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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 08:18 AM Jun 2019

I see ICE is planning on knocking down doors looking for "illegals"...

Once was a time I lived in Elizabeth, NJ about a block from the old Burry's Cookie Factory, and walking distance from Newark's Ironbound.

The entire area was South American, and my neighborhood was Brazilian. My favorite restaurant had the menu in three languages-- Portugues, Spanish, and English. Good thing, too, because hardly anyone there spoke English and you ordered by pointing. You really felt you were traveling when in there. Little deli across the street had some incredible imported stuff, too.

Other neighborhoods were from different countries, but the food was always good, and there was always a festival happening. Music, dancing, and laughter-- just like in the old movies.

Newark's Ironbound was named because it was bordered by railroad tracks. It was a stopping point for generations of immigrants; Italians, Irish, Eastern European... many stopped in the Ironbound before moving on to final settlements. Now it's South Americans.

I doubt it's changed much, and ICE would make whatever quotas they have in no time at all. But the very fabric of the cities would be destroyed. And all for no reason.



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I see ICE is planning on knocking down doors looking for "illegals"... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 OP
It was horrific under the Obama administration. Now it is much worse mucifer Jun 2019 #1
And that's how they get away with making it worse shanti Jun 2019 #6
Terrorism at its finest. democratisphere Jun 2019 #2
Who invited the fucking gestapo? world wide wally Jun 2019 #3
he did: Celerity Jun 2019 #4
They had better watch out in the south or rural Pennsylvania DFW Jun 2019 #5

shanti

(21,675 posts)
6. And that's how they get away with making it worse
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 04:43 PM
Jun 2019

Putting it on Obama. They think they're slick.

DFW

(54,349 posts)
5. They had better watch out in the south or rural Pennsylvania
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 12:23 PM
Jun 2019

There are not only many immigrants there, there are a lot of local people who are armed to the teeth: Foxsuckers conditioned to expect the Taliban to show up on their doorstep at any second.

As with all such initiatives, some ICE squads will be sent to the wrong address. The unsuspecting American citizens will hear a commotion at their front door, watch it burst inward on them, assume that Taliban have arrived, and blaze away with all the illegal firepower they have amassed. ICE should bring one thing besides their useless court orders:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aca88c73-3ec3-4595-a5ea-134e2ea2f031

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