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.
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