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U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by ICE outside Michigan courthouse speaks out

www.mlive.com U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by ICE outside Michigan courthouse speaks out

Immigrant rights advocates are concerned what happened outside a Michigan courthouse may be part of a larger problem.

In 50 years, history will speak about ICE the way we speak about the SS now.

https://archive.ph/tLGoe

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Many of us have been comparing ICE and the SS since it's inception alongside the Department of Homeland Security post-9/11.

9/11 ended up being way more successful than Osama Bin Laden could ever have imagined. It just took an extra 25 years for the Republican party to destroy the country from within like he wanted.
- Department of Homeland Security
  
  This is something that's always chilled me since they created it. To me, "Homeland" always had that echo of Nazi Germany's "Fatherland".
  
  Fatherland is still used in many countries/languages, hell even polish uses "Ojczyzna".
  
  In the same creepy category, the Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War until 1947. Wouldn't be surprised if they switched back soon.
  
  "Department of Homeland Security" is almost as oxymoronic as "Military Intelligence" or "Department of Justice"
They're deporting non-citizens without due process, which means that anyone can be deported. All they have to do is claim they thought someone wasn't a citizen, at which point there's no due process for you to prove that you are.
- What surprises me most about this encounter is that ICE actually backed off when they saw the guy's proof of citizenship. It means they actually feared punishment for getting it wrong.
  
  And I will remind everyone who has any melanin at all to get a Passport Card. That's what this guy likely had, and it was the best $30 he ever spent. Get yours now, before they get DOGEd.
  
  For now. I fully expect them to start saying "this is fake" and confiscating it and arresting you, regardless of its actual validity.
  
  Things may already be getting iffy at the state department. My wife and I both put in passport renewal requests on the same day in February. She got her new passport in the mail about 2 weeks later. Mine took another 6 weeks.
Innocent until proven brown
- I think the opposite is more accurate.
  
  So, "Guilty until proven white"?
  
  i hate myself for upvoting you
- Brown until proven white and rich.
  
  And even then Im white but Im Mexican born. My brother and I are currently figuring out what we do if we get deported as I lived in Mexico for a few months before being naturalized in the USA.
Obviously this is incredibly racist. They are just going after non whites, predominantly Latino and Asian, because they are not white. It's 100% racism.
- They are deporting and detaining Europeans too. It’s racism and non-race based xenophobia all at the same time.
  
  So would it be a good idea or bad idea to speak in some kind of European accent whenever one is dealing with these people, if one is trying to emigrate anyway?
"Mistakenly"
...he's a traitor...take him in...when the records disappear...just a small sin....ffs
At this point, we should be saying "alleged US citizen" and drop the "mistakenly."

No American should consider themselves as citizens anymore. With the ignoring of court orders and the disregard for due process, nobody is safe.

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