White women, please stand up, please stand up!

White women, I am calling on you!

Are you wondering what you can do to help stop the federal agents roaming our neighborhoods looking for women and children to kidnap and terrorize? Look no further than this video by TikTok account “uninoticias.”

These are ICE ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations agents. All these guys do is kidnap and disappear, kidnap and disappear all day long. If you look closely as she begins speaking to the white agent with his face covered like a terrorist, you’ll notice he has a discreet and difficult to see ICE patch at the bottom of his vest. Note she makes it clear that she does not know who he is because he refuses to identify himself stating, “we don’t need to give you IDs.” This is not true. Federal agents must identify themselves. It is important to state that you do not know who they are and try and get a response. Do not do this if you can clearly tell who they are.

I am assuming this woman is white or presents as white. I base this off the fact that ICE agents are actually responding to her. Normally, they just ignore questions from people of color. No, I am not exaggerating. Immigration agents are generally terrified of white people. They hold little control over white citizens because they only have limited immigration and customs authorities. This is why they have to call in the real police (your local and state police) when whites protest.

Note her volume. She is not screaming. She is asking questions in a forceful, direct manner. In law enforcement we call this “officer presence.” This is what that looks like. He is responding because she is white and because he is used to taking orders from people who talk like this. Note how she repeats his responses to assure it is recorded on her video.

Then she runs through their actions/refusals again: refused to ID themselves, refused to take masks off, won’t give their names. She points out that she has been told by the police and the government that we as citizens have a right to know who is enforcing our laws and that this violates those laws and public trust.

Then comes the kicker: she states that these agents told her they were “looking for a drunk driver.” Interesting, because ICE ERO does not have arrest authority over DUIs. More than anything seems to be an ICE policy of constantly lying about why they are violating people’s rights. This is commonly taught in the field in ICE, Border Patrol and CBP as most people they deal with are poor and cannot afford attorneys. They just lie and then deny they lied in court. It is their word against a poor, undocumented immigrant.

Every single time these agents have made these flashy arrests with tanks and assault rifles looking like they are invading Iraq, they have lied. The first mass deportation raid was led by El Centro Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino in Kern County, California as wildfires destroyed thousands of homes nearby. Bovino claimed over and over that these raids were targeted at the worst of the worst. One look at the video told me he was lying, and Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos from Cal Matters proved it here.

In all, Chief Bovino took 65 agents off the border to drive hundreds of miles north for what he claimed were 78 arrests of violent criminals. The reports Bovino gave to the media were that all the arrests were of sexual offenders, illegal weapons possession and fraud to include this list given to reporters:

The only problem is that none of that was true. According to Fry and Olmos’ reporting, 77 of the arrests had no prior criminal arrests, not even an arrest for an immigration violation. 77 of the 78 people had no prior arrests for anything.

In other words, Chief Bovino lied. And he is still lying as he insists that all 78 were criminals for being present in the US without documents which is a civil immigration infraction.

Here’s Chief Bovino on his Facebook page lying about arresting “rapists.” Makes you wonder if he lied about this marijuana too.

This is the bullshit games feds are playing with us that can hurt or kill people. In San Diego, they told everyone they had “criminal arrest warrants.” They did not. Then they threatened to gas the protestors, and threw flash bang grenades at them. Here is the video of San Diego. Note how most of the protestors are white and how the feds back up and are afraid.

Feds are escalating the violence by arming themselves for war, lying about who and why they are conducting these violent arrests. The San Diego raid was conducted right before a Friday dinner rush so that a maximum number of people would witness it. These have been administrative immigration arrests of non-criminal immigrants performed in an extremely violent manner when they could have just notified them to come to ICE or handled this in an administrative manner.

So, why are they doing this?

The Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan are sending out their agents to instigate violence. They are intentionally ordering feds to escalate the violence which puts their agents in danger. Every day that passes without protestors using violence will be met with more violent arrests of mothers and children until the heavily armed American populace crosses the invisible line that will then justify martial law. They are sacrificing their agents’ safety to egg Americans into violence. I say this as a former agent and as a scholar on these agencies. They are creating the conditions for a police state.

The feds are showing you what is coming for Americans. As I have said many times, this mass deportation is an opening to a police state for the US. They have been lying to Americans about how overwhelmed they are on the border. They have lied to us about the number of violent criminal immigrants that are here. They have lied about how there are legal avenues with which they can enter.

And when it is our turn, they will lie to the press about why they are arresting you and the press will print it. White men and women, use your privilege to fight back, to resist. Do it peacefully as you see in these videos. Yes, they will lie to you. Yes, you may get arrested. Yes, you may get beaten.

But, you will be on the right side of history. And as someone who knows both sides, this is where you want to be.

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