In a massive immigration raid, ICE rounded up Latino workers without asking them questions or telling them why they were being detained.
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the Department of Justice said HSI, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol all took part in the raid. Interviewees described local authorities surrounding the meatpacking plant. “Some workers described them as blocking exits but not actually participating in the action itself,” Teatro said. With roads around the plant blocked off and a helicopter monitoring the situation from above, witnesses recalled “ICE storming in” from multiple entrances, according to Teatro. “It was like the building was just taken over by ICE.”
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individuals were told to climb aboard white vans and transported to a National Guard armory. According to the advocates, a group of lawyers, working out of a nearby school that stayed open through the night, volunteered to take up cases. The lawyers presented the government with documentation expressing their intent to provide representation, the advocates said, but were denied access to the detainees inside the armory as they were processed and moved to detention centers in the region.
Can you not see where this is headed?
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Immigrants sexually abused in ICE detention have been saying #MeToo for years. They faced retaliation, and a system unwilling to hold itself accountable.
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A woman held at an immigration detention center in Washington state said she was raped by a medical worker and a private facility contractor as she sought help in the center’s medical unit. Another woman said officers cuffed and maced her following an argument with a fellow detainee at an immigration detention center in Florida. Then, as she lay on the ground, an officer sat on her “like a person would sit on a horse,” his “erect penis on her butt.” Officers then filmed her as she showered to wash off the mace, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
Elsewhere in Florida, a man said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent threatened him with deportation after he refused to engage in oral sex — and that the officer told him he would be deported to Haiti, even though the man is from the Bahamas. In Texas, a Border Patrol agent driving detainees between detention centers pulled over and let a woman get out after she performed oral sex on him, according to another complaint.
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the sheer number of complaints — despite serious obstacles in the path of those filing them, as well as the patterns they reveal about mistreatment in facilities nationwide — suggest that sexual assault and harassment in immigration detention are not only widespread but systemic, and enabled by an agency that regularly fails to hold itself accountable. While the reports obtained by The Intercept are only a fraction of those filed, they shed light on a system that operates largely in secrecy, and they help hint at the magnitude of the abuse, and the incompetence and complicity of the agency tasked with the safety of the 40,000 women, men, and children it detains each day in more than 200 jails, prisons, and detention centers across the country.
See this thread for details of the investigation:
https://twitter.com/alicesperi/status/984470141953069056
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https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/992117596831989760?s=21
The dentist, David Senn, who teaches at @UTHealthSA , never meets the person in questions or physically examines their teeth. Senn gets an x-ray and mugshot-style photos to draw his conclusion.
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ChuckV
May 16, 2018, 5:05pm
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Murderers, Rapists, Kidnappers, Child Molestors [sic], and Other Criminals On Board.
If only all candidates were this honest about their party…
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Remember this next time you hear the Congressbastards crapping on about gangs.
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Moving the Overton Window:
A few months ago, “abolish ICE” was wild extremism.
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MS-13 are dangerous animals -> all immigrants are dangerous animals -> let’s round up all the dangerous animals -> we’re running out of room in our dangerous animal cages -> Niemöller.
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It’s getting to the point where I could post a dozen of these horror stories a day.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Juan Gaspar-García, a 22-year-old diabetic man with Down syndrome, during a workplace raid and kept him detained for three weeks before releasing him to his outraged Florida...
And, as with everything else, for every one we hear of, another thousand happen in the shadows.
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Fuck it. Nothing I can say here to add to this.
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Ocasio-Cortez is running for Congress in NY-14, BTW. Worth following.
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