ICE arrests firefighters...

[dmallord]

Imagine living in a world where the authorities stop firefighters from battling a blazing inferno to check their IDs. In that backdrop, as timberland and houses are going up in flames, they arrest two of them for being non-citizens and pulling then off the fire line.

In want Trumpian state of mind does arresting two guys fighting to save your forest and your houses make any fucking sense?

 

[Bn2f]

 

[dmallord]

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Mind meld! Earlier this morning I had the same fable rattling in my hollow mind. I lost it reading the threads. And now, with this, it's back! Thanks. My thoughts exactly.

 

[Bn2f]

This incident actually deserves a serious conversation with explained reasoning from those here who cheer on the 1930's dealings of ICE.
Unfortunately, you're not gonna get that because the political performance artists here are waiting patiently for the next Cracker Barrel logo hullabaloo to drop.

 

[eric_erosfan]

Only a matter of time before people start dying.

 

[dmallord]

Homes in Flames, Heroes in Handcuffs — Trump’s America​

They came to fight a fire, but ICE showed up to fight them—arresting immigrant firefighters while the blaze devoured homes.

Donald Trump promised his supporters that his “brownshirt militia” would rid the nation of our worst nightmares—rapists, murderers, violent criminals, even the absurd claim of people “eating pets.” The rhetoric was meant to terrify. The reality was a spectacle of cruelty and incompetence.

Eager to win Trump’s approval, one official boasted they would hit 3,000 arrests a day. That quota, not justice, became the goal. ICE agents—Trump’s enforcers—descended on meatpacking plants, farm fields, and even Home Depot parking lots. But the “dangerous criminals” they found weren’t predators. They were workers—men and women doing the backbreaking labor that keeps America functioning.

Crops were harvested, meat was processed, homes were built—until those workers were swept up in raids. Farmers fumed, builders worried, and industries that depend on immigrant labor found themselves destabilized. Only pet owners could feel relieved, if only because Trump’s imaginary “pet eaters” weren’t actually real. Faced with backlash, Trump’s allies shifted nervously, backpedaling on who exactly they intended to deport.

The problem was simple: the numbers never matched the narrative. Decades of data show that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. Trump’s claims of rampant criminality weren’t grounded in fact. They were propaganda designed to stoke fear, divide communities, and justify an authoritarian show of force.

And now, we see the same tactic resurfacing in a new form. Two firefighters—people who risk their lives to save others—were caught up in Trump’s dragnet, exposed as “criminals” not by their actions but by their immigration status. While flames raged, ICE chose paperwork over public safety, proving once again that Trump’s America values spectacle over survival.

This time, his attention is on Democratic-led cities. He sends armed agents under the banner of restoring “law and order,” targeting political opponents and their communities. The strategy is as old as it is dangerous: when your failures mount, create an enemy. When your policies collapse, invent a crisis. Authoritarians thrive on it.

The danger isn’t just to those swept up in raids or falsely branded as criminals. The danger is to our democracy itself. A president using federal forces as political weapons erodes the very fabric of the republic. Every arrest meant for headlines instead of justice pulls us closer to the strongmen Trump openly admires—Putin and Kim Jong-il—and further from the rule of law that once defined us.

Americans should see these raids for what they are: not policy, not protection, but political theater staged at the expense of workers, communities, and constitutional principles. Trump’s brownshirts are not keeping us safe—they are keeping us afraid. And that, in the end, may be their real purpose.

 

[Wylie3]

It's time that line in the US anthem "Land of the FREE and home of the Brave" needs changing to "Land of the paranoid and home of the Idiot Donald J Trump"