Protesters’ Interference Delayed Arrest of Child Rape Suspect in Boston for a Month
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Has anyone else noticed that since this war Trump started in Iran is taking up the headlines, people aren’t talking about ICE?
I feel like we need to keep ICE on the headlines.
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EXILE
The Necessary Defense of American Sovereignty
The time has come for a blunt and uncompromising truth; if you actively work to interrupt, undermine, or overthrow the sovereignty of the United States and the democratic republic that sustains it, you forfeit your place here regardless of whether you were born on American soil, whether your ancestors arrived in the 1700s, or how many generations your family has called this country home. This is not rhetoric. This is the only coherent response left when people declare, openly and repeatedly, that they reject the very foundation of our nation.
Muslims tell us plainly that Sharia law governs their lives, and their ultimate goal is to ensure it governs America as well. Yet you treat this declaration as just another opinion to be debated rather than the existential rejection of our republic that it is. ENOUGH. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. It was written by and for a people who chose to live under its umbrella. When newcomers or citizens explicitly reject that umbrella and seek to replace it with a theocratic legal system incompatible with individual liberty, equal rights, and democratic consent, the document does not require us to accommodate our own dissolution.
We have rules. We have a culture. We have values forged over centuries; individual rights, separation of religion and state, equality under law, and the supremacy of the Constitution. It is not an empty vessel into which any ideology may pour itself and rewrite the rules at will. We are not a blank page waiting for someone else’s pen.
The evidence is now overwhelming that significant elements within certain immigrant communities, particularly those arriving from Muslim-majority nations committed to Sharia law, have no intention of assimilating into this culture. They do not come to join the American story; they come to supplant it. Muslims exploit our openness while rejecting Americas premise. Polls, court cases, public statements, and the formation of parallel societies across Europe and increasingly here confirm the pattern; demands for Sharia laws, refusal to accept secular authority, grooming scandals, honor-based violence, and open advocacy for replacing Western law with Islamic governance. This is not “diversity.” It is conquest by migration.
Liberals have responded with the same tired script: any defense of our borders, our culture, or our laws is branded racist, xenophobic, or Islamophobic. Every grievance must be indulged. Every demand negotiated. Our republic itself is treated as negotiable. It is not. American sovereignty, our constitutional republic, and the cultural soil that sustains both are non-negotiable. If you cannot live under that umbrella, the honest and humane solution is simple; go elsewhere.
This is not unprecedented. Our own Founding-era forebears had no qualms about sending Englishmen, men of their own blood and language back across the Atlantic when those men refused to accept the new American order. They understood that loyalty to the republic must supersede tribal or ancestral claims. We have forgotten that clarity at our peril.
The left will cry racism, Islamophobia, cruelty. We no longer care. Words have lost their power when they are deployed solely to disarm legitimate self-defense. An existential threat to our democracy, our culture, and the safety of our citizens is not a debating point; it is a security emergency. And the remedy for those who declare themselves enemies of the republic, whether native-born ideologues or imported theocrats is the same remedy our ancestors used without apology
EXILE!
We did not build this nation so that others could dismantle it from within. We will not watch our liberty erased under the banner of tolerance. Respect our laws, our Constitution, and our culture or leave. The republic of the United States of America will be defended. Those who choose subversion over assimilation have forfeited the right to remain. It is time we acted on that reality.
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Judge limits crowd control devices at Portland ICE building, says federal officers must identify themselves - OPB
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Another story from Portland about ICE: We attended a childbirth class at my hospital’s family medicine pavilion downtown. There was a peaceful protest outside, where there were some parks and grassy patches - a few blocks of people, including kids in strollers and quite a lot of elderly people, milling around with signs. A live band was playing. People were singing, dancing, passing out bracelets and stickers to each other. It almost felt like a sweet community hangout, just with signs. We had to stay inside on our breaks throughout the day and keep the doors closed because the hospital was nervous. But when we had to walk through the crowd to get to our car in the afternoon, I felt perfectly safe. 6 months pregnant, taking a nice stroll through my friendly community.
I saw my mother that evening and she started bawling when I told her I’d been there that day and seen the protest. Apparently we got out of there just before ice showed up and tear gassed the hell out of blocks of…. children, seniors, and people singing and dancing and trading friendship bracelets. The er was so crowded, people were being taken to other farther hospitals because mine couldn’t treat everyone who needed it in a timely manner. They ran out of beds and out of space in the waiting rooms.
Portland isn’t a perfect city, just like any other city. But I love this city, and it’s devastating to see this happening. It’s devastating to hear the preschool down the street from me was raided. It’s devastating to have the schools i work at send out directions in case we get raided, and to lose students who flee the area out of fear. It’s devastating to see bullying happening with students threatening to call ice on each others’ families - bullying has gotten nastier and nastier since 2016 and I’ve been witness to all of it.
Fuck ice, fuck Trump, fuck Republicans. This is not the country we could be, and sure as hell not the country I want us to be.
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Afghan who died in ICE custody worked with US forces in Afghanistan, advocacy group says
No one will ever help us on the ground ever again.
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Hey, about ICE warrants vs valid judicial warrants–I think it’s easy to be intimidated by trying to figure them out, so here’s a short version that you could verbally tell someone, that they might remember.
It’s gotta be signed by a judge, and issued by a court, right? Look for the words “The Honorable [name]” by the signature line, and Not “Honorable,” not judicial. Sometimes it can be signed by a judge and still not a judicial warrant, so there’s more to look for–but if it’s not signed by a judge it’s DEFINITELY NOT a judicial warrant.
Next, that has to be signed within the last 10 days. Check the date by the signature. Not recent? Not valid.
If it’s judicial, and recent: is it relevant? Look for specific addresses or names. With this one, there are more fiddly legal details drawing the line between valid/not valid, and it’s good to look into that, but if you (or the person you’re talking to) isn’t gonna remember it, you can at least ask, does this actually pertain to us/here?
Tl;dr: Is it “honorable”? Is it recent? Is it relevant?
Obviously in many circumstances, being told “this isn’t valid” isn’t stopping agents. But knowledge is still power.
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People keep saying, “Send ICE to Iran!”
You do realize that this would mean subjecting Iranians to everything ICE has done to people in America, right? In all likelihood, ICE agents would do worse to Iranians because they know that Americans will just look the other way.
I know people mean it more as a way to punish ICE, but would you say that about any place in the US? Would you say, “Send ICE to (name the state) to deal with (name of gang or mob)”?
No. Because you wouldn’t believe they would restrain their actions to going after the people they are supposed to go after. So why do you feel comfortable saying they should go to Iran, where you have to know they will target civilians?
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This is a repeat from last year. I never got all the branches cleaned up from the last ice storm.
