September 18, 1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, it offered federal officers a fee for each captured slave and denied the slaves the right to a jury trial.
From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
This is really happening…again!
Gulp!
“Historians have said the use of #soldiers to enforce the #fugitiveslaveact — which saw escaped slaves hunted down & returned to the South — helped spark the #civilwar.
In recent wks, the #Trump ad has used constitutional maneuvers invented to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to justify using #troops to round up #immigrants. Experts said leaders from the antebellum South demanded similar enforcement of the law.”
I said these assholes are in the “#slavery bidness “…
That #KristiNoem was a Slave Catcher…
They all on an ole #Slave Hunt!
These rancid racists need to fill those #forprofitprisons
& get that…Sweet, sweet govt cash 💰…
While selling inmates #labor.
#Trump 's case for sending #troops to help #ice involves precedent from #FugitiveSlaveAct - #la Times https://apple.news/AoMW86x4TRVCnuNWdZW3r9Q
TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATINGS ARE HARD TO FOLLOW. HE WENT FROM RISING TO PLUMMETING AWFULLY FAST. IT HAPPENS. IS THIS AN EXAMPLE?
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Trump can be cut down big-time on at least two major issues: the slowing, shrinking economy; and raids by his ICE gestapo. See the Daily Beast headline in the right-hand column. Due process is of tremendous importance. Masked, unidentified ICE agents coming to town and disappearing people for no apparent cause gets attention. Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Bill into law in 1851 as part of the Compromise of 1850 and most Americans foolishly thought the slavery issue was put to rest. Then slave hunters started sweeping into cities and towns in free states and spiriting away people who were SUSPECTED of being fugitive slaves. I emphasize SUSPECTED because a lot of MAGApublican dirty work is based on their suspicions, right now and every day. The reaction slave hunters provoked was the first major blow against the institution of slavery. Something similar could be happening right now. Time will tell but this is a flame well worth fanning. Trump is doing wrong and Americans can plainly see it in their cities and towns.
Eightysix47 on Trump's assholiday!
: #assholiday #compromiseof1850 #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #fugitiveslaveact #ice #icegestapo #icevigilantes #immigration #migrants #millardfillmore #slavery #uspol #uspolitics :
September 18, 1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, it offered federal officers a fee for each captured slave and denied the slaves the right to a jury trial.
September 18, 1850
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing owners to reclaim the enslaved who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, it offered federal officers a fee for each captured slave and denied the slaves the right to a jury trial.
“A hubby who doesn’t want his wife to get an #abortion could threaten to sue the friend who offers to drive her.” Any abortion ban will be easier to enforce when private volunteers & vengeful acquaintances & family members step up to supply info.”
1st comes…“#FugitiveSlaveAct”…
*Slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state…
(sound familiar)
Then…
*The fed gov is responsible for finding, returning, & trying escaped slaves…”
https://apple.news/Ak_MuRNLZRu2vAwawtv3qag
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
Nonilex
John Autry
DoomsdaysCW
Deborah Sampson
Alan Lewis
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