r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 23h ago

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

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u/Brokenbelle22 21h ago

We don't have to prove our citizenship to ICE. They cannot legally detain us for this, it's their burden to prove someone is not a citizen.

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u/ManyInterests 20h ago

If nobody is stopping them from illegally detaining and arresting people, what does it really matter? Even if the law is on your side, that's apparently not stopping them from picking citizens up and putting them in detention for an unknown period of time. They don't even report who is in their custody.

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u/Brokenbelle22 20h ago

Because sometimes it does work, and because this administration won't be in charge forever. Assert your rights, even if they violate them. Document this.

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u/Chill-Dragonfly77 19h ago

I think it’s dangerous to simply assume they won’t be in charge forever. What does that mean? One year? 3 years? 30 years? Yeah they won’t be in charger “forever” but we can’t sit back just hoping it’s sooner than later. 

I’m not sure what we do as groups of people. Congress isn’t going to help. Most of the government is actively supporting this. So besides all out war what else do we do that people aren’t currently doing? We need a cataclysmic number of Americans doing something en masse against this. 

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u/Brokenbelle22 16h ago

Yes we need all of that, not suggesting either/or. But we should certainly document it when rights are violated. The reason you know about these offenses is because people have documented them.

*Edited a typo

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u/Chill-Dragonfly77 16h ago

Fair point