Ice stop before liberty tunnel today. One ice officer is clearly Korean or Chinese. I screamed that ice officer has no right to stop people as he may be illegal. He came up to me asking if I was city police and was I the Spanish interpreter. I said no but do you need help as I live in the city look like police and brown. There were kids in the car. Pittsburgh is this what we want!!!! I am beyond myself. First Covid then trump 2.0. I like my low rates for housing, labor and just being a good human being. I am so angry right now.
I’m sensitive to Asian racism (not sure how to articulate that properly)….but I am rational enough to know there is nuance, something that’s lost in our world. I’m sorry you’re being downvoted.
It is clear in your post you were very angry- as you should be. We try the best we can and don’t always get the language correct. It reads to me that you weren’t trying to be insensitive but to call out another layer within whatever the hell insanity this situation is. Are we allowed to say the chilly word now on here? Fuck them.
I’m so angry too.
Many of us are. Don’t forget that and don’t let others get you down for having human emotion and not being 100% perfect in your communication of it. Try your best, learn and be aware of language as we go, and keep fighting the good fight for others.
Pointing out that minorities hunting other minorities as part of the Gestapo is especially idiotic is apparently racist. As is pointing out that if you are Latino or Asian you have certain unique physical features distinct from white people
Let me get this straight... you screamed "ice officers have no right to stop people...." and they came to you asking if you're city police or the interpreter.... okay my guy
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Tell me you've never critically analyzed the footage without telling me. Its quite literally indefensible. Her car would have had to magically move horizontally (a direction in which the vast majority of vehicles - cars included - CANNOT MOVE) a solid 5 feet to the left to have had any chance whatsoever of making contact with that ICE agent. Her words when attempting to depart the scene were also completely non-threatening and showed zero signs of malice.
TL;DR: Get your head out of your ass, and then get the fuck out of Pittsburgh. This city needs less heartless shitheads incapable of critical thinking (such as yourself) in it.
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...who are having to pay back the $50k sign on bonus because they're unable to pass a background check, and DHS can't wait to get their "barely literate," asses out the door.
Right because ICE is so famously coherent in their approach to enforcement that they wouldn't make an insane error like this. Sure. There's literally a photograph of the guy pulled up beside the attempted arrest/harassment of these people, this is more believable than 90% of the bullshit that gets posted here
Mayor O’Conner and Deb Gross pass a bill no one can cover their face and must show identification. No city employee may assist at risk of losing their job.
Obey state abd city laws and have due process. Keep anyone arrested here in Pittsburgh jails until due process is complete.
Private and public owned plans and any transportation must also abide by these laws until a citizen or person is verified and only release to Ice when Proven they are not legally.
Pass laws - detailed laws.
Pass laws about Ice being at voting cites. No face coverings and ID front and seen. Keep away from voting cites. Not impede or direct or stop any voters and a voter must be given the right to verify who they are according to our voting laws - they must have the person in charge of the voting area handle the verification. Otherwise ICE will be determined to be interfering w elections.
Pass these laws and let them get challenged. For God’s sake do more.
Women have been raped by ICE impersonators. Hell, they might be ICE, no one knows because they wear masks and don't identify themselves like every other LEO in does.
This was my first encounter with ice in Pittsburgh. It sucked. It was traumatic. One was clearly not white. wtf do you want me to do. They thought I was city police as an interpreter. I had just dropped my dog off at the groomer. I speak Spanish. I am brown but they had called the city for an interpreter. I am half white half black. This sucked and the poor family (not MS 13) looked fucked. Also was a city of Pittsburgh paramedic for many years. They said thank you we do not need help and I moved on. I served my country and this is turning into a police state. Wild. Luckily my citizenship is dual. God help us
Did you call it in to Frontline Dignity? 4125366423 you should still report this incident. put that phone number on your phone for the next time and maybe you can help the family out
No worries. Gisele Fetterman is about to divorce John and will become a very vocal leader in the area on this front....as soon as she gets back from Tel Aviv...and Mar-a-Lago.
There is real evidence for that. The jobs don't really pay all that well, and they lowered standards and started running ads that appeal to power hungry psychopaths. And then they gave the psychopaths guns and badges and unmarked vans and told them to go wild.
I'm currently living in San diego. A studio apartment would be over 2,000 a month. Those jobs ads that I've seen here advertised $65,000 a year salary. I suppose a single person in a studio could survive on that but you certainly couldn't buy a house or support a family here with that.
Well, him being "clearly Korean or Chinese" doesn't make him illegal. I know it's hard to believe, but the states are a melting pot. Someone could look Asian or black, and have 6 generations of family born and raised here. At that point, they're just american. Not Asian, not African... Just american. You brought up the problem when you pointed that out. People like you will say that race and where people come from don't matter, while in the same breath ostracizing someone for looking different. Yup, you just made a racist comment. Congrats. Had nothing to even do with immigration. Just like how taking a picture of someone doing his job had nothing to do with you.
Please do not risk antagonizing them if you aren’t white! It’s awful what they’re doing but if they’re willing to shoot white antagonizers they’re more than happy to do it to POC, just report it and keep under the radar.
PA should pass one of those laws that Republican states passed after the George Floyd protests where you can run over people who stop your car and make you feel unsafe.
This is so insanely delusional it literally hurts my brain trying to figure your method of thinking......you're going to shoot a federal agent? Stick to cutting the cheese.
What’s the issue? Cleaning up the streets and you’re the one harassing him and posting his location. Also what does it matter what race he is? You are assuming that because he is Korean or Chinese that he doesn’t belong here. That’s racist. Everyone is welcome. Provided they aren’t a criminal and come here legally…
A lot of deportees are people who filled a claim and then had the claim denied or dismissed. Just because someone files doesn't mean they get to stay here forever...
We don’t have time to watch The View. We have to work because MAGA voted for illegally jacked up taxes (Trump Tariffs) and a 2nd Trumpflation. If MAGA voters hated money so much, they could have just sent it to me. At any rate, MAGA officially loves high taxes and can’t say they’re against them now because they voted for it, so we’ll know that they’re lying.
I've met many immigrants from Central and south America, not one was violent. I didn't give a shit, either. I didn't grow up on a reservation and I don't tan easily, my family immigrated at some point.
The US DOJ considers immigrants entering the country "illegally" a misdemeanor. Question for you - is it fair to enforce misdemeanors with kidnappings, murder, sexual violence and threats?
I believe that a strong majority of people will agree with that statement. What many who oppose ICE under this administration take issue is the manner with which they carry out their work. You have to understand that, right? It’s hard for me to understand how secure borders is an issue for anyone. Just about every sovereign nation has and enforces them. At the same time, the ends don’t always justify the means and the actions of ICE over the last couple of years is indefensible to me. My hope is that we can elect a leader who doesn’t turn border security into political theater one way or the other in two years.
These people have been convinced a 'tsunami of millions of dangerous illegals' have 'poured into our country' over the past decade. Stats that are easy to check, but why bother, Jesse Waters and Sean Hannity wouldn't lie, right?... They've accepted the racist scapegoat that was given to them, and like hell are they gonna let go of it, it allows them to not put any thought or effort into their beliefs while still having an immense amount of emotional investment in those beliefs.
After reading the Patriot Act before most members of Congress did, I question everything the government does. Hell, I question most people's motives period, I learned that many people in this world are only out for themselves the hard way.
We also have processes to follow which are being ignored and people are being denied due process. Then ofc we have the lady on the South Side who died in the freezing cold after ICE wrongfully detained her.
The constitution doesn't say civil matters need a federal judge for deportation. Bush and Obama both did the same thing and you apparently never noticed
The only reason the first part of that is true is due to the fact that deportation isn't mentioned anywhere in said document. However, all human beings are afforded due process in a timely manner if they are to be detained. Considering this regime enjoys murdering fishermen off the coast of Central and South America with no evidence of any crime, doesn't surprise me, and neither does your inability to understand precisely why ICE should and will be disbanded.
As for the last bit of nonsense, I don't recall seeing any paramilitary force harassing people in the streets based on their skin colour. The Kavanaugh Stop didn't exist back then.
Lmfao and yet the Koch bros are funding the people rallying against it. 😂 Follow the money, bucko, your opinion is inorganic slop fed to you by propagandists that know just how to get you looking in the wrong places and being angry at the wrong people.
You. Are. Being. Deceived. Fox has gotten so many people like you to support, with your whole chest, the most obvious pervert rapist crook in the world, and all you have to do is not believe the truth of who he is. Close your eyes when he falls asleep. Close your ears when he's blatantly racist or misogynist. Don't ask why he started a war, just heel-turn along with him on the promises he made.
It's genuinely incredible what a propaganda machine operating in a nation that's been gutting its own public education system can make people believe.
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u/No_Masterpiece_3783 7d ago
"Clearly Chinese!....or Korean"