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"On Tuesday, the pastor [Ara Torosian of Cornerstone West Los Angeles church] recorded on his phone as masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested two of his church members on a Los Angeles sidewalk. The Iranian husband and wife had pending asylum cases, according to Torosian. They fled Iran for fear of persecution for being Christians and had been part of his congregation for about a year."

~ Andy Olson

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants
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https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-arrests-church-leaders-christians-fleeing-persecution/

"In short, nobody knows what is going on out there in the Everglades. ...

Even with as little as we are being told, we know what is going on. They have built an American concentration camp in Florida. It is evidence of fascism, and it must stop."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #fascism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-official-our-country-now-has

IMM raids continue across S CA, #ICE & LE agents are becoming more violent. A video of a man bleeding during what appeared to be a raid in La Puente.

🚨"One of those agents was seen on video slamming the man's head on the ground."

"Yo, what the f--- are you doing breaking his window, dog?" Torres yelled at an agent. "You can't break his window."

"Yo, hey,💔he's bleeding! He's f------ bleeding from his head, look! They didn't care at all."
#Immigrants #PoliceState #USPol https://abc7.com/post/video-shows-la-puente-man-bleeding-being-detained-during-apparent-raid-federal-agents/16864382/?linkId=835313251

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Free Press, commenting wryly on, well, who we Americans (many of us) have chosen to be at this point in history — what we've chosen to be remembered for.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #BirthrightCitizenship #MaskedThugs

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/28/2330522/-Cartoon-Papers-please

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"Far from public view, the toll of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is unfolding in overcrowded detention facilities across the country.

Some immigrants have gone a week or more without showers. Others sleep pressed tightly together on bare floors. Medications for diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic health problems are often going unprovided."

~ Miriam Jordan and Jazmine Ulloa

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/immigrant-detention-conditions.html

"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."

~ Lisa Needham

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #corruption #fascism #immigrants
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-scotus-birthright-citizenship-ruling

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.

These are their stories.
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #CECOT #Immigration #Immigrants #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Trump #Deportation #ICE

#MafiaState

#Trump said Tuesday he would arrest #ZohranMamdani if the #NYC Democratic mayoral nominee doesn't allow federal #immigration officials to arrest undocumented #immigrants in the city.

#law
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/trump-mamdani-arrest-ice-immigration

At the end of this historic week — a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich, healthcare and food support ripped from millions — I'm wondering what bible texts U.S. churches will read and preach about this Sunday?

So many churches, so many texts, so many Christians eager to hear the words of Jesus and other scriptures preached — addressing us in the world in which we live today, of course.

#Trump #Republicans #cruelty #EconomicElites #immigrants #bible #healthcare #food
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"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.

Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

Team IMMDEF has spent all AM desperately searching for Juli, a mom of 3 US citizens who’s lived in LA for 21 yrs. 3 nights ago Juli was on her way to work when💔she was FORCIBLY TAKEN AT GUNPOINT by men who in a short call to family she described as bounty hunters.

Juli called family from blocked# last night & said she was initially taken with others from LA by bounty hunters to #CBP near San Ysidro where officers🚨demanded they sign papers to be😭deported…”
#Deportations #Immigrants #USPol

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After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.

“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-immigrant-cecot-release-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Immigrants #Deportation #ICE

"Anyone who is perceived as Latino or African, wherever they are at a Home Depot, at a court hearing, out gardening, picking up their kids or at a restaurant in suburban Johnson County can be set upon by armed thugs, armed gunmen in masks, dragged into a van and disappeared."

~ Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #kidnapping #MaskedThugs #fascism
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https://fox4kc.com/news/ice-raids-reported-at-lenexa-kck-mexican-restaurants-wednesday/