“They told me to my face: ‘You know what those stars mean? Those stars are styled by gangsters in your country,’” he told the Tribune. “I said, no. I got these stars when—no kidding—I was starting to leave adolescence, started working. I got them because I liked them and I wanted to get them.”
While ICE has refused to name the detained Venezuelans, the Tribune identified 35 of them. Some were in ICE detention for weeks and were released with ankle monitors. One of the children was even kicked out of school due to missing too many days in detainment. Again, none were charged criminally.
“This is about something much bigger. If it happens to a person who is accused of being a (gang member) today, tomorrow it could happen to you and me,” said Migration Policy Institute director Muzaffar Chishti. “And if the alleged member of this gang does not have the right to contest [charges against them], how can you know I’ll have it? The next person will have it?”
NOGOODGASHOLE on June 10th, 2025 at 14:17 UTC »
So all these criminals we were told of are at work, school, & immigration hearings? This sounds more and more like the WMDs I was told to fear years ago.
Konukaame on June 10th, 2025 at 13:40 UTC »
You can be scooped up, held for weeks, lose your job, home, school, whatever, and then be let go with no charges and an "oopsie."
RepulsiveLoquat418 on June 10th, 2025 at 13:13 UTC »
yet again, the cruelty is the point. the people giving the orders are fueled by hatred and their own sense of smallness, and anyone willing to follow those orders is just as bad.