What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
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The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors. These are the stories of the people who were inside.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-raid-apartment-building-venezuelans-stories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Chicago #Illinois #ICE #Immigration #Trump #Immigrants #Venezuela

#NewYork – The mystery of 26 Federal Plaza’s fifth floor: Volunteers say #ICE is taking more #immigrants during routine check-ins out of view of observers and press.

https://www.amny.com/news/26-federal-plaza-fifth-floor-ice-immigrants/

> For five months, amNewYork has documented ICE detainments of people attending their legally mandated court hearings on the 12th and 14th floors of the now

Advocates argue decline in #InternationalStudents will ultimately hurt the #US #economy because #immigrants often play key roles in #startups & #research.

“International students aren’t just tuition revenue. A decline in international students is not just a matter for next year’s enrollment cycle for universities—it’s a strategic setback for America’s role as a hub of global talent, #science & #innovation,” said Chris Glass, a Boston College prof & researcher on international #HigherEducation.

What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
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The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors. These are the stories of the people who were inside.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-raid-apartment-building-venezuelans-stories?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Chicago #Illinois #ICE #Immigration #Trump #Immigrants #Venezuela

#NewYork – The mystery of 26 Federal Plaza’s fifth floor: Volunteers say #ICE is taking more #immigrants during routine check-ins out of view of observers and press.

https://www.amny.com/news/26-federal-plaza-fifth-floor-ice-immigrants/

> For five months, amNewYork has documented ICE detainments of people attending their legally mandated court hearings on the 12th and 14th floors of the now

Video footage showing ICE's masked thugs smashing the car window of a man in Charlotte and detaining him though he had proof of American citizenship and a valid ID.

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/video/trump-ice-charlotte-north-carolina-real-id-man-detained-vrtc

More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.

Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.

Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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Video footage showing ICE's masked thugs smashing the car window of a man in Charlotte and detaining him though he had proof of American citizenship and a valid ID.

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/video/trump-ice-charlotte-north-carolina-real-id-man-detained-vrtc

The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.

Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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And at the same meeting at which the US bishops made their immigration statement, they elected as their president a culture-war hero, Coakley of Oklahoma City, who is thickly allied with the hard-right Catholic organization Napa Institute, a vehicle by which ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US use their money to try to combat the Vatican's emphasis on social teaching. Coakley was openly contemptuous of Pope Francis.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.

Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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Over half of US white Catholics (and of white Christians across the board) voted for the horrors and cruelty the Trump administration is visiting on immigrants. Those white Catholics cast their votes with the same US bishops who recently issued their immigrant statement as their pastoral and moral leaders.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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"But [the bishops] didn’t talk about what got us here. Over 50 percent of Catholics were okay with this, with the rhetoric of dehumanizing immigrants. They’re not talking about how we engage with those issues in the political sphere.”

Holler is talking about the fact that over half of white Catholics voted for what Trump and Stephen Miller are now doing to immigrants.

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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"The brief statement accurately describes Church teaching and lays out the crisis at hand, specifically mentioning profiling, vilification, and family separation. But it avoids any mention of President Donald Trump, the administration, or ICE."

As Katie Holler, a founder of the Dorothea Project, a group of Catholic women committed to highlighting Catholic social teaching, says,

#Catholic #immigrants #cruelty #MaskedThugs #ICE #Trump
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"Residents described officers sprinting through parking lots, jumping fences behind small bakeries and mercados. Some said they watched people shoved to the ground, grocery bags splitting apart, oranges rolling into traffic, voices shaking as shouts ricocheted between brick storefronts."

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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"A city defined by banking towers and craft breweries, where weekends were measured by Panthers touchdowns, farmers’ markets, and late-night debates about who served the best barbecue in town.

By this weekend, that rhythm collapsed.

Before sunrise, unmarked SUVs slid through quiet neighborhoods, and ICE agents moved in like a storm front."

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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"We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump…

Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags."

~ Alt National Park

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.facebook.com/AltUSNationalParkService/posts/pfbid02KTbbdYvLb5e3fMXsSUcHsG6N3sTQDnbiMyMYwC7EdGBgExA5hMh1Vt7ukpQXTbnhl

"Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children on Nov. 15, 2025."

~ Nick Sullivan and Khadejeh Nikouyeh

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article312932422.html

"Anti-ICE protests in Charlotte: ❤ People all over the country had enough of Trump's Nazi bullshit!"

~ Gavin Rocks!

#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
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https://newsom2028.substack.com/p/anti-ice-protests-in-charlotte