This is so sad, so pathetic.

[no_hypocrisy]

I live in a small town in Passaic County, NJ. More than 50% of the residents are immigrants.

I went to give a neighbor a letter and walked it over. I knocked on the window. Nothing. Again. Nothing.

Then I saw boys about 8 and 10 run furiously to a back bedroom (through the window) and they were yelling, "ICE! ICE! ICE!"

Well, I was in a T-shirt and jeans, a woman and wasn't yelling for them to let me in.

I had to convince their mother to open the door for me. (The letter had to be hand-delivered, not shoved under the door.)

To have children expecting ICE to show up to kidnap them and their parents just breaks my heart.

[electric_blue68]

1. Woah! How horrific and the unfortunately justified fears

[magicarpet]

2. The new Nazi Gestapo arrives on American shores.

Yeeeeeeee - Haaaaaaa,..

USA,... USA,.... USA.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. So 😔 sad

[Skittles]

4. lots of immigrants around me

one of them let me know I'm considered one of the "good people"; what an honor that is........

[Initech]

5. MAGA is the new plague.

[calimary]

6. No doubt about it.

Absolutely NONE.

[wnylib]

7. The ground floor of my apt complex has a few businesses.

There's a beauty salon, a very small (and overpriced) mini grocery, and a small, mostly takeout restaurant with a couple small tables.

The diner used to be operated by Columbians, with Columbian food. They closed down and left last summer. A Puerto Rican family has taken it over.

The Chinese restaurant in my small city has been closed and boarded up since last summer. There used to be a couple Mexican restaurants in town. They are all closed.

It's as if immigrants have disappeared. I don't know if they got picked up or if they left to avoid being harrassed or arrested. AFAIK, they were all legal residents, but even legal immigrants are not safe.

[EdmondDantes_]

11. Because we had that standard of living before?

Or do we not have it because we blow money on the military and on keeping billionaires wealthy?