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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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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 139 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously fucked up. Sane people saw this coming and tried to stop it. Now there's straight up Nazi shit happening in America.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, they are still in "deny genocide is happening" mode.

Although a handful of them have taken a "America deserves genocide" tack instead.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Azal@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck the NRA. They're totally against all gun regulation unless it's checks notes regulating minorities having guns.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I feel like they are pushing everyone to the breaking point. How long until they knock on the wrong door and get shot?

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 114 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like a Nazi looking for Jews.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Funny thing is this could be done way more cheaply and humanely.

Have an amnesty. If you're in the country illegally, turn yourself in. You get $250 cash and a free ticket to wherever you came from.

Promise that'll cost less than arresting everyone and jailing them.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But you see, being an asshole and dehumanizing+hurting people with immunity is the whole point.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not about money and humanity though.

It's about punishing "other" people.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That's not going to work. You're asking them to abandon their homes, family, friend networks, and be banned from ever returning.

Conservatives characterize immigrants as poor people who haven't been here long and are a burden on our systems. The truth is almost exactly the opposite. The vast majority of the 11 million people here illegally have been here for years, if not decades. They are productive, they pay taxes, and commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens.

The answer is to stop worrying about "economic" migrants. Deport immigrants with DUIs and violent or financial felony convictions. Beef up the department of labor and go after companies paying people less than minimum wage. Then it's not a matter of jobs or services or crime. The only thing left is xenophobia.

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[–] IronJess@lemmy.today 48 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tell them to suck your dick and get a warrant, that is what I would do. Unconstitutional douchebags need to learn the constitution one insult at time.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And then they shoot you in the head and it's fine because this is Trump's America.

[–] Padit@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop resisting! Oh my god, officer down, officer down! Get backup!

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[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also make sure to check their warrants when they have them, they often only get an administrative warrant which doesn't mean dick

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[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 38 points 1 week ago

This is awful. Similar to the deportation of Jews in the 1940's in the Third Reich.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It helps if you google (specifically Google) things immigrants might google. It hides hotspots on the map for search terms.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] tastysaganaki@reddthat.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Hmmmm those are paper thin plate carriers. Makes you think.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you telling me these tacticool cops aren’t actually operators?

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now that I take a closer look, this Patriot Soldier looks a little...husky.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (22 children)

2017 Democrats: "Trump's expansion of the ICE is creating a personal police force to do his bidding."

2025 Democrats: "The fuck you want me to do about it? I already warned you this would happen."

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[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

That's not fascist at all.

Aufmachen!

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Next they're going to start marking houses with an X

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’ll all be OK if your papers are in order….

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...and other lies the Nazis used to say

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Oh, it’s no lie — but to a nazi, “in order” is pretty subjective.

[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can we make this expensive for them?

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Recreate that party scene from home alone 1, but with Mexican music.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Codandchips@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When they kick at your front door How you gonna come?

With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun

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