Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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When a state starts justifying violence as “order,” it stops being accountable to the people it claims to protect.
Once obedience replaces responsibility, the machinery of power runs without brakes.
Rage Against the Machine saw that dynamic clearly in the ’90s, and addressed the issue in their song ‘Killing in the Name’:
youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ
It hasn’t aged a day!