Today, we will be breaking the ice with a talk about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E). People face arrests and deportation without legal warrants, American citizens are being profiled and deported, and adults and children alike are going missing in ICE custody.
If you start to feel uncomfortable while reading this article, you should. This one reading could make a hundred more just based on the subject it’s on and how tied in it is with other truths coming out in the world.
Let’s hear a story from someone that has been directly affected by ICE. I talked to history teacher Mrs Lemmon, who has a Mexican friend who was profiled and taken off the streets of San Antonio.
“He was on his way home one day when he was stopped by ICE and detained for three hours. His wife had no idea where he was and worried that he might have been in an accident.”
Mind you, if you didn’t know where San Antonio was, it’s in Texas. Texas is a state. He’s a doctor and his wife is a nurse.
So, you’re telling me that even if you’re a doctor you can still be detained for 3 hours while walking down the street?
You can’t even say “But he didn’t actually get deported.” I’m mad that he was accused in the first place.
First of all, they didn’t do any research on him. They saw him, and decided they were going to stop him based on what he looked like. They didn’t use any facts. They wouldn’t listen to him.
He is a U.S citizen and his rights were violated.
The fourth amendment of the constitution requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before making an arrest. Obviously there was no probable cause.
On top of that though I guess we can’t be too mad at them.
Mrs Lemmon says, “I know people that have gone through the training. It was rigorous before the administration started, but because they are mass hiring the training isn’t as thorough.”
Right so they’re just trying to get people out of here. It makes me wonder what the training is like now because without proper training things tend to escalate quickly.”
And to add on to all of that, if they’re the type of ICE agents to detain a man for three hours just based on how he looked, then they’re probably the type to escalate a situation that can’t be fixed with more power and force.
“They also have a nine year old autistic son who isn’t very good at following directions and needs a strict routine. If he was with his dad that day, who knows what would’ve happened.”
If you know someone with this condition then you know the type of meltdown it can bring.
If you know ICE they don’t deescalate situations. They actually make bigger problems.
“Two gunshots fired by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis Wednesday,”
ICE is shooting U.S citizens now.
This is the case of Renee Good who was a “Minneapolis mother of three,” and was 37 when she died because of an Ice agents inability to deescalate the situation.
“Federal officials say that the agents acted in self defense after Good tried to ram them with her car in an act of domestic terrorism.” https://abcnews.com/
Why were they in front of her car in the first place? Why were they pressing her as if she’s an immigrant? She is a U.S citizen and shouldn’t have been bothered by ICE.
“Good could be seen turning her car’s steering wheel to the right, away from the ICE agent who shot her, just over one second before the first of three gunshots was fired.” https://abcnews.com/
They can’t say that she was trying to hit him when her wheels were turned away. Also, it’s said that she got her wheels facing away from the ICE agent just over a second before he shot her. This means that the officer didn’t think about his decision at all.
You would think that if you were a government agent you would think a lot before using a weapon as deadly as a gun.
It started when an ICE officer came up and started yelling at her to get out of her car, so she backed up her car to turn and flee the situation when another officer walked in front of it. She turned her wheel to the right as you can clearly see in the video and she went forward.
To me this looks like he put himself in that situation, there was no reason he should have ever even been around her car.
There’s just so many things that went on and if you saw how violent they were being with Good, then how violent would they be with a child especially one that needs peace, patience, and routine?
I could write so much more on this but I’m going to end it here. So Senior Ciarra Osbornne and I would like to say one last thing.
“Love the people around you.”
