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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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.