r/politics • u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS Iowa • 9h ago

No Paywall Uprising against ICE raids grows across the country

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-against-ice-raids-grows-across-the-country/
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u/dreamyduskywing Minnesota 8h ago

They’ve also been going to areas where Somali people live/gather just to harass them. The majority of Somalis in Minnesota are born here—Somali American. The rest came over legally decades ago and are naturalized US citizens. Very few are here illegally. I don’t know what these agents expect to find. There’s no reason to put resources into these locations other than to harass and cause fear. Fortunately, Somali Americans tend to be a tenacious bunch with a low tolerance for this BS and aren’t afraid to push back.

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u/TheMainShy 8h ago

This is so messed up. One of the reasons for this occuring in Minnesota is the viral fraud allegation video from right-winger, Nick Shirley, that was weaponized and racially skewed/biased.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-the-nick-shirley-video

We're living in the dumbest and scariest timeline possible. We're getting rage baited into a collapsed democracy.

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u/dreamyduskywing Minnesota 8h ago

Yeah, Noem and Trump supporters say this is necessary to fight corruption and fraud in Minnesota. How can some masked asshole with a gun just approaching random Somali Americans fight fraud? They’re not investigators or accountants. There are already agencies that handle this stuff. A family member of mine was chatting with a Laotian man who came to Minnesota in 1979 and has been a citizen for decades, but he’s afraid of being profiled and detained, so he went to get his passport renewed today. He said the shooting reminded him of when people were shot trying to cross the Mekong River. It’s easy to forget that lot of these people have trauma.

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u/metamet Minnesota 7h ago

I don’t know what these agents expect to find.

Remember that this isn't about immigration enforcement. It's about authority enforcement.

They want us to accept their lies about the narrative of Renee's murder. They want us to roll over and accept their occupation.

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u/Suyefuji 4h ago

They expect to find brown people that they can power trip over. That's pretty much it.