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gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate

mississippifreepress.orgICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship HearingICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

obviously that doesn't mean he should get treated better and surely non-white folks are getting it worse on average. but it shows you these people don't even believe in their white nationalist bullshit when it conflicts with their desire to stomp on helpless innocents

No, not because of doge. DHS has been spending like drunken sailors, they’ve never put so much money or personnel into enforcement actions like this. The ICE arrest quotas are just straight up psychotic

all of these cautionary tales about people going to their appointments and trying to follow the rules and jump through the hoops, they may not have the ability to chase down everyone who is avoiding them

Well, a 100+ years ago mining companies in Minnesota tried to block Finns from certain benefits and rights and from obtaining citizenship or naturalizing, arguing that they were mongolian and subject to the restrictions in the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Hands tied? No! Cowardice on display! Following orders won’t save their arses when the time comes, and I must live long enough to see that day!! Their kids will know them for the cowardly slime they are. No redemption for domestic terrorists!

They've gone after people with legal status more than undocumented afaict bc of that. Just not what I would've guessed. They do seem to be avoiding workplace/farm raids as well.

Might also be strategic? By deporting the more law-abiding immigrants first, it both helps them goose their numbers, & means the remaining immigrants are more likely to be criminals, which could help turn public sentiment against them. Normal ppl w normal goals think doing it this way is crazy.

And it is! But that's bc normal ppl want immigration, & only want to get rid of criminals. But if you're a xenophobic, racist, fascist who wants to get rid of *all* immigrants, it might actually make sense to do things this way!

Also suggests there are a lot of crossed wires and competing agendas. Would not surprise me to see this guy quickly released. Kind of how some of the most egregious Russian plots are policy entrepreneurs operating without oversight, just hoping to come up with something that impresses Putin.

He’s actually been held in an ICE facility in Louisiana for four weeks now. He and his wife are big Trump supporters though, his wife voted for this and I have zero sympathy.

I do feel bad for those kids: raised by nutcases, and now they're suddenly down a parent. They likely have no understanding of what's going on and are probably very scared. Unlike the parents, they didn't ask for this, but they're the ones who get to be burdened with lifelong trauma.