A Mexican-American friend who lives here on a Green Card and is the mother of five US citizens, including a US Army Vet and an LAPD officer, just collapsed into my arms crying, saying that she no longer drives on the freeway because she's afraid of being stopped by ICE and kidnapped.

@pluralistic

The use of extra-judicial roundups to keep targets isolated, impoverished, dependent on others' charity, & vulnerable to harassment campaigns...

It sounds so much like the Diary of Anne Frank.

She also was prevented from appearing in public, using transportation, stopped from going to work, prevented from having a job, and thwarted from the courts fearing capture.

This is what Nazis & the Stasi did, kept people caged in their homes to enable concentration camp detention.

@Npars01
Do you mix Stasi and Gestapo?
How the Stasi recruited Hitler’s SS thugs to take control of East Germany

First Class Comrades by J Boulter is the definitive account of the communist secret police

The Times