The Alito Supreme have allowed Federal officals to ‘racial profile’ people in the steet’s during encounter’s exposing American citizens of color worrying they will be stopped and evn detained based on quick questioning due to their skin color….
How many U.S. citizens were stopped or arrested during Midway Blitz and other recent enforcement operations is not known. DHS did not respond to requests for comment on the incidents described in this story and has not provided any figures. The Washington Post identified several cases of U.S. citizens being targeted by immigration enforcement agents that are documented in video and witness accounts. Lawyers and community leaders said there are many others involving people too frightened to come forward.
Some of those targeted now wonder if there is still a place for them in the U.S.
“I’m disappointed about what America has come down to,” Rosales said. “I thought the president was supposed to protect us, but he only made things worse for Hispanics.”
The Supreme Court recently cleared a path for immigration officers to use skin color as a factor in determining whom to stop and ask about their legal status, stretching DHS powers far beyond that of traditional policing guardrails. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote that if lawful residents were picked up in raids, their detention would only result in a temporary inconvenience. Officers would see that they were in the country legally and release them.
But in Chicago and elsewhere, Latino U.S. citizens and lawful residents describe being detained for hours, and in some cases, days. Others were not detained, but say they were assaulted because of the color of their skin.
Upon being tackled, Rosales stammered that he was a U.S. citizen, born in Waukegan. And then, just as abruptly as the agents entered his world, he said, they vanished…
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‘A violation of trust’
Other citizens caught up in enforcement operations said they feel the same sense of alarm and betrayal, followed by profound anger.
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago.
The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations.
Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray.
Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes.
McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video….
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Rosales once envisioned working in construction or home remodeling after high school, eventually making enough money to help his mother retire. Then the masked men gave chase, and he limped home, terrified for what might happen if his mom had been in their crosshairs instead of him.
Rosales’ mother hadn’t wanted to leave Mexico at 6 years old, but her own mother insisted on chasing the opportunities the U.S. provided. Now, Rosales’ mother doesn’t want to fight what happened to him in the courts or the press. She wants out.
“There’s no life here anymore,” she said.
Her U.S.-born son agreed: “I feel like there’s no place here for me either.”…
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The above incidents and reaction seem to be JUST what Trump and Stephen Miller WANT to get rid on people of color in America undocumented or even in some caes American born citizens
Only a middle aged white guy would say…..
‘Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote that if lawful residents were picked up in raids, their detention would only result in a temporary inconvenience. Officers would see that they were in the country legally and release them.’
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