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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:05 PM Apr 2025

Trump ICE Gestapo thugs violence: Breaking Into occupied vehicle with pick-Axe

This is NAZI Totalitarian Regime.
Grabbing people off the streets.
Violently smashing windows on occupied passenger vehicles.

Gestapo.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T21:42:47.645Z


This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s 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, Marilú—an asylum recipient—had 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 couldn’t 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 aren’t following the law anymore. They were asked if they had an arrest warrant and they didn’t answer. They just wanted to break a window and terrorize people. Just disgusting
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Trump ICE Gestapo thugs violence: Breaking Into occupied vehicle with pick-Axe (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 OP
Federal agents acting like the gestapo. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #1
Anonymous? If you're still a thing? Moostache Apr 2025 #2
He doesn't have Asylum, or a claim to it. He's undocumented. maxsolomon Apr 2025 #3
Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon. Trump is a convicted felon. IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 2025 #5
Your OP is about Juan Francisco Mendez, a Guatemalan immigrant. maxsolomon Apr 2025 #7
Authoritarianism Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #4
This is one of my few serious quibbles with the Biden administration quakerboy Apr 2025 #6
ICE is the new Gestapo LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #8
Tim Walz calls ICE a 'modern-day Gestapo.' Agency calls comparison 'sickening.' LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #9
The irony is amazing LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #10

Irish_Dem

(82,386 posts)
1. Federal agents acting like the gestapo.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:07 PM
Apr 2025

They love it.

But they are cowards. Wearing masks and no identification.

Moostache

(11,297 posts)
2. Anonymous? If you're still a thing?
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:09 PM
Apr 2025

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)
3. He doesn't have Asylum, or a claim to it. He's undocumented.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 04:57 PM
Apr 2025

"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)
5. Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon. Trump is a convicted felon.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 05:04 PM
Apr 2025

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)
7. Your OP is about Juan Francisco Mendez, a Guatemalan immigrant.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 05:53 PM
Apr 2025

A-G is a somewhat different case. A-G had residency, I believe.

quakerboy

(14,907 posts)
6. This is one of my few serious quibbles with the Biden administration
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 05:05 PM
Apr 2025

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)
9. Tim Walz calls ICE a 'modern-day Gestapo.' Agency calls comparison 'sickening.'
Thu May 22, 2025, 03:46 PM
May 2025

I agree with Governor Walz

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/tim-walz-calls-ice-gestapo/83746284007/

Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election, is facing criticism from officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after comparing federal law enforcement agents implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown to a Nazi-era political police force.

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 Trump’s 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."

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