cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42561306
Jan. 31, 2026
According to a Saturday report in the New York Times, concern over ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.
CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for deportation.
What were y’all expecting.
Exactly this, and the rest that’s coming, and all the horrors that will be discovered to have happened when/if this ever ends.
These elected leaders always say things like this but they never do anything. They were elected to lead and they do nothing. I know Trump and is fascists handlers are pushing for a civil war and I have no idea what to do anymore.
Some of the refugees taken to Texas have been released from custody. But instead of being flown back home, they were released in Texas “without money, identification, or phones,” CNN reported.
Hilarious given that Texas spent millions of taxpayer dollars recruiting immigrants to fly to blue cities when Biden was in office.
The line was crossed ages ago.
if a “terrifying line is being crossed” every day, how does that affect you? Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
As a Minnesotan, I can answer that
It’s both
Most days the new line being crosses is horrifying. I remember the video of the doordash driver that hid in a customer’s basement. Seeing the terror in her eyes. Hearing the homeowners crying and apologizing as they’re forced to throw her to the wolves. That one hurt to watch. Deeply reminiscent of Nazis hunting for jews
Other events just leave me numb. Like Alex Pretti. It was objectively a huge line to cross, yet I felt so numb to it initially. Some days the mental fatigue is just too much
The war they’re waging is a psychological one first and foremost. Do your best to stay strong and remember what’s on the line
If nothing is done when the line is first crossed, and that crossing then continues to happen on a daily basis, then it has just become the new normal.
I’m imagining the strategy of genuinely being Jill Stein and using a username like yours to 100% never be seen as actual Jill Stein.
Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
Yes
When farmers burn weeds they often mix a popular petrochemical that’s sold at most beer/cig/candy stores and simple Irish bars of lavender, it’s pretty useful stuff. For burning weeds.
…am I stupid? I have zero clue what that has to do with this story. What context am I missing?
It’s like how gas stations and smoke shops have “tabacco” pipes that are for “tobacco use only” and you absolutely can’t use them to smoke anything else with, only tobacco.
Sounds like some sort of napalm.
Or you could always just buy some soup. Soup for your family.
My new shotgun and rifle arrive in 2-3 weeks…can’t come soon enough.
And whachagonna do with it, eh?
I’ll tell you what: jack shit. Just like all the other gun-toting posers in America.
He’s gonna use it to defend his family in case masked men break into his house. Must be nice living with such privledge you can’t even conceive a scenario where someone is breaking into your house.
Cool story bro. What is it you’re doing to help?
The tag function is so nice to have. I can keep track of troll so easily!
Isn’t “ExtremeDullard” already a tag?
Yes, but a list of usernames keeps getting longer and harder to remember. Tags are more efficient for remembering why you don’t like them - or, why you do! I think it’s important to tag people positively, too, to remember who deserves some grace.
I tag anyone with banana in their username with banana. It’s important information.
They are not gonna change anything, but as things are, it’s not a bad thing to have at home. You’re still gonna die, but you can take a nazi with you. And that’s where america is right now.
I’m obviously not going to answer on a traceable, public forum.
You do you.
You say you won’t tell what you’re gonna do with your guns on a public forum, yet you feel the need to mention that you bought guns on said public forums…
Po-ser.
It’s all show. If ICE shows up at your door, you’ll say “Yes Sir!” and you’ll scream “No! I’m a US citizen!” as they drag you away to a DHS-sanctioned concentration camp.
You’ll do exactly nothing with your guns, because you know as well as I do that the ICE goons will pump you so full of bullets if you do that there will be more holes than flesh left on you.
If you had anything serious in mind, you would have kept your gun purchase hush-hush.
Maybe instead of bitching you should make suggestions to solve the problem.
Pay your first dues with a vanilla card purchased bough w/ cash a couple of towns over, use with a fake name at least 30-90 days after purchase so the CCTV footage will be overwritten.
Also use for, or at least a good VPN like mullvad or ivpn.
You’re dumb
“We should all be standing up and saying that’s not OK. Literally, listen to what they’re saying. Active threats like, Turn over the voter rolls or else, or we will continue to do what we’re doing. That’s something you can do in America now.”
And from the original NYT interview:
I spoke to Frey on Thursday afternoon, not long after Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan — who has been dispatched to Minneapolis to replace and clean up after the operation’s original commander Gregory Bovino — promised to de-escalate the situation there. He said in a news conference that there would be a drawdown of agents, only to have President Trump later deny that there was any plan to pull back.
It’s this type of dissonance inside the admin that gives me hope.
There’s also a YT video.
