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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

US citizen kidnapped by masked unidentified men in an unmarked vehicle in what family describes as 'kidnapping'

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

Someone tell The Guardian they need to get more aggressive with the headlines if they don't want to spend the next few years lobbing bombs at Berlin.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Authorities have not told lawyers what charges Velez faces, but an official with the Department of Homeland Security told media that she was arrested for assaulting an Ice officer.<<

Self defense against an illegal arrest - hopefully she gets a MASSIVE settlement out of this to try and teach this Republican administration a lesson.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The only ones I've seen saying that so far that any violence came from her is DHS, and last I heard they only said it to the news, not a judge. There's an argument if it even happened, that it was self defense, but we've seen them lie to the media and back out at court so many times, it may not even come to it.

Edit:just went looking. She's been released. They charged her with "obstructiing arrest". They claim she got in front and held her hand out to block agents from wrestling a man, and it hit one of them. I don't find it very believable. She decided to be a hero the second she got out of a car on the way to work. Nothing's really believable nowadays. Reality as people see it has been bent to the limit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

From the article:

While it’s not yet clear how many citizens have been affected by the administration’s attack on immigrant communities, a government report found that between 2015 and 2020, Ice erroneously deported at least 70 US citizens, arrested 674 and detained 121.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They DEPORTED 70 US citizens? Deported to where? If they are US citizens they can't be deported.

Anyone associated with deporting a US citizens should be fired first, prosecuted second, and sued third.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Some preliminary research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_the_United_States

Several of them on this list received compensation after bringing a case against the government.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

That's the issue with suspending due process for illegal immigrants.
All you have to do is say someone is an illegal immigrant and they lose all rights to defend themselves and disprove the false claim.