I found out why my vet's office is so backed up lately. The woman who ran the front desk, and hence made the clinic run, got sick and tired of being profiled and pulled over by federal agents on her work commute. She's a white citizen, married to someone with a Latinx last name. So it seems that ICE/CBP are using automatic license plate readers to identify cars with owners with foreign sounding names, and stopping them over and over. She quit her job and now stays at home. #ICEOut
@VisualStuart that wouldn't work really well in Louisiana since this Use to be a Spanish and French colony. I can imagine it would be even worse in Texas and Florida

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ICE is an occupation army to attack states that don't support the end of democracy in America. ICE is a coup.

Louisiana isnt a State, its a prison. ICE has to attack 23 blue states before they begin to round up in Louisiana

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ICE - making whole communities realise how abysmally Black and Latino folks have been treated for generations with stop and search.

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Diseased GOP thinking
This regime is syphilis!!

@VisualStuart i hope Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio share in this delight.
At least they let you know. My mother's old vet just put up a sign saying "STAFFING ISSUES" and closed up shop. Then accused my mother of being a no-show when she called to reschedule and denying they were closed.

Yeah she doesn't go there anymore...
@cy Veterinary clinics have had an extremely hard time retaining and recruiting staff since the emergence of COVID. Clients can be extremely rude and it's frequently a high stress environment u, and it's hard to thrive in a situation like that. We've seen multiple vet clinics close in the last five years. It's a bad situation.
@VisualStuart @cy Or maybe it's the corporatization of veterinary practices, where the staff is let go in favour of cheaper labour, who is squeezed for "performance" which is defined as draining the pockets of clients to return profit to the corporation.
That and fuckin private equity...

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The problem was the next receptionist said she was a no-show and tried to charge her for it. Just having staffing problems wasn't an issue.
@VisualStuart ugh enraging, and I wonder if this is a variation of a Kavanaugh stop (he evidently dislikes that name, which is all the more reason to use it).
@VisualStuart Racist to the max but, remember this is Miller, and his on-the-ground deputies, Noem and Homan. ICE thugs are the drones.
@VisualStuart She won’t be able to vote if she doesn’t have a passport and the SAFE Act passes.