A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.
Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a detention centre where she was denied medical care and lost consciousness. The Department of Homeland Security said she was an agitator who was obstructing ICE agents conducting arrests in the area.
That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents make arrests amid protests against what local officials have likened to a “federal invasion.”
Rahman says she was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she encountered federal immigration agents at an intersection. Video appears to show agents shouting commands over a cacophony of whistles, car horns and screams from protesters.
That’s disturbing. If a U.S. citizen can be treated like that, it raises serious questions about due process, accountability, and how often this kind of mistake happens. People deserve answers, not silence.
If you have an accent or if your skin is a shade darker than Owen Wilson’s, you’re not actually a US citizen. Rights are for whites only.
For the love of Zoroaster, I hope I don’t need a /s for this.
It makes no difference if they are a citizen or not in regards to due process, that applies to every person regardless of citizenship.
We should stop saying detained or arrested if the agents fail to identify themselves properly.
Grabbed is the lightweight but accurate one.
Snatched, kidnapped, abducted all fit.
This is a constitutional violation. These masked thugs need to go to jail. Sue sue sue. Nothing gives them the authority to stop US citizens.
Comply and die anyway
The images speak for themselves, but every boot-sniffing, spineless suburbanite who conflates what ICE is doing with "law enforcement" and “protection” from “criminals” should take a good hard look at exactly where that leads. Every time.
It’s this right here. Uniformed thugs with rifles getting rid of State-declared “undesirables.”
“But they wouldn’t come after me.” They tell themselves, as that old quote goes.
The cops are doing this too, to the surprise of nobody. I guess terrorism isn’t against the law anymore, as long as you’ve got a uniform and an acronym, apparently.
The fact anybody’s okay with ANYBODY being treated like this on their own soil is a mirror into the rotten depravity that’s taken root in their souls.
Yeah, but is she sufficiently white?
To anyone who didn’t vote last year because they didn’t like the democrats position to a 100%:
I hope you are happy with what you have enabled. You must feel quite clever right now❤️
Oh, they sure AF do. Just talked to one of these dipsticks in person recently. They feel very clever and smug and look forward to accelerating shit into some kind of Marxist utopia.
And of course, the 'net is lousy with these types.
It’s all so dumb.
BuT TeH GeNoCiDe D:
Great job, now we have genocide AND this bullshit. Thank you so much for saving Palestine! You fucking did it, I guess.
Trump: Yes to Genocide
Harris: I see you, I hear you, but also Yes to Genocide
I voted for Harris because obviously but also I 100% put the blame where it belongs: the DNC.
Yeah, because why blame the corrupt leadership for offering people shit to eat, blame the people for not being happy eating their shit, because look how much worse shit can be shoved down your throat if you don’t like it!
You should post this on x.com or something. Imagine thinking anyone on this site didn’t vote.
Were you not here before the election…?
There’s entire groups on Lemmy where you get banned if you support either US party
“voting is wrong” was an incredibly popular position on lemmy
I don’t think I’ve actually seen that in the wild. Usually what I see is either “voting is insufficient” as in, “historically voting has not ended a dictator’s career” or just badly disguised bad faith/bot stuff often from accounts banned before I read their comments.
I feel like “voting is wrong” is what a group of the latter (bot farmers/trolls) want folks to believe is a real opinion here but I haven’t seen anyone make that argument in good faith. I’ve only ever seen it made secondhand in a way that makes it about as credible as a sasquatch sighting (which there 100% are people dressing up as the sasquatch to fuck with people, so real sasquatch sightings =/= real sasquatches existing)
people conflated “voting won’t save us” with “voting won’t do anything”. If voting was useless they wouldn’t try so hard to stop people from doing it. But also, voting one day a year and shrugging your shoulders 364 days and year cause “I voted” wasn’t enough.
yup. this is my position, too. get active, stay active.
You would be quite surprised by the amount of Americans on here who didn’t vote. I have come across quite a lot
I hate the establishment Dems, neo-liberals suck. But I still voted for them because the actual Fascists and Nazis were unconscionable.
Having two federal parties with the Dems and Republicans being the only feasible options sounds antidemocratic. A true democracy would be a bit more… representative.
I would adore having a half dozen political parties along the spectrum to vote for. I wouldn’t vote for anything less than mild progressivism but still.
Our voting system is fucked is the problem.
It’s like a choice between getting a cavity and getting curb stomped.
It’s more like a choice between voting for Nazi Germany or voting for Vichy France
Exactly.
ICE records show Biden admin plans could give Trump a head start on deportations
President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs
Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress
Tom Homan - Border Czar was originally appointed by Obama
Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.
Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she’d be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.
The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.
You realize what the only logical conclusion to your “pragmatic liberal utilitarianism” is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If they had stopped money to ICE it would have been all over the airwaves. “Dems soft on immigration”.
Wouldn’t be hard to fight back if a broken immigration system wasn’t a bipartisan effort to encourage illegal immigration and let farmers take advantage of workers.
1 billionaire owns like 70% of the radio across the country, doesn’t matter what you say the right’s propaganda machine will always be on target.
And if you’ve reached a point in your political experiment where the only viable “opposition” party is obligated to massively fund fascist brownshirts in order to stay relevant, your experiment has lost legitimacy and must be dismantled.
The DNC did the enabling. They had plenty of opportunity to run a viable candidate or run a stronger campaign with the candidate they settled for and did neither.
Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I’m going to have to assume you’re a Republican if you’re still doing this shit a year after the election.
Liberals are the Center and the Democratic party is Center/Near Right.
People who opposed the monster won’t feel offended by that. Normies won’t be here to see it.
And some of these hardline ultrapurists has to be shamed into doing the right thing
Still blaming Bernie for you picking unelectable candidates.
yup…can run the numbers, he won the popular vote. the “palestine or nothing” people are a drop in the bucket
the overwhelming majority of the country doesn’t have the privilege of caring about people outside their immediate bubble…they’re too busy living paycheck to paycheck
don’t run on “nothing will fundamentally change” if you want americans to vote for you, simple as. maybe also don’t run fucking republicans endorsements during the DNC…
i’m honestly not sure what’s worse, if establishment dems are largely just controlled opposition or if they’re really just this incompetent
100%. “Everything’s fine, stop complaining” wasn’t a good platform in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.
Donald walked through a door that liberal democrats opened.
TWICE.
Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 and still was below 50% in 2024 AND his policies never got support from a majority ever when presented without a name.
There has never been a majority who has liked anything he had to offer.
This was a propaganda war from racist wealthy assholes who bought out a ton of the companies controlling the media landscape. They exploited bullshit election rules and lied and bribed and extorted to suppress resistance, all just so they could be assholes in public without being called in it.
So he’s incredibly unpopular.
And he’s beat democrats two out of the last thee tries.
Do. The. Math.
If you asked people about their policies and literally absolutely anything they wanted to do, and hid the names, Trump always lost because he is MORE unpopular
Media helped Trump steal credit for things others did, instill fear of things his opponents never would do, etc. Nobody lost to Trump by being a worse candidate, but because media refused to be honest and people believed the lies
they wanted to use the threat of fascism to earn free votes, even though they tried that in virginia in 2021 and it failed miserably.
a lot of it comes down to that they’re more convinced by their consultants what works than by the evidence of what works. and their consultants all come from a class of people who make more money the closer an election is to 50/50
Hey shitbird. ♥️
Encouraging those people to rise up and act:
✅ Helpful!
Shaming and mocking people for choosing their conscience instead of understanding game theory, well over a year ago:
❌ Being a shitbird
Jews dragged from their homes by Gestapo were German citizens also.
The migrant vs citizen thing is the thinnest of pretences.
Sooner or later theyll just say theyre getting rid of anyone they dont like, say something about purity or whatever.
You didn’t catch when they called her an “agitator”? Pure, uncut fascism.
They are already mounting a Supreme Court Challenge to birthright Citizenship, and reviewing citizenship documentation for others.
Bottom line: If you weren’t BORN here of American citizens parents, they want you gone.
When they’re done dealing with those people, they’ll start looking at other demographic groups.
If you weren’t BORN here of American citizens parents
Not to say that if you were born here of American citizen parents they don’t also want you gone. Plenty of brown people with Hispanic last names who’s ancestors have lived in the lower 48 for 20,000 years are also getting harassed and abused by ICE.
ICE already says their facial recognition app is more accurate than your actual citizenship papers.
Bottom line: If you weren’t BORN here of American citizens parents, they want you gone.
Except for Musk and Melania and all of their in group.
Oh yeah, if SCOTUS kills Birthright Citizenship, then all of his anchor babies need to leave, too, even those with his first immigrant wife. Only Tiffany can stay.
I mean. Hitler was born in Austria.
Slightly different situation since “Greater Germany” was a concept that predates Hitler while there’s no movement for a single Nation to arise from all Anglophone countries.
You sound like one of those fuckers that claims the US Civil War was because of “states’ rights” instead of slavery
They already claimed they wanted 150M deportations. i.e. anyone who isnt white.
Nazi ideology in-a-nutshell.
They never tell the truth. Everyone they kidnap and assault is protester in their mind.
Rioter*
Sure. Plenty of descriptors come to mind when we see how the proud boi’s and KKK treat their victims.
So ICE have murdered one person, shot another, thrown a flash bang and tear gas into a car full of children who then had to be hospitalized, attacked high schools where they beat staff and gassed students, gassed protestors, gone door to door breaking into houses and dragging out the occupants to be disappeared, pointed guns directly at citizens’ heads… and that’s just what one Canadian has seen from Minneapolis in the last few days. I have friends in Minneapolis and it pains me to see that great city being terrorized daily by this fascist government.
Don’t forget about the person they permanently blinded the other day
He was like only 21 y.o. too.
They murdered way more than that, no one gave a shit about the murders until it happened to a white lady. And really they been murdering for years. They just do the standard shithead “I’m technically within the letter of the rules so you can’t tell on me” shit where they game the system (that they set up).
Case in point: the tactic used by the guy who shot the white lady was not one of the recent hires. He’d been with ice for years and before that with border patrol. So why is he stepping in front of cars, especially when apparently he had an incident stepping behind a car somewhat recently that almost caused him grave injury? Oh and also it’s against DHS policy for agents to stand in front of, behind, or reach into vehicles:
People make mistakes but surely someone went over policy while debriefing the incident where he got dragged by a car or whatever. So why’d he do it again? Oh probably because border patrol does it regularly because if they purposely put themselves in danger it gives them an excuse to use lethal force with plausible deniability and basically never gets looked into because the overwhelming majority of the US populace couldn’t give a single shit about brown people being murdered:
Also note that in this internal review cbp points out what many have pointed out in the aftermath of this: a bullet won’t stop a car, shooting at a car runs a tremendous risk of hitting other people as it’s likely to be in a populated area, and even if you’re successful in incapacitating or killing the driver you’ve basically just created a several thousand pound missile that’s still barreling towards you (and others) with no feasible way to stop safely (which is exactly what happened here. Also note this review finds 15 cases of discharge, several of which resulted in occupants being struck.
This shit has been going on for ages and the apathy towards it in the past is part of what created the conditions for it. It’s escalating, for sure, but it’s not new at all
Lots of people cared, the media just barely touched it so most people didn’t know. I do appreciate you spreading the information because more people do need to learn about it.
Abolish DHS/ICE immediately and lock up anyone even remotely related. And probably hang Kristy Gnome.
Every single one of these motherfuckers deserve a violent death.
ICE in background trying to cover cameras.
enough of this illegal racist GOP-sponsored brutality!
I agree.
Maybe another No Kings rally where we have even more cleverly written signs and chants that rhyme will get them to stop.
Maybe hundreds more people recording on the sidelines from their cell phones instead of directly intervening while people are begging for their lives as they are ripped from their cars should do the trick.
Maybe waggling our middle fingers impotently at them while they detain Native Americans and brown-skinned citizens doing routine shopping or as the gestapo goes door-to-door will deter them.
Let us know what you plan to do, I will cheer for you.
You see. This is the problem. If I did anything all you would do is cheer from the sidelines. No one is willing to risk their lives for this bullshit since there will be no one brave to back them up, and so nothing will happen.
Ok, I will say it: this is nothing new. Even the scale is not that new. During the protests after George Floyd murder we have seen police shoot rubber bullets at people indiscriminately, 20 people suffered serious eye injuries. In 2024 police killed 1200 people. Between 2022 and 2024 15.000 people died in prisons. We have seen police target random people for illegal stops all the time, they would arrest people under false pretenses (arresting only for resisting arrest for example) all the time, drag people out of their cars, beat them up and torture them all the time and they would almost never face any consequences. Yet watching videos from ICE raids it looks like people still believe the are somehow protected from violence, that ICE will respect their rights, that if they are US citizen they have some immunity to all this. Were people ignorant of all the police violence all this time? Don’t they realize ICE can and will simply kidnap them, beat them up and drop them off somewhere without consequences? Because they do look surprised when it happens when it’s the least surprising thing there is. It’s shocking, yes, police violence in US was always shocking, but it’s not surprising. Would you be surprised that a biker gang beat you up after you insulted them?
My point is that if you’re interacting with ICE you should be aware that they will murder you if then can find an excuse and that you don’t have any rights. If you’re protesting protest peacefully and avoid interactions. If you want to confront them do it like you would confront a violent street gang. It’s baffling that people get tough with ICE and then are surprised they got hurt.
The better advice is to only protest if you have a large number of people with rifles supporting you. ICE are cowards. If they see a 1000 protestors backed by a 100 rifleman, they won’t attack. We’ve known this is true about cops for years. Unarmed peaceful protests are almost guaranteed to have the cops riot. Heavily armed peaceful protests get left alone by the police.
She should have leaned on the horn until their ears burst. Knowing ICE, I’ve got to wonder why she didn’t take off when it was clear they weren’t letting her through. Was a detour not possible?
Did you miss what happened to the last person who tried to get off in her car?
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I’m so tired of this bullshit response. It’s like watching sports and saying what you’d do in that situation when you have no idea what you are talking about. What the fuck are they supposed to do? Anything they do besides protest will put their lives immediately in danger and they could potentially die. Believe it or not, most people don’t want to die. That’s kinda the whole point of these protests. None of us want to die or get kidnapped.
I get it, we are all angry and this is all bullshit. But I’m so tired of people saying “yeah but I’d fight back and you should too” while most never even go to protests. Stop shaming people for not doing what you want to see them do with the buffer of your phone screen. You are basically saying “yeah but why didn’t you die for them?” While you sit on the fucking toilet.
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Sure thing keyboard warrior. I bet you feel like such a touch guy as you do jack shit about it. At least these people are protesting while you sit behind a screen and explain why other people need to make sacrifices for you like you are the main character.
Don’t feed the trolls. It’s a brand new account
You do it, tough guy. Some people are risking a bit just to protest to make these scumbags know they aren’t welcome. They aren’t all ready yet to throw their lives away starting a war with the Stasi.
But the war is already here. Ice got chased out of a restaurant be hecklers…. So heckle them out of an abduction.
I agree generally. The question, though, of when to act has a different answer for each person’s context.
The protestors getting violent is the end goal for the current regime.
All it would take is one ICE agent seriously injured or dead by the hands of the protestors, and marshall law would be called.
Elections would be cancelled, as “America is under attack, and needs a strong leader”.
Also ICE currently seems to lack any accountability, I would not want to be detained by an organization like that.
Protestors remaining docile and submissive, especially thru social media posts like this one, are the end goal of the regime. Martial law would be a shitshow and hurt the regime more than the resistance.
They don’t need us to get violent. They’re planning martial law anyway. The idea that they won’t do anything unless we act bad is hilarious
Unless you’re planning to make news headlines very soon kindly be quiet.
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Well none of us believe you’re doing shit
ICE travels in packs for that reason. They also avoid dense areas to keep the numbers on their side. I generally agree with you, but there’s a lot of nuance like who is actually present at these confrontations. A lot of times is the suburbs and there’s really not enough people around to have an effective people defense.
Easy block candidate right here, folks.
Will you?
you are such a pussy
Why is that?
