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Anti-ICE Activists Storm Church in Minneapolis

“A group of anti-ICE protesters stormed a church during a church service and accused a pastor of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The protesters were with the Radical Justice Network and they accused Cities Church pastor David Eastwood of being the acting ICE field office director in Minnesota.”

WJLA

Minneapolis is the epicenter of ICE’s crusade to arrest and deport undocumented migrants who have committed serious crimes. ICE is unperturbed that many of those caught up in their dragnet are Brown and Black migrants who have not committed any crimes, and even law-abiding U.S citizens whose only crime is being people of color in Trump’s fascist regime.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was present at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, while anti-ICE protesters disrupted a worship service.

Jesus had no problem cleansing the temple of money changers, and if he were alive today, he would have no problem cleansing Cities Church of fake Christians who support the atrocities of ICE. For a pastor of a church to be an ICE field office director is an affront to the Christian faith and an offense to democracy.

Anti-ICE activists and anti-fascist protestors should storm Trump-supporting evangelical churches. Why should they be allowed to sit in their cushioned pews, while their pastors demonize migrants and praise the sociopath president, without suffering any consequences.

It is time to declare war against these Christian soldiers, who falsely claim that they are suffering persecution.  Give them a real taste of persecution.

Masked ICE Agents Kidnap High School Student Walking His Dog

Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz, an 18-year-old high school senior, was walking his family’s dog in Van Nuys when he was kidnapped and taken into custody by ICE. The masked Gestapo agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the family pet to run loose. Benjamin is being held in a cramped holding cell with about 50 others, without access to basic hygiene or adequate food.

You would expect the dateline of this news story to be Tehran, Moscow or another city in a totalitarian regime, and not a city in a country that is supposed to be a democracy. But in Trump’s fascist regime these horrific scenes have become an everyday occurrence.

Trump promised to deport cartel members, sex traffickers, and hardened criminals, but ICE quickly ran out of criminals to deport, and to meet their bloated quotas they are kidnapping and deporting landscapers, construction workers, nannies, and even school children who haven’t committed any crimes.

What was Benjamin’s terrible crime that brought him to the attention of ICE? Allegedly he overstayed his visa.

When I walk my dog, I feel comfortable and at ease and I smile at my neighbors as they greet my pooch. My daily walks provide an opportunity to bond with Princess, interact with neighbors, and engage in physical activity. As a senior citizen, I would be mortified if ICE agents arrested me and released my pet that I regard as a member of my family.

I cannot begin to imagine the trauma that Benjamin is experiencing, his life has been turned upside down, not by common criminals, but by government agents acting like thugs.

Here is the link to a GoFundMe page set up to help Benjamin and his family. Please donate to this worthy cause, thereby demonstrating that there are more of us who cherish our democracy than there are fascist monsters:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-a-family-in-crisis-after-ice-detention

Kristi Noem Begs God to Protect ICE Agents

DHS Secretary Krist Noem, nicknamed ICE Barbie for her penchant for cosplaying an ICE agent, is on a mission from God to praise, protect and publicize their nefarious activities.

If only she showed as much love for the healthcare professionals, emergency service personnel, critical infrastructure workers, social workers, transportation and logistics workers and teachers, who really make the homeland safe.

During Turing Point USA’s Student Action Summit last week, Noem offered a prayer begging the Almighty to protect ICE agents as they kidnap hardworking immigrants and terrorize minority communities throughout the country.

I can imagine Noem at a Nazi rally in 1930’s Germany offering a prayer for the Brown Shirts as they terrorized dissidents and contributed to the holocaust.

Evangelicals are on the wrong side of history, and they and their orange messiah will suffer the same fate as Hitler and his Nazi sympathizers.

To hell with the likes of Franklin Graham and Kristi Noem, what we need are people of faith like pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who spoke truth to power, and vehemently opposed Hitler.

DHS Posts Provocative Uncle Sam Poster

“The Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, ‘Help your country… and yourself.’ Written underneath the poster is the sentence, REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS.’”

CNN

Uncle Sam is a personification of the federal government; he is meant to represent the political agenda of the state. The Uncle Sam poster was used to advantageous effect during World War I, when Uncle Sam was depicted pointing his finger at the viewer to recruit soldiers for the American Army.

The xenophobic and racist Donald Trump is inciting hatred and violence against brown and black migrants by peddling the damnable lie that we are under invasion by migrants from Mexico, and Central and South America and Muslim and African countries.

Trump, who posted the odious Uncle Sam poster to Instagram, is using the Uncle Sam image to rally support for his illegal, undemocratic, and racist deportation scheme.

The words written on the poster engender division, and make white Christian Americans fear and loathe migrants. Undocumented persons are not invaders; they are asylum seekers who dream of becoming a patch of the colorful American fabric.

If you see someone you suspect may be undocumented don’t report them to ICE, instead help your country by advising them of their legal rights and ministering to their physical needs.

How dare Trump equate turning in migrants to patriotism. Express your patriotism by fighting Trump’s deportation policy.

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem Gets Dolled Up for Deportation Raid Photo-Op

Immediately after being sworn in Donald Trump signed executive orders empowering law enforcement agents to deport undocumented migrants who have committed felonies.

Federal officers immediately swept into sanctuary cities, nabbing thousands of migrant criminals, including many whose only “crime” was applying for asylum.  

Trump’s political allies have adopted desperate measures to prove that they are just as racist as their Dear Leader, indulging in the hateful rhetoric that America is being invaded by hordes of black and brown criminals from shithole countries.

Kristi Noem the former South Dakota governor, infamous dog killer, and Trump’s new Homeland Security Secretary, is already portraying herself as the biggest enemy of migrants.

In photos posted to X by Noem, she donned a bullet-proof vest and a cap with a police crest and posed alongside ICE and DEA agents, brandishing assault rifles.

The Ice Barbie attempted to soften her macho appearance by apparently using a trowel to apply pancake makeup, lip gloss and mascara.

She posted a video of law enforcement perp-walking an undocumented immigrant with the caption, “Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets.”

The biggest dirtbag is Trump who is constructing a facility capable of holding 30,000 deported migrants at Guantánamo Bay naval base. This deplorable action by Trump will only add to the wretched history of Gitmo where terrorism suspects were imprisoned and tortured during Bush’s Global War on Terrorism.

Noem who cosplays at being an Ice Barbie ICE Agent is just as bad as Trump; they are the racist dirtbags what must be dumped in the garbage if we are to survive as a democracy.

Stable Genius Trump Accidentally Tweets Praise at Parody Account Mocking Tom Homan

“Seeking to praise former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan in a tweet on Sunday, President Donald Trump accidentally ended up drawing attention to a pro-immigration parody account mocking the former ICE chief instead.

‘The Democrats hate this President so much, they’re forgetting about their duty to secure our Border,’ The U.S. leader wrote, appearing to quote from an interview between the real-life Homan and Fox News’ Steve Hilton. ‘Sad but true!’ Trump said in agreement, as he tagged Hilton and the account: @ThomasHomanICE.”


Newsweek

Tom Homan served as Acting Director of ICE from January 30, 2017 to June 29, 2018. Since his retirement from public service he has been a vitriolic defender of Trump’s racist immigration policies in his capacity as a Fox News contributor.

Trump often praises Fox News hosts and contributors on Twitter, these sycophants are an embarrassment to their profession, and they thrive on such compliments.


Trump is the worst president in history, and he’d wouldn’t be much better as a journalist. He’s too lazy to do any research, had he taken the time to click the @ThomasHomanICE account he would have discovered it’s a parody account with less than five thousand followers.

The parody account is run by pro-immigration advocate Domenic Powell, and you can follow this resistor @_vectorist.

It’s taken me years to build up my Twitter feed to almost 20 thousand followers, but if I create a parody account @MikePenceChristianPatriot and tweet “Donald Trump is not a racist and he deserves an NAACP Image Award”, the fucking moron might retweet it to his 62 million followers and almost immediately my parody account would be more popular than my genuine page.

Abolish ICE!

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was formed pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, following the events of September 11, 2001.”
Wikipedia

ICE was created in the aftermath of the paranoia and xenophobia that infected our democracy in the aftermath of 9/11.

Nearly two decades after the terrorist attack that shook our nation to the core we must remain vigilant against the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, but at the same time we must overturn the Patriot Act, abolish ICE and restore the civil liberties that were stripped from us in the jingoistic spirit that permeated post 9/11 America.

“ICE operates detention centers throughout the United States that detain undocumented immigrants who are apprehended and placed into removal proceedings. About 34,000 people are held in immigration detention on any given day, in over 200 detention centers, jails, and prisons nationwide.”

Wikipedia

Until recently only undocumented families living in America were aware of the brutal tactics of ICE (La Migra), but under the Trump regime that criminalizes immigrants and treats them like dogs, mainstream America has come to know and loathe ICE.

A democracy shouldn`t tolerate detention centers where innocent children and adults who committed the misdemeanor of crossing the border are treated like criminals.

“Abolish ICE” shouldn`t just be the rallying cry of leftist activists, it should be the mantra of every red-blooded America who values democracy and freedom.
ICE agents have become the face of the Trump administration`s inhumane immigration policy, they resemble the Gestapo more than a law enforcement agency.

No more ICE raids that terrorize minority communities! No more ICE detention centers! No more deporting people who have lived in the US for years back to countries engulfed in violence and crime. Abolish ICE! For God`s sake Abolish ICE!

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