cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42561306
Jan. 31, 2026
According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, concern over ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.
CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for deportation.
Some of the refugees taken to Texas have been released from custody. But instead of being flown back home, they were released in Texas “without money, identification, or phones,” CNN reported.
The line was crossed ages ago.
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…am I stupid? I have zero clue what that has to do with this story. What context am I missing?
Sounds like some sort of napalm.
Or you could always just buy some soup. Soup for your family.
if a “terrifying line is being crossed” every day, how does that affect you? Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
I’m imagining the strategy of genuinely being Jill Stein and using a username like yours to 100% never be seen as actual Jill Stein. Like even if you said “I’m actually Jill Stein”, nobody would believe you.
But then if you ever got actually found out, how it would change your image.
It’s too bad this place doesn’t have blue checkmarks. You could make a real legacy.
If nothing is done when the line is first crossed, and that crossing then continues to happen on a daily basis, then it has just become the new normal.
Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
Yes
My new shotgun and rifle arrive in 2-3 weeks…can’t come soon enough.
And whatchagon do with it, eh?
I’ll tell you what: jack shit. Just like all the other gun-toting posers in America.
They are not gonna change anything, but as things are, it’s not a bad thing to have at home. You’re still gonna die, but you can take a nazi with you. And that’s where america is right now.
I’m obviously not going to answer on a traceable, public forum.
You do you.
You say you won’t tell what you’re gonna do with your guns on a public forum, yet you feel the need to mention that you bought guns on said public forums…
Po-ser.
It’s all show. If ICE shows up at your door, you’ll say “Yes Sir!” and you’ll scream “No! I’m a US citizen!” as they drag you away to a DHS-sanctioned concentration camp.
You’ll do exactly nothing with your guns, because you know as well as I do that the ICE goons will pump you so full of bullets if you do that there will be more holes than flesh left on you.
If you had anything serious in mind, you would have kept your gun purchase hush-hush.
“We should all be standing up and saying that’s not OK. Literally, listen to what they’re saying. Active threats like, Turn over the voter rolls or else, or we will continue to do what we’re doing. That’s something you can do in America now.”
And from the original NYT interview:
I spoke to Frey on Thursday afternoon, not long after Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan — who has been dispatched to Minneapolis to replace and clean up after the operation’s original commander Gregory Bovino — promised to de-escalate the situation there. He said in a news conference that there would be a drawdown of agents, only to have President Trump later deny that there was any plan to pull back.
It’s this type of dissonance inside the admin that gives me hope.
There’s also a YT video.
He has some pretty good answers to the interviewers annoying, pushy and leading questions.
