Hey, Latinos For Trump. You Ok With This? -- Digby [View all]

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/23/hey-latinos-for-trump-you-ok-with-this/

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ICE wrestled Alabama worker to the ground & detain him for hours—he is a U.S. citizen.

Young man was begging & shouting, “I am a U.S. citizen”—but that didn’t stop ICE agents from dragging him off to a detention center.

His family said that ICE agents did release him after he was finally given the opportunity to prove he was a U.S. citizen—but only after many hours.

Better carry your papers with you if you look Latino. Another one:

Machado was driving to work Wednesday with two other men when he was stopped by ICE agents near his home, he said. Confused by the scene, Machado said he didn’t know what was happening and why agents surrounded his pickup truck.

“They just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, ‘turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window,’” Machado told Telemundo 44’s Rosbelis Quinoñez, who first reported his story. “Everything was really fast.”

“They didn’t ask me for any ID,” Machado said. “I was telling the officer if I can give him ID, but he said just keep my hands up, not moving. After that, he told me to get out of the car and put the handcuffs on me.” An agent then asked Machado how did he get into the U.S. and if he was awaiting a court date or if he had a pending immigration case.

“And I told him I was an American citizen,” Machado said. “He looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, can you believe this guy? Because he asked the other guy, ‘Do you believe him?’”

He was released after they finally let him show his papers.

Machado said the experience shook his faith in Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts.

“I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election.”

Machado said he thought the Trump administration would “just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

“That’s what they’re doing, now,” Machado said. “They’re just following Hispanic people.”

Immigration lawyers advise residents and citizens to always keep ID with them.

I hope these stories are percolating through the Hispanic communities and people are hearing about it. It should chill anyone in this country who looks vaguely Latino. Or MIddle Eastern. Or Asian or Black for that matter. White too if you’re trying to return to the country from a foreign country. When you think about it, who can’t they roust on suspicion of being a foreigner?

ICE is a rogue police agency that’s been given license to literally detain anyone they choose. Being a citizen is no protection. Carry your papers. Who knows when some armed thug in jeans and a face mask will come up on you and demand them.

Even the Nazis wore uniforms.