Once again theyâre targeting folks who were actually working through the legal process, with pending asylum cases and such, rather than any supposedly âdangerousâ folks who have no legal claims to be here.
I somehow seriously doubt that the current admin cares on bit about squalid conditions, starvation diets or intolerable heat/cold. The suffering is the point. Stephen Miller has vivid fantasies of Auschwitz-like camps where he can watch the suffering and death. And legal decisions will have no impact. They have ignored them before, and will continue to do so until there are some sort of consequences. I suspect thatâs when the civil war starts. I told my wife I was looking for local No Kings Day protests and she panicked. âYou canât run away. you can barely walk away! I donât want you to be a martyr!â I told her we canât make it someone elseâs problem. It has to be us, the privileged white upper middle-class folks, who take him on. She is terrified. I donât blame her.
Be kind to yourself. Use a cane so you have something the lean on. Or a cane chair so you can sit. Or bring one of these.
The budget bill gives ICE gobs of money, though.
Itâs mask-off time for conservatives. Theyâre going full-fascist now that they see the end goal in sight.
Wear goggles and a bike helmet. And take bottles of water in case of pepper spray and tear gas.
Do you think they have the discipline for that?
I wouldnât take those assurances if I was a tourist for the WC who wasnât white and from the North/Anglo speaking countries.
ETA
I have cancelled going to the US this year anyway. But to be fair if I was a Hungarian supporter Iâd probably be all in on the US visit. Argentinian also. Doesnât mean ICE wouldnât eat my face, butâŚ
Honestly, Iâm not sure theyâd even get the orders (that theyâd be unable to obey). Weâre not dealing with rational actors (on any level of the government) who care about whether theyâre doing damage to the US, much less its reputation. I donât see ICE suspending operations for the duration of these sporting events (which is what theyâd have to do, to avoid grabbing tourists, given how random theyâre being). Plus, Iâm sure the same high-scrutiny CBP vetting for tourists will still be in place, so weâre going to see a lot of people turned away (and jailed) the second they get here.
Even then it would be foolish to trust any assurances - look at the treatment of (white) Canadians, Europeans and Australians, etc. over the last few months. A government thatâs been bizarrely hostile to tourists, for no real reason, during normal times isnât going to get better when theyâre stressed by an influx.
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
Câmon, can real ICE agents actually be that stupid? This has to be the Proud Boys or Oaf Keepers playing dress up, right? One âagentâ is wearing a red short sleeve t-shirt and the other has white sneakers. None of their gear seems to fit properly. WTAF?
Yes.
Why not both. Member of Proud Boys does not mean youâre not a member of ICE.
Câmon, I was going to report the guy who overstayed his student visa, then either failed, or failed to submit, a background check & drug test (ETA: to work in the govât.), then conspired to illegally access OPM data.
original template from the Korean War?
the drawing is different, though
Frankly I wouldnât be surprised if there was a thoroughly nativist poster dating from the forties.
Itâs probably been remixed by AI, given that Uncle Sam is putting another nail in the lower left hand corner.
The Korean War poster was designed by Yutuka Ohashi, who only came to the US after WWII
A good reminder:
And but so here on the first Monday of Pentecost, Iâll just quickly reaffirm the shared humanity of everyone in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome; Cretans and Arabs ⌠everybody.
The international diversity there is all verbatim from the first two chapters of the book of Acts, setting the stage for Pentecost and its unambiguous message of everybody means everybody. The next several chapters of the book show the dazed disciples spinning around, still confused by this lesson, with everybody (except Philip) dithering and questioning, saying, âBut when we say âeverybodyâ we obviously canât really mean, like, everybody everybody, right?â and them getting divinely dope-slapped, repeatedly, until they finally come around to understanding that, yes, everybody means everybody.
And so, in the spirit of Pentecost, let me just point out again that immigration is good, actually. Itâs a Good Thing and a Very Good Thing and we should have more of it. We should not just make it possible instead of deliberately impossible, but straightforward and simple and easy.
While it is also true, as we discussed here last summer, that anti-immigration ideology is always wrong â evil and stupid and self-destructive â the more important point is that immigration is, in itself, a positive good.
Seems like a lot of people have forgotten that or, at least, have forgotten how to say it, so we should make a point of saying it, bluntly and clearly and often.