CCMorality

Never use legality as a guide to morality

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain 5 year old girl for past 10 days—she's U.S. citizen and her family wants her back.

Family want to make custody arrangements so she can stay with them while mother is detained—but they can't find her.

Mother called 911 about a possible break in—they called ICE instead and turned her in for a possible outstanding administrative warrant.

Austin Police Department, per Texas law, is required to cooperate with ICE—even if they do not have direct knowledge of an individual's immigration status.

Why have no local English language television news stations covered this story?

Link to Univision Austin Channel 62 in thread. 👇

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

In the video, agents immediately escalate to physical force. A man stands with his hands up, repeatedly saying, “I’m not doing anything,” while agents shove him, force him against his car, and begin an illegal search.

No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.

An agent falsely claims, “That’s assault,” while they are actively assaulting a U.S. citizen who is complying and not resisting.

Moments later, the agent admits the truth, saying, “And all we needed was your ID,” openly acknowledging this was an unlawful detention based solely on a refusal to produce identification.

That is not legal.

The short agent then threatens, “Don’t move or you will be fucking tased.”

The man calmly responds, “I’m not moving.”

The short agent escalates again, snarling, “You’re a fucking bitch, and you’re going to learn the hard way.”

That is a direct threat of violence against a U.S. citizen whose hands are already behind his back.

They dig through his pockets anyway, repeating, “I just asked you for an ID,” as if that excuses violating the Fourth Amendment.

Then, in a moment that exposes the entire operation, the short agent announces, “He has a gun on him! Wouldn’t you look at that.”

As if Minnesota is not a conceal-carry state.

The man immediately responds, “A fully registered firearm. Because I’m a U.S. citizen.”

The short agent casually tosses the firearm onto the car after removing the magazine, demonstrating reckless handling of a legally owned weapon.

By this point, they have removed his wallet, yet, still do not check his ID, and still continue the arrest.

The man states the obvious, “Unlawful arrest.”

The short agent replies, “We’ll see about that.”

When asked what crime he committed, the short agent deflects, saying, “We’re going to talk about that when we get in the car,” knowing full well he is on camera and cannot articulate a lawful reason.

Only then do agents begin changing their story, claiming the man “reached for something.”

The man immediately corrects them, he reached for his whistle.

ICE agents already admitted the detention was because he refused to show ID. They did not know he was carrying a firearm until after the illegal search. Now they are retroactively inventing justification.

The video contradicts every word they say.

This wasn’t law enforcement. This was intimidation, retaliation, and a fishing expedition carried out by armed agents.

If not carry papers, as a U.S. citizen, gets you assaulted and arrested, then this isn’t law enforcement. It’s a police state.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

There appears to be a surge in reports of citizens being detained at airports and asked to give officers access to their phones and social media accounts under President Donald Trump’s second administration, stoking fears among travelers.
https://t.co/QTp5s242fF

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Unbelievable. AOC EXPOSES the Trump Administration for ending legal status in the US and MAKING people undocumented - then having the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented. This is evil.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

[Christopher David @Tazerface16]

Trump cutting 80,000 employees from the Veterans Administration in the same week he's spending $100 million on a military parade for himself on his birthday.

He's a draft dodging piece of shit who thinks we're suckers and losers.

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

This is why our mainstream media covers for Trump.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🚨 Peter Thiel confronted and questioned in public about the police state he’s setting up with the Trump administration… and more.

Nice get @YungPutin1.

https://t.co/BlKP8roTG7

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Democratic Senators who voted to confirm Noem:

Sen. John Fetterman
Sen. Maggie Hassan
Sen. Tim Kaine
Sen. Andy Kim
Sen. Gary Peters
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Sen. Elissa Slotkin

Stop voting in favor of anything this fascist regime puts forward!!!

[Julia E. Ainsley @JuliaEAinsley]

A memo obtained by @NBCNews shows DOJ instructing immigration judges (who they oversee) to dismiss cases from the bench without allowing time to appeal in order to allow ICE to make courtroom arrests. https://t.co/9bIrdkiXxK

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

DO NOT VISIT AMERICA.

IT IS NOT SAFE HERE FOR YOU OR YOUR FAMILY.

IT'S NOT EVEN SAFE FOR AMERICANS AND OUR FAMILIES.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU DIDN'T HEAR ON CNN AND MSNBC THAT JOE BIDEN DEPORTED 3X MORE PEOPLE THAN DONALD TRUMP.

BECAUSE YOU HEARD ON FOX NEWS EVERY HOUR OF EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT JOE BIDEN WAS WEAK ON IMMIGRATION.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The Department of Homeland Security announces ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents will be stationed at Hard Rock Stadium as part of the FIFA Club World Cup's security efforts, sparking concerns from non-citizen fans. https://t.co/NVkrlUE9NT

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Never limit your sense of morality to America's legal system.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW! Trump and Hegseth ordered the military to screen attendees for his Fort Bragg rally to exclude any soldier who might disagree with Trump's politics, as well as anyone who was overweight — because Hegseth/Trump didn't want them seen in the crowd by the cameras.

Outrageous!

[John P. Flannery @JonFlan]

ICE GOES TO THE FIELDS AT 6 AM - to seize workers and take them away - more and more examples of the fascist I brown shirts - starting w/ farm workers -https://t.co/nWZ8C9KzXp

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

While it’s not new or illegal for Customs to detain and question US citizens when they re-enter the country, there appears to be a surge in reports of citizens being detained at airports and asked to give access to their phones and social media accounts. https://t.co/sd1qodUckb

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

ICE is failing to meet its 3,000 Deportations a Day goal because there are not enough criminal migrants at large. So-to satisfy their quota-ICE will round up tax-paying, law-abiding, long-time residents. They are our neighbors, and deserve better than this preemptory deportation.

[Ana Ceballos @anaceballos_]

NEW: Florida child welfare agency turned over a migrant teenage boy in foster care to ICE, a move that appears to violate a 30-year-old state rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status

https://t.co/CEliDNpD07 w/ @MarbinMiller @syraob

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Reed: "You signed a contract with a company to reconfigure the [Qatari jet]. What is the price of that contract?”

Hegseth: “That cannot be revealed.”

Reed: “This is the Appropriations Committee of the United States Senate. We appropriate the money that you will spend.”