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H2O Man

(76,721 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:21 PM Mar 25

ICE Scream

This morning, my sister sent me a link to a news story about ICE removing a group of people in my home town. The men who were taken were fairly long-time employees of a roofing contractor. A number of the comments under the article were by home-owners who have had new roofs put on who noted how friendly, polite, and hard workers these men were. But there were a few that might be best summed up by a maga lad who said, “You have to understand – the owner is a Muslim!”

There are times when I go to a grocery store just outside the town. Since I never ask human beings if they have green cards, I saw the group as human beings. I would speak with them, and knew that they were just looking to make a better life for their children. A while back, I encountered a mother and three Little Ones in the store. I would always say how cute and well-behaved the children were. Mom would say they were “so energetic,” and I'd respond that children should be.

So today I am thinking of those three children. They are no different than my children were at their ages. No different than my grandchildren will be in a few years. They come from families with a work ethic – like that our ancestors had when they came here. They are human beings, and not “illegals.”

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ICE Scream (Original Post) H2O Man Mar 25 OP

Casual cruelty Saoirse9 Mar 25 #1

Thank you. H2O Man Mar 25 #2

It's happening here in Maine, too Easterncedar Mar 26 #3

Here's another regional case: H2O Man Mar 26 #4

Here's hoping for a positive decision for them. Easterncedar Mar 26 #5

My daughter H2O Man Mar 26 #6

Monster is right - what a cruel mess malaise Mar 26 #7

Thanks! H2O Man Mar 26 #8

Saoirse9

(3,863 posts)

1. Casual cruelty

Reply to H2O Man (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:34 PM

Mar 25

Is the point if all this I guess. I am so sorry your friends were taken by ice. This is awful when we can see first hand what this horror administration is doing. Bad enough to read about it, but to personally know those innocent people who are being hurt because of racism is really heart breaking.

H2O Man

(76,721 posts)

2. Thank you.

Reply to Saoirse9 (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:50 PM

Mar 25

“We are faced with evil. I feel rather like Augustine did before becoming a Christian when he said, ' I tried to find the source of evil and I got nowhere. But it is also true that I and a few others knew what must be done if not to reduce evil to at least not add to it.' Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of children being tortured. And if you believers don't help us, who else in this world can help us do that?”
Albert Camus

Easterncedar

(4,332 posts)

3. It's happening here in Maine, too

Reply to H2O Man (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2025, 07:28 AM

Mar 26

I was at an activists organizing meeting and the call was made for boxes of first aid supplies and wound care kits for immigrant workers who are afraid to get medical care.