Imagine this:You're jolted awake in the early hours of last Thursday morning. It’s still dark outside. Agents pounding on your door identify themselves as FBI, ICE, and U.S. Marshals. You're an American citizen. You moved from New Jersey to Oklahoma City just two weeks ago.
They have a warrant — but the name on it isn’t yours. You’re not even given time to put on clothes. You and your three daughters are forced out onto the law
n in the rain, wearing only your underwear. The agents offer a “solution”: they’ll form a circle so your daughters can change — right there in front of them.
Once the search ends, they take your phones, laptops, and all your cash savings — even though it becomes clear that the individuals they were looking for no longer live there. The name on the warrant matches mail you’d seen addressed to the previous tenants. You’re not who they came for. But you're the ones who paid the price.
And this is not a one-off.
We have migrants — some allegedly linked to Venezuelan gangs — being flown to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. This includes women who were later returned to the U.S., since CECOT holds only men. According to a 60 Minutes investigation, most of the 238 prisoners sent from the U.S. have no criminal record and no proven gang affiliation.
We have U.S. citizen children being deported along with their mothers, without any legal effort to place them with their U.S. citizen fathers. One four-year-old child was actively undergoing cancer treatment when taken.
Just yesterday, three ministers were arrested on Capitol Hill — for praying.
Rev. William Barber, wearing a stole that read “Jesus was a poor man”, said:
“We weren’t cursing. We weren’t talking extraordinarily loud... They gave us three warnings and then they arrested us, saying our prayer was an illegal activity.”
(Source: News & Observer)
Is this what people had in mind when they voted for this?
A friend told me she doesn’t like what’s happening — but says we should “give 47 a chance.”
But what about the people who’ve already been harmed?
When does their chance come?
Who’s paying the price for this “chance” to play out?
And what kind of nation will we be left with when it’s over?
In better news: I’m thrilled about Canada’s election results! Some bright spots are still out there.
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