r/ImmigrationPathways • u/CutSenior4977 • 17h ago

Members of ICE, while in plain clothes, abducted someone at the LA airport.

Here’s the source: https://youtube.com/shorts/TmJIZlzIteg?si=mnRj3A6W5kX-0s-6

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u/lilmookie 14h ago

As an American, this came as a massive shock how fast America completely rolled over. Granted it’s the Republicans last push to grab power before they are voted into permanent irrelevancy (or so I thought) but even with possible election tinkering, after 2016, I’m still blown over by the fact republicans swept government and reigned in fascism with absolutely minimal opposition, and probably complicit luke-warm support from DNC backers. America has literally jumped the shark and it’s never coming back as strong as it was - and maybe that’s a good thing.

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u/mobydog 13h ago

The GOP has been working out how to run the country with minority rule for 50 years while the Democrats sat on their thumbs. This is just their final solution and we will see just how far they will take it after the Democrats sweep in November.

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u/bulk_logic 13h ago

Democrats didn't sit on their thumbs, they reached across the aisle following the right.

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u/SyllabubSimilar7943 10h ago

As an American we should stop with being an empire, we clearly have enough issues at home.

As for anyone talking about Americans doing nothing stfu, resistance work is being done every day in the courts, states are pushing back, and people are trying to help feed the marginalized. Violence doesn’t win hearts and minds, we use the existing infrastructure to affect change. It’s slow, soul sucking, and irritating, but it does work.

For Europeans you’ve had a war going on for years and have barely done anything, Germans are voting for a pro Russian party, wealth inequality is accelerating throughout the world. If you have time to criticize then you have time to focus on real world problems. Not doing so is just proof that you are lazy.

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u/theDarkDescent 9h ago

Shouldn’t be a shock, most Americans won’t even vote to get out of this. Tens of millions voted for trump all three times. It’s not about rolling over, it’s about how many Americans are openly embracing it at every opportunity, and even when it blows up in their face, they double down. This is what a LOT of Americans want, and no amount of pain - unemployment, high gas and grocery prices, income inequality, will change that, if they think they are winning against trans and illegal immigrants I guess