"Republicans are trying to regain support by seeming to back off their extremism, although they are not backing far: not a single Republican showed up for a public forum held today in Washington, D.C., by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA) and other Democrats on ICE violence."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"At the hearing, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen shot five times by federal agents, told her story; so did Aliya Rahman, another U.S. citizen detained by ICE; and so did the brothers of U.S. citizen Renee Good, killed by federal agents."
"Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) then read text messages between ICE agents after one of them shot US citizen Marimar Martinez: 'The agent texted, 5 shots - 7 holes. I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys! Oh well, it is what it is. Shit happens.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/3
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-300-2326
… FOX9 (MN) reported that a DOJ attorney melted down in federal court while trying to defend the Trump admin’s conduct: “SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, ‘The system sucks, this job sucks’ to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin.
Kristin Du Mez points to what Stella Carson, the "pink coat lady," told Anderson Cooper in an interview about filming the murdeer of Alex Pretti:
"I knew that this was a moment, and we all have to be brave and we all have to take risks, and we’re all going to be given moments to make that decision.”
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #AlexPretti #StellaCarson #murder #execution #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/4
https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/were-all-going-to-be-given-moments
"I recommend watching the whole interview, and sitting with it. Carlson is an ordinary American on her way to work. Her bravery meant that the entire world saw the nature of what we’re up against."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #AlexPretti #StellaCarson #murder #execution #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/5
"The unhinged behavior that we have seen from federal immigration officials, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were shot while drawing attention to or recording agents’ behavior, is a direct consequence of power without accountability. On Sunday, ProPublica revealed the names of the two agents involved in the Pretti shooting:"
~ Adam Serwer
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/6
"Border Patrol officer Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Suffice it to say that two Hispanic Americans killing a white person trying to prevent them from harassing or deporting other Hispanic people, on the orders of Stephen Miller—a Jewish American whose ancestors fled pogroms in Eastern Europe—is a uniquely grotesque expression of the American melting pot in action."
#Trump #CBP #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/7
"When you are asking men to essentially make war on their fellow citizens—to force lightly dressed people out into the frigid Minneapolis winter, detain elementary schoolers, follow good Samaritans as they deliver food to hiding families, and drag, tackle, beat, tase, or even shoot American citizens—you may find telling them that they can keep their identity hidden useful."
#Trump #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/8
"The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things."
#Trump #StephenMiller #RaymundoGutierrez #JesusOchoa #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #AlexPretti #murder #execution #immigrants
/9
"Alex Pretti had courage and all the things the myths and tales say men should aspire to. He had them because of his empathy, because of his ethic of care. His executioners had the performance of masculinity, the kind won by meting out violence and terrorising communities."
~ Alexander Hurst
#Trump #ICE #CBP #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #AlexPretti #murder #execution #masculinity
/10
"On a street in Minneapolis, two versions of masculinity clashed. One anchored in fear, the other in care."
#Trump #ICE #CBP #JesusOchoa #RaymundoGutierrez #AlexPretti #murder #execution #masculinity
/11
As Heather Cox Richardson also does (see /1 above), Edith Olmsted points out:
"Not a single Republican congressperson—the very same people who want you to believe that Good deserved to die—bothered to attend Tuesday’s forum [on ICE violence in Minnesota]."
Olmsted highlights testimony given by two brothers of Renee Good at the forum.
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/12
https://newrepublic.com/post/206105/renee-good-brothers-mourn-death-ice-terror
"Years ago I came to the conclusion that the Department of Homeland Security was a mistake in all sorts of various ways. I believe as we now approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11 later this year, we must revisit it and break it apart."
~ Garrett M. Graff
#Trump #Republicans #DHA #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating #AbolishICE
/13
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-to-reform-ice-and-cbp
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
"No Republicans show up for joint House-Senate hearing On ICE murders, brutality. Big surprise. Wouldn't want to give the impression that victims of ICE violence are human, after all."
~ Marty Kelley
"Border czar Tom Homan’s announcement today that 700 federal agents will be withdrawn from Minnesota—over a third of those deployed—may come just in time to avert a showdown.
According to a homeland security munitions inventory leaked to me, by mid-January, the feds had amassed some 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #DHS #CBP #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #violence
/16
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-war-the-public-is-winning
"The inventory lists over a dozen different types of 'crowd control” munitions, things like tear gas, stun grenades and pepper spray. These weapons are intended for protesters, not to facilitate immigration enforcement.
'Fucking overkill,' a homeland security official said of the inventory. 'I’ve never seen this amount of shit being used.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #DHS #CBP #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #violence
/17
"Another major front in the resistance has opened up over the last few months as ICE begins buying massive warehouses around the country to use as prison camps — and local residents and leaders push back and in some cases stop them.
Unlike a lot of the burgeoning efforts that I write about here, this one has gotten some excellent national coverage, particularly from Rachel Maddow at MS NOW."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportation
/18
https://www.headsupnews.org/p/nimby-but-for-concentration-camps
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."
"When you have masked men who are taking people off the streets, abusing people, violently confronting people and shooting people, and killing people in the streets, the idea that they're operating as anything more than or less than, you know, what has been said by the Trump regime about protesters, you know, these, to me, represent domestic terrorists."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #murder #execution #terrorists
/20
ProPublica identifies the agents who killed Alex Pretti because there’s no place for secret police in America
On the importance of listening carefully to the victims of ICE and their family members who spoke at yesterday's forum in D.C. about ICE violence, see Jay Kuo at the link below, which embeds videos of the testimony.
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #murder #execution #terrorists
/21
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-shadow-hearings-on-ice-are-a
William Lindsey 
Alex P Roe 
f*cking b*tch club