I always think it’s the legacy of slavery: we really expect an entire set of people, ideally non-white, to sacrifice themselves for our convenience. It’s a horrible stain on our society.
Re last post:
Successful societies welcome newcomers. Out of self-interest? Yes. Most humans are nationalists. If Americans see the only purpose of immigration as being to help immigrants, we will have MAGA forever.
Here in Chicago, Congresspersons again denied access to ICE facilities. A masked employee refuses to give his name, and tells them they have to get their visit approved by ICE admin. Later posts a sign claiming they have to seek permission 72 hrs in advance. No one at ICE or elsewhere has identified any authority for such requirements.
Hard to imagine anyone thinking that is a desired balance of authority.
Gosh, how could they possibly have foreseen she’d do terrible things? 
It’s not like shooting your kid’s dog is a red flag.
Who knew?
Yeah, if anyone is interested in compiling a list of the stupidest Democratic senators, we have a count of 7 head start.
The LA Dodgers announced that ICE agents were turned away from the gates after requesting access to the parking lots prior to today’s game.
Hey, some good news for a change!
From the linked article:
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez arrived at the stadium and said she had been in communication with Dodgers officials and the mayor’s office.
“We’ve been in communication with the mayor’s office, with the Dodgers, with Dodgers security, about seeing if they can get them moved off their private property,” she told KABC-TV. “Public property is different. Private property – businesses and corporations have the power to say, ‘Not on my property,’ and so we’re waiting to see that movement happen here.”
My bold
Is this true? Can a business (Home Depot, a farm, a meatpacking plant) refuse to let ICE or custom agents on their property?
They can, unless the ICE or Customs agents have a warrant.
Thanks.
I rarely say this, but Go Dodgers!
I’m not sure if any warrant is sufficient, or only a judicial warrant.
From what I’ve heard they were wanting to use the parking lot as a staging area for processing the mass arrests they were planning.
What a bunch of loathsome shits they are. Their real purpose is to terrorize amd humiliate. My fantasy is that when this is over all of them will end up being tried for human rights abuses, a la Nuremberg.
One thing I have not yet seen but am expecting any day now, is targeting of nursing homes. In Michigan a great many nursing homes are staffed with Filipinos-nurses, aides, medical assistants and so on. Sure they are trained and qualified, desperately needed and here legally but still-you have a bunch of brown people in one location that can be just scooped up en masse! And what are those old people in wheelchairs going to do to stop it, huh? The optics would be horrific but that seems to be a plus as far as ICE is concerned.
I haven’t seen this yet. But I am expecting it.
The other hitch is that I don’t think, up to this point, people have made a habit of carrying all their documentation with them everywhere they go. So ICE scoops you up, you don’t have your documents on your person, and in detention you have no way to get them and no way to contact anyone to bring them in. Which leaves the a legal detainee screwd and potentially deported.
I started to carry my passport card in my wallet, just in case I meet ICE goons.
I decided to upgrade my driver’s license to real ID for the same reason.
I think the habits in this regard depend on what group you’re in. I suspect the percentage of Latinos carrying their documents is higher than that of white people.
As a gay person, I carry a laminated wallet-sized color copy of my marriage certificate in case of trouble, in case of hospitalization or the like. Pure paranoia, but I don’t trust our institutions. I imagine non-white people feel this a lot more.
In my darker moments I imagine an ICE stooge looking at your passport, giving you some BS about it not being valid, which would be his “reason” to not give it back to you, and then trucking you off.
Oh, hell, I had to start carrying my marriage certificate during my late spouse’s last illness despite us being a White, heterosexual couple because of the certain small but extremely annoying percentage of medical “professionals” who just could not believe that someone with his disability had actually found someone to marry him. Including a social worker who almost shipped him off to a nursing home without consulting anyone because she had convinced herself that I was his hired attendant and not his wife and thus had no say in what happened to him. Yeah, I made a lot of noise about that. A lot.
Anyhow - documentation, and having it on your person, is getting to be more and more important these days. Rapidly more important.
Definitely keep that marriage certificate on hand.