they wanted 150M deportations. i.e. anyone who isnt white.
Nazi ideology in-a-nutshell.
enough of this illegal racist GOP-sponsored brutality!
I agree.
Maybe another No Kings rally where we have even more cleverly written signs and chants that rhyme will get them to stop.
Maybe hundreds more people recording on the sidelines from their cell phones instead of directly intervening while people are begging for their lives as they are ripped from their cars should do the trick.
Maybe waggling our middle fingers impotently at them while they detain Native Americans and brown-skinned citizens doing routine shopping or as the gestapo goes door-to-door will deter them.
So ICE have murdered one person, shot another, thrown a flash bang and tear gas into a car full of children who then had to be hospitalized, attacked high schools where they beat staff and gassed students, gassed protestors, gone door to door breaking into houses and dragging out the occupants to be disappeared, pointed guns directly at citizens’ heads… and that’s just what one Canadian has seen from Minneapolis in the last few days. I have friends in Minneapolis and it pains me to see that great city being terrorized daily by this fascist government.
Ok, I will say it: this is nothing new. Even the scale is not that new. During the protests after George Floyd murder we have seen police shoot rubber bullets at people indiscriminately, 20 people suffered serious eye injuries. In 2024 police killed 1200 people. Between 2022 and 2024 15.000 people died in prisons. We have seen police target random people for illegal stops all the time, they would arrest people under false pretenses (arresting only for resisting arrest for example) all the time, drag people out of their cars, beat them up and torture them all the time and they would almost never face any consequences. Yet watching videos from ICE raids it looks like people still believe the are somehow protected from violence, that ICE will respect their rights, that if they are US citizen they have some immunity to all this. Were people ignorant of all the police violence all this time? Don’t they realize ICE can and will simply kidnap them, beat them up and drop them off somewhere without consequences? Because they do look surprised when it happens when it’s the least surprising thing there is. It’s shocking, yes, police violence in US was always shocking, but it’s not surprising. Would you be surprised that a biker gang beat you up after you insulted them?
My point is that if you’re interacting with ICE you should be aware that they will murder you if then can find an excuse and that you don’t have any rights. If you’re protesting protest peacefully and avoid interactions. If you want to confront them do it like you would confront a violent street gang. It’s baffling that people get tough with ICE and then are surprised they got hurt.
She should have leaned on the horn until their ears burst. Knowing ICE, I’ve got to wonder why she didn’t take off when it was clear they weren’t letting her through. Was a detour not possible?
Did you miss what happened to the last person who tried to get off in her car?
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I’m so tired of this bullshit response. It’s like watching sports and saying what you’d do in that situation when you have no idea what you are talking about. What the fuck are they supposed to do? Anything they do besides protest will put their lives immediately in danger and they could potentially die. Believe it or not, most people don’t want to die. That’s kinda the whole point of these protests. None of us want to die or get kidnapped.
I get it, we are all angry and this is all bullshit. But I’m so tired of people saying “yeah but I’d fight back and you should too” while most never even go to protests. Stop shaming people for not doing what you want to see them do with the buffer of your phone screen. You are basically saying “yeah but why didn’t you die for them?” While you sit on the fucking toilet.
Enjoy martial law.
Sure thing keyboard warrior. I bet you feel like such a touch guy as you do jack shit about it. At least these people are protesting while you sit behind a screen and explain why other people need to make sacrifices for you like you are the main character.
Don’t feed the trolls. It’s a brand new account
Unless you’re planning to make news headlines very soon kindly be quiet.
Not everything people do gets headlines.
The protestors getting violent is the end goal for the current regime.
All it would take is one ICE agent seriously injured or dead by the hands of the protestors, and marshall law would be called.
Elections would be cancelled, as “America is under attack, and needs a strong leader”.
Also ICE currently seems to lack any accountability, I would not want to be detained by an organization like that.
They don’t need us to get violent. They’re planning martial law anyway. The idea that they won’t do anything unless we act bad is hilarious
You do it, tough guy. Some people are risking a bit just to protest to make these scumbags know they aren’t welcome. They aren’t all ready yet to throw their lives away starting a war with the Stasi.
But the war is already here. Ice got chased out of a restaurant be hecklers…. So heckle them out of an abduction.
I agree generally. The question, though, of when to act has a different answer for each person’s context.
ICE travels in packs for that reason. They also avoid dense areas to keep the numbers on their side. I generally agree with you, but there’s a lot of nuance like who is actually present at these confrontations. A lot of times is the suburbs and there’s really not enough people around to have an effective people defense.
you are such a pussy
Why is that?
Easy block candidate right here, folks.
Will you?
