Not Timmy and Lassie’s America
The cruelty and sadism with which Trump-Miller ICEmen go about snatching and disappearing anyone browner than a palette approved by DHS Secrtary Kristi Noem is worthy of Dolores Umbridge. Trump’s deportation pogrom program against immigrants is, like his decision to inflict hunger on SNAP recipients, taking an emotional toll. As intended:
Concerned residents of an Oregon city spoke out at a council meeting earlier this week about ICE activity in their community, including a 16-year-old boy who broke down worrying that authorities may take away his immigrant parents.
“I just want to tell you guys that I’m scared for my parents to walk out their house because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work,” the boy, who was identified as Manny, told the Hillsboro City Council at a meeting held on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
“I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again if you guys don’t side with us,” he said. “And I’m scared because of it, because they fought so hard to come here and choose a life for their kids.”
This week agents snatched a documented teacher from a Chicago Spanish-language-immersion preschool (WLS):
A day care worker was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of young children on the North Side Wednesday morning, witnesses said.
Several witnesses said it happened inside the Rayito de Sol in the 2500-block of West Addison Street, in North Center and Roscoe Village area. The business remained closed Wednesday after the incident.
Federal authorities say they did not specifically target the day care and that the teacher was in the country illegally, but local officials maintain she has a work permit and a pending asylum case and that agents entered the day care without a warrant.
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CBS News Chicago reports that the teacher is being held at the Broadview Detention Center:
Parents told CBS News Chicago they want to know why agents went into the daycare in the first place. Spokespeople from the Department of Homeland Security say they didn’t.
Video captured the teacher’s arrest Wednesday morning, and other video shows pre-K teacher Diana Galeano in the back of the unmarked car federal agents sed to detain her. Parents, staff and officials said children were present when she was taken into custody.
“We had agents with guns who were walking around the facility with teachers inside, with children inside,” said Ald. Matt Martin, who represents the 47th Ward.
Martin said Galeano is at the Broadview ICE detention center and that, in detaining her, federal agents were inside the daycare building with no warrant. Martin, U.S. Rep Mike Quigley and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez all said they had seen video from inside the facility showing ICE agents indoors.
DHS claims Galeano was not arrested for being in the country illegally, but for allegedly paying smugglers to bring her children, 16 and 17, into the U.S. near El Paso.
But the goulishness with which Trump fans and its principle actors celebrate the deportation regime is anything but the idyllic, Timmy-and-Lassie America MAGA types think Trump is recreating for white-nationalist Christians.
The BBC last year described the Dilley Meme Team, makers of the AI video below, as “a dedicated, mostly pseudonymous group that produces a slew of pro-Trump videos and images, many of them crude, offensive, satirical or conspiratorial – while others are more traditional and religious-themed.” Despite the original poster’s claim to be “Servant of the Most High! Lover of God, Family, America!” and “Chaplain to Trump’s Online War Machine,” the video’s vile content is diametrically opposite the teachings of Jesus.
Naturally, Kristi Noem retweeted the video featuring brown-skinned men and women dancing their way onto deportation flights to Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration.”
Dolores Umbridge would be so proud.
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