🚨BREAKING: An ICE/Border Patrol agent approached a U.S. citizen at a gas station, in Lake Worth, Florida, demanded his ID, and when the U.S. citizen asked why? …
The agent’s said, “Because you’re an immigrant.”
Except that is not how the Constitution works.
In the video, the U.S. citizen is standing at a gas station when an agent walks up and says, “Let me see your ID.”
The man asks a completely reasonable question, “Why?”
The agent responds, “Because you’re an immigrant.”
And before the man has even been identified, the agents grab his hands and puts him in handcuffs.
People standing around immediately start questioning what is happening…asking the agents how they can arrest someone when they haven’t even identified who he is…
But the agents ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle.
The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court has held that roving Border Patrol agents need reasonable suspicion, based on specific circumstances, to stop someone and question them about immigration status. And apparent ethnicity, by itself, is not enough.
So, what was the actual legal basis for demanding this man show his ID?
Because if the answer is literally… “because you’re an immigrant,” that should piss off every American.
You should not have to prove you’re a U.S. citizen before the government decides it has the right to put you in handcuffs.
And this is just another reminder that constitutional rights don’t mean anything if federal agents can violate them, over and over again, with no accountability.
Trump to a just 10-year-old boy who was saved by a 16-year-old lifeguard.
“I probably wouldn't have jumped into the water to rescue you. You’re lucky I wasn't on duty.”
Their facial expressions don’t lie. What a messed up thing to say.
While kids starve to death because the GOP killed SNAP, and we’re told to eat a piece of broccoli, a piece of chicken, and a corn tortilla, and we can’t afford groceries but when we do buy them they’ll fucking kill us, Mike Johnson dines on giant lobsters.
US: More than 20,000 residents in Gary, Indiana, are entering their tenth day without electricity after a catastrophic 99 mph derecho flattened the local power grid.
In this predominantly Black city, where nearly a third of residents live in poverty, families are enduring dangerous summer heat without air conditioning, losing access to essential medical devices, and throwing out spoiled food and insulin.
Severe water system failures have also left many without clean running water, forcing households to rely on emergency city hubs for basic needs like hot meals and fresh water.
With streets left pitch-black and local schools completely closed, community anger is growing. Residents and local advocates are demanding to know why a vulnerable, working-class community is being left in the dark until Tuesday, 25 August, while wealthier surrounding areas had their power restored days ago.
Breaking News: Gas prices in the U.S. have hit their highest level in four years. Tuesday's jump was the biggest increase in more than a month, as negotiators deadlocked over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. https://t.co/FGkoT1kE3J
As Governor, I approached every issue with one basic question: what’s the problem we’re trying to solve?
The SAVE America Act seeks to solve a problem that barely exists - voter fraud is much rarer than being hit by lightning - and instead, disenfranchises millions.
Trump's political cronies at the Justice Department are trying to threaten and intimidate us.
Well, he's picked a fight with the wrong people.
I will always uphold my oath to the Constitution.
.@RepRobinKelly: "This morning I introduced Articles of Impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem...she needs to be held accountable for her actions...you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences."
🚨 JUST IN: In a jaw-dropping declaration, Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen announced that "If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the EU."
@ossoff It is interesting to see all the pro-life people with no answer for this. "They" want to increase the birth rate but the support ends there. Its okay to let them starve by eliminating snap benefits. Then health insurance goes as it is no longer affordable. Fatalities result.
So much to say. I have been a nurse for a long time and have never been so insulted and assaulted by the words that I would no longer hold a professional degree - to include my master's. War on Women...this is all influenced by Project 2025.