The number of reported arrests is relatively few, but immigrant rights advocates said the operation appears to mark a shift in ICE tactics. Before this operation, local activists said, agents had been targeted in their tactics, presenting warrants at specific homes or detaining people at immigration court. Stopping people on the street in what appeared to be a fairly random fashion is new, they said.
In short, the Supreme Court decision not to uphold an injunction barring the use of racial profiling a basis for arrest is having fairly immediate consequences .
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It was never about safety, just about hurting minorities. The GOP is very clear in their message; they have no idea what they’re doing and need a group to blame. I guess don’t walk around with a tan…
I wish the administration would focus on reducing crime and helping the economy. First step is to arrest donald trump and his goonsquad so we can start to recover from their dumpster fire.
It’s the Operation Midway Blitzmensch for a reason!
Just as the Supreme Court ruled they can target people based on race too. How convenient.
Isn’t calling it a “blitz” a little too on the nose (even for them)?
Any semblance of a mask is gone.
Get the fuck out of my city you ghoulish fascist shit-fuckers.
Get the fuck out of my city
You and your neighbors will have to force them out.
You can’t wait for someone else to do it for you.
For my own personal safety I don’t own guns, but even if I did guess who gets in trouble for doing the right thing.
The only way they are gonna leaveis if they deem the risk to be greater than the reward. Chicagoland might just be the place that shows us how to tip the balance on that.
Yeah but they won’t be going to the West Side of they’re looking for immigrants.
Trump is just begging for this, so he can justify his seizure of the National Guard and wage war against citizens. Pretty good distraction from Epstein too.
They’re chasing a narrative that the cities are misbehaving and need daddy Trump to spank them. Nonviolent (but persistent) resistance is the only way to avoid that narrative.
Do nothing or they’ll have an excuse to do more?
Buddy, wake up! They aren’t looking for excuses, they are going to do it anyway!
My point isn’t quite the same one you’re responding to.
I’m saying that what we’re seeing now is not what they’re doing “anyway.” Trump stretches his delusional reality as far as he can, but he cannot currently stretch it to the point he needs to actually institute martial law. We have to climb that ladder with him, and he’s trying to tempt us as much as possible to do it. Don’t take the bait.
He’s going to just do all of that anyway.
Cant you just shoot them cause they are masked unrecognizable dudes trying to harm/kidnap/kill you? I think you wont even go to jail for that?
That’s not how it will play out, unfortunately. A sustained violent widespread resistance may work, as an insurgency to a now-or-soon-to-be established fascist regime.
But that isn’t likely in the US. More likely you have pockets of violence that will be politicized for many times the harm compared to the benefit. And we’ve already seen our judiciary is spineless, and even the historically neutral judges will err on the side of not upsetting the right.
“Midway Blitz” dude you’re a glorified mall cop and bully. You don’t know shit. Sit your ass down.
glorified mall cop
Nazi. Tempting as it may be to just insult them, imo things like ‘glorified mall cop’ mitigates the threat they pose to our country and constitution. They are Nazis.
But the enemy was advancing with their picket signs… /s
So couldn’t you demand they display a badge if stopped? And failure to do so means they don’t have authority to detain you?
This is why everyone should walk around armed. Need to start passing out spears to protestors.
In a fair and just world, I would think so. But I don’t think they care about what authority they actually have.
