We also have Grandmas against ICE in Trump country.
NO, THE GUY IN THE PHOTO IS NOT ONE WITH COURAGE.
If only most of the Hispanic elected officials in Harris County could find some courage to stand up and speak out about what is happening.
No one should be surprised by how ICE is treating Hispanics; they are animals, they are vermin, they are rapist, they are drug dealers, they are not human, so why would anyone believe that the Trump administration would treat them as human? But some of us may be exceptions and not be criminals.
Key terms and characterizations used by Trump and MAGA figures include:
- “Illegals” / “Illegal aliens”: This has been a widespread term used consistently by Trump and his administration to describe people who enter or remain in the U.S. without authorization.
- “Criminals” / “Rapists” / “Monsters”: During his campaign launch in 2015, Trump stated that Mexico was “not sending their best,” and described some immigrants as “criminals, drug dealers, rapists”. He has used similar language at subsequent rallies, calling some undocumented immigrants “sadistic monsters” and “animals”.
- “Not people”: In a March 2024 rally, Trump referred to some undocumented immigrants as “not people”.
- “Poisoning the blood of our country”: While campaigning in New Hampshire in late 2023, Trump used this phrase to describe the influx of undocumented immigrants into the United States.
- “Invaders”: This term is sometimes used to describe the large groups of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting a hostile takeover rather than a humanitarian or immigration issue.
The Japanese have organized to work against what Trump and his goons are doing to Hispanics.
Seattle, Washington – With the increase of the U.S. Trump/Musk programs against immigrants, Japanese and Japanese-Americans have increased their solidarity against roundups, detentions and deportations of migrant workers. In Seattle, 400 people marched in the International District/Chinatown protesting U.S. immigrant detention on February 19, the Day of Remembrance.
It’s the day in 1942, a few months after the U.S. entered World War II against Japan, when U.S. executive order 9066 was signed. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the internment or imprisonment of Japanese-Americans who had emigrated to the United States and were living on the West Coast.
… Maru Mora Villapando of La Resistencia exposed many of the abuses of the Geo Corp.-owned facility which is a federal torture facility. Right now, she said speaking to a crowd of 250 people, there is no electrical power and the prisoners have no water.
Villapando said the prison is understaffed and prisoners aren’t getting the basics of humane treatment. They’re not getting medical treatment. Prisoners are no longer getting any information about their status in the legal system. Prisoners who have been told by judges they should be released aren’t getting released. Women prisoners who communicated to the rally by cell phone spoke of the inadequate health care and more.
Mary Abo, a Japanese-American woman formerly interned at the Minidoka, Idaho, camp, also spoke. Another speaker detailed the great legacy of resistance of prisoners at the former Tule Lake internment camp in California.
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The federal government’s current efforts have focused on arresting and deporting Latinos who don’t have legal status in the United States. That contrasts with the situation in the 1940s, when most of the Japanese Americans held in detention camps were U.S. citizens.
But to many Japanese Americans, the images of uniformed federal agents ushering people onto buses, the mass detentions and the dehumanizing language used by government officials stir collective memories of the trauma faced by their own parents and grandparents.
Lisa Doi, 34, a board member of the Japanese American Citizens League’s chapter in Chicago, said that people who showed up to a recent event to connect community members with local rapid response networks were already seeing the parallels.
Japanese American groups have filed an amicus brief contesting President Trump’s recent invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a law that was also used to justify the imprisonment of Japanese Americans. They have denounced as a disgrace the government’s mass detention of immigrants at Fort Bliss, a former internment camp for Japanese Americans in Texas.
As a surge of federal agents put immigrant communities on edge in Chicago, Japanese American organizers marched, documented arrests and lined streets around schools to help protect parents who were afraid to pick up their children.
In Dublin, Calif., near San Francisco, camp survivors and Japanese taiko drummers rallied in July to oppose the proposed reopening of a federal prison to hold immigrants.
The alliance between Americans of Japanese and Mexican descents has been particularly strong in Los Angeles. Both include people who came to the United States with very little, worked as landscapers, cooks and farmers, and settled in urban neighborhoods where they were confined by redlining.
There are groups of Hispanics that are working to alert the community to what Abbott and his goons are doing. One such group is Houston Latinos Unidos.
We are winning, but it will be a long struggle to regain what Trump and his MAGA have taken from us. Don’t think that they believe you are better. If you are dark-skinned, you are not handsome or beautiful to lighter-skinned folks. Even Guero Hispanics often refer to their darker-skinned family as prietos and may include feo. Eva Longoria was called la prieta fea.