Watch your backs in church (and while shopping)
Here’s a lengthy report about DHS plans to make America’s holidays brighter. The unconfirmed reporting (take it advisedly) comes via local This Week in Worcester and three Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys cited anonymously (for obvious reasons):
Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25.
Three U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys, including one assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the district of Massachusetts, one to the district of Rhode Island office, and the third posted at an office in New York told This Week in Worcester they received briefings on the plan.
The attorney in the Massachusetts office said that they attend a Baptist church in Massachusetts and is a registered Republican. He said that he does not see how this plan is in line with either American values or Biblical doctrine.
The attorney in the Rhode Island office confirmed both the briefing and internal discussions about the legal issues surrounding arrests at churches over the past three months.
The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race.
The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy.
Black Friday? Meet Brown Friday. That’s right. Secretary Kristi Noem’s thugs plan to raid churches over the holidays so DHS can “take ’em out, take ’em down,” as Jeff Goldblum once said about alien aliens. They’ve already done that in Charlotte, sending “some worshippers fleeing into the woods while children sobbed inside.”
DHS is coming to town
They’re making their lists, checking them twice, This Week in Worcester continues:
A Hispanic pastor who leads a Pentecostal denomination in New England told This Week in Worcester that ICE agents visited his church several times and another visit came from an individual who identified themselves as an FBI agent. In all three conversations, agents asked questions about the names of specific congregation members, their home addresses, and the frequency they attended church services.
Does DHS think the public cannot see a pattern of subterfuge and meritless accusations here?
Both Southern Baptist pastors told This Week in Worcester that they fear scenes similar to the arrest of Rosanne Ferreira de Oliveira on Eureka Street in Worcester on May 8 unfolding inside their churches. On that day, DHS, CBP, ICE and other federal agents held de Oliveira’s children in custody to get her outside her home and to the scene, so they could conduct an arrest without a warrant.
After de Oliveira’s arrest, ICE released a statement saying she is in the country illegally and a violent criminal who attacked a pregnant woman.
The court dropped criminal charges against de Oliveira at her next court appearance. As multiple outlets later reported, de Oliveira had authorization for legal presence in the United States with a pending application for asylum. While in custody after her arrest, a judge approved de Oliveira’s application for asylum.
The federal government did not appeal that decision, despite having the right to. Instead, they released de Oliveira.
Surprise! Latinos “despise, hate Donald Trump” on immigration. Overall? Trump is down 34 points, a shift of 32 points from February.
To make your holidays brighter still in what Trump calls “the greatest economy,” Fox News now advises that you not spend anything: “Adults don’t need gifts…. Now is not the time to spend.”
(h/t FC)
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