The Unapologetic Mexican reminds us that if you’re brown, you already live in fear of the “American Gestapo.”
Armed squads bursting into homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons, terrorizing families and taking away anyone who lacks identity papers, even if they have raided the wrong house. It may sound like Baghdad, but it is the suburbs of New York City …
… Peggy De La Rosa-Delgado, an American citizen, said her Huntington Station home was raided by mistake last Thursday at 5:30 a.m. It was the second predawn raid looking for the same man at the same wrong address. Her husband and three teenage sons, legal residents, were terrified, she said.
ICE officials callously shrug off such mistakes as collateral damage, but advocates for immigrants have filed a class-action lawsuit asserting that recent raids in the New York City area were unreasonable searches conducted by agents who did not show warrants and misidentified themselves as police officers.
From the same terrorist operation in that Long Island neighborhood, this:
Nope. No profiling there…
It is called, energizing the (Republican) base. We too readily forget the hate and divisiveness that Republican politics is founded on, at least since Reagan, or perhaps Nixon, with his law and order meme. Or maybe we didn’t forget, but need to be reminded.
Then it was, I’ll get them niggers, just vote for me. Today it is, I’ll get them spiks, just vote for me.
Nez is one blogger that certainly deserves much more attention. Lotsa good writing there, good coverage of the issues for a unique pov.
This isn’t a critique of your comment at all, but what’s telling and disturbing is that Nez’s point of view has to be considered unique to begin with. He is of the population that is being terrorized, yet, it’s the white, predominantly rightwing and male perspective that is considered as the conventional view.
These raids were a big story here this past week. Our local paper, The Suffolk Times, covered the impact of the raids on the Latino community here, and the reaction of the larger community, the involvement of the local Police in assisting Homeland Security and Immigration, and the efforts of local relief organizations, churches, and the democratic mayor of Greenport to try and alleviate the fears of the immigrant community, though, the tactics used, are terroristic in my opinion and there’s little anyone can do to allay their fears.
It’s claimed that they (the police) were seeking MS13 gang members in these raids. Out here though, only one supposed gang member was arrested, while a dozen regular working people were arrested for immigration reasons. Now, those working people are missing within the system and wives and children of the arrested are freaking out, naturally:
And in keeping with our new national Gestapo culture, the police chief had this to say about whether local Latinos should live in fear or not of police kicking in their doors in the middle of the night and terrorizing whole families and traumatizing their children:
He’s actually expressing the local police culture here quite well. They’re pretty upfront, and almost proud about their stormtrooper attitude towards immigrants and the entire population here.