qabila.bsky.social
Midwifery, migration, reproductive justice
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Fair enough. Agentsâ current refusal to identify themselves certainly empowers people like those in the article. Still, I was responding to people claiming that agents in recent videos of large raids & courthouse arrests arenât actually agents, which I see no evidence for & which I think deflects
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Theyâre doing this in Blaine, WA, too: www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Fair enough. Time will tell. Itâs fine to disagree on some details. I donât think we disagree on the bigger picture. The most important thing is organizing to stop and mitigate this wherever we can.
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All I was trying to say from the beginning is that I think this narrative that people are âcosplayingâ or not really ICE agents may do more harm than good, because I think they are ICE agents, and we need to focus on that, and work to stop them, and eventually, abolish ICE.
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I said that Iâm connected with observation & accompaniment at the court i.e. local activists showing up to accompany migrants who are at risk of arrest at the court. I volunteer to observe deportation flights with La Resistencia, a local migrant justice org led by formerly detained people.
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Sigh. Maybe thereâs no point to continuing this conversation. Of course I donât work with ICE. My entire point from the beginning of the conversation is that ICE is the problem, and has always been the problem, and that the way theyâre acting is consistent with who theyâve always been.
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Iâm connected with court observation/accompaniment at Seattle EOIR court and regularly observe deportation flights at King County airport with La Resistencia, who are well connected inside NWDC. Itâs just not what weâre seeing.
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I donât think we actually disagree that much, but thereâs a point that Iâve been trying to make, engaging with folks sincerely - which is what I generally appreciate about BlueSky. Itâs fine to disagree, but why be snarky? This stuff is life & death & where I spend most of my real-life time & energy
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Completely agree about the lack of outrage when Biden or Obama were deporting or expelling hundreds of thousands of people a year.
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Occamâs razor. đ¤ˇđťââď¸ The fact that detained people have been taken directly to ICE detention centers suggests these folks are perfectly well integrated
into the system (local orgs follow what happens after raids and courthouse arrests and follow up w/people inside).
Not saying theyâre *well* trained.
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I think it does. Because the rot is at the core of DHS, CBP and ICE, and that matters.
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Theyâre not police. Theyâre ICE.
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ICE detains people without a warrant all the time, and have for a long time (generally relying on people not knowing to demand to see a signed judicial warrant).
Have you seen credible evidence of raids & detentions by non-ICE agents who purchased fake gear online?
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Absolutely.
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These are real law enforcement (immigration enforcement) officers who are cowards and thugs.
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1000%
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Sure, I agree that they should show their faces and display their identification (well, I think that they should be abolished, but at a minimum, identify themselves). I just donât think we have evidence that these arenât just straight up ICE & DHS employees.
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Theyâre not police, theyâre ICE agents. The ICE of pre-dawn raids, breaking down doors, terrifying children, separating families, presiding over horrifying detention conditions, all for a long, long time before most people started paying attention. They donât need to be militia to be the enemy.
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Iâm not saying not to raise awareness of whatâs happening. Iâm saying that promoting a narrative of âtheyâre not real copsâ or âtheyâre not real ICEâ doesnât do what people think it does. We need to face that this is exactly who ICE is/always has been. Abolish ICE was the right call from the jump.
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ICE is written all over them. This is who ICE is/has always been. Dawn raids breaking doors down in immigrant communities. Terrifying children. Separating families. Ignoring due process. Horrifying detention conditions. We donât need them to be militia for them to be the enemy who must be stopped.
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Credible, corroborated reports? Where?
ICE has fully staffed field offices all over the country.
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We really need to stop this narrative. What purpose does it serve? How would they âlook rightâ, and how would that make things more OK? This is ICE doing exactly what ICE does, and what it has done to immigrant communities for a long time, just with less scrutiny.
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Also people need to really drop thisâice officers are really proud boys/other far right groupsâ conspiracy theory cooking. The enemy within is ice and dhs. These are not some outside of government force.This is what they have always been. Stop making conspiracyâs that excuse these historic realities
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What is with the teensy tinsy feet??
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ERO. Enforcement and Removal Operations.
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I had the same thought about the length of the bodice. Maybe she just had a long torso? I wondered about the plainness of the collar, too - would there have been a lace collar added?
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So frustrating that the items are undated in the post!
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The flower bud tassels đ
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Amen! I was in the intervention arm.
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Incredible!
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Date?