#immigrations

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

If this isn’t proof that MAGAts and Republicans are on the wrong side of history, I don’t know what is.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mary L. Trump at The Good in Us:

Over the last few months, some erstwhile supporter’s of Donald have started to notice his blatant disregard for human life, as if this disregard is new. I personally have been aware of this since the 1970s. Others who started paying attention during the 2015/2016 presidential campaign have also long been well aware of his cruelty and lack of empathy—particularly towards the more vulnerable among us. As the Trump regime ramps up its mass deportations of migrants to El Salvador's, infamous mega prisons even the likes of Joe Rogan, who helped get him elected, are starting to be alarmed. [...] What Rogan is referring to here is the fact that innocent people are mistakenly being identified as gang members and being deported without any due process whatsoever. ICE doesn’t even know for a fact whether or not these men are who ICE claims they are. Knowing the fascists behind these lawless acts are the so-called “Border Czar” Tom Homan and Secretary of Homeland Security and puppy murderer Kristi Noem, I have every reason to believe the “mistakes” are intentional. The gay hairdresser Rogan referred to is actually makeup artist, Andry José Hernández Romero, who was deported based on his having a crown tattoo. Romeros is described by those who know him as a kind, creative soul who is an active member in his church drama troupe. I have one question for Rogan: When did you start paying attention? Because if this is the first inkling you have of what Donald Trump and the sycophants and fascist with whom he surrounds himself are capable of, you clearly have not been paying attention. [...] Here's an incomplete list of some of the men who have been wrongfully detained and illegally transported to the notorious CECOT mega-prison:

Franco Tiapa, 26, from Venezuela who was simply deported for having the wrong kind of tattoo.

Daniel Camargo, a 20 year old asylum seeker deported for a tattoo of his daughter’s name and praying hands.

Neri Borges, a Dallas man, who was arrested and deported because of an autism awareness tattoo he got in honor of his brother.

Luis Carlos José Marcano Silva, a 26-year-old barber who was detained at an immigration hearing in Miami last month because he has a tattoo of Jesus of Nazareth and one of his daughters name.

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a former professional footballer who was deported based on a tattoo of a soccer ball with a crown on top of it, in honor of his favorite soccer team, Real Madrid.

Francisco Casique, who was deported for having tattoos that say “Live in the Moment” and “Family” in Spanish.

Casique’s family has published evidence that he has no criminal background whatsoever. One has to wonder if it will matter. The Trump regime has bestowed upon itself the authority to deport Venezuelan migrants they claim are part of Tren de Aragua, a violent gang from that country, based primarily on their tattoos or the kinds of clothes they wear.

[...] Donald and his regime claim people chose to put him in office specifically for them to be as cruel as humanly possible to people with brown skin—especially if they're undocumented workers who have allegedly committed crimes. The idea that they would take care specifically to target such people was unbelievable from the outset—especially given the Trump regime’s hostility to all marginalized communities and its clear intention to do away with Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment (Section three has already been rendered inoperative). So many of the men detained by ICE and sent to El Salvador have no criminal records. ICE agents targeted them simply because they had “suspicious” tattoos and brown skin. It is an exercise in petty power designed to elevate the worst among us. We are throwing the keys over to the brown shirts.

Even Joe Rogan is calling the CECOT situation in which people were wrongly sent there an abomination.

[auzlon]

los papels

I was always aware we were different but only different from the people on TV. On TV the people were blue eyed and blonde they spoke English in the house, their houses were two stories and the mom would garden. Our home was not different to the people in our lives; they spoke Spanish, all had the same caramel tinted skin, all had moles, deep lines on there faces. They were like us and my young child mind considered the entire world to be in all forms similar.

but some of the teachers looked like the people on the TV or some of the girls had parents who looked like those people. Just as I have grown to realize people look as my family and categorize them as those people we did the same.

Those people had been living in the USA for so many generations they could not trace back what country they came from. Because everyone came from another country except those other people. We knew and know it.

My parents never looked at me and claimed to be American. I had naively gone around my cousins block in Tijuana telling everyone I was from America all starring back at me with a strange expression. Until she pulled me aside to tell me. We live in America, even if we were in Tijuana, Mexico. Yes, my father laughed we live in America, Mexico and Canada are all in America. This entire piece of rock that stretches from north to south is all America.

All theses people are American. I would be American even if my parents had stayed in Mexico.

parte una - essay series

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Life Hack 😁😁😁

[the-flesh-vessels-ghost]

Okay okay hear me out: a possible ethical use of AI would be using chatgpt to generate a false report. Copy and paste ad nauseum and they're theoretically fucked!

(X) (X) (X)

[shittygaypornmagazine]

dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.

[kitcactusart]

Feel free to print and distribute this image

[vivid-bun]

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

[svamppp]

In Seattle currently (I imagine other places as well but I don't have information on those situations) along with official ICE officers, there are fake ICE vehicles and people dressed as ICE officers. People don't know why they're doing this but the general consensus is they are trying to create fear and panic in majority BIPOC communities.

Anybody can buy decals and uniforms to appear like an officer of any kind. Your rights as they apply to officers apply to civilians to. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT.

ICE SPOTTED IN THESE LOCATIONS JAN 28 2025

*THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM PADET.COM* ICE HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN THESE CITIES TODAY

BROOKLYN NEW YORK

SEATTLE WASHINGTON

HOUSTON TEXAS

RALPHS CALIFORNIA

STAMFORD CONNECTICUT

LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY

NEW YORK NEW YORK

BAY POINT CALIFORNIA

PITTSBURG CALIFORNIA

WATERBURY CONNECTICUT

DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA

DALLAS TEXAS

ONEIDA COUNTY NEW YORK

CERRITOS CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

CLAYTON NEW JERSEY

LOVELAND COLORADO

HOFFMANS ESTATE ILLINOIS

MANASSAS VIRGINIA

SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA

GRAND JUNCTION COLORADO

BILOXI MISSISSIPPI

FLORENCE KENTUCKY

JANESVILLE WISCONSIN

MCKINNEY TEXAS

TARRYTOWN NEW YORK

NEWARK NEBRASKA

STONEHAM MASSACHUETTS

HACKENSACK NEW JESERY

PORT CHESTER NEW YORK

OXNARD CALIFORNIA

FORT VALLEY GEORGIA

ATLANTA GEORGIA

BOSTON MASSACHUETTS

SLEEPY HOLLOW NEW YORK

YAKIMA WASHINGTON

ROGERS ARKANAS

SPARTANBURG SOUTH CAROLINA

OSSINING NEW YORK

NEW CANEY TEXAS

BEAVERTON OREGON

ROOSEVELT NEW YORK

TOPPENISH WASHINGTON

AUSTIN TEXAS

PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA

CHICAGO ILLINOIS

LEXINGTON KENTUCKY

CAMDEN KENTUCKY

WEST VIRGINIA (NO SPECIFIC TOWN WAS LISTED)

PHOENIX ARIZONA

CLEVELAND TENNESSE

THESE LOCATIONS WERE WRITTEN IN THE TIME I HAVE BEFORE I GET ON THE BUS, BUT THEY WERE TAKEN FROM THIS WEBSITE

THIS WEBSITE CAN BE USED AS A MAP SORTA, IT IS USED TO REPORT ICE SIGHTINGS

[maichan808]

Feb 4, 2025 - Thousands of Los Angeles high school students walked out of class and marched on City Hall in the third straight day of Anti-ICE protests. (Source)

PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING. THEY ARE JUST NOT BEING COVERED OUTSIDE OF LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS. DO NOT RELY ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

There was a huge Trans-rights demonstration last night in New York outside of NYU Langone hospital in protest of their decision to halt gender-affirming care under Trump's order. (Source)

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

ICE detained and deported two German Women for not booking a hotel when they went to Hawaii for vacation….

If you are not from America, just don’t enter the country. I’m saying this for your safety and so we can crash the economy further. Tourism is America’s biggest income, if you crash that shit by just doing nothing, you’ll help us more than anything.

This will suck for my town in particular considering that we have a lot of historic buildings and even haunted buildings, but considering what is going on with this country, just don’t come. Your safety matters more than my country’s economy.

For those of you who bilingual or even trilingual, please translate this message and the story in the video.

Republicans wanted to burn the country to the ground, let’s show them that it hurts them, far more than it hurts anyone else.

[liberalsarecool]

You unlit candle.

[lilhawkeye3]

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic. (Edit: and please look up his history of civil rights activism, he was on the FBI watchlist and even a pallbearer at MLKJr’s funeral.)

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes (read: Drake harassed the hell out of her). *Edit: she was also fined at the 2012 Olympics for crip walking in celebration at Wimbledon.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[rorygilmre]

via NYPost: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to launch a “big f–king operation” across sanctuary cities — including Chicago and New York — immediately after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources told The Post.

Starting Jan. 21, multi-day “ground operations” will be launched across cities that have served as safe havens for migrants because the local authorities do not cooperate with the federal government when it comes to immigration issues, sources said.

[theconcealedweapon]