#masked-thugs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #masked-thugs, aggregated by home.social.
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"The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids."
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"Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process."
~ Judge Joseph Goodwin
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"Each time, an ICE agent claimed he looked like someone they’d flagged as being in the country illegally. They searched his car even after he produced papers; he now doesn’t drive without them. In one instance, he was held for 40 minutes before they let him go. In another, a customer sat in the backseat as the interrogation took place."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Minneapolis #Somalis
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"While the Trump administration has since drawn down its deployment of agents to Minneapolis, the people who live here don’t feel as though things have changed. One Uber driver I spoke to—a Somali American with U.S. citizenship—said he’d been pulled over three times since the killing [of Alex Pretti]."
~ Sam Stein
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #Minneapolis #Somalis
/8https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-pretti-memorial-site-minneapolis-minnesota-ice-trump-tariffs
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“The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American. Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country.”
~ Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, chair of the US Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/8https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/02/21/ice-mega-centers-mass-detention-usccb-bishop-cahill/
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"Public pressure has helped to free some of them—Mariela Sobrero Chillitupa and her three children, for example, were released last weekend—but the harsh reality is that many more children are still inside, coping with inadequate food, unsanitary conditions, and the rapid spread of disease."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
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"The online celebration of 5-year-old Liam Ramos’s release from a detention center in Dilley, Texas was tempered by the awareness that many other kids remain trapped in terrible conditions, often with their entire families."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
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"The alliteratively named detention centers are facing a massive backlash, because it turns out that the public cares much more about rampant child abuse than a catchy name."
~ Adrian Carrasquillo
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
/5https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
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"They are containment areas that will be used as a tool to get people to want to leave the country.
But don't worry. A note from one of the officials advocating for the facility notes that 'our team and engineers believe the solutions above, and the contingencies, will provide no adverse effect on the community and surrounding properties.'"
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty
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"What's discussed is not the moral effect that hosting thousands of people targeted by ICE will have on the community but, instead, what effect there might be on water and electrical supplies.
These are not 'dormitory pods' meant to provide a place to sleep to people waiting to hear the status of their immigration cases."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty
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"Nearly 5,000 of them, including some for detainees with disabilities. Row after row, cage after cage. In the full document, seen at the town's website, another 3,000-plus 'pods' are to be built in a 'mezzanine.'
The presentation about the facility is striking because it's so anodyne."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty
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Philip Bump offers a drawing of a planned ICE detention center, saying,
"This is what a planned ICE detention center a bit east of Atlanta would look like, once the large warehouse building is converted.
On the right side, you can see the intake and processing areas, as well as office space and a gun range. On the left: the 'dormitory pods' — meaning beds."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention
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"And the only way it ends is with victory for the regime or a reckoning for all those who waged this war against America.
However alarmed you are, it’s not enough."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #MaskedThugs
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"Citizens are neither stopping nor impeding the government’s work. They are merely documenting it. And for this affront, the government treats them as adversaries to be controlled, intimidated, arrested, beaten, and occasionally killed. ...
This is Anne Frank territory; the stuff of the Stasi and East Germany, or Kosovo and Sarajevo."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #MaskedThugs
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"Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population. ...
It is important to understand that observation is what this war is all about. The federal government does not want anyone witnessing what it is doing."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #StephenMiller #Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #MaskedThugs
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"ICE isn’t law enforcement. It’s a narrative delivery system for MAGA from the gnarled mind of Stephen Miller. The violence is the point."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #authoritarianism #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing
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"The Trump administration, [Anat Shenker-Osorio] argues, is running a classic authoritarian playbook: foment a counterrevolution against a revolution that never was—tell people you’re protecting them from a threat that your own regime manufactures and amplifies, so they don’t notice it’s actually the billionaires picking their pockets."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #authoritarianism #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing
/1https://thecause.substack.com/p/if-we-dont-call-for-the-camps-to
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"Bishop Robert Barron, once viewed as a thoughtful evangelist bridging faith and culture, has in recent weeks accelerated a troubling alignment with the Trump-Vance administration and MAGA priorities.
Barron’s latest partisan provocations are now raising alarm within the Vatican."
~ Christopher Hale
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #RobertBarron
/4https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/bishop-barrons-latest-maga-crusade
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"Where were their voices when federal agents gunned down two U.S. citizens protesting inhumane treatment of migrants? ...
Had our church's leaders spoken out earlier against the administration's cruelty toward migrants, with the urgency and unity they once devoted to issues such as same-sex marriage, religious liberty or abortion, perhaps political realities would have shifted sooner."
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic
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"Where were their voices when the Trump administration threatened to cut food stamps for the poor while cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans? Where were their voices when the administration kidnapped a foreign leader, threatened military action against an ally and invaded American cities?"
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder
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"As the Trump administration escalated its assault on human dignity, many Catholics have wondered: Where are our bishops? Why don't they do something?
Where were their voices when cuts to USAID consigned millions across the world to hunger, thirst and death?"
~ National Catholic Reporter
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops
/1https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-bishops-united-states-history-has-its-eyes-you
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"I think we need someone in the U.S. Senate who is going to confront Christian nationalism and tell the truth, which is that there’s nothing Christian about Christian nationalism. It is the worship of power in the name of Christ. And it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth."
~ James Talarico
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ICE #deportations
/5https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/colbert-calls-out-cbs-fear-of-trump-admin-live
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Who continues backing the white supremacist, white Christian nationalist agenda of Trump? Bob Smietana points to findings of Pew Research center:
"Republicans, Southerners, Trump backers mostly likely to support Christian nationalist ideas."
A Venn diagram would show that these three categories largely coalesce into one category constituting Trump's base.
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ICE #deportations
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"Combine an administration filled with the president's poison with an armed militia operating in the field, and what did anyone expect?"
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ICE #deportations
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"It must be considered axiomatic by now that the president's only real gift in politics is recognizing and energizing the worst instincts of everyone he touches, and a McGyver-esque talent for finding the worst possible use for every institution at his disposal through which the members of his cult can exercise those worst instincts. It is his superpower."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ICE #deportations
/2https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70397582/ice-violence-email-release/
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"There's something about having only one right way to be an American that creates a permission structure for attacks against anyone who doesn't fit that singular mold."
~ Bill Braniff
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ICE #deportations
/1https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-government-mainstreams-white
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"Part of the reason they moved Homan to be in charge of DHS’s operation in Minneapolis was so they could blame all previous problems on Kristi Noem and her 1/3rd Reich Bovino.
You could see this when Tapper asked about the investigation into the murder of Renee Good."
Michael Mora
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #violence
/3https://www.wonkette.com/p/tom-homan-gets-big-mad-on-the-sunday
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"In Minnesota, the sun is also brilliantly shining; it is quite mild and warm. The abductions continue, the camps continue, our show goes on with resistance and a little more weariness.
We’re still in the deep of winter until our neighbors are free and ICE is no longer."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #violence
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"The present reality of Minnesota cities is that we can be hopeful, but still understand that the abductions will still happen to fill the camps. The weather is sunnier, the ICE numbers may be going down, but we’re still not out of it."
~ Taylor Carik
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #violence
/1https://www.liberalcurrents.com/minnesotas-false-spring/?ref=extra-writing-newsletter
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"In fact, outside of the second Trump administration, I can really only think of two other instances where the government so fastidiously protects anonymity: The death chamber and the shadow docket.
The exceptions really do prove the rule."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
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