#maskedthugs — Public Fediverse posts

"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
/9

"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
/8

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-pretti-memorial-site-minneapolis-minnesota-ice-trump-tariffs

“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
/8

https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/02/21/ice-mega-centers-mass-detention-usccb-bishop-cahill/

"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
/7

"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
/7

"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
/7

"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
/7

"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
/7

"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
/6

"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
/6

"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
/6

"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
/6

"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
/6

"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
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

"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
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

"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
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

"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
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

"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
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

"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
/4

"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
/4

"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
/4

"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
/3

"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
/2

"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
/4

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/bishop-barrons-latest-maga-crusade

"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
/3

"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
/2

"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
/1

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-bishops-united-states-history-has-its-eyes-you

"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
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/tom-homan-gets-big-mad-on-the-sunday

"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
/2

"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
/1

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/minnesotas-false-spring/?ref=extra-writing-newsletter

Susan Demas and Amanda Moore survey Bovino's legacy of violence in Minnesota and conclude that it's all about the videos, all performative, for-show, all about "revel[ing] in the mayhem of targeting protesters."

They're playing to the hateful glee of their MAGA audience, as they play with real human lives.

#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/8

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/bovinos-legacy-of-violence-in-minneapolis

"The most inflammatory thing Chicago’s US Attorney’s office released yesterday [in the Marimar Martinez case] — precisely the thing they made a failing bid to suppress last week — were texts in which [Charles] Exum described that 'Everyone has been [supportive] including Chief [Greg] Bovino, Border Patrol Chief [Mike] Banks, Sec Noem, and El Jefe himself… according to Bovino.'”

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/7

https://emptywheel.net/el-jefe-supported-cbps-information-war-and-violent-attack-on-marimar-martinez/

"In an email, CBP commander Gregory Bovino praised the agent who shot a Chicago woman five times: 'In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!'”

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/6

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/this-is-what-an-out-of-control-doj

"Got that? Complying with the Constitution’s foundational procedural protection is a 'non-starter.' More importantly, it is an admission that the current practice of ICE of entering homes without a judicial warrant violates the Constitution."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Constitution #FourthAmendment #warrants #MaskedThugs #violence
/2

"On Tuesday, Stephen Miller rejected as a 'non-starter' a demand by Democrats that ICE obtain judicial warrants based 'upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized' before entering a home."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Constitution #FourthAmendment #warrants #MaskedThugs #violence
/1

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/stephen-miller-says-requiring-ice

"The transcript of Tuesday’s hearing in Minnesota federal court in which one overwhelmed government attorney begged to be held in contempt so she could finally get some sleep is worth reading as a window into chaos inside the Trump administration."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/7

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-upside-down-world-of-the-buffoonish

"The fuller context of her statement captures her frustration with her unsuccessful efforts to get ICE prisoners released. ...

The problem here is not just that ICE is blowing off judicial orders.

The problem is that there are so many orders because the detentions are illegal in the first place."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/6

"By now you’ve heard about Julie Le, the ICE lawyer temporarily serving in (and now reassigned away from) the Minnesota US Attorney’s office to deal with the flood of paperwork in the wake of the invasion, who begged a judge to hold her in contempt so she could get some sleep."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/5

https://emptywheel.net/the-minnesota-lawyer-backlog-arises-from-ice-kidnappings/

The Feed notes that the way ICE treated Liam Ramos is not an isolated incident: there's a deliberate policy to use children to terrorize immigrant communities. And:

"This is the latest salvo in an ongoing assault on basic decency. If there is any hope of preserving our status as a civilized country - one that protects families and respects human dignity - then this assault on children cannot stand."

#ICE #LiamRamos #children #MaskedThugs #immigrants
/19

https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/ice-is-terrorizing-children

As the Trump regime and MAGA sound an alarm about a protest in a Southern Baptist church led by an ICE agent-cum-pastor, Adam Carrasquillo takes us on an instructive stroll through all the times in the past year ICE terrorized worshipers at churches in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, Minneapolis, etc.

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-terrorizing-worshipers-long-before-lemon-church-deportations-immigration-minneapolis-chicago-los-angeles-charlotte

"It feels as though there is a desperate need to normalize and sanitize Trump on the part of so much of the traditional media and that These reporters and editors themselves want to feel like things are sane. And so they tell themselves, okay, things are getting saner again. And we have seen over and over and over again with Donald Trump that that never happens."

#Trump #TomHoman #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #media #normalization #sanewashing
/2

"The thing that really, really bothered me is so much of the traditional media buying this idea of a Trump pivot or a softening or a drawdown hook, line and sinker. And I find that just so upsetting because how many times have we seen this before?"

~ David Nir

#Trump #TomHoman #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #media #normalization #sanewashing
/1

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/the-pretti-murder-and-its-fallout

"Liam isn’t the only child or even the only 5-year-old jailed where he is now. Lawyer Eric Lee, who saw detainees with ashen faces when he went inside the Dilley, Texas detention center last week, told me his clients are dealing with bugs and dirt in their food, putrid water mixed with baby formula, and denial of medical care."

~ Adam Carrasquillo

#Trump #Minnesota #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #churches #Christianity #cruelty #inhumanity #children #LiamRamos
/16

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liam-ramos-scared-5-year-old-boy-minnesota-national-conscience

"Trump sicced his droogs on Minneapolis because he’s a racist who hates Somalis, and his lawless campaign has spread to Maine, of all places, because it’s another state with a Somali population whose voters rejected him in 2024."

~ Stephen Robinson

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #Somalis
/5

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/abolish-ice-minnesota

"A creature so ate up with the rot of his own byproducts he looks like he was drawn as-is by Eli Valley"

"A little-known minion gifted with a moment in the sun and unable to stop himself wilting"

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #TomHoman #GregBovino
/24

"Worry more about being called biased than about being accurate. Do all of this, consistently, for years, and you will be surprised when the things people warned you about come to pass. The surprise is built into the methodology.

There’s a cost to this."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/16

"Political journalism has developed a set of practices that make surprise the default response to predictable events. Treat every denial as meaningful. Frame every warning from advocacy groups as partisan overreach. Insist on a both-sides structure even when one side is lying."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/15

"We are now one year into Donald Trump’s second term, and something strange is happening in political media. A lot of people who spent years insisting that the so-called 'alarmists' were being hysterical have started, tentatively, to admit that maybe they got it wrong. …

At a certain point, you have to ask what it would take to not be surprised."

~ Parker Molloy

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/14

https://www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-literally-the-job

"Trump’s cowardly enablers are largely responsible for the abyss America has plunged into."

~ Paul Krugman

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists #Democrats #Republicans
/13

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-canada-became-an-enemy

"By focusing exclusively on congressional Democrats, we are letting Republicans off the hook. They are the ones with the power to actually stop the killings and the terror. The real question is whether they will use it."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #Democrats #Republicans
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