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Year 1 of Trump’s immigration crackdown:
- U.S. citizens were held against their will.
- ICE placed at least 600 immigrant kids in federal shelters.
- Student activists became a target.
That’s not all. Our year in review: propublica.org/article/trump-m…
#News #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #ICE #Immigrants #DonaldTrump
A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. President Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history. One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens across the U.S.Diego Sorbara (ProPublica)
"Because it fits their narrative. It allows them to say what they want to say. It allows them to feel like they're big boys and they're flexing. They're cowards. They're disgusting. They're scumbags. Anyone still supporting Donald Trump and ICE at this point in the game is an absolute piece of human garbage. And I will not take it back. I don't care how closely you're related to me."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"They [i.e. MAGA] know what they're seeing [in video footage of Alex Pretti's murder]. They can see it plain as day, too. They do not care. And they will drag a good man in his name. And they'll sit back and cheer Donald Trump as he drags a good man in his name. Why?"
~ Tennessee Brando
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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ICE Shooting Victim’s Family SPEAKS OUT
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"Obama Derangement Syndrome has proved both virulent and lasting. How else can one explain the casual acceptance of blatant lies about broad-daylight, video-recorded murders, so easily disproven by visual evidence?"
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"I never would have expected that so many Americans would be just fine with a poorly trained but well-equipped paramilitary force operating under the aegis of a rogue administration – discarding due process, engaging in racial profiling, dragging people out of cars and homes by their hair, and killing those who object."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"on numerous church grounds throughout California (Inland Empire, Downey Memorial Christian Church, Montclair, Highland and St. Adelaide); and in Washington, D.C., where the Evangelical Lutheran Church joined the Quakers in a suit to block ICE raids in places of worship."
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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"Although most ICE attacks go unnoticed by the media, ICE attacks on or near church grounds to date include: a raid on Iglesia Fuente de Vida church in the Atlanta suburbs; a raid on United Methodist church property in Charlotte; raids at Our Lady of Lourdes in San Bernadino; throughout Puerto Rico during Sunday services;" (continued in /16)
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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"Trump reversed the policy that prohibited ICE from attacking people at places of worship in January 2025, after that policy had been in effect for 13 years.
Trump’s green shirts have arrested, brutalized, and tackled people in churches all across America."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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The First Amendment will outlive Trump
Christopher Katsarov—The Canadian Press via Associated PressSabrina Haake (The Haake Take)
"And then NPR reported that when he got to the detention facility, they took trophy photos with him, like he was a slave or an animal that they caught out in the wild. And he wasn't the only one that they did that to.
So somebody tell me, how is it acceptable for David Easterwood to be a pastor when he is condoning this kind of conduct? And not just condoning it."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Now contrast that gospel message to what we have been seeing by ICE and the terrorism that they have engaged in on the streets of St. Paul, Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs and including outstate Minnesota where they kicked in the man's door and came in with big guns and took him out."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Someone help me understand how it's possible to hold both roles with integrity, with honor, because the gospel that I believe in, the foundation, says that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Joy-Ann Reid addresses "people who have a problem with the fact that we came into the church to confront an injustice and do not have a problem with the fact that you have an ICE director, not just an ICE agent, as some people have said, but the director of the ICE field office in the state of Minnesota, also serving as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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America 2026: A Tale of Two Dons | The Joy Reid Show
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
(continued from /8)
"one that's compatible with democracy, one that celebrates pluralism, and one that is willing to put itself on the line, right, to help bring those things into reality."
Jones replies:
"If we don't want Christianity to be associated with ICE, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with Trump, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with the Nazis and the racists, we're going to have to build and put out there a different version of Christianity that people can in fact see," (continuedf in /9)
"Stop believing in God. I said, yes, it's fine. I've heard it all. You might be done with religion, but sadly, for better and for worse, religion is not done with America and American politics. And if you simply dismiss all religion, religious people, then you're dismissing a huge chunk of America that is motivated by God and religion, which now, unfortunately, because we have ceded the ground, it has been taken over by MAGA."
"I've always said this, folks, you need to publicly hear and see from faith leaders, especially white Christians. You need like a public face. You need a reclaiming of Christianity, of religion, of religious values, of religious language. Because you and I know this, Robbie, and this is much to the chagrin of many progressives and liberals.
They say religion's stupid. You guys are idiots."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Wajahat Ali (who is Muslim) responds by underscoring how critically important it is for people of faith, for other white Christians, to challenge this white supremacist distortion of Christian faith. He says that progressives and anti-religionists are making a huge mistake in taunting and not supporting those believers who are trying to wrest ownership of the Christian tradition from MAGA:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I mean, part of it is that because inside of white Christianity, the largest Protestant expression of Christianity stems directly from this move to say that, oh, no, actually enslaving others is completely compatible with the gospel and the worship of Jesus and the worship of white Jesus."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"They were like, No, no, no. We think this is perfectly consistent with the gospel and the Jesus that we worship. They founded an entire denomination on that. And that denomination has become the largest Protestant expression of Christianity in the country today. So if we're confused about, like, why is this so easily acceptable?"
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"This is the denomination I grew up in, was founded in 1845. And they were founded that year because they decided that they could no longer be in fellowship with their Northern brethren because the Northern brethren were saying to them, It's inconsistent to call yourself Christian and enslave others based on the color of their skin."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.
Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,
“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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"Now the visible targets of border enforcement are increasingly immigrants who have built their lives in the U.S. – neighbors, friends, co-workers – as well as anyone who opposes ICE’s tactics, like Renee Good."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"But Trump during his second presidency has greatly shifted immigration enforcement north into the interior of the U.S. And ICE has played a central role. ...
Americans may not know about the experiences of migrants who are quickly deported near the border, but it is harder to ignore recent images of people snatched up within their own neighborhoods."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"From 2010-2020, nearly 80% of all deportations were initiated at or near the U.S.-Mexico border. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped to 98%, as both the Trump and Biden administrations utilized Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the government to rapidly deport recently arrived migrants."
~ The Conversation
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.The Conversation
"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."
~ Moira Donegan
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE
It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shamelessMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:
"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The Escalating ICE Brutality and Church Protests
This week we talk about the recent autopsy reports that reveal the escalating brutality of ICE. Renee Goode’s autopsy revealed that she was shot four times i...YouTube
"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.
But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.
Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam is five years old. He wasn’t hiding and his family wasn’t evading the law. They entered through a legal port of entry and applied for asylum, checked in repeatedly with immigration authorities and did everything the United States asked of them — because that is what the law required."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The Secret ICE Doesn’t Want You to Understand
Compliance is the new crimeJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
Truscott enumerates the ways in which Trump is losing:
He’s losing his health.
He’s losing supporters.
He’s losing Republicans in the House and Senate.
He’s going to lose the midterms.
He’s losing it with ICE.
He’s losing it internationally.
He’s losing it with Wall Street and Banks.
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
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"he won the 2020 election that he lost; the prices of things like electricity and food and drugs and health care that everyone else knows are going up, he thinks are going down 400 or a thousand percent or whatever number he’s got stuck in his mind; he’s the greatest president ever, greater even than Washington and Lincoln; and on and on. But it’s not working, and he knows it, and his people know it."
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
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