Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white.

Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered

Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter

Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car

Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car

And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect

racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

i grew up in a family of left leaning hippies (thank god) but i can't stop thinking about the one holiday dinner party where my teenage cousin said something about immigrant hotels and needing to stop the boats and there was like. a pause at the table until our grandpa, a very mild mannered man, just went "now where the fuck did you hear that?" Incredible aura. ive never heard that man swear before or since but man did he pick a perfect time for it.

I was at an ex's holiday gathering when one of his siblings said something about "all of the immigrants ruining the kids' schools" and their dad, the Sicilian patriarch of the family said "Like the immigrant you're planning on inheriting money from?" and I have never giddily sat through a more awkward silence.

Good ol' Doonesbury!

For anyone else who had to look at the notes to get what this was satirizing: All of the "missing" workers are for positions typically filled by immigrants.

She couldn't find anyone because they were all either in hiding or locked up by ICE.

now that ICE is going to be the most rapidly expanding large hiring force in the united states how many people do you think are going to justify working for them and complain about how nobody respects them

• im only working as a contractor!
• someone has to maintain the targeting software and do the catering and the HR, its not like im actually disappearing people i just make it easier to disappear people.
• someone else worse would do it anyway! no, i haven't whistle-blown or anything but i could you know? shouldn't someone know? we could never reform it if someone wasn't on the inside.
• a lot of military veterans are unfit for service anywhere but kidnapping brown people, we can't alienate them!
• its the only job that has health insurance in my area! do you want me to die? im marginalised!!! im gay trans disabled brown etc.

This may seem like a very “well duh” post but i do think it’s important to be clear that when trump claims he intends to “deport” U.S. citizens that that is definitionally not deportation. Deportation specifically refers to the civil process of removal a foreign noncitizen to the country where they hold citizenship. Deportation is also, in most cases, a legal punishment in itself and will not result in the deportee being jailed upon arrival to their country of citizenship. Removing US citizens from the US and placing them in jails in countries that they have no citizenship claim to is commonly referred to as “disappearing,” “kidnapping,” or “trafficking” and discussions around trump’s desire to remove US citizens from the country should refer to it as such

#worth noting that the renditioning of non citizens is also kidnapping and human trafficking#the us government is sending people to countries they have no connection to#that is also not deportation

It’s real.

You may have heard that Trump's newly passed, stupidly named bill has injected tens of billions into ICE's future budget, but did you also hear about the provision where now Donald Trump's America is going to charge immigrants refugees a fee for the right to file for asylum?

For the first time, the United States would charge people to apply for asylum — with the fee set at an unwaivable $1,000 minimum. This alone would effectively eliminate asylum as an option for unaccompanied children and asylum seekers held in detention who have no money or access to work opportunities. But even asylum applicants outside of detention would struggle to pay these fees, as the bill would mandate that asylum applicants applying for work permits must pay $550 every 6 months to get and keep a work permit, as well as an additional $100 fee every year the application remains pending. 

Under this new system, an asylum applicant who had to wait five years to get a decision in our heavily backlogged asylum system would have to pay as much as $7,000 in fees to get a decision; $1,000 for the application, $550 every six months for a work permit, and $500 for the five years the application was pending.

Mention this the next time some relative talks about how they have no problem with immigrants coming in "the right way." The Republicans are hostile to immigrants period. They are closing paths to citizenship, they are revoking special protective statuses of hundreds of thousands of people who legally had permission to be here. They are rounding people up at the immigration hearings they are legally required to attend, they are arresting priests and the spouses of active US military service members. They're selling merch for their new interment camps and are laughing about feeding the entirety of the United State's Latino population to alligators...whether they're citizens or not.

Unless they have $5 million dollars to spend bribing purchasing one of Trump's "gold" visas, of course.

Nice people make the best Nazis. Be mean, be tough, have a fascist tooth/skull collection.