Human garbage Donald Chump continues his attacks on immigrants and those mistaken for them. It's part of his campaign to spread hate all over the country. And his hate campaign was not put on hold for Christmas. Malcolm Ferguson (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves.
Four ICE officers in masks and tactical gear can be seen in a video surrounding a man with a car full of food while he loads it into his car. A woman watching the arrest asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of the man’s wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.
“No, guess he should’ve complied,” an agent said.
The agents then start to divvy up the man’s groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband.
Having kidnapped the man at Walmart, they then divvy up the man's groceries? Guess that's how the knuckle dragging gestapo decides who to harass -- based on who leaves the store with the most groceries. That's disgusting and a real world of justice would find those ICE agents behind bars for a long time. It's theft, don't pretend it's anything else.
And the American people are rejecting Chump's hate. Joe Kohut (ABC NEWS 16) reports from Pennsylvania:
Dozens of tiny points of light illuminated a street corner in downtown Danville.
Friends and strangers held candles in solidarity for Sergio Chavez Jimenez, a business owner detained this weekend by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Jimenez, 46, wasn't born in Danville, but they made him their own.
"What we were promised is that immigration enforcement would go after criminals...hardened criminals, murderers and rapists and drug dealers," said Trevor Finn, a Montour County commissioner who has been in contact with members of Jimenez's family. "What has happened instead is that they're picking up somebody like Sergio, (who) doesn't make this a worse place but makes this a better place for us."
"He's the type of person we really, really need to keep around here."
Jimenez is the proprietor of Amigos Pizzeria & Mexican Restaurant, a Mill Street eatery he opened around five years ago. Brought to the country from Mexico as a young boy, he's worked to try to get legal status. Now nearing 50, he's married, a father and a business owner, Finn said.
And they are rejecting it across the country. In New Haven? Richard Chumney (NEW HAVEN REGISTER) notes:
Billboards protesting Avelo Airline's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport people who enter the U.S. illegally have returned to Interstate 95 after a legal battle.
The signs are located near Tweed New Haven Airport and urge travelers to reconsider flying with Avelo while the airline operates ICE deportation charter flights for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The signs are part of a larger nationwide campaign protesting deportation flights and the airlines that participate in the ongoing effort. On Sunday, demonstrators gathered at Tweed to protest Avelo’s contract with ICE.
The billboards were created earlier this month by Seth Miller, an aviation journalist and state lawmaker from New Hampshire. Miller said he funded the signs with his own money and through public donations.
“U.S. government agencies are snatching people off the street, moving them multiple times to evade the judicial process and putting them on planes before they can appeal,” Miller said in a statement. “Avelo is actively complicit in this process, placing detainees in dangerous environments."
People are outraged by what's happening and "people" include judges who know the law. One example there, Maxine Bernstein (THE OREGONIAN) reports:
A federal judge earlier this month ordered the immediate release of a Beaverton man who had been detained by federal officers when he was leaving his apartment to go to work.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were targeting another man they believed was in the country illegally based on a nearly two decade-old photo and had staked out the Beaverton apartment for hours when Fernando Pichardo Medina emerged from the complex. Pichardo Medina got into his work van, went back to his apartment to grab his coffee and breakfast, returned to his truck, then realized he forgot his headphones.
“He sounds like me on most mornings,” U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane said.
Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) notes:
Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) on Friday decried the Trump administration’s immigration raids that were carried out throughout the Christmas holiday.
“I did my best yesterday to turn off the news from Christmas Eve on and not think about anything and not tweet anything,” Walsh, a frequent critic of President Trump who became a Democrat earlier this year, said on “The Social Contract” podcast.
“But I scrolled a few times and ICE, those masked federal agents, were out on Christmas Day detaining immigrants. They were out on Christmas Eve detaining immigrants. What the f—?” he added.
Exactly. Now there are people who will never care. Like a fat bitch in Texas who destroyed her own kidneys and now gets free healthcare and monthly payments for not working. She can work. She doesn't want to. She attacks immigrants, she calls them trash and she says they just steal taxpayer money. You mean the way she does? Because she could work. She chooses not to. And why are we paying hter? She lives at her parents house. She doesn't pay them rent or money for groceries or anything. But that's the kind of trash who screams about immigrants. Sabina introduced her to us in the community newsletters and this Linda is exactly the sort of person who roots on the war on immigrants. She's a fat, lazy slob. A grifter using the system -- misusing it. She doesn't want to work, why are we stuck paying her bills. She can work. She can even work from the house. But because fatty screwed up her own life with bad choices -- including marrying a pedophile and then being surprised the marriage didn't last -- we're stuck paying for her. She gets a couple of thousand a month. She trashes people who use food stamps for anything other than fresh fruits and vegetables but she spends those thousands each month on . . . HELLO KITTY merchandise. We're giving a nearly 60 year old woman free healthcare and also thousands each month so she can spend our tax dollars on HELLO KITTY crap?
These are Chump's people and they are hateful and they are uneducated and as they attack others, the truth is that they are the real welfare cheats. Jacob Crosse (WSWS) reports:
The claim that the operation targets “criminals” is a lie. ICE has shifted away from jail-based arrests to mass workplace raids at car washes, construction sites and food processing plants. Immigrants are targeted whose only “crime” is seeking work.
Political opposition is also being criminalized. Yaa’kub Vijandre, a longtime Dallas resident and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient, has been detained for nearly three months and faces deportation to a country he has not lived in since childhood. His “crime” is refusing to become an FBI informant and continuing to speak out against US imperialism and the genocide in Gaza. If this is grounds for detention, it is grounds for the persecution of anyone.
Those seized are routinely denied basic constitutional rights. The recent CBS 60 Minutes investigation, which was pulled from airing, documented the illegal rendition of nearly 300 immigrants to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison under the Alien Enemies Act. They were held for months without lawyers under conditions amounting to torture. Similar conditions have been documented at detention facilities across Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, New Jersey and Louisiana.
What is being built is a nationwide deportation machine. ICE acting director Todd Lyons has openly stated that the goal of the Trump administration is to become the “Amazon” of deportations: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
Overcrowding and neglect have already produced a surge in detainee deaths. At least 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody this year, several under highly suspicious circumstances. Earlier this month over a 4-day span, four immigrants died in ICE for-profit prisons.
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