On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents.
“They were getting ready for work, and all of a sudden their house was surrounded by men with drawn guns saying, ‘Oh, it’s OK. It’s just some paperwork that needs to be fixed. Just open the door,'” said Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota.
The mother did as she was told, and her 20-year-old son was immediately removed from the home, the latest in a growing number of planned detentions involving recent immigrants with lawful refugee status who have applied for but not yet received their permanent residency, otherwise known as their Green Cards.
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Out here proving that there is no “right way” to be an immigrant. And doing it “the right way” just puts you on an easily identifiable list.
Sucks man. You could either come legally and go through all the hoops, spend thousands of dollars over several years, etc…and then get this.
Or you could not, and be safe® from the ICE goons, but have to work under the table…meaning, no legal protections from employers (or police, landlords, etc for that matter) who can (and will) extort you.
Why the fuck would anybody choose to live here?
i want to go back to a world where I neither cared nor heard about Minnesota. Minnesota is not a state that was really ever in the news. Now it’s Minnesota all day and night. Leave the state and the cleansing waters of Lake Minnetonka in peace, president Trump.
I mean … protests seeking justice for George Floyd in Minnesota were rightly huge and in the news not long ago.
That was 1,546 news cycles ago.
MAGA remains obsessed with George Floyd.
Not so long ago… just don’t look up how long it’s been and not much has changed.
Added.
Thank you
