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I'm glad yawl are offended by the site of ICE taking over a city in spite of the mayor's and local community's rights & expressed desires... that's been tried, tested, and refined by attacking sanctuary cities since in the past few years. 1/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/3/ice-officers-demand-portland-mayor-relinquish-cont/
in fact, everything done by ICE right now that is making you sick has been mastered by testing it out and practicing it in the undocumented community. gas, weapons, making people disappear? It's literally what they do. 2/ https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
they have also tested out how to make the public ignore their tactics. the formula requires posing immigrants as threats to american values. that's what we see extended here: protest is american. look at all these people not being peaceful! https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1286123244588871680 3/
another tactic is to get the public to lack any sense of proportionality. a pipe becomes a "deadly weapon," so of course we used rifles & shields & tanks & gas & break a few arms. someone threw a rock, so the natural response was militarized weaponry. 4/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/portland-protests-navy-christopher-david.html
every white protester hit with a club is 100 latino, Black, and indigenous folks beaten before him. every Wall of Moms shot with gas is 1000 immigrant moms with their apartments gassed as they watch their husbands be taken from them. 5/ https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/separated
every violated civilian right is a decade of violations of the rights of undocumented communities. THIS HAS BEEN TRIED, TESTED, & PERFECTED & is now being used against protesters in Portland. BE MAD. but don't be mad about Portland alone. be mad we've ignored it for so long /fin
