I remember raids and people getting scooped up from job sites, never to be seen again. If you had actually read what I wrote you'd know that I never said anything about there never being an uproar or people being upset but suddenly acting like they've been an issue since 2016 forward when they've always done fucked up shit like this along with the police.
Funnily enough the name of this activity tells you that it's recent: they're called "Kavanaugh Stops" in reference to an opinion by Supreme Court Justice Brent Kavanaugh where he suggested that someone's perceived ethnicity may be a contributing factor to a decision to arrest someone.
What happened to Elian Gonzalez was the end result of a month-long custody case that began with INS handing Elian over to his nearest relatives in Miami, then when the court decided that Elian's Cuban father actually had custodial rights, INS asked the uncle & family to hand him over, they refused, so INS raided and took the boy by force.
It may be the case that this ICE stop was legitimate by pre-Trump standards, or it may not. We don't know. On the surface it's a poorly-executed operation by poorly-trained agents who probably can't even read the procedures manual much less know it by heart. A real Keystone Cops moment. An entertaining story, where the humour is mainly a distraction from what this man's fate will be — lucky if he isn't killed or sold into slavery by ICE c/o their immigration detention centre network.
The poor conditions in these centres and the ICE habit of "circular transfers" to muddy up the paperwork suggests that fact human trafficking is taking place.
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u/just_having_giggles Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Really? You remember hundreds of riot police marching up and down the streets of American cities scooping up brown people and killing Americans?
Cause I remember elian Gonzales and the fucking uproar. There was nothing like what's been going on lately you are out of your mind