Tina Vasquez

US’s Largest Nurses’ Union Demands Abolition of ICE After Alex Pretti Killing The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.

National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the U.S. has demanded the abolition of ICE after a federal agent shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, joining a rapidly growing chorus calling for Congress to do away with the rogue agency.

You’re an embarrassment to your city.

I am old, and I always remember.

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'Ice Barbie' Kristi Noem: The Face of Our Slide Into Fascism Kristi Noem’s appearance is designed for reality TV and her aesthetic reflects the brutality of the Trump administration.

Resharing my @theflytrapmedia.com reporting about evil ghoul Kristie Noem, just for funsies.

Minnesota workers take a stand 50,000 people participated in Minneapolis’ citywide shutdown, co-organized by a broad coalition of labor unions and faith leaders

Freelancers continue to provide some of the best, most innovative coverage of communities' fight against the Trump administration's deportation forces. Today, for @prismreports.org, freelancer Ankur Singh wrote about the role workers played organizing Minneapolis' citywide shutdown.

It’s delicious to do both!

SAVOR THE MOMENT

I will always find it moving that people care enough to take to the streets.

I just want to issue the gentle reminder that there are dozens of other bloodthirsty, desperate, bootlicking Noem-and Bovino-like-ghouls clambering to take their places. (But I also totally understand wanting to savor the moment.)

ICE Unloads Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!

“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

I am ashamed that I didn’t previously recognize the power of Minneapolis.

A friend and I talked today about how neither of us had ever been to a protest—as attendees or reporters—that didn’t make us cry. These are the kinds of moments that bolster you through the hell of our country’s making.

They never really explain how they arrive at these random ass numbers.

ICE Officers Face an 8,000% Increase in Death Threats Against Them and Their Families | Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a threatening voicemail left for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota on January 24. Our law enforcement officers are no...

Just days after federal agents killed yet another person during violent and chaotic immigration raids, DHS issues a press release alleging that ICE agents are facing an 8,000% increase in death threats.

Minnesota workers take a stand 50,000 people participated in Minneapolis’ citywide shutdown, co-organized by a broad coalition of labor unions and faith leaders

Freelancers continue to provide some of the best, most innovative coverage of communities' fight against the Trump administration's deportation forces. Today, for @prismreports.org, freelancer Ankur Singh wrote about the role workers played organizing Minneapolis' citywide shutdown.

1000000% times this. The deportation and ICE machines don’t get built without democratic presidents

Ah, yes. The man who signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law, and the deporter-in-chief. Thank you for your insights.

The fascism of it all really makes it hard to sleep.

I've never seen doublespeak deployed as regularly, or as transparently, as it is under the Trump administration's DHS.

Tonight I am thinking of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, Alex Pretti, and so many others whose lives were cut short by Border Patrol.

This is pure violent escalation from ICE from step 1: They attack three observers who're directing traffic--in effect, making ICE's job *easier.* Each step victim tries to de-escalate, each step they immediately escalate. They murder him for *not* fighting. They murder him because they can.

La migra, la policía, la misma porquería

My head is spinning. How long has the right screamed about their right to bear arms? And now masked federal thugs can execute someone in broad daylight for being a gun owner?

I know this horrific event is still unfolding, but it seems that federal agents beat a man who was a lawful gun owner, took his gun, and then shot him multiple times after disarming him?

In moments like this, as useless as it is, I can’t stop thinking about how it never had to be like this. But this is what so many people in the U.S. chose.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide — The Washington Post The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.

“Santos Jesus Flores, said in a phone interview with The Post last week that he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, ‘No puedo respirar’— Spanish for ‘I can’t breathe.’”

THIS IS VERY TRUE