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tavernier

(14,443 posts)
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:19 PM Nov 2025

The gestapo came to the Keys today

I just heard from my friend who said that her yard maintenance man and his family have been taken today. She said he is legal, has all his paper work and has been working on his citizenship. Obviously that didn’t matter. She has known him for years and is distraught. She said she would do what she could to vouch for him, but doesn’t even know who to contact.

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BeerBarrelPolka

(2,173 posts)
1. "Has been taken"
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:23 PM
Nov 2025

This is just incredible in this country when you put it that way. MAGA and Trump are worse than the KKK

IcyPeas

(25,474 posts)
2. They said they're going after criminal aliens, drug traffickers, rapists and murderers...
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:33 PM
Nov 2025

Not yard maintenance workers, not gardeners, not restaurant workers, not people showing up at actual immigration courts.

Fuck ICE
Fuck Donald trump
Fuck Tom Homan
Fuck Kristi noem



PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
9. Of course, they lied
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 08:22 PM
Nov 2025

They never cared about criminals and drug smugglers. It was just an excuse to amass an aggressive private military to intimidate and terrorize American citizens. Trump's own brownshirts.

sop

(18,605 posts)
3. It's not about immigration status, it's about ethnicity and skin color. Legal, or not, if you're hispanic, you're gone.
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:33 PM
Nov 2025

Trueblue Texan

(4,461 posts)
10. I have a friend who is Hispanic, avid TSF supporter...
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 08:56 PM
Nov 2025

I've kept my distance from him since TSF began campaigning in 2023...This is a person I really care about who knows I am a "liberal" and has declared me "a good person" despite being a liberal. He is also a cop who has declared after school shootings that he believes in the Constitution...I wonder how he would justify what the administration is doing now and how he would continue to justify it if he were to be abducted by ICE while working in his yard on his day off. This is a person I really do care about, but a part of me wishes he could experience what so many other innocents are experiencing. I want my friend back, but I want my country back more.

GopherGal

(2,905 posts)
4. Fuckin' tell-tale passive voice...
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:34 PM
Nov 2025

always crops up when someone is doing something they know they don't have the ovaries to take ownership of

GopherGal

(2,905 posts)
14. Referring to "has been taken"
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 10:19 PM
Nov 2025

when you were the one who took it is pretty disingenuous.

Or, in the third person, using the passive voice to avoid naming the subject of the sentence is a pretty weaselly way to avoid naming the culprit.

"Sally was kidnapped" is a weak thing to say when the reality is "Dick kidnapped Sally" and we're too gutless to say so because Dick's political appointees might pull our broadcasting license.

Jim__

(15,222 posts)
5. The big question for us is how do we stop people from being taken. We really need to work on that.
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 06:34 PM
Nov 2025

FloridaBlues

(4,668 posts)
7. Can a class action suit against DHS/ Border agents happen?
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 07:35 PM
Nov 2025

It seems only the law can stop this abuse. The elections are a long way off. Can’t count on that.

FakeNoose

(41,622 posts)
11. I think it has to go state-by-state, and local pressure is best
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 09:00 PM
Nov 2025

Obviously, a Democratic Governor like JB Pritzker or Gavin Newsom is going to be more involved than a Repuke like Ron DeSantis. But the biggest point is to get a lot of angry phone calls into the governmental offices. Calling your state and local representatives, writing letters to the editors of your local newspapers. It all counts to get people mad and ready to do something about it.

Incumbent Repukes have to run for re-election too - other than DeSantis - so they are going to care that people are angry and blaming them. Rallies like the "No Kings" rally last month REALLY make a difference. Those events got news coverage and social media was all over it too. So getting involved locally and meeting up with like-minded people will lead to changes.

But nothing happens overnight. That's the problem.

Blue Owl

(59,086 posts)
6. We NEED the BLUE TSUNAMI to wash away the plague of ICE and the rest of tRump's abominations
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 07:25 PM
Nov 2025

tavernier

(14,443 posts)
8. She just texted
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 07:46 PM
Nov 2025

They let the mother and the two sons go but kept the dad and he is in alligator Alcatraz. One of the sons has an inoperable brain tumor.

tavernier

(14,443 posts)
15. An update:
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 07:46 AM
Nov 2025

My friend got a call from the teen aged daughter. Dad was deported to Mexico. Mother was sent to Texas. Both children are school age and now on their own.
These were hard working long time residents with no criminal record and everything legal. Wish I had more details about who is helping the children to figure out how to proceed.

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