Andrea Medina and Ashlyn Wright (WGN) report:
With signs in hand and chants echoing through the streets, immigrant rights groups and supporters rallied Sunday to shut down the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, which they claim functions in the shadows of injustice.
The facility has traditionally been used to process detainees before transfer, with most held for no more than a day.
However, protestors say this practice has changed under President Donald Trump, with people now being held for extended periods in inhumane conditions.
They are urging the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Illinois Attorney General to investigate these allegations.
“People are going without beds, with cold food, no showers for three days on average and that’s completely unacceptable,” Omar Flores, the Immigrants’ Rights Working Committee chair, said.
The protest comes amid escalating fears following Trump’s recent threats to deploy federal forces to Chicago for immigration enforcement.
Chump and his gestapo police have created a dark day in US history. This is the sort of thing you never live down and that only gets worse each year. Any of you being silent right now better be prepared with a lie for when you're children and grandchildren ask you years from now how you responded while innocent people were targeted, while they were kidnapped off US streets, while families were destroyed. As outrageous as this seems today, it will only be more outrageous in the years to come.
Let's look at some of these 'violent' people being targeted right now.
Patricia Ortiz (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) notes:
Allison Bustillo Chinchilla, a young nurse from Charlotte currently held at an immigration detention center in Georgia, has been granted relief by an immigration judge that allows her to leave the country voluntarily instead of being deported — a decision that will enable her to return to the United States without facing a 10-year reentry ban.
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility. Then, unexpectedly, she was informed on Tuesday, Aug. 26, that she would have a hearing that same day.
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
The chaotic arrest was carried out by ICE agents who forcibly entered the apartment heavily armed, looking for someone else.
A 20 year old nurse! No criinal record! Don't we all feel safer now?
Only the idiots and fools feel safer though the liars will join them in pretending we are.
Remember Donggin Shin also known as John Shin? We noted him in the group post "Stupidity is the common theme of the Chump administration," "Dumb Bondi, Fat Chump and Plastic Surgery Addict Noem," "Pam Bondi inspires Dumb Bondi jokes," "THIS JUST IN! CHUMP, BONDI AND NOEM -- 3 IDIOTS 3!," "The administration has a contest to declare who's the most stupid in their group" and "Immigration is a concept the court of Queen Chump doesn't really understand:"
BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE
CONVICTED FELON DONALD CHUMP SAID HE WOULD DEPORT VIOLENT IMMIGRANTS AND HE MIGHT IF HE WEREN'T SO STUPID. JOHN SHIN IS THE LATEST TESTATMENT TO CHUMP'S STUPIDITY. ICE KIDNAPPED JOHN IN UTAH.
VIOLENT CRIMINAL?
NO.
NOT RECORD OF VIOLENCE.
TURNS OUT HE PLAYS THE VIOLEN.
REACHED FOR COMMENT, AG PAM BIMBO BONDI SAID IT WAS A NATURAL MISTAKE, "VIOLENT? VIOLIN? THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR IN SPELLING AND SOUND."
Chloe Veltman (NPR) reports the violinist continues to be held:
"John Shin is a longtime member of the local Salt Lake City music community," said Utah Symphony spokesperson Meredith Kimball Laing in an email. "His many contributions as a violinist have included some performances with our orchestra through the years, and our hearts go out to him and his family."
Musicians have been staging ongoing performances in protest at the Utah State Capitol and sharing their anger and concern on social media. "I am calling upon all string players in Salt Lake City to unite in support of our fellow musician John Shin, who has been detained by ICE," wrote violist Eugene Dyson on Facebook. "The time has come for us to rally together and fight for our own with unwavering solidarity."
In a Facebook post on Aug. 20, Shin's wife, DaNae Shin, shared the details of the phone call she said she received from Shin on the day of his arrest. " 'Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be okay, please call our attorney,' " DaNae wrote. She added, "John is not a criminal, he is an amazing husband, father, and person, and I will do whatever it takes to bring him back home." DaNae Shin set up a GoFundMe campaign to help cover her husband's legal fees. At the time of writing, it had received more than $72,000 in donations.
Need another example? Ari Snider (MAINE PUBLIC RADIO) reports:
Malunda Destino had stopped at a gas station in Scarborough last week when several ICE agents approached his car, according to a friend who said she later spoke to him from jail.
The friend, Choisie Nyemba, said Destino told her the agents knocked on his car window and told him, in no uncertain terms, to step out of the car.
"Come out or we gonna break the window," was what the agents told Destino, according to Nyemba.
Nyemba said when she and other friends learned of Destino's arrest, they scrambled to locate him, even going to the ICE office in Scarborough, only to find he'd already be taken out of state.
"They were like 'Oh, no, he's not here anymore. They moved him to Massachusetts,'" Nyemba said.
And Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez (KUOW) reports:
A Pakistani native and U.S. military veteran will remain in immigrant detention after a judge said she needs more time to know if her court has jurisdiction to proceed with his request for a bond.
[. . .]
Muhammed Chaudhry served in the National Guard as a mental health specialist in the early 2000s. While he served in the National Guard, his team was later deployed under Operation Iraqi Freedom but he stayed in the states to continue his work and was deployed to different parts of the country, he told Scala. Chaudhry continued to serve in the military until he was medically retired in 2005 after an injury.
Last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service enacted new policies to increase scrutiny of people in the naturalization process. The new policies include increased scrutiny of anything officials deem “anti-American,” including what officials consider anti-Semitic views, or who are supportive of terrorist organizations. The Chaundrys were vocal about what’s commonly referred to as Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, especially in the Gaza strip.
So he was good enough to be accepted into this country's National Guard twenty years ago but he's been retired from that so he's no longer needed? Is that the thinking?
Here's what the American people are seeing: 4 people, none of them violent criminals. A nurse, a violinist, a soccer player and a veteran of the National Guard all being deported.
The whole thing is a scam.
Scam? I sort of feel that way when I visit WSWS of late. A number of e-mails note that it's not bee noted here of late. Why is that? Because every time I visit that site -- including just a minute ago -- I find . . . nothing on immigrants. That's a story WSWS should lead on and should be covering daily. They don't. How is that?
I have no idea in the world. Forget the various videos that we post here and other things, me, myself, I write about the issue here three to four times a week minimum. I think WSWS with their vast staff should be able to cover the issue daily.
They're not hurting me by not covering it, they're hurting themselves. It's the defining issue of the administration.
1) It's an attack on human rights.
2) It's terrorizing immigrants and the American people.
3) It's traumatizing children.
4) It's another example of Chump's corruption as Chump's buddie (or at least donors) are making a lot of money thanks to prison contracts to hold the targeted.
5) Masked assholes on the streets of the US kidnapping people is serious news.
6) What starts with targeting a minority expands to target everyone.
It's a refusal to follow the law, it's corruption, it's a violation of human rights -- it's the entire Chump administration. Need another way it sums up the Chump administration? It's harming the economy. Kira Lerner (GUARDIAN) reports:
Hernán was at the Latin American restaurant that he owns with his brother in the Northwest quadrant of Washington DC last week when his staff started getting phone calls and messages about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) checkpoints in the neighborhood. The employees, scared that they might be targeted and racially profiled, asked if they could go home.
Within hours, Hernán had to close their doors, and the restaurant hasn’t been open since.
“Literally after President Trump brought the national guard on DC, everything stopped,” said Hernán, who requested his last name not be used due to fears of Ice retaliation. “Everything disappeared because the bike delivery guys, they’re scared. They’re not on the streets right now. My people, most of my cooks are Spanish[-speaking] and they don’t want to go to DC right now.”
Hernán, who also owns a restaurant in Maryland, said he was hoping to be able to reopen in a few weeks if and when the Trump administration’s takeover of the DC police ends and immigration enforcement arrests become less frequent. But the future is unclear for him and many restaurant owners in the US capital.
Already suffering from fewer customers due to the administration’s almost three-week-long crackdown, restaurants are also having to contend with staff shortages because many immigrants, both documented and undocumented, fear coming into DC and being on the streets, and some have been detained by Ice.
Trump has attempted to claim that the crackdown is benefiting restaurants. “Half the restaurants closed, because nobody could go, because they were afraid to go outside,” he told reporters on Monday about Washington before his intervention. “Now those restaurants are opening and new restaurants are opening up.”
Across the city, the opposite is true.
The CBC's Caroline Barghout also covers this reality:
Ordinarily, the streets in the lively Columbia Heights neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., would be filled with Latinos shopping or working at local stores, street vendors and restaurants. But lately, the normally vibrant community is nearly empty.
It all changed on Aug. 7, when U.S. President Donald Trump deployed federal law enforcement agencies and the National Guard into the city.
"People are just really scared to be out," said Fernanda Rivas, whose parents own two bakeries in the area. She says the increase of law enforcement officials on the street has spooked a lot of her customers.
"This place is always busy with immigrants and everybody working here, and now we see a really big slowdown of customers coming in simply because people are just scared to come out here."
Her family's businesses survived the pandemic, but now they're struggling again.
"People are coming into the bakery and just apologizing and being like, 'I'm sorry we haven't come in. It's just, we're scared to leave our homes and go to work and do anything,'" said Rivas.
The decline in shoppers is not going unnoticed.
"Less crowds, less people, less energy," said Damon Demyers a meat delivery driver. "I haven't seen anything like it."
He says he's noticed a drastic drop in shoppers at all the stores where he delivers. And while no one has told him specifically it's because of an increase in law enforcement, Demeyers says "everybody knows what's going on."
Meanwhile, ICE goons interfered with fire fighters fighting a fire and every sane person is still trying to get their heads around that. Karina Tsui (CNN) reports:
Just days after two crew workers helping battle Washington’s largest wildfire were arrested by Border Patrol, Washington Rep. Emily Randall — who represents the district where the men are being held — was denied entry to the facility, calling the situation “disgusting” in an interview with CNN affiliate KOMO.
“This would have been my fourth visit yesterday to the ICE facility in Tacoma, there in my district,” Randall told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday. “I had done two previous announced visits and one previous unannounced visit, which is the statutory authority of Congress, the oversight body of ICE and Homeland Security.”
The statute prevents the Department of Homeland Security from using its funding to stop certain people, like members of Congress, from entering facilities where immigrants are held, if they are there to do oversight, but Randall was denied entry on Saturday.
ICE and Noem don't want to address that. But they do make time to attack and whine. Will Neal (DAILY BEAST) explains:
A top aide of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed Kim Kardashian after the star criticized the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant purge.
“Ms.
Kardashian is misinformed and detached from the very reality of the
operations in Los Angeles she has decided to opine on,” Homeland
Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ
They're using our tax dollars to gossip to TMZ and calling that work? And if I were Tricia, I think I'd be keeping a very low profile. Wouldn't want Laura Loomer to notice me and ask Chump how I ended up in the administration. Tricia was the senior advisor and communications director for Vivek Ramaswamy's 2024 presidential campaign. Isn't that the sort of heresy that Loomer's always on the look out for?
Let's wind down with this from Dan De Luce and Andrea Mitchell (NBC NEWS) about the CIA agent that the Director of No Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outed:
The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal first reported the incident.
The fired CIA analyst had previously worked as a national intelligence officer specializing in Russia and Eurasia and had been ordered to help organize the assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the administration has taken action against officials who took part in the Russia investigation, those who prosecuted Jan. 6 rioters and those who pursued criminal cases against Trump.
A former senior intelligence official, Larry Pfeiffer, said it would be reckless not to confer with the employee’s spy agency before rescinding their security clearance and revealing their identity. He said that could put an officer at risk and jeopardize relations with a foreign government.
“Look, it’s just common sense to consult with the agency that would be most impacted by a decision to pull the clearance of one of their employees,” Pfeiffer said, “especially in such a public manner.”
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