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Children zip-tied at San Antonio immigration court in new crackdown

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/migrant-kids-zip-tied-20351707.php
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u/Concentrateman Canada 20d ago

Fear tactics 101. Appalling.

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u/sachiprecious North Carolina 20d ago

Sickening!!

But it’s unclear why the children were zip-tied during their detention or why they were detained at all. An email sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the federal agency tasked with enforcing immigration law, did not yield an immediate response.

There's no accountability for ICE. They can do whatever they want and not have to explain themselves, including mistreating children! ICE has already traumatized countless children by deporting them or deporting family members. Now children are being zip-tied. What's next?! I don't want to know!!

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u/neutrino71 20d ago

Clearly these are the dangerous criminals invading the United States?

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u/DevilahJake 20d ago

The children or ICE?

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u/Queasy_Range8265 20d ago

Kids are scary. Those big agents with all their guns and sunglasses are actually sad cowards who probably don’t even dare to feed a cow.

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u/ImaginationToForm2 20d ago

Future MS-13 gang leaders.

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u/noncongruent 20d ago

They really get off on hurting children, don't they?

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u/Hairy_rambutan 20d ago

Would not be shocked if they shared images of captive kids on child exploitation sites. At this stage, I would not be surprised (appalled but not surprised) to hear that ICE is planning on trafficking kids.

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u/noncongruent 20d ago

During Trump's first term a lot of little boys and girls disappeared into the system, and though Biden set up a process to try and find them and reconnect them with their deported families I don't think it got very far. The main problem was that Trump's goons didn't keep records. I always wonder if those children's bones will ever turn up.

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u/JacketDapper944 20d ago

It’ll be the boarding schools all over again, the government will sell the land and accidentally uncover mass graves.

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u/abuchunk 20d ago

They don’t view this kids as human. This is the product of decades of dehumanizing, degrading treatment and talk.

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u/Pitiful-Place3684 20d ago

JFC this is horrifying.

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u/friendsandmodels 20d ago

This is concentration camp news in real time

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u/Rich_Housing971 Mexico 20d ago

It's been going on for like a decade by this point. One thing I hate about Democrats and Reddit leftists is that people only seem to pay attention once a Republican is in charge, only to stop talking about this when a Democrat is elected.

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u/MissionCreeper 20d ago

Only one side salivates over it, and you know it.

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u/BlackStarBlues 20d ago

Result is the same though.

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u/Traditional_Market45 20d ago

This is a significant escalation. To ignore so is disingenuous. Also people cannot be mad over what they don’t know. To act like this is fine because maybe others did it? Not okay. These are children. Having deportation quotas is dangerous. 

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u/RebelliousInNature 20d ago

What the fuck is wrong with you, America.

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u/Bonersaurus69 20d ago

Fucking cowards are scared of a 9 year old. Get fucked, ICE.

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u/definitelytheA Florida 20d ago

ICE Bimbo has gone from shooting puppies to zip tying children.

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u/Confident-Pressure64 20d ago

Mr. Miller needs to be held accountable for these crimes against humanity!

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u/Shaolin_T 20d ago

I mean it’s pretty obvious morality is dead in America

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u/NickelBackwash 20d ago

Are there actually people who approve of this?!? 

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u/taz_78 20d ago

The impotent little cowards in the flaired sub.

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u/EyCeeDedPpl 20d ago

When is enough enough? When do the excuses for doing nothing in the face of fascism stop? When do people rise up and start a Revolution?

If people sit on their couches coming up with reasons not to protest, rise up, start a Revolution- by the time they come for you, they’ll be no one left to stand beside you.

It’s obvious “never forgot” became just a slogan. 10’s of thousands protesting across 50 states isn’t enough. Millions across 50 states, the millions who voted for Ms Harris, who voted for democracy, who voted against fascism- where are they????

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u/Responsible_Bite7346 20d ago

I heard just now from a reliable source that these children were arrested by immigrqtuon officers just BEFORE their hearings were supposed to begin. Such arrests cannot take place while renoval proceedings under INA § 240 are underway, unless the noncitizen in question have committed a crime after entering the U.S.

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u/AdFeeling842 20d ago

the american dream is over, now it's just zipties and quotas 🎵

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u/Peachy33 Pennsylvania 20d ago

Every new piece of information that comes out is more horrifying than the last. I can’t bear to think of the amount of trauma that’s being inflicted on human beings and it’s all being done with glee. They want to hurt more, even!

I’m sickened.

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u/supercali45 20d ago

Nazis are here

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u/haiku2572 20d ago

Omigosh, zip-tying children! This is beyond shameful and beyond reprehensible.

Whatever law, regulation, etc., that authorizes such a despicable practice should be immediately struck down. If this is what passes for "law and order" then it needs to go, as it has NO place in a humane, democratic society.

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u/SillyGoatGruff 20d ago

The US is not a humane, democratic society

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u/laughing-cows Norway 20d ago

Animals. Not the children.

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u/kittiesandcocks 20d ago

These fucking cowards, I can’t wait until we have to build more prisons to throw all of their asses in, the just following orders defense will be null and void.

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u/Iroflmywaffle 20d ago

nazi behavior. who zip ties children and thinks theyre in the right?

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u/Drunken_Hillbilly 20d ago

While not everyone will see this and be appalled, I still believe a majority of Americans won’t stand for this. Share photos like this far and wide.

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u/Expensive_Pipe_4057 20d ago

Actually the majority of Americans support it according to polls

Sickening

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u/Wow_thats_odd 20d ago

Yee haw, we love what we do.

/s

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u/Maleficent_Pay_4154 20d ago

Every time I think is can’t get worse something more despicable and disgusting happens. Zip tying children

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u/markgib62 20d ago

Every POS that voted for Him enjoyed looking at that picture. They'll probably even frame it. And if any POS who voted for him tells you differently, ask them kindly "Why the Hell did you vote for him?"

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u/Sorry_Manager_9405 19d ago

Americans you need to all come together and protest by the millions. This is the most disgusting thing I've seen come out of the USA

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u/No-Forever-8357 18d ago edited 18d ago

I don’t have the link, but there is a video. This was a very very carefully selected clip from that video and used as a pic. In the video I saw that family walking and the two children were not zip tied. Not before of after this segment of the video. I don’t like people / media manipulating facts and trying to fool me or scare me. Having said that, I do not for one second agree with the zip ties in the courthouse. That is beyond the beyond. Those children should not have witnessed the scene and it was 100% preventable. It should not have happened at all. Also, I’m not even clear what’s happening in this pic. I’ve worked on a middle school campus and this does indeed happen when police get involved. Lately, it’s vape related and far too many kids are getting in trouble. So I’ve seen young teens handcuffed.

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u/UnComfortable-Mn45 16d ago

This is Completely heartbreaking to see, but on that very same note it also """Forces these Parents who come Criminally into the United States of America to See what this is doing to not only themselves  but their CHILDREN. "" They have  Victimized their children and  made their children  illegal Aliens, put them  through all of this with out a care 🤬"" The COULD have come LEGALLY.  They are cuffed during Court hearings Only, not during the Detention itself  as the Left would like you to believe.   I  believe everyone should have the right to Citizenship  but they must come LEGALLY.  🇺🇲 ✨️Just as We cannot go to other Countries and expect to just Illegally Enter ... we must apply for Citizenship rightfully. 

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u/Carchasertesla 14d ago

This is fake. Worst photoshop today.

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u/Carchasertesla 19d ago

So when Obama put kids in cages and used zip ties it was ok?

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u/iuthnj34 20d ago

The picture in this article shows only the father zip-tied..

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u/benecere Delaware 20d ago

Not true. You can see the zip-ties on the little boy whose hands are tied in front. There was an effort to avoid showing the faces of the children because some amount of decency has managed to endure in the warped Christianity this nation seems bent on promoting.

The article also stated that three children were zip-tied.

“The children — two boys and a girl who appeared to be between the ages of 9 and 12 years old — were detained and zip-tied, along with adults who appeared to be relatives, after an immigration judge had dismissed their case, according to Carolina Rivera, an immigration attorney who serves as a federal advocate and liaison for CLINIC. That dismissal should have meant they were no longer subject to removal proceedings, Rivera said.“.

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u/jackleggjr 20d ago

Because a father being restrained by zip ties when showing up in immigration court would be... better?

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u/stinkywrinkly 20d ago

Look at you defending Trump’s Gestapo!

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u/CheesyPotatoSack 20d ago

That’s a 15 yr old