It can no longer be ignored, denied or otherwise justified by any interpretation or defense of the Trump administration’s actions:
America is now officially a police state.
Take your time. Let the gravity of those seven words sink in and you will realize the dreadful accuracy of that assertion.
How else could you possibly explain masked men with no official law enforcement credentials (The “POLICE ICE” stenciled on the backs of their bullet-proof vests do not constitute fully-trained officers of the law) arresting 10,000 persons over a five-day period in June? ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days | AP News
How else can you explain the wanton killings of nearly three dozen unarmed, innocent people by these Gestapo agents who all too often either do not even have or fail to activate body cams and who are not held accountable for the murders they commit?
(…And the list of fatalities above isn’t even complete…)
Take ICE thug David Brouillette, the man who gunned down 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero near the victim’s home in coastal Maine. Brouillette, it turns out, is an Army veteran with a history of struggling with serious mental health issues since childhood, according to his own relatives. Family members TOLD ASSOCIATED PRESS that Brouillette had a history of terrifying and violent behavior. He was said to be abusive of women, telling one in a voicemail that someone should slit her throat. His ex-wife said he once threw boiling water at her while holding their daughter. Yet, he was an official ICE agent, charged with protecting American citizens. Do you feel protected by this thug?
Only days earlier, an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Agents claimed the victim tried to run them down in his vehicle. Of course, that’s the same claim agents make in these cases—like that of Renee Nicole Good. That claim was disputed by witnesses, and, of course, there was no body cam video to back up that claim of “weaponization” of his vehicle. His son, Ronaldo Salgado, sad he learned of his father’s death not from official sources, but from a social media video taken from a passing auto.
The day following Brouillette’s killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine, an unidentified man in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer truck as he was being pursued by ICE.
On July 14, following the Maine shooting, ICE announced it would temporarily end traffic stops
But guess what? Donald Trump did what he does best: shoot from the lip. Taking to Truth Social, he countermanded that order, directing ICE agents, who he said were “doing a GREAT job,” to continue doing traffic stops.
Trump Orders ICE to Not Change a Thing After Third Killing in a Week | The New Republic
Borrowing a phrase LBJ used to describe his predecessor’s Caribbean policies, Trump is running “a damned Murder, Inc.” through ICE. And one of its biggest branch offices is right here in Louisiana.
Inside-the-Black-Hole_Systemic-Human-Rights-Abuses-Against-Immigrants-Detained.pdf.
Louisiana has surged to the FOREFRONT OF NOTORIETY in the treatment of detainees, mostly by private prison companies like LaSalle Enterprises of Ruston and GEO Corp. of Boca Raton, Florida.
When searching online for ICE detention centers in Louisiana, it’s difficult to find anything positive about them. Plagued by inhuman conditions, reports abound about isolation, withholding of medical care that is often inadequate when received, stabbings, beatings and deprivation of civil and legal rights, story after story relates horrific treatment of immigrants and citizens alike.
Louisiana ICE Detention Centers Face Worsening Conditions – VisaVerge
Conditions are such that publications and organizations as diverse as The Washington Times, the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center and Physicians for Human Rights have found it necessary to feature Bayou State ICE facilities in a negative light.
Federal watchdog flags use-of-force violations at Louisiana’s largest ICE facility
End Louisiana Immigration Detention – Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center
Even the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s office reported “horrifying” use-of-force violations at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield operated by LaSalle.
DHS watchdog reveals ICE agents’ horrifying use-of-force violations
A Louisiana judge earlier this month ordered the ICE facility in Basile in Evangeline Parish to RELEASE A WOMAN only months after she had given birth when ICE ignored its own rules on detaining pregnant and postpartum women.
But that order notwithstanding, ICE, a rogue gang of vigilantes who are unable to conform in a civilized society, routinely defies or otherwise ignores judges’ orders to release detainees.
How ICE defies judges’ orders to release detainees, step by step – POLITICO
And why not? Those private prisons like LaSalle are paid by the occupied bed, so it’s critical that as many beds as possible be occupied to generate top dollar for the private prison. And because they contribute generously to Republicans like Trump and Jeff Landry, it’s a dead certainty that the orders are going to come down from the Justice Department to DHA and to ICE to keep the facilities as full as possible at all times.
It was only a matter of time before Gov. Jeff Landry, with the blessings of DHS and Trump, would decide to open a detention facility in America’s deadliest prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The decision to house asylum seekers in a place intended for hardened criminals tells you a lot about the mindset of the decision makers and their complete lack of human compassion.
The Notorious Prison Chosen As Latest ICE Facility – Newsweek
What can you do about it? Plenty.
Here is a list of corporations who bankroll the biggest ICE supporters in Congress and the contributions they’ve made for those members who, in turn, lead the efforts to fund ICE so that it can continue to terrorize innocent people with zero accountability:
One individual’s boycott of these corporations won’t mean a thing to them. But collectively, if thousands or tens-of-thousands suddenly were to cease support all at once, the message would be heard loud and clear.
Folks, this may get me in a world of trouble, but these damned ICE agents are nothing more than domestic terrorists masquerading as guardians of the universe as if they were Storm Troopers in a George Lucas movie. My question is, if they’re legitimate, why do they wear masks? Why do they drive unmarked vehicles? Why are local law enforcement agencies so eager to work with these criminals? Why do we allow it?
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Tom, when the call went out for new ICE agents, it became an open door for our of work thugs to now put on a badge and legally shoot someone with no consequences. I can see the poster now: Tired and frustrated of illegal immigrants taking your job? Join ICE and take it back, legally.
Thanks for the list. Too many people(red, blue, purple and no party) are willfully ignorant of these things. Others support them. The rest of us are effed. I already try to avoid Home Depot and will limit purchases from others
I’m going to an anti-ICE rally
We need thousands more like you. I hope it’s a movement that is going to grow.
Billy McConnell (sp?) the owner of the many LLCs of LaSalle was the keynote speaker at the La Tech graduation ceremony this spring.
Right. I wrote about that on May 20.
I am going to an anti-ICE protest this very evening in West Monroe!!!!!!!!!! ICE has raided several restaurants in Monroe/West Monroe and closed some indefinitely – Ronin’s, Merlin’s Kitchen. This is WRONG!!!!! We are definitely in a police state!!!!!!!!!!!
well you democommies don’t mention the American citizens killed by illegals, which far out numbers any ICE action.
you have no idea what a police state is. If we were one you wouldn’t be able to write the BS you wrote here. Suck it up buttercup, if you’re illegal you are gone, if you intefere, impede or try to cause bodily harm, you will be dealt with appropriately.
What do you think the early stages of a police state looks like? Or do you think total control happens overnight? ICE does as it damn well pleases. The National Guard is in DC, but it’s not coming to Dry Prong for a while yet. Trump is going after his enemies first, and the media, and those with the political power to stop him, and those with the platform to stop him, and on down the list. Tom and the people who comment here will be the last to lose their right to free speech, and it won’t be taken by Trump. It will be taken by some local toady in the power structure that replaces a democratically elected government. But it is, of course, useless to point any of this out to anyone who is willing to defend it. Logic and reason, morality and principle, have already left the building.
Ah, Goosie, we’ve miss ye so. You’re always good for a laugh with your slinging around the word commie just like that buffoon in the Oval Office. You know, we’d agree with you but then we’d all be wrong. As I’ve told you before, you don’t know the difference between socialism, communism and capitalism. You’re a damn fool not to understand that when your home is saved by the fire department, that’s socialism and when the insurance company denies the claim for the fire damage to your home, that’s capitalism. But true to form, ol’ Goosie just keeps pounding away at the democommiee drumbeat. Too bad it’s the only argument between those little ears of yours. Here’s a tip to avoid those democommies; next time someone breaks in your home, don’t call 911–call a fascist Repugnantcan. Oh, an don’t even think about using Medicare or cashing your social security check or driving on a public street or using a public sewer system to flush your toilet. That would make you a pink-o commie.
Gawd, I love reading your comments.
Goosebumps, how do you quantify your numbers? We only know the ones ICE gunned down in the street. We don’t have any hard numbers on the ones killed while being detained in all these private centers. And, I’m pretty sure if you take the number murdered in the streets and the ones killed/allowed to die in cages, it’ll pretty much dwarf the numbers of Americans killed by illegals.
But you know what’s really obscene here? It’s your morbid practice of apparently trying to keep score like it’s a contest. You’re sick