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.
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.
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?
Yes.
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.
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.
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!
Cops almost always target the easy ones instead of the dangerous ones. Cowards, racists, and bullies, the lot of them.
So true
ICE only goes after the most vicious, violent & inked seamstresses on their way to work with their daughters
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?
That’s why you need a militia.
But liberals hate guns for some reason.
It’s so hard to get a permit to carry in a blue city. You literally need permission from the fucking cops to excercise your constitutional rights.
Meanwhile, a rural hillbilly can just stock up automatic weapons. Zero permits.
It’s so ironic. The laws are in favor of fascists, because the lesser evil of the two main parties are kneecaping us before the fight against fascism began.
Thanks alot, Democrats!
(We really need a true leftist party that’s Pro-2A)
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
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.
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”.
Honestly it’s going to make being a cop less safe.
Good.
They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!
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
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.
“gang associations” is ICE’s version of “I smell marijuana”.
Unironically, ICE, DHS, and any “law enforcement” agency is ‘Murica are the real gangs.
It’s only matter of time till people start planting ICE agents for this shit.
This is good internet tough guy rhetoric, but there is a reason people don’t do this.
Yes, in theory, it might be possible to make a self-defense claim if you’re charged with murder for killing an ICE agent. If some plain-clothes thug comes and tries to abduct you off the street, how are you to know they’re not human traffickers trying to abduct you instead of federal agents? The entire reason we have uniformed law enforcement is so that people can know they are agents of the law. A good self defense claim could absolutely be made, a simple case of mistaken identity, entirely the fault of agents who chose not to wear their uniforms.
The problem with this isn’t legal, it’s practical. If you shoot an ICE agent, you’re never going to make it in front of a judge to make that claim. They will kill you. You will be dead. Even if you somehow escape the scene, they will follow you to your house. They’ll put on their full uniforms, break down your door, and claim you pointed a weapon at them as they fill you full of lead. You are never going to be allowed in front of a judge to make your claim of self defense. You will simply be executed. This is how police officers always treat cop killers. Cop killers, even if they kill in self defense, do not get their day in court.
Killing an ICE agent is simply committing suicide. And while some would argue that this would be preferable to ending in an El Salvadoran prison, the truth is that, right now, very few people are actually ending up in such places. Only a tiny fraction of those detained by ICE end up in a place like that. That could change in the future, but right now, if you’re apprehended by ICE, the most likely outcome is that you’ll simply be deported. And even if you’ll be deported to a country where you face a high risk of violence, a high chance of death tomorrow is often preferable to a guaranteed death today.
This is the same reason very few Jews in the Holocaust took up arms against the Gestapo. Sure, it’s tempting to look back and ask, “why didn’t those condemned Jews fight back? Why didn’t every Jewish man sit in their home with a shotgun pointed at the door, waiting to take out the first Nazi bastard that barged in? If every Jew killed took one Nazi bastard out with them, the Holocaust would have never happened! It’s not like they had anything to lose!” It’s easy to say that. But again, a slim chance at life tomorrow is preferable to no chance at life today. A few people did get lucky and actually manage to survive the concentration camps. Better a chance at life than a guaranteed death.
Getting shipped off to a prison in El Salvador is a death sentence as well dude.
They better start building some ghetto’s before they run out of space in the camps
I have some news for you about how they will keep enough space in the camps.
I hope they won’t, if you see how little is done about Gaza after 50,000 deaths. Let’s just cross out fingers mass deportation turns out to be the cheaper solution.
They are. Texas giving dhs land and funding
First they came for the illegal immigrants - and I did nothing…
First they came for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
“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?
These people need to be shot. I’m not kidding, if they come for a member of your community fucking shoot them; that’s the only way to stop them.
You can FOIA request the names and at the very least home offices of every person that works for ICE. It’s public information for now
Because the Republicans/Nazis are respecting FOIA‽
It comes down to the official that processes the requests too. Kinda why they’re firing everybody
Violent gangsters who threaten democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street like the feral thugs they are.
The people who are most anti-fascist live in anti-gun jurisdictions. So ironic. (Thanks to Democrats)
Here he is:
What a mom, just reassuring her daughter the whole time.
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These fucking nazis man, sickening.
Dox this terrorist.
Him, and every other one. Please. We can’t let terrorists get away with this.
Violent gangsters who threaten our democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street.
“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
Is it just me, or do the two thugs look way too much like thugs?
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.
Doesn’t Trunk wear a deep red gang tie most if the time???
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.
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.
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.
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.
