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Some of the schools are in lockdown, or so I'm told.
My daughter is already terrified of ICE. Now, the ICE f**kers are expanding their raids on Halloween.
The neighborhood association here is actively discussing alternatives to standard trick-or-treating.
F**king inexcusable.
Update - I just ran into a neighbor who was walking back from a nearby school. She was wearing a whistle around her neck, and she was one of the parents who volunteered to assist with dismissal at the school. It's an elementary school, but ICE dirtbags were seen nearby.
I suppose it's heartening to see the community come together to resist what's going on.
Chasstev365
(6,937 posts)I'm only here on weekends when classes are in session, but I came back early to help with Halloween.
Deuxcents
(25,219 posts)cab67
(3,568 posts)Personally, I think having a lot of adults out with the kids might dissuade ICE from trying anything. But then, maybe it won't.
There was an accident near here involving an ICE vehicle and a resident's car. The agents evidently arrested someone in the car.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/31/ice-detains-one-person-near-oakton-and-sherman-friday-morning/
Deuxcents
(25,219 posts)Theres more of us than there are of them but were not the ones with combat military capabilities on our streets with helicopters hovering overhead. Im having a hard time believing this nightmare is real
The municipal government has issued an advisory for parents on trick or treating.
I suspect my neighborhood will still hold festivities.
slightlv
(7,283 posts)but the fact we have to "put up" with them violating our rights, terrifying our kids, brutalizing seniors and treating nobody with the human dignity they deserve just because they're human... it's offensive to any thinking, caring individual. And no matter what trump and his police goons (of any stripe) try, they are NEVER going to make the whole country turn on each other. Yet, that's what they're trying to do. Turn us against each other... turn us against authorities (when so many of us have bad feelings about them to start), so he can declare martial law under the insurrection act and cancel elections... thereby ascending a king's throne that isn't there with full rights of life and death over anyone and everyone. And yet, we're helpless to fight back. It offends the sense of fairness, of justice, of right and wrong. And he's pushing it until... if he doesn't die soon (or otherwise be de-throned), he's gonna get just what he wants. Civil war in this country. And then, the Ace of Spades on THIS deck of hoodlums will be he, himself.
ananda
(34,244 posts)This term is his demented revenge tour
across America, to destroy everything in
his wake if possible...
just because we elected Biden in 2020.
slightlv
(7,283 posts)pandr32
(13,719 posts)He blames us all for him having a rap-sheet. How dare we!
Walleye
(43,618 posts)ananda
(34,244 posts)That he found so many handlers and enablers
is kind of amazing to me.
The amount and level of hate in this country
shouldn't be surprising to me, but I still find
myself surprised at it.
I think it's the freedom to express it that
shows it up that way.
Walleye
(43,618 posts)Most of our population is not capable of critical thinking. Seems like they will fall for anything.
ananda
(34,244 posts)the total lack of morality and empathy in our
Republicans these days.
It represents a total loss of humanity and
endangers all of us, bar none.
wnylib
(25,355 posts)He is not intelligent enough to mastermind what goes on. That is done by others who will continue trying to run the show without him.
However, without TSF's twisted charisma, it will be harder for them to keep people willingly on board with them. They will resort quickly to harsh military rule.
tblue37
(68,018 posts)B.See
(7,601 posts)ARE THE TERRORISTS.
Initech
(107,161 posts)And fuck this administration to hell.
going after children is despicable........still trying to entice adults to go after them for Trump's insurrection act........
Initech
(107,161 posts)Anyone who voted for this fucking psychopath can go straight to hell.
C Moon
(13,401 posts)Didn't look into it, but that would be nuts.
cab67
(3,568 posts)Theres video on YouTube. The vehicles were illegally parked.
Ilsa
(63,737 posts)of their vehicles. You know, make them walk another quarter mile from where they parked.
ChicagoTeamster
(339 posts)They've been on the North and South sides closer to the lake but also in the near suburbs. They supposedly even raided an Aldi.
PatSeg
(51,801 posts)I suppose I should be shocked, but not much surprises me these days.
sab390
(213 posts)They have long tried to have moderate housing. It is quite wealthy but it just goes to show people can live together.
PatSeg
(51,801 posts)It was one my favorite places to live. I just can't picture ICE storming through the streets.
mucifer
(25,480 posts)Tear gas in front of a nursing home.
slightlv
(7,283 posts)on a night made for childhood fun. Where is the Candyman when you need him?!
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Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)sheshe2
(95,389 posts)slightlv
(7,283 posts)but in the story they talked about the storm troopers doing in both in Chicago and in LA. Since Yahoo and Google news comes up automatically with my start page, I'd be comfortable saying it was one of them. Although both of them are nothing more than aggregators, so I apologize once again.
sheshe2
(95,389 posts)I was responding to the post that was hidden by a troll that has been shown the door. She pops up frequently, actually she is here multiple times daily and has been for years. I was just having some fun with them.
LisaM
(29,461 posts)Don't any of them have kids of their own? I predict that when this is all over, many of them will suffer lifelong PTSD and there will be a rash of suicides, another byproduct of this sad chapter.
popsdenver
(1,369 posts)Gather them all up, put them on military aircraft, give them chutes and drop them into some war zone and see how they all do against people who shoot back......
Trueblue1968
(19,020 posts)Build a huge HUGE mansion with food to last 100 years and every modern goodie they would need. 1 way trip !!!!!
DonOLD Rump can be king of the moon.
popsdenver
(1,369 posts)his spawn, Jared, the Republican Senators, Republican House members and the Republican Supreme Court Justices should get their individual cells at Colorado Supermax.......(they spend 23 hrs a day alone, in their TOTALLY concrete cells. Concrete stool, concrete bed with a pad, tiny concrete table, and a combination stainless steel toilet/sink........ Their meals are served through a slot in the door, the cell is insulated so there is NO ability to communicate with other prisoners, no yells back and forth between their cells. Absolutely NO emails, cell phones, texting...NO communication at all with the outside world. I don't think they are even allowed a tv or radio, NO view from the window except upwards at the sky. Visitors once a month, supervised? and only their attorney can visit them with time/date reserved way in advance.
It is worse than the death penalty, prisoners have said.......Alone, in total isolation, for the rest of their lives, left to rot in their cell until that happens.
The two guards aren't allowed to speak with them when they chain them up for their trip to the shower and tiny exercise yard for an hour each day......
The small exercise yard is inside with really tall concrete walls and with a roof? so they can't even see the sky .........
They guy that bombed the federal building killing a 100+ Men, Women, and Children was sentenced there instead of the death penalty. After six months in Colorado Super Max, he was begging the court for the Death Penalty, which they granted....He was shown that Super Max was far far worse than death........
Torchlight
(6,261 posts)The only viable method I can see is these guys are hungry to be told what to do, what to believe, and what to think if it all validates their own inner "it's THEIR (insert minority of choice here) fault my life's not as good as should be. They're too equal..."
Grim Chieftain
(1,073 posts)Good grief, if it's this bad now, imagine what it will be like in three more years.
allegorical oracle
(6,116 posts)Border Patrol is much rougher on the people they go after because their training is intended for protecting the border, while ICE training is geared for handling immigration issues that aren't on the border. (That either one is plaguing U. S. residents is infuriating.)
Prairie Gates
(7,047 posts)Some of us have teens going out for Halloween.
cab67
(3,568 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,047 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Quotas set by the puppy killer.
cab67
(3,568 posts)It's happening specifically to express cruelty.
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tblue37
(68,018 posts)But the timing of this particular push suggests a different motivation - specifically, to punish blue congressional districts for being blue by disrupting Halloween.
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surfered
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Initech
(107,161 posts)May they all rot in hell.
Thats how I refer to them
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DFW
(59,635 posts)It DID happen here, but that was 80 years ago, and the whole country was bombed flat for it.
These days, if ICE were to show up in its present form, they would be arrested immediately, and any of them found to be armed would get an automatic 5 year minimum sentence (that's the law here for any and all offenses committed with a firearm).