An employee of Bread Garden Market in Iowa City was kidnapped while working. As he was forcibly held down to be handcuffed, he repeatedly stated that he was a U.S. veteran and demanded the masked men to identify which organization they represented.* ICE came to a family’s home in the Boston area to detain the father. When he would not comply, the “agents” took the five-year-old autistic daughter outside and said she would be until the father surrendered.
ICE agents violently shoved to the floor a woman who was pleading with them not to take her husband. As the husband was shoved into a stairwell, an agent shoved the women with both hands against the her abdomen causing her to fall.
A woman with a legal work permit was deported to Honduras, leaving her three children behind. The children have no other parent in this country. *Masked men knocked down a 79-year-old citizen of the U.S., broke two of his ribs, and denied him medical care during a raid of a Van Nuys, California car wash.
A Nigerian mother is still being held in a detention facility despite a court order to release her.
People protesting peacefully at an ICE detention facility in Chicago were videoed being tear-gassed.
An ICE agent choked and maced a middle-aged woman at the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
A candidate for the U.S. House was violently thrown to the ground at the Illinois facility during a peaceful protest.
If you ever studied the history of the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party and thought, “Why didn’t somebody do something to stop this?” it’s time now for you—for all of us—to do something.
If you still support Donald Trump, we would all like to know why. Seriously. Send your answers in to me. We all want to know who our neighbors are before it is too late. If, on the other hand, you see news of egregious incidents involving putative ICE agents, send them with sources to christinehalvorson@yahoo.comwith this subject line: Weekly Outrages