I just read this a few minutes ago, I am shocked. What a country you have become…….
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It’s incredibly sad & infuriating.
I haven’t the words to describe how sad & infuriating for a very long time. The Americans who chose this style of government & who continue to choose this style of government stopped listening to anything I had to say a very long time ago…
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Out of interest, as the article doesn’t make it clear, was he in the US illegally or legally?
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I believe illegally, if not mistaken.
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Thanks
Doesn’t make it clear. It states that Ice said he came in 2006 and has a DUI, but the family says he came in the 90s and has no DUI. So at this point it’s hard to tell if they even have the right guy. At the same time if he were in the country legally, that probably would have been plastered all over the article.
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He’s a well-known and highly respected part of the winegrowing community here in the Willamette Valley. Others have been grabbed by ICE here but he is more visible.
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Read this again.
Victoria Reader, who works for Sotelo as a vineyard manager, would know. She was in the car on 6 June, a week before Sotelo’s arrest, when another employee was also taken. Reader says that agents were masked and refused to identify themselves.
“They didn’t identify themselves. They just came out. They didn’t even say anything. They just started trying to open the doors,” Reader said. “I kept asking, who are you? What are you doing? And they wouldn’t answer.”
Reader said that agents would not tell her what immigration laws her employee violated, threatened her with assault of an officer for asking questions and told her she was not allowed to follow their cars or know where her employee was being taken.
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“The Ice official told me they are under no obligation to tell the family or the attorneys of the detainees that they have been apprehended, or that they’ve been moved to another state, to another facility, or that they’ve been deported,”
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The new America.
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Guilty until proven innocent.
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for asking questions!
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This has been posted here before, and it’s difficult to stay apolitical but please do, or I will remove or move it, as the last one was, which was far more political from the get-go
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Well, now we have “legal” people having their status changed on the fly.
Basic human decency should not be political.
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I have heard the Napa police have been giving advice to local vineyard workers on how to protect themselves which is actually pretty amazing.
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Heck, our local Mexican restaurant in my town in Connecticut has a big poster in the entryway on “Your Rights as an Immigrant.”
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Please, more like this.
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You know you’re in trouble when you see posters saying Your Rights As A Citizen
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The double standards and condescension gets tiring… but isn’t shocking… What a country you have become…
Germany ‘weaponises immigration law’ to deport Palestinian sympathisers
Germany will turn away migrants without papers at the border
It’s all sad.
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Yes, this happens unfortunately sometimes in Germany, but not on the scale we see in America right now.
In addition we still have law and order in Germany. So there is a legal process before we send people back to their home countries.
Do you see a legal process in America???
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