I live in an area where people ask you where you’re from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don’t speak English, like they have with my wife.
ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I’m waiting for our turn. I’m light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn’t matter anymore.
I keep waiting for the day when I’m going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she’s at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?
I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.
Is there no document that could be prepared with a lawyer to clarify your rights, make them think a bit and move on?
Simple answer: no. We’re beyond that now. ICE’s latest strategy is simply to move so fast, courts and lawyers don’t have time to do anything. There are dozens of credible news reports of them deporting US citizens, which means there are dozens, or hundreds or thousands, that haven’t been reported on. They don’t have to follow the rules if there’s no practical way to hold them accountable, and they’re leveraging that heavily.
If you don’t have your papers, they deport you. If you do have your papers, they lie and deport you faster than anyone can stop them.
“sorry, I don’t get paid to think, I don’t make the laws, I just voluntarily signed up to enthusiastically and brutally enforce them” says the average ICE goon while tearing said document in two.
If you want to make them think a bit, being armed will certainly give them pause for thought.
Armed, but I could use more ammo. I can take my wife to the range while we have vacation time.
Wouldn’t facing then with arms give them more legal reasons to arrest you? I guess it depends on the state?
Worse it gives them legal reasons to just kill your on the spot at this point. If you’re lucky they’ll just tear gas you and beat the shit out of you for threatening them instead.
Shooting at ICE would be a waste of a good life unless there’s some fully organized resistance militia out there none of us know about.
Haven’t you been following the news? Paramilitary gangs are arresting brown people and ignoring laws, courts and common sense