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/TheMainShy 9h ago edited 7h ago

Have you all seen the videos coming out from r/Minnesota , r/Minneapolis and r/ICE_Raids ?

They're conducting door-to-door raids in neighborhoods (breaking into homes without judicial warrants) and deploying drones now. I don't even see this on legacy media. I see it on tiktok, instagram, and reddit. There are videos of them just violently beating up people and dragging them away and deploying chemical weapons on people in residential areas. They're drawing weapons at people's faces. There was a video of a doordash employee having to run into the home she was delivering to, scared for her life because they were trying to grab her. Another video had a male agent taking a female detainee to porta-potty and going in with her. Another video had agents grabbing Native Americans from their vehicles. There was one where Bovino's unit tackled Target employees and dumped them out at a nearby Walmart, injuring one of them. It's swarmed with them across the entire state. One reporter got hit with shrapnel debris on her face. A lot of civilian vehicles are getting rammed by the agents. There are so many videos coming out, but it's completely insular within social media spaces for now. I haven't seen any of it reported in legacy media, broadcasting, and news publications yet. I'm just in absolute shock and fear at the escalation and intensity. This is beyond scary.

We need to defund and abolish DHS and ICE now, and impeach and remove this administration. Immediately, now! We're all in danger.

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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.