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SilverElfin 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite


Somehow despite the claims that ICE is only going after illegal immigrants who are hardened criminals, Gestapo house raids keep happening to US citizens as well:

> Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions

> Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.

> Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.


It couldn't be more clear that the purpose of all of this isn't immigration enforcement. That's the pretext. The purpose is to intimidate the citizenry into submission. Our response to that shouldn't be fear, it should be anger.


ICE was going door-to-door asking people for information about their Asian (Hmong) neighbors.




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