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Since Donald Trump’s return to office, ICE and DEA agents have intensified immigration enforcement, conducting door-to-door sweeps in Colorado.

Initially targeting suspected criminals, recent operations now question all residents, regardless of warrants. A Denver apartment complex saw widespread searches, sparking protests and fear among undocumented families.

Activists and attorneys are mobilizing to inform residents of their rights. Schools report growing student anxiety.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed a broad crackdown, declaring, “If you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table.”

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like a Nazi looking for Jews.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the future: "Everything they had was repossessed by the jackasses associated to these assholes, but now we have freed them and crowdsourced society into compensating them for the stuff those jackasses enriched themselves with, so it's all fine now."

[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ah, the freedom-loving government flexing its muscle by turning neighborhoods into checkpoints. Door-to-door sweeps? That’s not law enforcement; that’s a dystopian scavenger hunt.

Let’s not pretend this is about “safety.” It’s about fear—fear as policy, fear as spectacle. When agents knock on every door “just in case,” they’re not enforcing laws; they’re shredding trust. Schools full of anxious kids? Families sleeping with one eye open? That’s the real legacy here.

And Tom Homan’s “on the table” rhetoric? Sounds more like a threat than governance. If this is the new normal, then democracy’s just a word we slap on the side of the bus while it careens off a cliff.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

By instilling fear, fascist regimes aim to create a compliant population that willingly surrenders individual freedoms and critical thinking in exchange for a false sense of security and belonging.....https://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/fascism-and-denigration-individual

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I feel like they are pushing everyone to the breaking point. How long until they knock on the wrong door and get shot?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Homan didn't just threaten individuals and communities, he threatened city and state officials who would dare get in his way. Almost like he knows what he's doing will draw a lot of ire.

He's taking small town good ol' boy sheriff attitude to the federal level, that's why conservatives love him.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

The good ol' boy sheriff attitude isn’t just a personality quirk—it’s a power fetish wrapped in folksy branding. Conservatives don’t love him for his “toughness”; they love him because he’s a blunt instrument for their authoritarian fantasies.

Threatening officials isn’t law enforcement; it’s political theater designed to intimidate and dominate. The ire he’s drawing? That’s the sound of people waking up to the fact that this isn’t governance—it’s performative cruelty masquerading as leadership.

[–] [email protected] 139 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm....speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.

Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you're happy with your choices.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago

Seriously fucked up. Sane people saw this coming and tried to stop it. Now there's straight up Nazi shit happening in America.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (4 children)

hope you're happy

Or better, hope your losing sleep and sick to your stomachs and ready to take action in every available protest, election, boycott, donation, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

One can dream.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I hope you get used to this feeling. Cuz it's going to keep happening. It's so fucking clear that the Democrats are not learning a single thing from this utter defeat they suffered. And the many defeats they've suffered the last decade and a half.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Tell them to suck your dick and get a warrant, that is what I would do. Unconstitutional douchebags need to learn the constitution one insult at time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

https://denverite.com/2025/02/04/denver-immigration-protest-rights-training-trump-psl/

that's exactly what you should do, and if you're not the target you should get a megaphone, learn a few phrases in spanish, and show up at the ICE raid to tell them that

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also make sure to check their warrants when they have them, they often only get an administrative warrant which doesn't mean dick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

If they have a warrant they can break my door down to enforce it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that is what I would do

No you wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I just wouldn't respond to them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And then they shoot you in the head and it's fine because this is Trump's America.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stop resisting! Oh my god, officer down, officer down! Get backup!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Acorns are everywhere! I repeat acorns everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How can we make this expensive for them?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't hurt to know your legal rights, but we're also in "put people in a concentration camp" territory now, so they will likely be ignored.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The thing is you have to force them to do it illegally, brutally, while people can see it. If you give in, if you agree to things, it's too easy for them.

Yes, many people who stand up to them will die. It's already been allowed to get to that point. Yet if you sit back and give in, it happens so much more quickly, and much more brutally.

This is especially true if you're white, or at least not openly a minority. If you're a middle aged white male, make them go through you. It's dangerous, you might not make it, so make sure you're ready. White men standing up to them, constantly, is cognitive dissonance to them. They'll expect you to always be on your side, and when everyone isn't, they stumble.

If people constantly resist them at every angle they will fail. We will lose good people doing it, and we have to.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yet another disgraceful and dark stain in American history books with the fascist pig Homan working hard to ruin peoples’ lives for no reason other than petty cruelty.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Hmmmm those are paper thin plate carriers. Makes you think.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you telling me these tacticool cops aren’t actually operators?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean those bump helmets are definitely representative of ICE at large, useless security theater to give fragile white egos an unearned sense of safety.

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