Trump's promised ICE raids have begun

[Andy_Ross]

ICE knock down 84 year old married couple—send wife to hospital bloodied with concussion.

"With no warning the feds charged us, knocked us down and sprayed us. I was hit in the head with a projectile."

Husband was shocked by agents' behavior—and he served 10 years in Vietnam.

"It was not the kind of crowd that shouts the F word, there were families," she said. "People have to know that we are not Antifa."

"I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong."

Richard and Laurie Eckman live just a few blocks away from the protests outside the ICE facility in South Portland, Oregon

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975348825892999196

 

[Andy_Ross]

The American people gave us a mandate to rid our country of foreign invaders.

Fulfill the mandate. http://join.ice.gov

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975303720704627056

 

[Andy_Ross]

This Portland police officer stood up for his community against ICE agents trying to drive into a crowd of protesters.

“You WILL be arrested.”

https://bsky.app/profile/the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3m2l57kkzcc2m

 

[Safe-Keeper]

The American people gave us a mandate to rid our country of foreign invaders.

Fulfill the mandate. http://join.ice.gov

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975303720704627056

I wonder if they consider white Americans who overstay their visas abroad an invading army, too.

I men, I don't, but you know.

 

[Stout]

This Portland police officer stood up for his community against ICE agents trying to drive into a crowd of protesters.

“You WILL be arrested.”

Whoever put the overlay on the video couldn't even get the sex of the driver correct.

And since we're going big on the social media evidence, there's another take in the comments section of the linked video.

‪erickoszyk.bsky.social‬ ‪@erickoszyk.bsky.social‬
· 7h
This is misleading. This was not ICE agents. It was two women wanting to take video and acting like idiots. I'm pretty sure they were MAGA. I know this because I was there and I'm even in this video for a split second.

‪AgnesBrowne‬ ‪@agnesbrowne.bsky.social‬
· 5h
Thx for clearing that up.

 

[Stout]

wrong thread

 

[Andy_Ross]

"U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Waukegan woman for allegedly impeding a federal investigation outside City Hall Monday afternoon as Mayor Sam Cunningham tried to intervene on her behalf and de-escalate the situation as a crowd gathered."

"Though there were published reports that Fajardo made a U-turn in her vehicle and began following one of the Border Patrol vehicles before her arrest, she said she was in a line of cars and they walked up to her vehicle."

"'There were several vehicles blocking the entrance to the Police Department, but I was not one of them. They boxed me in. I was pulled over to the side,' she said."

Link to full story:

Waukegan mayor intercedes in Border Patrol arrest: ‘I want to … make sure our residents are safe’

Dariana Fajardo, 23, was charged with impeding a federal investigation by a group of eight uniformed men whose patches read “Border Patrol.”

chicagotribune.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975609068719853963

 

[Resume]

nvm

 

[Andy_Ross]

The elite Texas National Guard are on the ground and ready to go.

They are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975643776161841649

 

[Resume]

The elite Texas National Guard are on the ground and ready to go.

They are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975643776161841649

 

[Resume]

The elite Texas National Guard are on the ground and ready to go.

They are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975643776161841649

There's a term for it when troops from one state deploy to another without that state's request or consent.

 

[Planigale]

"U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Waukegan woman for allegedly impeding a federal investigation outside City Hall Monday afternoon as Mayor Sam Cunningham tried to intervene on her behalf and de-escalate the situation as a crowd gathered."

"Though there were published reports that Fajardo made a U-turn in her vehicle and began following one of the Border Patrol vehicles before her arrest, she said she was in a line of cars and they walked up to her vehicle."

"'There were several vehicles blocking the entrance to the Police Department, but I was not one of them. They boxed me in. I was pulled over to the side,' she said."

Link to full story:

Waukegan mayor intercedes in Border Patrol arrest: ‘I want to … make sure our residents are safe’

Dariana Fajardo, 23, was charged with impeding a federal investigation by a group of eight uniformed men whose patches read “Border Patrol.”

chicagotribune.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975609068719853963

Home town of Ray Bradbury author of Fahrenheit 451 amongst others.

 

[Thermal]

Home town of Ray Bradbury author of Fahrenheit 451 amongst others.

Painfully ironic.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

There's a term for it when troops from one state deploy to another without that state's request or consent.

Texas has invaded Illinois without a declaration of war.

A date that will live in infamy etc.

 

[dirtywick]

by all the burly kind of fat guys with jelly roll mohawks and neck tattoos, it's apparent to me hired a bunch of try that in a small town style white supremacist militia types and given them a bunch of tactical looking gear and guns, a cops salary and a pension, and no training. these guys are going to get catastrophically stupid

 

[Segnosaur]

(graphic showing "portland not a war zone" with statistics showing lower crime rate than other cities; cut for space.)

I do not doubt that Portland is "not a war zone", that the republican claims of violence are gross misrepresentations, etc.

But, do we have any more information about those particular statistics? What is their source? What other cities are they comparing them to? It would be nice to know how accurate they are, just so we don't get caught in some "gotcha" with someone claiming there are "better" numbers elsewhere.

 

[Thermal]

I do not doubt that Portland is "not a war zone", that the republican claims of violence are gross misrepresentations, etc.

But, do we have any more information about those particular statistics? What is their source? What other cities are they comparing them to? It would be nice to know how accurate they are, just so we don't get caught in some "gotcha" with someone claiming there are "better" numbers elsewhere.

Fwiw, I spot checked a couple of the stats, and while not dramatically misrepresented, some of the cities being compared were not apparently of comparable size by an order of magnitude.

 

[Andy_Ross]

BREAKING: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem walked right up to an illegal alien p*dophile and told him he will be PROSECUTED and DEPORTED while she visited Portland.

Imagine the Secretary of Homeland Security telling you the jig is up.

The surge is here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975688355066085378

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

The elite Texas National Guard are on the ground and ready to go.

They are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975643776161841649

The TNG are so elite that they made Shrub II (before either him or Daddy Shrub were presidents) a fighter pilot despite him failing the test and kept him on despite being AWOL multiple times from benders.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

BREAKING: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem walked right up to an illegal alien p*dophile and told him he will be PROSECUTED and DEPORTED while she visited Portland.

Imagine the Secretary of Homeland Security telling you the jig is up.

The surge is here.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975688355066085378

She finally stood up to TACO‽‽‽*

* If your grandfather^, your mother and your current wife are all illegal immigrants, shouldn't you be one too?

^Granddaddy TACO managed the feat of being both an illegal immigrant and emigrant, skipping out of Bavaria without leave to avoid (very easy) national service. Cowardice runs deep in the family.