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ICE Asked to Pause Operations for Halloween So Children Can Trick or Treat (www.newsweek.com)

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has reportedly requested that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and senior ICE officials suspend immigration enforcement operations in Chicago for Halloween.

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[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't directed to you just where I ended up replying.

Not even from the US but those brown shirts gotta go somehow. I hope there is a reckoning before their final crayon drawn plan.

Also I understand the people with the plan don't use crayons that's the worst part. Everyone is allowing an imbecile to be the figurehead while the people in charge have a proper plan that is being acted out. Not nearly the front facade that the US used to try and have for sure. We all knew they did shit, but we're mostly half decent. Now it's full on Nazi.

The imbecile tore down like an arm of what the US called the beacon of democracy (East Wing). And no immediate protests, general strike. If the population doesn't do something who will? Oh yes let's let other countries handle the largest military on earth.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

there are protests pretty much everywhere. persistent and on going.
tearing down the east wing may have been retaliation for no kings 2 in which 7-8 million people turned up across the nation, setting records for turn out- at least as the largest turn out in US history; and I can think of a small handful globally that are larger.
going on a general strike means not earning money, means not being able to feed your kids.
If you're wondering why we're not protesting in DC...The US is the size of the EU. imagine going from Madrid to Amstardam. That's the same straightline distance from me to DC. and I'm only in Minneapolis- people In LA? that's more than double. forget people in Hawai'i, or any of the pacific Islanders. Or Alaska. driving, that's a 16 hour drive, non stop, one way.

It's easy to sit there and feed into this narrative that americans are just going along with it. We're not. you don't hear about it because mainstream media here isn't covering it. and no, we're not asking you to come save us. if it comes to it- and right now, it's looking like it will- we're going to civil war.