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Will Bunch
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A couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers.
After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.”
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Let the games begin
“Why did a redemption-seeking United States government invite Van Bui to come here from the other side of the world — only to leave him to fend for himself before brutally arresting him, dumping him in a hellhole prison, and allegedly watching him die from chronic and then acute neglect?”
Thread. Of the many people detained under Trump’s White America immigration program, dozens die in federal custody. @willbunch.bsky.social tells the story on one such person, who came to the United States over 35 years ago.
@willbunch.bsky.social has been providing some of the best journalism on ICE, exposing details like this: “of the 50 or so ICE detainees who’ve died under the Trump regime, nearly a third were of Asian descent.”
Still working through this but I mean...
This is not what anyone from there deserved as a way to go. Ugh, to say the goddamned least, I don't have the words.
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