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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 22:50 UTC

This is about my friends' son. Wow... Just wow... I know this kid and it just breaks my heart.

Some US citizens in #Maine are carrying passports, fearing #ICE detention

Some Mainers of color say they’re afraid to leave their homes and worry about their children. One man says he was racially profiled.

by Salomé Cloteaux, Morgan Womack, and Dana Richie
January 28, 2026

"Cooper George was doing what other 13-year-old boys do when they’re home alone: he played video games.

Then, his friend texted in a group chat saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity was ramping up.

It was Jan. 12, a week before a surge that federal agents have dubbed 'Operation Catch of the Day' began in Maine.

George knew that ICE officers had been scoping out some places near his home in Westbrook. But if they were increasing their operations, did that mean they were going door to door? Were they going to come to his house?

He immediately stepped away from his screen and rummaged through his bag to look for his passport.

George has been carrying proof of his U.S. citizenship, like his passport or birth certificate, for about a year now, ever since he heard about ICE agents showing up in schools last spring.

He’s afraid he could be arrested because he’s mixed race. He’d seen news reports in other states of other U.S. citizens of color who said they had been stopped or detained by immigration officers.

Since President Donald Trump retook office and announced plans to crack down on illegal immigration, people of color have said they anticipate being stopped by federal agents.

A Supreme Court ruling in September cleared the way for immigration agents to stop people based on their race, language, job or location.

Federal officials say they’ve arrested more than 200 people so far in Maine and contend that they’re focused on detaining people with criminal records and illegal immigration statuses.

But family members, immigrant advocates and local officials have said that many of those detained so far are either in the country legally or haven’t committed any crimes.

Some citizens, like George, have started carrying proof of citizenship on them in an effort to prevent arrest if they are approached.

But this one afternoon, he couldn’t find his passport."

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#USPol #MainePol #ICEOut #ICEOutMaine #AbolishICE #SecretPolice #Orwellian #Traumatizing #Unacceptable!

#maine #ice #uspol #mainepol #iceout #iceoutmaine

Ellis Arcwolf (Joan Burgos) @[email protected] · 2025-09-05 · 22:07 UTC

I swear to all the #gods that only #white people are capable of turning anything into a #religion. To anyone reasonable, #science is a method that allows us to proceed along the search for truth using nature as the source of our #evidence and never just our own #reason.

Meanwhile, #cishet white #dudes in #horror stories are like, "I've been experiencing obvious and unquestionably horrific #demonic influence that has been #traumatizing to every member of my #family. But I am a #man of reason, and that is why I have chosen to ignore the #experiences of every single one of my family members and my own. Because the #demon has been actively occluding any evidence of their influence, and that means there is no evidence, which clearly means nothing is happening and all of us are suffering from mass #psychosis and just need to breathe and calm down."

It's literally wild to watch that kind of motivated #reasoning in action.

(And by white, I mean anyone that identifies as white. Light-skinned Europeans who are anti-racist and actively reject their white privilege also seem to know better.)

#gods #white #religion #science #evidence #reason

Nando161 @[email protected] · 2025-07-27 · 02:11 UTC

"#Forcibly locking #people up in #psych wards isn't the progressive alternative to the #prison system it's often made out to be. Losing your basic #rights and #autonomy isn't less #traumatizing when we refer to it as "#treatment". If the alternative to locking people up in a #bigoted, #capitalist, #abusive prison system becomes forced treatment in a bigoted, capitalist, abusive psych ward then that's not a real alternative at all, that's just two ends of the same beast."