The 18-year-old and her mother — Elsy Noemi Berrios, 52 — planned to ride to work together, which happened daily in the month of March. Cruz Berrios recently started as a seamstress where her mom had worked for the past five years.
But March 31 was different for Cruz Berrios.
Their car on a street in Westminster was suddenly surrounded by ICE agents, with at least one wearing a face covering. The agents didn’t present a warrant, according to Cruz Berrios. They shouted orders at the mother to get out of the car.
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The mother and daughter believed the agents had been after her undocumented mother. That’s because ICE officers previously came to the family’s Westminster home twice but were denied entry each time.
“They didn’t have a warrant. They knew their rights. ICE went away,” said Halle Blitzstein, the mother’s Baltimore-based attorney.
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“I don’t need to show you the order,” an officer said in Spanish. Most of the video includes the officer speaking in Spanish, but the voice was barely audible in the video because the car window was partially rolled up.
“I’m not going to give you the order, it’s in the car,” the officer said just before the mother was taken from the car.
“No!” the daughter screamed. “You guys cannot take her just because you want to.”
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The government said that Berrios’ apprehension was driven in part because she is an associate of the violent gang MS-13, which has Salvadoran roots.
“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email. McLaughlin did not respond to a request for details of Berrios’ alleged gang behavior.
Cruz Berrios and her mother’s attorney vehemently deny that Berrios has a connection to gang membership.
Is it illegal to walk around in a vest that says ICE and such. Like if we all did it, then anyone accosted by the real ICE with no warrant could simply drive away because it would be plausible that it wasn’t an ICE agent.
Impersonating a law enforcement officer is a crime, yes.
Would matter if you never claimed to be ICE or anything. Just wore the vest. There must be some legal definition of impersonating.
It’s one of the alphabet agencies. So afaik it’s the same authority as the FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA, IRS, ATF, DEA, that kind of thing
States need to start stepping up to protect their population. They can’t legally prevent ICE from entering the state, but they can refuse to share information with them, pardon crimes, hand out informational pamphlets educating them on their rights, declare state of emergency if need be.
I do wonder how much further red and blue states can move away from each other before they un-unite.
It will come down to state budgets getting wrecked, not civil rights abuses. I also think they will coordinate and won’t pull the trigger until they get multiple states ready to do it.
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I’m not American. Their uniforms say police. Are ICE agents police? How do you recognize them? Do you have the same rights with police or ICE?
From Wikipedia:
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
So they more like FBI than local police or state troopers, but I’m not American either so
You are supposed to have the same rights regardless of the authoritative agency.
However when it comes down to it, it’s guys with guns vs normal people.
If this ever ends we should send all these ICE agents to El Salvador.
“Americans can rest assured” no the fuck I cant
So they wouldn’t let ICE inside their house to search for the grandmother, correct?
And then days later, ICE suddenly decides that the mom and granddaughter have “gang ties”, correct?
Riiiiiiiiight. Having “gang ties” is now the equivalent of cops planting a crack pipe on you.
Gang ties is actually quite genius. Nothing to plant. No evidence required.
It’s like Whose Line is it Anyway. The crimes are made up and the evidence doesn’t matter.
Evil genius is also a kind of genius.
Doesn’t Trunk wear a deep red gang tie most of the time???
ICE are LITERALLY HUMAN TRAFFICKING and LITERALLY ARMED THUGS who LITERALLY WEAR COLORS FOR THEIR ORGANIZATION which is a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION
These gangsters should be dealt with like the gangsters they are.
ICE are nothing but Brown Shirts doing the bidding of the Mango Mussolini. This is disgusting and when are we going to do something about this. My congress-monkey is part of the problem so not matter how much I complain to him nothing will get done.
This is a bad comic, the last 3 pillars are the same. There is no legal distinction between those 3. Of course that is the argument the administration is trying to make
They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!
The government said that Berrios’ apprehension was driven in part because she is an associate of the violent gang MS-13, which has Salvadoran roots.
Then habeas corpus those roots to a judge otherwise it is time to change tactics with law enforcement.
Law enforcement agencies keep making the country less safe for Americans so that it is more safe for law enforcement. At some point it is the duty of the residents to stop the police.
Not even a joke at this point. If ICE takes your family member you should expect them to be tortured. What point is there in being alive, if that just happens and you do nothing but watch.
If you can’t assume you’ll get due process, people are going to decide whether to defend themselves when their rights are being violated. Honestly it’s going to make being a cop less safe.
Genuinely surprised it hasn’t happened yet
They must not be apprehending very dangerous people.
It’s much easier than arresting an actual armed MS-13 gang member. /s
/s is completely unnecessary here, as that’s exactly how they operate.
ICE only goes after the most vicious, violent & inked seamstresses on their way to work with their daughters
Cops almost always target the easy ones instead of the dangerous ones. Cowards, racists, and bullies, the lot of them.
So true
Kinda my thinking, too.
If I know I’m going to see a judge, I might not force the issue if I think a cop is violating my rights. I’ll wait until the hearing and go from there. If I can’t count on seeing a judge, does it become my job to defend my rights?
Especially when the alternative is being sent to a Gulag in El Salvador where you will either die or spend the next decade in squalor.
Right? If I can’t count on a judge to stop that from happening, I gotta stop it myself.
Change, rights, progress, come from and are reinforced out of four boxes. Soap box. Ballot box. Jury box. Cartridge box.
We are at jury box, it seems. I really hope the tide turns and we start winning. That last box is terrifying.
Yes.
But didn’t you hear? The 52 seamstress was a notable MS-13 player. ICE are so brave…or MS-13 has gone real downhill…or, ya know, it’s neither of that…
But American citizens are now completely under the thumb to Kremlin-style narrative. It’s not like anyone’s going to react
Now you’re under control and now you do what they told you. Every. Time. It’s too easy!
A bleak truth, but the first time that happens is going to be the last time that happens.
Once an ICE agent gets shot for trying to disappear someone out of their own home or car, they’ll start disappearing people with guns drawn and a finger over the trigger. Innocent people are going to get killed, and the agents won’t be held accountable because it was “self-defence”.
My money’s on orangeboi invoking the insurrection act the first time some serious resistance (read: an ICE agent gets plinked) to this secret police shit happens. They’re doing this in large part to trigger a reaction, imo, and when they get a reaction they’re gonna just go “BDJEKDNEEKENJE ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE AND WOKE PEOPLE AND LIBS ARE TERRORISTS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” and then it’s open season.
Honestly it’s going to make being a cop less safe.
Good.
What do you think will happen when someone defends the self with deadly force? Do you think these people will stop or do you think that person will end poorly?
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Missouri is very lax on gun laws and the St. Louis area is very liberal and hillbillies are fucking terrified to come around here. Just floating ideas
Anyone who sees ICE performing an arrest has the moral obligation to run them over with their car.
The only way cops will respect people’s rights is if they’re afraid of what might happen if they violate them. That goes for all people. Power corrupts. Without checks to keep them in line, every cop is corrupt.
“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email.
DO NOT WORRY CITIZENS, I HAVE RESOLVED THE PROBLEM I INVENTED
McLaughlin did not respond to a request for details of Berrios’ alleged gang behavior.
TRUST US. WHY WOULD WE LIE?
“I didn’t know they could do something like that — especially when you hadn’t done anything,” her daughter said.
What an awful thing to have to learn
Look at those cheeseburger eating, wiping the paper bag with their face, off brand Nazis. The extra dumb kind that doesn’t fit into Hugo Boss. What a micropenis convention the US has become.
ICE ain’t NICE nor LEGAL
It is the American Gestapo.
Border patrol can get fucked too with that 200 mile inland nonsense.
