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This is NAZI Totalitarian Regime.
Grabbing people off the streets.
Violently smashing windows on occupied passenger vehicles.
Gestapo.
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What weâre seeing is state-funded fear. Weâve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasnât a case involving masked ICE agentsâbut thatâs happening too.
— Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T21:42:47.645Z
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What were seeing is state-funded fear. Weve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasnt a case involving masked ICE agentsbut thats happening too.
ADD THIS ..
Now, about the video: On Monday, federal agents smashed the window of a car in Massachusetts and arrested Juan Francisco Méndez, a Guatemalan immigrant with no criminal record.
He and his wife were waiting for their lawyer when it happened. Méndez, who is undocumented but working to adjust his status, was taken to an undisclosed location. His wife, Marilúan asylum recipienthad petitioned for him. They have one child.
According to Marilú, they had just left home when unfamiliar cars appeared. Moments later, three vehicles boxed them in. Armed men in green vests ordered them out. No names. No badges.
This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation. (Sorry, we couldnt upload the full video.)
BlueSky comments
How about these guys? With no names and no badges, they are dudes in costumes just like Kristie Noem. There is no way I would have opened a door or rolled down a window. They were correct to call their attorney.
Even people who ARE citizens shouldnt trust these assholes.
ICE the new Nazi SS.
Brown Shirts. Hitler eventually thought they were getting too strong and took care of their leaders, then gave them the chance to join his troops or prison. (The Brown Shirts thought they were part of in crowd, but found out differently).
This video is horrifying. The police clearly arent following the law anymore. They were asked if they had an arrest warrant and they didnt answer. They just wanted to break a window and terrorize people. Just disgusting
Irish_Dem
(82,386 posts)They love it.
But they are cowards. Wearing masks and no identification.
Moostache
(11,297 posts)There are plenty of targets in rich need of immediate and forever doxxing and shame.
Anyone who works for ICE is complicit, anyone conducting raids is a criminal and needs to stand trial at The Hague.
maxsolomon
(39,144 posts)"Working to adjust his status" means he's vulnerable AND he put himself on ICE's radar.
The tactics are uncalled for. There are plenty of other ways to arrest, but they're trying to intimidate. The orders have been handed down on these methods.
IrishBubbaLiberal
(2,561 posts)There is a much too rarely mentioned but essential difference between Donald Trump and Abrego Garcia: Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon.
There is a much too rarely mentioned but essential difference between Donald Trump and Abrego Garcia: Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon.
— Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) 2025-04-16T16:45:03.776Z
maxsolomon
(39,144 posts)A-G is a somewhat different case. A-G had residency, I believe.
Iamscrewed
(486 posts)Every 80 to 100 years throughout known human history
quakerboy
(14,907 posts)Trump used ICE and border control agents as his private military the first time.. and they gave every sign of being fully on board with his desires.
Biden should have cleaned house. Federal employees were grabbing US citizens off the streets in unmarked vehicles to try and scare protestors. Those who participated in this should have been terminated at bare minimum. Prosecutions of those who did it, as well as those who ordered them to do it should have followed.
Instead they just ignored it all. And now Trump has a publicly funded private army that has evidence that it is beyond prosecution or consequences, no matter who is in power next.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,155 posts)

LetMyPeopleVote
(182,155 posts)I agree with Governor Walz
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/tim-walz-calls-ice-gestapo/83746284007/
The comments came during the Democrat's commencement speech at the University of Minnesota Law School graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 17, in which he referred to the Trump administration's rapid and controversial deportations, including of pro-Palestinian activists on college campuses and immigrants.
Donald Trumps modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets, Walz said in his remarks......
Walz has been a frequent critic of Trump and did not hold back his disapproval during the commencement speech, focusing on what he says is the administration's repeated violation of the rule of law.
"This is what the crumbling of the rule of law looks like in real time," Walz said to the audience of law graduates. "And it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared − a tyrant abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies."
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,155 posts)
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