What would you do if ICE agents approached the kids on your youth sports team at practice?
Youman Wilder, the founder of Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, said that he found himself in that exact position. And he didn’t hesitate.
“I heard them saying, ‘Where are you from? Where are your parents from?’” Wilder told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. “And I just stepped in and said this is very inappropriate to ask these kids anything … I’m just going to have them implement their Fifth Amendment right, and not say anything to you.’”
We keeping America safe by… Arresting kids?
The orphan crushing machine demands more orphans.
Keeping America scared
Terrorized.
These little brown kids will turn into brown adults and that is fucking terrifying to americans.
Haha jokes on them I’m a brown adult, what now? Oh, gulag anyway, welp…
ftfy
No no, they’ll happily tell you they’re literally using the kids as bait. You arrest the kid (who usually is a US citizen), the kid gets a phonecall with their parents, you arrest the immigrant parent(s) when they show up to say “what the fuck why did you drag my kid off”. Depending on how lazy the ICE agent is, you might deport the kid with the parent (the parent has to request this IIRC), or place them in foster care (with admittedly no way to reunite them). If the kid isn’t a US citizen, you don’t even need to deport them to the same country as their parents, put them on the same flight, or ANYTHING.
Is this something communities could counter by having citizens partnered to immigrant organizations making the inquiry into the child’s arrest?