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
@ProPublica They are a brutal secret police who act outside the law and answer only to psychopaths. We should expect nothing different.
@ProPublica I hope there are lots of law suits
@ProPublica
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!
@ProPublica Yeah, those who believe that their ID will shield them from Trump's fascism are especially naive. The richest 0.1% are safe from the ICE human safari. Everyone else is ultimately considered fair game.
It's either democracy and equal rights for everyone, or totalitarianism and no rights for anyone. Even at the very top, the rules sooner or later devolves to unlimited power struggle where the rich and powerful suddenly fall out of open windows.
no one is safe
Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis have been flying under the radar during Trump's second term, despite Proud Boys doing their 'victory lap' on Jan 6. Relatively crickets from them.
Seems they're quiet because they all now have government-funded jobs and security as ICE agents. How about a story on the threat of neo-Nazis and other extremists now acting as ICE? Update on where they all went recently.
Keep up the terrfiic, important reporting.
@ProPublica Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called for UN observation during their military campaign against our city. This government is not legitimate, Donald is not even eligible to be president. The Democratic establishment that has subverted our primaries 3 cycles in a row and carelessly transferred power to him need to be under intense scrutiny as well.
@ProPublica with "detained" do you mean abducted?
@ProPublica who gives a shit if they were citizens, it shouldnt happen to anyone
