ICE Deporting High School Students May 26, 2009
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Sometimes, I wonder why I’m still here. It is news like the following that make me question my ability to be here for much longer. Apparently, ICE, along with the TSA, arrested and deported 3 high school students in San Diego. Instead of going after employers, and drug dealers, and such, their time is best spent dealing with FUCKING high school students. Makes me want to cry. And let this fly in the face of those that day that TSA isn’t involved in immigration matters, they are, or at least they are when ICE forces them to be.
Of course, the kids broke under pressure. If the likes of me would, I can’t imagine a kid of 15, 16 or 17 years holding out against the likes of ICE. Of course they were going to confess that they were in the country illegally. They kids were at a trolley station for god’s sake. The parents are saying this was a raid in the part of ICE, I say this was fucked up. Apparently they were taken in because of their behavior, not their skin color. Yeah, right.
Here is a quote from the article,
The girl told Rios and her family that she was sitting at a bench at the trolley station about 6:30 a.m. waiting for a friend when agents surrounded her.
According to the girl, the agents also boarded the trolley cars and questioned passengers.
Twenty-one people, including the minors, were detained, according to Rios and Border Patrol officials.
Morales, the Border Patrol agent, said the Border Patrol agency assisted TSA in a standard operation. TSA agents, he said, are trained to look for suspicious behavior at mass-transit stations as part of their routine operations.
The agents have conducted such operations since 2005, Morales said.
Rios and the parents of the youths said such tactics can be characterized as racial profiling. Rios said agents directed themselves at “people who looked Latino and asked them for papers.”
This sort of news makes it hard for me to be a blogger because this could easily happen to me, so very easily. One mistake, one wrong action, that’s all it would take. I still have to be careful for the time being, but the time of being careful and paranoid will come at an end, one way or another, I’m sure of it.
Read more about this fucked up situation here.
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