Thread by @LauraPowellEsq on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "ICE Watch Minnesota—the group that Renee Good was reportedly affiliated with—shared this graphic in their “Legal/Resources” folder on Instagram. Among the recommended actions when witnessing ICE making an arrest are using cars to block ICE vehicles, and asking white people “to put their bodies” between agents and arrestees. They do warn that there are “legal risks,” but apparently they don’t realize illegally interfering with law enforcement carries an inherent risk of being physically harmed.
As reported in @NRO, the group also shared this “De-Arrest Primer,” with tips on freeing people from law enforcement custody. One action recommended is surrounding law enforcement vehicles so they cannot move. The primer assures people that this tactic carries the lowest level of risk. It explains that these tactics are “well worth the risk,” as protest arrests are usually “catch and release.” Again, these people are not taking into account the inherent risk of being physically hurt when interfering with law enforcement."
Derrick Evans on X - "🚨BREAKING: Border Commander Greg Bovino calmly shuts down a Democrat lawmaker’s heckling: “Crossing the border illegally is NOT a crime!” Bovino: “8 U.S.C. §1325 — improper entry. Federal offense.”"
Deon Joseph on X - "She went to look it up. Saw he was right, then pivoted. She is an elected official who needed assistance from Google and even Google shut her down. This is why they always come for you in mobs to shout you down with prepared talking points they believe no one has an answer to. Because alone, their arguments fall apart. Holes start forming exposing either a lack of due diligence, or even worse, dishonesty. When there is no one to “tag in”, all their circular arguments get picked apart, when they run out of “gotcha” catch phrases, all that remains is an exposed grifter."
Royce White 🇺🇸 on X - "So let me get this right… ICE is dangerous but we’re taking the kids on a protesting field trip? We are living in peak insanity. The parents of these students should be irate and if they allowed it, then the whole thing is a scam and it’s not really that dangerous at all."
Why are left wingers weaponising kids in protests again?
Trump's first year spent arresting 'worst of the worst,' data confirms - "The large majority of illegal immigrant arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are criminals who have been convicted or those with pending charges for criminal offenses... The Trump administration arrested 595,000 illegal immigrants between Jan. 20 and Dec. 11, according to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE, the federal agency tasked with interior immigration enforcement and deportations, revealed that 70%, or about 416,000, have “criminal convictions or pending criminal charges just in the U.S.,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement. ICE stipulated that even noncriminals whom its officers arrest may still be public safety concerns. “This statistic doesn’t account for those wanted for violent crimes in their home country or another country, INTERPOL notices, human rights abusers, gang members, terrorists, etc.,” the ICE spokesperson said. “The list goes on.” For example, ICE arrested Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanilla, whose only offense in the United States was driving without a license. However, he is wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide, extortion, possession of drugs, and other felonies. In another example, ICE arrested a Uzbekistan citizen, Akhror Bozorov, for operating a commercial vehicle. Bozorov had no criminal record in the U.S., but was wanted in his home country for his involvement with a terrorist organization."
ICE Agents Disguise Themselves As Capitol Police So Democrats Will Defend Them | Babylon Bee
@amuse on X - "POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Trained ICE Watch activists in Portland were seen trapping ICE agents in their vehicles while calling for backup. Citizens cannot take the law into their own hands or obstruct federal officers."
el gato malo on X - "there is a reason that all these "ICE watch activists" are mostly women. it's being done on purpose to make arresting and resisting them look bad. the whole point is that women can bully agents in a way that men cannot and then fall back on "OMG, he hit a girl! poor defenseless her!" it's a technique taught to activists. you put the old lady and the priest in the front row then kick the dog in front of you until it bites someone. then the whole story is "evil dog bites defenseless lady! how terrible!" this is as contrived as it is amoral."
🐺 on X - "These are ambush tactics. We trained for a long time on how to react to the Taliban attempting this exact same tactic against Americans convoys. This is also exactly what Renee Good was attempting to do when officers tried to arrest her. Democrats must explicitly and repeatedly implore their voters to stop doing this. Given the three recent actual ambushes/shootings against ICE, these tactics create an extremely dangerous situation for agents. Anyone who does this must be arrested and held accountable to establish deterrence. This is not protected speech, it’s a crime."
Fat hope. Democrats enourage this because they want tragedies they can weaponise to push the left wing agenda
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "The Left is essentially demanding open borders and mass migration at the same time it that it asserts local jurisdiction against Federal authority in order to force this desired outcome. And they’re appealing to “the law” for all of this. There’s no negotiation to be had here and no compromise to make. The people who think they can violently intervene at will to overturn the results of the last Presidential election need to be reminded in no uncertain terms that they are not the ones in charge of this country. Failure to do so would be to implicitly concede that yes, the Left does in fact get to run this country no matter what, even if they lose an election."
Oilfield Rando on X - "It would be unfair to punish all the Somali or Afghan immigrants over the actions of a few people. Now, let’s get back to completely freezing white men out of the job market because one career criminal in Minneapolis overdosed in a white police officer’s custody"
Meme - Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou: "Islamist guy moves to America from Iran, calls America "the Great Satan," posts "we're going to change your demographics and there's nothing you can do about it" Guys we can't have people like this in Western countries, they want to kill us all."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "america has always been and always will be the great satan. there has never been a more violent terrorist organization than america"
Bill Davis @billdavisllc: "Dude please don't choose to live here anymore. You can do gross webcam porn while drooling for Islamic jihad as a digital nomad so please just go."
Mohammad @MargBarAmerica: "we're going to change your demographics and there's nothing you can do about it"
End Wokeness on X - "11 far-left extremists were just charged in a major terror plot to kiII ICE agents in Texas. Barely any coverage."
On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control - "A Scripps/Ipsos poll from September found 54% in favor of mass deportation. A Harris poll finds 51% of the public, including 42% of Democrats, in support. A CBS/YouGov poll found 53% of Hispanic Americans in support of “"a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally”, among the overall population, support was 62%. And yet the same polls often find support for a pathway to citizenship. The Ipsos poll that found 54% in support of mass deportations found that 68% supported letting illegal immigrants stay and become citizens... “Borders are necessary to establish and preserve distinctive communities, notably self-governing democracies.” In other words, a nation, fundamentally, is an exclusive club. A democratic nation is one where everybody in the club gets a vote as to who else gets added. But there are still gates, and there are still gatekeepers. Illegal immigration violates that principle, because it flouts the laws created by the democratic will of the citizenry. Even if Americans would let someone in given the choice, they don’t want that person coming in without their say-so. This can potentially explain why a path to citizenship and mass deportation both poll well — the first represents Americans collectively granting people their permission to stay, while the second represents appropriate consequences for people who broke the rules. They can actually be seen as representing the same principle: “Only those who are granted permission to stay by the democratic will of the American people get to stay.”... It’s easy to ask abstract questions like “Why does one group of people get to squat on a piece of land and declare it off-limits to others?”. But like it or not, nation-states are the only workable arrangement for providing public goods and political stability that humankind has discovered in the modern era. And borders are an essential, inalienable part of what it means to be a nation-state. Some progressives have always challenged that idea, and in the 2010s, these challenges spilled into the national discourse. The book This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, by Suketu Mehta, explicitly argues that European countries and their offshoots like America are morally obligated to take in immigrants as reparations for European colonialism. The idea that this moral obligation transcends or binds the democratic popular will of those countries is a direct challenge to the idea of a nation on a exclusive club. Leftists, of course, go even further, viewing the U.S. and some other nations as “settler colonies” whose populations lack the historical legitimacy to create borders on “stolen land”. The asylum flood seems also to violate Zolberg’s principle of democratic exclusivity, although this is murkier because most Americans don’t actually understand what’s going on. What’s actually going on is that the U.S. wrote its asylum law to follow the 1967 version of the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees, which states that people who cross the border illegally are entitled to asylum hearings. These asylum seekers exist in a gray zone between “legal” and “illegal” immigration — they’re illegal when they cross the border and turn themselves in, then they’re legal while they await their asylum hearing, then if they get denied asylum (as most do) and stay in the country anyway they’re illegal again. Most Americans simply do not understand how that system works. If they did understand, they’d probably vote to change the asylum law to deny hearings to — or at least penalize — people who crossed illegally. Meanwhile, among the few Americans who do understand how this system works — lawyers, policymakers, and various NGOs — there’s little appetite to reform the system. As a result, the American public sort of vaguely senses that its democratic will is being violated, but doesn’t exactly know how. And so general anger builds... Nor is America the only country where popular democratic will has bucked against permissive immigration rules imposed by elites. I’ve long touted Canada as the world’s most pro-immigration country, and as of 2019 both the polls and policies bore that out. But in the last two years Justin Trudeau’s government has admitted a large surge of asylum-seekers, alongside a bigger and longer-term increase in temporary work permits. This was a change from Canada’s traditional policy of focusing primarily on attracting mostly high-skilled permanent residents. And there was a big turnaround in sentiment, with the majority flipping toward accepting fewer immigrants... Many progressives will interpret these trends as a rise in xenophobia, white supremacy, etc. That interpretation is a mistake that will cost progressives dearly if they persist in making it. A xenophobic country would not favor the admission of more refugees, laborers, and skilled immigrants, as America does. Nor would a white supremacist country, since these immigrants are mostly not white."
Hilton DISOWNS hotel owned by franchisee who refused to let ICE agents book rooms and orders him to remove its branding - "The Hilton brand has severed ties with a franchisee in Minnesota which sparked outrage by canceling bookings made by immigration agents and refusing them service. Lakeville Hampton Inn in Minneapolis has been ordered to remove all Hilton branding as of Tuesday after head office learned a policy barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was still in effect... 'The independent hotel owner had assured us that they had fixed this problem and published a message confirming this,' a Hilton corporate spokesperson said on Tuesday. But conservative influencer Nick Sorter shared a video of himself approaching hotel staff late on Monday night claiming to be a DHS employee seeking a room. In the footage, the front desk worker told him the hotel was not allowing federal officers conducting immigration enforcement to book rooms. The worker stated he was not aware of any changes to that policy, despite hotel management firm Everpeak Hospitality issuing a statement hours earlier vowing it was committed to 'welcoming all guests.' 'I just talked to the owner of the building, and he didn't say there had been any changes,' the employee said. 'We're not accepting people from immigration, ICE agents, DHS, into our property.' After the video went viral, the Hilton corporate spokesperson said: 'A recent video clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting our standards and values.' The spokesperson said the hotel chain was taking 'immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.' 'Hilton is — and has always been — a welcoming place for all. We are also engaging with all of our franchisees to reinforce the standards we hold them to across our system to help ensure this does not happen again.' Hilton operates their vast global hotel chain with a franchise model, which means the company is not involved in the day-to-day operations of regional chains."
Meme - "Hot Takes Nobody Asked For:
the gestapo's purpose was to suppress opposition and *Nazi( ideology through fear, surveillance, and violence. ice's purpose is to enforce immigration laws and protect borders. while both exercise state power over targeted populations, the gestapo operated under a totalitarian regime with extreme brutality. ice functions within a legal system, though its actions often spark debate over civil liberties and justice."
Art Candee @ArtCandee: "ICE is the Gestapo. Full stop."
Mary Paulos: "When do we get to the Nuremberg Trials part?"
Art Candee @ArtCa..: "Soon, I hope."
James Cook: "If they were the gestapo nobody would post about it because they would be sent to a camp with their family right after. The only reason these people will say these things because they know they aren't the gestapo and will face no punishment for it. They have no drive in life because they are taken care of by someone else's work so they will jump on every feel good cause they can for a few weeks while it's popular. Once others move on to the next thing they will never think about it again and will look for the next "what can I post to make people think I'm a good person* causes. Remember "kids in cages" that no one cares about anymore? Pepperidge farm remembers."
Meme - "THERE ARE 194 OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. BUT YOU WANT TO LIVE IN AMERICA JUST SO YOU CAN BITCH ABOUT IT? PICK ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT'S "UP TO YOUR STANDARDS", AND GO. PLEASE!""
Meme - "THE LEFT FOR SOME REASON: LEAVE OUR FOREIGN CRIMINALS, CHILD TRAFFICKERS, AND TERRORISTS ALONE"
Meme - "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here!"
*Closes and opens eyes*
*Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, Omar Fateh*
Girl, 11, who killed herself after being bullied over immigration status, said she was sexually abused by family member: investigation - "An 11-year-old Texas girl who killed herself after being bullied about her family’s immigration status told friends she was inappropriately touched by a family member, according to shocking findings by her Texas school district. Jocelyn Rojo Carranza was found unresponsive in her family’s Gainesville home on Feb. 3 and died in the hospital after five days of intensive care."
Clearly she killed herself because of ICE-related stigma, so ICE must be abolished. Of course, if a kid kills himself because he's bullied because of conservative views, left wingers will say he's scum who deserved to die rather than a bulletproof reason to stop disagreeing with conservatives
Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 JUST IN: Small business owners are now BOARDING UP across Los Angeles, as more looting is expected tonight Keep in mind, many of these business are owned by LEGAL immigrants. And they’re being destroyed by the illegals."
From June
Dhaaruni ✨✨✨ on X - "Trump being at -22 points on "immigration" and +2 on "border security" validates my theory that people really don't like seeing immigrants be brutalized on TV but they're happy that immigrants are being deterred from showing up in the first place by the aforementioned brutality"
Thread by @CbzManagement on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado. In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight...🧵
We started managing these buildings when new owners acquired the Colorado properties in 2019. At the time, the properties were in poor condition, and our mission was to renovate them, thereby increasing their value. This was an ambitious project that would significantly benefit the people of Aurora while providing returns to the new owners. We understood this project would take years to yield results and would be both time-consuming and costly, involving comprehensive upgrades to every unit and the overall structure. To manage the project effectively, given our New York-based operations, our representative moved to Colorado with his family. We also undertook a complete renovation of nearly every unit in the now well-known building you’ve seen in the news. (The images shown depict our newly renovated apartments.) Everything was progressing smoothly: property values were rising, and vacancy rates were dropping. It was a win-win for both the owners and the city of Aurora. Then, the gangs arrived...
After some time, we noticed a rise in crime and tenant complaints. The most alarming moment occurred when our local CBZ representative was attacked at the end of 2023. He had gone to inspect a recently vacated three-bedroom apartment (a rare occurrence for such a large unit) only to find a group of men already inside. When he refused their $500 bribe to overlook the situation, they brutally attacked him. (This photo was taken shortly after he escaped, just before being admitted to the hospital. The video footage comes from one of our security cameras, capturing part of the assault.) After the attack on our CBZ representative, he began getting threatening text messages. We also frequently found people illegally occupying newly vacated apartments during scheduled tours. This was initially attributed to an influx of migrants exploiting squatter laws. We even received a call from a tenant returning from vacation, only to find strangers living in his apartment. This legitimate tenant was forced to find a new home after police couldn’t help him. When confronted, many of these illegal tenants and squatters claimed they had already paid rent, which we soon realized was true—but not to us. They were paying rent to a different entity. To address this entity (gangs) we contacted every city official we could think of for help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. Meanwhile, our CBZ representative continued receiving threatening messages, in which these criminals revealed his home address and his spouse’s name. Finally, the APD, FBI and Homeland Security informed us that those sending the messages and controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren De Aragua gang from Venezuela. They also mentioned that our situation was just "a blip on the radar," as this gang is causing significant problems nationwide.
Two days after our FBI meeting, the gang confronted our on-site manager, asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family. For the safety of our management team and their families, we withdrew them from the properties and focused on seeking help from government agencies. Once we fully understood what we—and our tenants—were facing, we expected a swift response, with the city offering meaningful resources and police protection—perhaps even from the National Guard—to help us regain control of our properties. That never happened. Instead, we were left helpless, watching as violence, bullets, and destruction overtook our buildings. Many of our legitimate tenants fled out of fear. Despite the obvious crisis, several city officials refused to acknowledge the reality. Instead, they blamed us, citing "code violations" as the reason for shutting down our property—violations we couldn’t resolve for tenants who weren’t even ours. Finally, one city councilwoman, @DaniJurinsky, decided to take action after one of our last remaining legitimate tenants, Cindy Romero, reached out to her in desperation. Luckily, Cindy had her own cameras (most of ours had been destroyed by the gangs) and provided video proof to the councilwoman. She realized the city could no longer ignore the situation if it was documented on camera. Once she gathered sufficient video evidence, she assisted the tenant in relocating to safety before publicly releasing the footage.
Despite clear evidence, many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. That’s why we are no longer staying silent. We will continue to counter falsehoods with simple facts and evidence. Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask."
Weird. The media assured us that this was fake news
U.S. has to stop taking in 'below-average' immigrants who won't help economy, says Lutnick : r/Economics - "If you look at countries like Korea, Switzerland and Singapore, they are also very selective about immigration, and do not allow low-education/low-income people from the so-called 'Third World' countries to freely enter as economic refugees. This isn't being 'racist', its just pragmatism. There is a reason why the Swiss do not have the same social and economic issues as migrant-friendly European societies like the UK, Sweden or France."
"This was always my argument to the "Yeah I'm going to leave the country if Trump becomes president" crowd. Chances are, you're going to want to move someplace nice. Good luck with that."
Of course left wingers are saying it's racist to take in people who'll contribute to the country
Jessica Machado on X - "Section 8 rental vouchers given to migrants will pay the following dollar amount to landlords for a standard 3 bedroom apartment in the following cities or towns in Massachusetts:
Cambridge: $5,976
Boston: $5,772
Plymouth: $3,552
Carver: $3,515
Worcester: $2,750
Fall River: $2,035
New Bedford: $1,815
*source:"
@amuse on X - "CLOSED BORDER: LA passed a $30 minimum wage for hotel employees. Democrats weren't too worried as the majority of positions were filled by illegal aliens working under the table. With illegals not showing up to work hotel operators are sounding alarm they will have to close as a result of the $30 minimum for legal residents and citizens."
