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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a sitting government official and mayoral candidate was just arrested by masked federal agents at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
His “crime”?
Standing next to a dismissed immigrant case.
Asking to see a warrant.
Linking arms with a human being targeted by ICE.
He was charged with obstruction for demanding the agents show legal authority.
This is authoritarianism, in real time.
🔗 NYMag – Lander Arrested by ICE at Immigration Court
🔗 The Sun – NYC Comptroller Arrested by ICE
🔗 The Guardian – Politicians Condemn Arrest
Constitutional Rights Violated
Fourth Amendment – Right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures without a judicial warrant
Cornell Law – 4th Amendment
First Amendment – Right to free expression, protest, and petition the government
Cornell Law – 1st Amendment
Due Process Clause (14th Amendment) – Cannot be deprived of liberty without fair legal process
Cornell Law – 14th Amendment
Relevant Legal Cases
Lozano v. City of Hazleton (2010): Immigration enforcement must not violate constitutional protections even at the local level.
Case Summary
U.S. v. Olivares-Rangel (2008): ICE must demonstrate reasonable suspicion and lawful procedure when detaining individuals.
Case PDF
What just happened isn’t just “wrong” it’s illegal and dangerous.
Brad Lander wasn’t resisting.
He wasn’t rioting.
He wasn’t breaking anything.
He was exercising the rights that every American is supposed to have:
- Ask for a warrant
- Stand beside a neighbor
- Question a badge
If the government can arrest an elected official for that, no one is safe.
This is what fascism looks like:
- Mask-wearing agents dragging people out of court
- No warrants. No IDs. No oversight.
- Political officials arrested for doing the right thing
And don’t forget this didn’t happen in some distant border town.
It happened in Manhattan. At an immigration court. On U.S. soil. In broad daylight.
What You Can Do:
Share this story before it disappears from the news cycle
Demand accountability: call your reps & demand a congressional ICE investigation
Support Make the Road NY and ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
Organize. Protest. Refuse to stay quiet.
#ThisIsNotNormal
#ICEOutOfCourts
#AuthoritarianCreep
#NoOneIsSafe
#DefendDemocracyNow
Originally Posted By u/Lo_Stallone At 2025-06-17 02:29:56 PM | Source
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I had a phenomenal experience this past weekend I’d love to share with all of you. I don’t post on here often, but this was so exceptional that I hope this story inspires others as the experience did me.
To give some pretext, my Grammy (Cynthia Harrison) passed away about a year ago. One of my favorite stories that I always loved hearing from her was how she staged a protest in her high-school she was attending. She had to follow a dress code. The boys had to wear dress pants and the girls had to wear skirts. The problem was two fold. First, many of the boys did not come from wealthy families. Hence, buying a new pair of dress pants every year for school was a burden not everyone could easily afford. Second, the skirts the girls had to wear were impractical and unsafe for those that walk to school in the bitter cold winter.
What did my Grammy do? She organized a peaceful protest where when the clock struck 2:00 PM, everyone would simultaneously leave their classrooms, walk to the gymnasium, and sit down for 30 minutes in complete silence. The teachers and administration were very confused! The leadership started panicking. They even called the fire department to resolve this situation and make the kids return to class! The fire department arrived in 30 minutes. Just in time for all of the kids to quietly stand up and return to their classrooms. The school admins were completely baffled by what had just occurred. My Grammy used the attention she had acquired to air her grievances and list out her demands. The girls should be allowed to wear pants, and the boys should be allowed to wear their farm jeans.
My Grammy did all this without first telling her father. She knew he would eventually find out, and she believed this would cause him to be very angry. So much so, that she might not have much time left on this Earth. Sure enough, her dad came to know of the incident in next morning’s newspaper! “FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED ON CHAOTIC SCHOOL PROTEST!” To which my Grammy explains her reasoning to her father. To my Grammy’s great surprise, her dad tells her how proud she is of her! The only request he had of her was that she would inform him first next time so that he didn’t have to find out in the newspaper. Not only that, she succeeded! The dress code changed!
This is my Grammy - full of love, compassion, and conviction to stand up for what she believes is right. Even if it is uncomfortable, scary, and has the potential to result in consequences.
Having been told this story, I still used to scoff at protesters. “Don’t you guys have jobs? Don’t you have anything better to do?” Recently, I found myself changing how I viewed them. The level of cruelty that I have seen taking place from Trump towards the foreigner exceeded what I was willing to ignore any longer. That cruelty is what pushed me to join my first protest. You will not believe who I ran into at the protest.
I found my childhood best friends and their families are also here! I wasn’t the only first time protester! I couldn’t believe it! In this small town of rural Chesaning as well? I thought for sure it was going to be me and maybe one other person. Let alone the best friends I spent my childhood growing up with. For my sign, I chose one of my favorite verses that I read in my Grammy’s NIV Study Bible I was gifted.
Leviticus 19:34 NIV
“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
It was in this verse that I learned God also loves the foreigner. So much so, that he commanded Israel to treat the foreigner as their native born! I absolutely fell in love with this verse when I read it last year. Long before ever attending a protest. And long before I came to know how polarized this verse has become.
Recently, I learned that there is a relatively large subset of Christians who claim something akin to the following. “This verse is from Leviticus. This is the law that was given to Israel and only applies to Israel. This does not apply to the Gentile. This does not apply to the Christian.” My response to this claim? I agree. But I do not stop here. By stopping here we are completely missing the whole picture. Jesus did not “abolish” the law, but “fulfilled” it.
Matthew 5:17 NIV
The Fulfillment of the Law
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
This is an initially confusing verse to understand. What does it mean to “fulfill” rather than “abolish?” Don’t the holy scriptures say we are no longer under the “curse of the law” but rather the “curse of Jesus?” And to this I answer yes! But we have to understand what that means. Let us consider Matthew 19 and the story titled The Rich and the Kingdom of God. I’ll highlight the key verses to save room in this post, but I encourage you to read the entire thing. It is a beautiful story.
The Rich and the Kingdom of God
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” …
20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”
21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
Do you see what it means to be a follower of Jesus? The law has been fulfilled. Not abolished. We as followers of Christ are called to an even higher degree of selflessness and compassion than what the Law demanded. I expect if Jesus were here today and you were to ask him, “Jesus, what do we do about the foreigner in our land? What do we do about the illegal alien that is here? They are taking our jobs and increasing our house prices.” I expect He might return with an answer similarly radical such as, “Give your job and home to the illegal foreigner, and come follow me.”
Fear not. I expect this teaching weighs just as heavy on you as it does me. It certainly did for the disciples. Fortunately this is not where the story ends and why it is so beautiful to me. Take a look at these next verses:
25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Amazing! All things are possible with God! I believe God still had work to do in that wealthy man and that he eventually came to understood how much more there was in God’s love than material possessions.
But if you are still hung up on the “illegal” portion of my statement above, I think I may be able to help smooth it over. Let us take a look at the story of The Sheep and the Goats. Specifically verses 41 – 43. But I again encourage you to read the entire thing.
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
I cannot emphasize enough the last part: “and in prison.” Jesus calls upon his followers to show compassion to the criminal. And by showing such compassion, we are showing compassion to Jesus himself. That is where his heart lies and so does mine.
What about our laws? Are the illegals entitled to due process? Don’t the laws say we snatch them up and ship them away? I am not a lawyer. I cannot say for certain. It would personally be more intuitive to me that even the illegal foreigner is entitled to due process. Otherwise, how can we determine if they are illegal in the first place without blindly trusting the government? The moral part of me says foreigners are human beings. Children of God. This alone should be enough to entitle them to due process. But even if illegals aren’t entitled by our laws, that is why our constitution is enshrined with the First Amendment. We can vocalize and bring recognition to laws, administration, and government actions that we feel need to change. If the laws do not protect the illegal foreigner, they should, and I will add that to my list of grievances.
This is why I took my stand in the small rural town of Chesaning on Saturday. For both the legal and illegal foreigner. The foreigner does not have a voice in our land and cannot take that stand for fear of government retaliation. I am compelled to be that voice for them. If you’ve read this far, I just want to say, thank you. I don’t hold any blame or harsh feelings towards any of my friends and family who may disagree with me. It was not but yesterday that I too scoffed at the protester. Now I stand among them. I am proud to not just stand alongside these protesters, but also alongside my best friends. If you are feeling stirred as I am, I want you to know you are not alone! You need not be afraid to make your voice heard! I loved making new friends this weekend, and I loved getting to see my best friends that I haven’t seen in a long time. If you want to join me next time, please feel free to reach out. I will be there and I will be encouraging friends and family to join me! My Grammy taught me that together we can change the rules, ditch the skirts, and all be empowered to wear the pants.
Originally Posted By u/T-CROC At 2025-06-17 09:21:27 AM | Source
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From the Semaphore article: One of the companies, Instant Pot Brands, noted that “a portion of the profits from” its forthcoming collection “will be donated to the Trump Presidential Library.” Instant Pot, which makes kitchen and home appliances, said in its release that it will offer a “45/47 Collaboration,” including various items branded with those numbers and Trump’s “Make America Great Again” tagline.
https://gizmodo.com/your-next-instant-pot-might-be-made-by-donald-trump-2000616365
Other companies: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2025/home-goods-companies-prepare-new-trump-linked-products
Originally Posted By u/MapleDonutGoblin At 2025-06-16 08:05:12 PM | Source
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I wasn't sure it was the right choice at first, but I now realize it was brilliant.
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Putting up these sticky notes in my red, Trump, Christian town as a small form of protest.
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I've been feeling sad about how I wasn't able to show up to the No Kings protest on Saturday, so I've been brainstorming small ways to protest for now until the next one. I made some sticky notes that I'm going to put up in my small Trump-loving town in places that people will most likely see them. It's Leviticus 19:33-34. So far I got one up on a gas pump from when I got gas today. I actually taped it on there because the sticky stuff on sticky notes aren't sticky enough lol. Is this a form of vandalism? I hope not. The cops won't come for me, right? ....right? Anyways, let me know if you think this is a good idea or not, and if you have ideas for other things I can write!
Originally Posted By u/army_cooky At 2025-06-16 07:40:51 PM | Source
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I was arrested for peacefully protesting outside ICE facility and now FBI has my phone
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Yes, you read that right. 6/11/25 I was protesting outside our local ICE facility in Spokane, WA. We were blocking a transport vehicle attempting to transport 2 detainees to the larger state facility in Tacoma Wa. They entered the US legally through asylum seeking. The 2 peoples in question had made all their appointments, had jobs paid taxes etc. 37 peoples in total were arrested. I was charged with local law “failure to disperse”. Most people were charged with that, except for 2 others were charged with false imprisonment. All of our phones were confiscated and we were told our phones would be off site at county property upon our release. When I and several others went to pick up our phones, we were told they had been turned over to the FBI. The agents number we were given went straight to voicemail and calls have not been returned to my lawyer or myself.
Don’t bring your phone to protests! Even with passwords and Face ID, the feds can easily get into your phone. They won’t find anything on my phone, no pics or videos of protesters that are incriminating. Just a bunch of photos of my cats. Still, I feel like my privacy has been gravely violated.
Originally Posted By u/Eat_the_rich1984 At 2025-06-16 01:35:40 PM | Source
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