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.
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both documented immigrants and US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.
Sounds like a good way to get your passport stolen to me.
Maybe they could just wear a patch on their clothing to denote who they are, like a Yellow Star or a Pink Triangle.
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.
You want out so bad? There, you’re out. Now quit complaining, and get walking. It’s 100 miles in any direction to the next town.
Hilarious given that Texas spent millions of taxpayer dollars recruiting immigrants to fly to blue cities when Biden was in office.
MAGA doesn’t recognize irony, any more than they can recognize hypocrisy.
Florida even put money in their budget to fund flights out of Texas. DiSantis wants to abuse undocumented people so badly.
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.
I’m expecting full holocaust. I so want to be wrong but things keep getting closer and closer to it. I’m scared the fascists will come to Canada and come for me
They’ve got a pretty long to-do list for here before they start looking your way. Keep an eye out for your own home-grown ones though.
It’s important to remember that this isn’t isolated to America. Russia is turning up the far-right heat EVERYWHERE, and using America as the distraction, so you’ll let it happen in your country: “At least it isn’t as bad as what’s happening in America.”
Yet.
There are fascists in Canada, mostly in Alberta
Seriously, don’t let your people turn fascist too
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I want to see somebody step up to lead the civil war
When it happens, It will happen like fall of the Soviet Union: spontaneous, unpredictable, and it will spread VERY quickly.
Why are you waiting, you can do it tomorrow!
USA is at most a plane ticket away.
How would I do it? What can I do that you can’t? You want a random Canadian woman with no military experience or political experience and severely lacking in social connections to just go to the Untied States and declare I’m leading a civil war against the regime? Why don’t you do it?
What the fuck, I’d follow you.
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?
None of us can handle the “big picture”, we are all at best familiar with just a small portion of the fuckery going on. There isn’t enough time in the day
It’s not even a “USA” thing. Wait until other countries figure out it’s an international consortium of the super wealthy families and business interests that have been around since the slavery days!
They own Think Tanks and publish opinion pieces and studies all over the world, and own most of the modern media landscape, and trade practically everywhere in US dollars and more (each country is different, you tell me the country and I’ll tell you how they subsidize or are subsidized by the USA-UK superfriends).
Check out the Panama and Pandora Papers for starters, and so much more.
They are not even vaguely US nationalist, they will drop the USA as soon as it is more profitable than not to do so.
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.
Is each line a new horror? or do they all blur together?
Yes
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. Like even if you said “I’m actually Jill Stein”, nobody would believe you.
But then if you ever got actually found out, how it would change your image.
It’s too bad this place doesn’t have blue checkmarks. You could make a real legacy.
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.
I’m big anti-gun, but if I was in Minnesota I’d be adapting. I don’t blame you at all.
Please learn how to use them safely and become 110% comfortable using them.
Taking classes!
And whatchagon do with it, eh?
I’ll tell you what: jack shit. Just like all the other gun-toting posers in America.
No, that’s just you projecting your cowardice on everybody else. Some of us are willing to fight for American Democracy, if MAGA takes away all other options. If that happens, stay out of the way, loser.
Read between the lines with this: “I’m incapable of realizing this won’t be open warfare like I demand to get my PP hard on watching Amercians die on television. Instead it’s going to be a steady guerilla campaign without the mass PP hardening payoff I want.”
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.
Trouble is, they’ve got backup. Does he? I’m all for defending yourself, but surely shooting one or two of them will only result in the full horde descending on him. You’re gonna need a critical mass of people to stand up to these thugs. A well regulated militia, if you will.
There’s the big picture of massed armies, but much of the Civil War will be small groups marauding around, going house to house, setting up checkpoints, taking over small towns and even cities, etc.
Those kinds of scenarios don’t include back-up. If a person can defend themselves and their family against those sorts of threats, you can confiscate their weapons, ammo, and gear, and become stronger.
Cool story bro. What is it you’re doing to help?
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 w/ cash a couple of towns over, use at least 30-90 days after purchase so the CCTV footage will be overwritten.
Also use tor FFS, or at least a good VPN like mullvad or ivp, and on a trustable machine (IE: open source OS, preferably QubesOS on ME disabled hardware)
Also if you need a good throwaway email both tutanota and cock.li work but keep in mind cock.li is run by chuds so its best used as a disposable account.
You can truely speak your mind if your socials are never accessed from your home IP and you don’t tie any other accounts to them, and what you say isn’t too identifiable.
You’re dumb
It’s in the name!
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.
I tag anyone with banana in their username with banana. It’s important information.
No question! Gotta know who your friends are.
Edit: Or who the competition is. I don’t know your life.
I was unaware of this feature, I will definitely be using this. Ha and just like that extremedullard is a troll for life. Banals will be tagged as helpful
“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.
He has some pretty good answers to the interviewers annoying, pushy and leading questions.
