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Summary
Since Donald Trump’s return to office, ICE and DEA agents have intensified immigration enforcement, conducting door-to-door sweeps in Colorado.
Initially targeting suspected criminals, recent operations now question all residents, regardless of warrants. A Denver apartment complex saw widespread searches, sparking protests and fear among undocumented families.
Activists and attorneys are mobilizing to inform residents of their rights. Schools report growing student anxiety.
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed a broad crackdown, declaring, “If you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table.”
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Oh hey look. Brownshirts.
Rename the ICE to SA, RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) or NKVD. Leon will approve too.
This is literally what 2A supporters have been saying they need to prepare for. They have proven many years ago that they are interested entirely in being the brownshirts.
That’s not fascist at all.
Aufmachen!
There’s this old song by a British band called The Clash. Something something about Brixton. And the Brits don’t even have a second amendment.
When they kick at your front door How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun
They’re all riding around in militarized machinery with a roof gunner hatch. Full face coverings and taping over doorbell cameras. Goddamned douche larpers trying to pull a Kristallnacht.
Need to create an app like Watch Duty to social track their movements. Local news is doing a good job so far. For now.
Sign me up if this every becomes a thing.
This is awful. Similar to the deportation of Jews in the 1940’s in the Third Reich.
Like a Nazi looking for Jews.
In other news the first arrivals are at gitmo concentration camp.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-migrants.html
In the future: “Everything they had was repossessed by the jackasses associated to these assholes, but now we have freed them and crowdsourced society into compensating them for the stuff those jackasses enriched themselves with, so it’s all fine now.”
Ah, the freedom-loving government flexing its muscle by turning neighborhoods into checkpoints. Door-to-door sweeps? That’s not law enforcement; that’s a dystopian scavenger hunt.
Let’s not pretend this is about “safety.” It’s about fear—fear as policy, fear as spectacle. When agents knock on every door “just in case,” they’re not enforcing laws; they’re shredding trust. Schools full of anxious kids? Families sleeping with one eye open? That’s the real legacy here.
And Tom Homan’s “on the table” rhetoric? Sounds more like a threat than governance. If this is the new normal, then democracy’s just a word we slap on the side of the bus while it careens off a cliff.
By instilling fear, fascist regimes aim to create a compliant population that willingly surrenders individual freedoms and critical thinking in exchange for a false sense of security and belonging…https://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/fascism-and-denigration-individual
Fuck the NRA. They’re totally against all gun regulation unless it’s checks notes regulating minorities having guns.
I feel like they are pushing everyone to the breaking point. How long until they knock on the wrong door and get shot?
Homan didn’t just threaten individuals and communities, he threatened city and state officials who would dare get in his way. Almost like he knows what he’s doing will draw a lot of ire.
He’s taking small town good ol’ boy sheriff attitude to the federal level, that’s why conservatives love him.
The good ol’ boy sheriff attitude isn’t just a personality quirk—it’s a power fetish wrapped in folksy branding. Conservatives don’t love him for his “toughness”; they love him because he’s a blunt instrument for their authoritarian fantasies.
Threatening officials isn’t law enforcement; it’s political theater designed to intimidate and dominate. The ire he’s drawing? That’s the sound of people waking up to the fact that this isn’t governance—it’s performative cruelty masquerading as leadership.
I’m…speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.
Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you’re happy with your choices.
I hope you get used to this feeling. Cuz it’s going to keep happening. It’s so fucking clear that the Democrats are not learning a single thing from this utter defeat they suffered. And the many defeats they’ve suffered the last decade and a half.
Democrats voted. It’s independent leftists that didn’t vote. And encouraged others to not vote or vote third party. Hope you’re happy with yourselves. This is what we get because you ragged on Democrats the entire election season. Gtfoh.
Most of the leftists I see on Lemmy and know personally begrudgingly voted for Kamala. The people on here saying genocide Joe constantly were plants.
The fact is, at least 2 million democrats who voted in the previous election did not vote this time. Leftists are an incredibly small portion of the population unfortunately.
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Seriously fucked up. Sane people saw this coming and tried to stop it. Now there’s straight up Nazi shit happening in America.
hope you’re happy
Or better, hope your losing sleep and sick to your stomachs and ready to take action in every available protest, election, boycott, donation, etc.
One can dream.
Unfortunately, they are still in “deny genocide is happening” mode.
Although a handful of them have taken a “America deserves genocide” tack instead.
Pffffft, yeah right. They’ll “take action” inasmuch as it saves them a trip to the voting station two blocks away. I’m praying that the people who did that will prove me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
This is me every time I see the “take action” bullshit. I’m not trusting my back to a bunch of people who couldn’t be faffed to wait in line on an inconvenient day.
How can we make this expensive for them?
Recreate that party scene from home alone 1, but with Mexican music.
Doesn’t hurt to know your legal rights, but we’re also in “put people in a concentration camp” territory now, so they will likely be ignored.
The thing is you have to force them to do it illegally, brutally, while people can see it. If you give in, if you agree to things, it’s too easy for them.
Yes, many people who stand up to them will die. It’s already been allowed to get to that point. Yet if you sit back and give in, it happens so much more quickly, and much more brutally.
This is especially true if you’re white, or at least not openly a minority. If you’re a middle aged white male, make them go through you. It’s dangerous, you might not make it, so make sure you’re ready. White men standing up to them, constantly, is cognitive dissonance to them. They’ll expect you to always be on your side, and when everyone isn’t, they stumble.
If people constantly resist them at every angle they will fail. We will lose good people doing it, and we have to.
So we went from “pelase vote in November” to “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”? Holy dystopian nightmare, batman.
So we went from “pelase vote in November” to “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”? Holy dystopian nightmare, batman.
When people didn’t vote against Fascists? Yes.
And it’s not about what people being ‘willing’ to watch others die, it’s about people standing up and being willing to die for their less powerful neighbours. I’m middle aged, male (AMAB, anyway) and white. I’ll stand between any cops, military, whatever and my fellow citizens. My grandmother (moms side) was in the Dutch resistance and was caught helping people escape the Nazi’s and spend 1941-1945 in a camp; she never fully recovered and converted to Atheism from Catholicism on her death bed, stating ‘no just God would allow what I have seen and lived through.’ My grandfather (dads side) served in the Canadian army from 1939 to 1945, and went to every country we fought in. He never slept in the same bed as my grandmother because he had screaming, wake-up-fighting nightmares from what he saw. He drove a motorcycle, delivering orders, moving supplies, etc. He was driving in a ditch beside a convoy just before dawn, for hours, and the ditch was so bumpy he had to keep slowing down because the motorcycle kept slipping. When the light broke, they were finally able to see, and he realised he was driving over the bodies of women and children from nearby villages. The ‘slipping’ was because the bodies were decaying and the motorcycle couldn’t grip, and he and his partner in the side-car took turns holding the handle bars while the other vomited over the side. They couldn’t turn around because beside the ditch was a cliff, and the convoy was bumper to bumper; they drove for six hours, at maybe 5 km/h, sobbing and vomiting. He never told me the story, he refused to talk about the war with me or my brothers, but in a drunken stupor my father told us my grandfathers war stories.
We pretend it’s somehow going to be different this time, like this time fascists can be appeased, this time they won’t invade other countries, or take away all of your rights. 30,000 people are already in camps. We all know what is coming next. You can stand aside like the German people did, watch and wring your hands, tell yourselves lies about the ‘clean Wehrmacht,’ yet everyone knows what’s happening. If we don’t stand up to them, we encourage it to happen.
It’s not if they can be appeased or not, it’s that half the country wants them in power. You are talking about a civil war.
It’s already started. They’ve already started the war, but right now it’s just civil war between the MAGAts and immigrants. Very quickly it’s going to expand to to others. They’ve already removed women’s bodily autonomy, they’ve been attacking transgender people for months, and they just created their religious task force to ‘defend’ Christianity. Expect attacks on those groups to ramp up in the coming weeks.
It’s not half that want them, it’s like 20%. 80% are allowing them to do these things.
Sure, civil war, civil disobedience, call it whatever you want. They’re putting children in camps, at what point do ‘you’ (the people of the US) stand up to it? Do they need to create death camps with ovens before you all react, or are you going to ‘aww geez’ at not wanting to stand up to them? The nazi’s made it illegal to save children from being tortured to death, at what point do you say ‘law’ be damned, I won’t watch this happen?
I don’t know. They already (famously) put children in cages last time around, AND-PEOPLE-STILL-VOTED-FOR-HIM.
About percentages, 77M+ people voted R, and IIRC there were 160M registered voters, so close to half of voters voted for him, much more than 20%.
A quarter of the country wants them in power.
Another (almost) half didn’t give enough fucks to even notice.
How do you come to one quarter? They got almost half of registered voters, even if you count elegible but unregistered it would be one third. Plenty of kids, felons, etc who can’t vote and might or might not support the shitshow.
There is a gulf of difference between “they will not respect your rights” and “you should give in.”
It helps if you google (specifically Google) things immigrants might google. It hides hotspots on the map for search terms.
I would think it would be helpful to use a VPN and switch locations over and over, use servers all around the world as well as all around the country while Googling. Really
poisonenhance the precision of the dataset.Do you have any suggestions? I don’t speak Spanish but I would assume it’s best to search in Spanish?
Specifically, click this and search for a made up name. The goal is not to ddos. This is a useful site that we want to stay up. The goal is privacy. They’re not above using this data.
Tell your loved ones that if you are detained by ICE, they can try to use ICE’s online detainee locator to find you: https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search
Yet another disgraceful and dark stain in American history books with the fascist pig Homan working hard to ruin peoples’ lives for no reason other than petty cruelty.
It those people’s fault. They haven’t even tried to be white cis staight Christian males, they were practically asking for it!
Hmmmm those are paper thin plate carriers. Makes you think.
Are you telling me these tacticool cops aren’t actually operators?
I mean those bump helmets are definitely representative of ICE at large, useless security theater to give fragile white egos an unearned sense of safety.
Now that I take a closer look, this Patriot Soldier looks a little…husky.
Gravy Seals in a joint strike operation with Meal Team Six.
But honestly that’s soft body armor inserts into a plate carrier. It’s fasc fashion.
This is what happens when you’re faction orders their gear off of Temu before the tariffs take effect.
I guess they’re really not afraid of taking fire from a 5.56. What a shame.
Next they’re going to start marking houses with an X
It’ll all be OK if your papers are in order….
…and other lies the Nazis used to say
Oh, it’s no lie — but to a nazi, “in order” is pretty subjective.
