Social ICE/deportation protests and riots megathread

[Lycandroid]

Sure thing, lyCANdroid. I look forward to your assessment of American politics and what's right for the everyday person in the states. Keep believing everything you read from lands far away from you and offer your opinion on it. I'm sure it'll be riveting and knowledgeable.

We were talking about the UK actually.

 

[Confucamus]

Riots? I’ve seen more rioting when professional teams won a championship.

Some people burned down a couple cars on what, the first day? Fine. Arrest them. After that, the only people doing Sky rioting were the cops.

I heard this before and I'll ask you the same question I asked and didn't get an answer to. Can you show us a championship parade where people tried to murder law enforcement officers with rocks? Specifically, trapping them under a bridge while they rained boulders down in an attempt to kill them?

 

[idrankyourbeer]

ICE secretly deports grandfather and then tells the family he died​

Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather after he lost green card, report says

Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

www.theguardian.com

to summarize:

-elderly man loses his wallet and goes to immigration to get his green card replaced.
-they deport him to a country he has no connection with.
-they tell the family nothing. family later gets a phone call saying he died. (he didn’t)

this is just… beyond insane. he was not on any ICE list, he came in voluntarily like you’re supposed to, and they just deport him to some random country and tell the family nothing.

now the family is flying to guatemala to see him in the hospital. i have a bad feeling they’re not going to be let back into the united states.

 

[NoSmilez]

ICE secretly deports grandfather and then tells the family he died​

Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather after he lost green card, report says

Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

www.theguardian.com

to summarize:

-elderly man loses his wallet and goes to immigration to get his green card replaced.
-they deport him to a country he has no connection with.
-they tell the family nothing. family later gets a phone call saying he died. (he didn’t)

this is just… beyond insane. he was not on any ICE list, he came in voluntarily like you’re supposed to, and they just deport him to some random country and tell the family nothing.

now the family is flying to guatemala to see him in the hospital. i have a bad feeling they’re not going to be let back into the united states.

He is legal. It makes no sense how ICE can fuck this up so badly.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Ice secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card

An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.

According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, longtime Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and his wife booked an appointment to get it replaced.


When he arrived at the office on 20 June, however, he was handcuffed by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, who led him away from his wife without explanation, she said. She herself was kept in the building for 10 hours until relatives picked her up.

ICE doing the lord's work here. I can't imagine why so many people hate them...

This shit is actually just funny to these assholes. Ice fucking up basic procedural work and ruining lives is funny as long as it’s happening to the group of “others”

 

[Blayt7hh]

Not ICE, but it looks like Kentucky police are in the strawberry feeding business too

Now the right is having a circlejerk to just blatant police brutality. I don’t know how you can think it’s funny that a cop is pummeling some guy in the back of the head. The protester didn’t assault him and was in the ground not fighting back. That’s funny to you?

I’m confused as to why thry were even allowed to detain him. He’s not blocking the road. Unless something happened before the video this looks like an abuse of authority on yo of obviously being police brutality.

We listened to the right prattle on like the drooling idiots they are about having to fight a civil war because they were asked by the oppressive Biden regime to wear masks at the grocery store. Now we have ICE abducting people and police beating helpless people. You guys are fucking cooked through with brain rot at this point

 

[Lycandroid]

Now the right is having a circlejerk to just blatant police brutality. I don’t know how you can think it’s funny that a cop is pummeling some guy in the back of the head. The protester didn’t assault him and was in the ground not fighting back. That’s funny to you?

I’m confused as to why thry were even allowed to detain him. He’s not blocking the road. Unless something happened before the video this looks like an abuse of authority on yo of obviously being police brutality.

We listened to the right prattle on like the drooling idiots they are about having to fight a civil war because they were asked by the oppressive Biden regime to wear masks at the grocery store. Now we have ICE abducting people and police beating helpless people. You guys are fucking cooked through with brain rot at this point

what do you think the chance of them encountering police brutality would have been if they just stayed home instead of trying to impede law enforcement ? Do these people actually think by yelling at and insulting authorities they are going to get their way ?

 

[Blayt7hh]

what do you think the chance of them encountering police brutality would have been if they just stayed home instead of trying to impede law enforcement ? Do these people actually think by yelling at and insulting authorities they are going to get their way ?

See folks? Totally cooked. This fucking jabroni just said “well if he didn’t exercise his first amendment RIGHT then they wouldn’t have beaten him in the back of the head while he was restrained”.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Eswatini opposition attacks US deal as ‘human trafficking disguised as deportation’​

Men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to be temporarily held in kingdom

Rachel Savage and Savior Ngcebo Kakama

Civil society and opposition groups in Eswatini have expressed outrage after the US deported five men to the country, with the largest opposition party calling it “human trafficking disguised as a deportation deal”.

The men, from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba, were flown to the small southern African country, an absolute monarchy, last week as the US stepped up deportations to “third countries” after the supreme court cleared them last month.


Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is landlocked by South Africa and Mozambique and has a population of about 1.2 million. It is Africa’s last absolute monarchy and has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986.

The government estimated the five men would be held for about 12 months, a spokesperson, Thabile Mdluli, said, adding: “It could be slightly less or slightly more.”


She said Eswatini was ready to receive more deportees, depending on the availability of facilities and negotiations with the US, which has also deported eight people to South Sudan after holding them for weeks in a shipping container in Djibouti, and more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.

Officials have said the men, who were put in solitary confinement, were safely imprisoned in Eswatini. However, they have refused to disclose the terms of the deal, other than to say the US was footing the costs of keeping the men locked up and that they would work with international organisations to deport them to their home countries.

Many civil society organisations and politicians were not convinced. “This action, carried out without public consultation, adequate preparation, or community engagement, raises urgent questions about legality, transparency, and the safety of both the deported individuals and the people of Eswatini, especially women and girls,” said a coalition of seven women’s groups.

The organisations delivered a petition to the US embassy on Monday calling for the US to take back the deportees, for the deportees’ human rights to be respected, and for Eswatini not to become a “dumping ground for unresolved problems from elsewhere”.

The groups’ leaders held a protest outside the US embassy on Friday, where they sang, danced and held up signs with messages including: “Whose taxpayers?”, “Eswatini is not a prison for US rejects” and “Take the five criminals back to the US!!”

Eswatini’s largest opposition party, the People’s United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), said in a statement: “Pudemo vehemently condemns the treacherous and reckless decision by King Mswati III’s regime to allow the United States of America to dump its most dangerous criminals on Swazi soil.

“This is not diplomacy but human trafficking disguised as a deportation deal. It is an insult to all Emaswati who value peace, security, and the sanctity of our homeland.”

The coordinating assembly of NGOs, an umbrella group, said the situation was “deeply alarming” and condemned the “stigmatising and dehumanising language used by US officials”. It called for the Eswatini-US agreement to be made public and to be suspended pending “genuine public consultation and transparent national dialogue”.

Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, said in a post on X on 16 July that the men, who she said had been convicted of crimes including child rape, murder and burglary, were “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back”.

She added: “These depraved monsters have been terrorising American communities but … they are off of American soil.”

Eswatini’s prime minister, Russell Dlamini, told local media on Friday that the government was confident it would safely manage the prisoners. “Eswatini is currently holding inmates who have committed more dangerous crimes than those attributed to the five deportees,” he said.

A prison service spokesperson, Baphelele Kunene, said the country’s citizens should not be afraid. “We can confirm that the five inmates in question have been admitted to one of our high-security centres where they are responding very well to the new environment,” he said. “Even though they come from the US, there is no preferential treatment for them as they are guided by the same prison regulations, eat the same food as others and are also expected to exhibit the same and equal amount of respect for prison protocols.”

The US state department’s most recent human rights report on Eswatini, in 2023, said there were “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; [and] political prisoners or detainees”.

Political parties are banned from taking part in elections, which the system’s advocates argue makes MPs more representative of their constituents. In September, Pudemo’s leader, Mlungisi Makhanya, was allegedly poisoned in South Africa. The party said it was an assassination attempt, which Eswatini’s government has denied.

The Department of Homeland Security has been contacted for comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/eswatini-petition-us-deportees

 

[Hog-train]

ICE secretly deports grandfather and then tells the family he died​

Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather after he lost green card, report says

Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

www.theguardian.com

to summarize:

-elderly man loses his wallet and goes to immigration to get his green card replaced.
-they deport him to a country he has no connection with.
-they tell the family nothing. family later gets a phone call saying he died. (he didn’t)

this is just… beyond insane. he was not on any ICE list, he came in voluntarily like you’re supposed to, and they just deport him to some random country and tell the family nothing.

now the family is flying to guatemala to see him in the hospital. i have a bad feeling they’re not going to be let back into the united states.

This shit is actually just funny to these assholes. Ice fucking up basic procedural work and ruining lives is funny as long as it’s happening to the group of “others”

He is legal. It makes no sense how ICE can fuck this up so badly.

This is a bullshit hoax. Both the Guatemalan government and ICE deny there is a man named Luis Leon.

This photograph purported to be of Luis Leon — who a woman claiming to be his granddaughter said was a Chilean national taken into custody by ICE and ended up in Guatemala — are actually of a man with a different name who died four years ago, according to media reports in Chile.

Stop believing everything you hear. Both sides are lying constantly. Corroborate everything.

 

[Lycandroid]

See folks? Totally cooked. This fucking jabroni just said “well if he didn’t exercise his first amendment RIGHT then they wouldn’t have beaten him in the back of the head while he was restrained”.

1st amendment has nothing to do with impeding law enforcement, which is the reason for for cops dishing out beatings, not the words spoke. exercise your right to speak all you want, but if you think carrying on in this manner helps your cause you are a fucking idiot.

 

[Stoic1]

Seems like in the current environment you might want to take additional steps to prove your residency or immigration status. Have copies made, pics on your phone, emailed to yourself, etc.

I travel extensively and understand some of the risk. I keep copies, digitized copies, etc of things like passports, cruising permits, visas, crew manifests, etc. I print out copies and keep them in a ditch bag.

Im reading these stories like the 82 year old and BETTING he spoke almost no English, couldnt articulate his reasons for being there or answer simple questions. I run into this sometimes at immigration when I check into a country. I bring someone who speaks Spanish since mine sucks. Compounded by being 82 years old? My dad's 82 and about 80% deaf and is nowhere near peak cognitive abilities, prone to mood swings and outbursts, etc.

 

[irish_thug]

CANadian now knows all about the UK, lol.

You rang?

 

[Blayt7hh]

1st amendment has nothing to do with impeding law enforcement, which is the reason for for cops dishing out beatings, not the words spoke. exercise your right to speak all you want, but if you think carrying on in this manner helps your cause you are a fucking idiot.

Yeah he looked real in the way on the sidewalk in the video you fucking idiot. Not surprised at all to see you defending those punk bitches while the pummel a subdued man. Btw that’s flat out illegal. Those cops are fucked if they ID them

 

[Lycandroid]

Yeah he looked real in the way on the sidewalk in the video you fucking idiot. Not surprised at all to see you defending those punk bitches while the pummel a subdued man. Btw that’s flat out illegal. Those cops are fucked if they ID them

Why weren't these guys fighting with law enforcement during the Obama years ? It's because they are brainwashed fools like yourself.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Why weren't these guys fighting with law enforcement during the Obama years ? It's because they are brainwashed fools like yourself.

Do you have anything substantive to say? Are you actually so far gone that you think it’s ok to pummel some restrained, completely defenseless kid on the ground?

Whether you think the kid did something wrong or not you know god damn well that that was not justified.

 

[heloder]

See folks? Totally cooked. This fucking jabroni just said “well if he didn’t exercise his first amendment RIGHT then they wouldn’t have beaten him in the back of the head while he was restrained”.

Who could have possibly foreseen that the "Don't Tread On Me!" crowd would actually turn out to be the biggest, most servile pussies in the country? lol

 

[Anewt]

ICE secretly deports grandfather and then tells the family he died​

Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather after he lost green card, report says

Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

www.theguardian.com

to summarize:

-elderly man loses his wallet and goes to immigration to get his green card replaced.
-they deport him to a country he has no connection with.
-they tell the family nothing. family later gets a phone call saying he died. (he didn’t)

this is just… beyond insane. he was not on any ICE list, he came in voluntarily like you’re supposed to, and they just deport him to some random country and tell the family nothing.

now the family is flying to guatemala to see him in the hospital. i have a bad feeling they’re not going to be let back into the united states.

He is legal. It makes no sense how ICE can fuck this up so badly.

This shit is actually just funny to these assholes. Ice fucking up basic procedural work and ruining lives is funny as long as it’s happening to the group tand quite far apart on some aspects of this war.

To summarise with the truth.

Its a fake story.. theres no leon

The Guatemalan government also denied that Leon had been deported. In a statement, the Guatemalan Migration Institute said it coordinates with Ice on all deportations from the US and that no one matched Leon’s name, age or citizenship, according to the Associated Press.


On Monday, Morning Call published a new story reflecting DHS and Guatemala’s claims, and noting that it “repeatedly requested information from Ice during its reporting; an Ice spokesperson previously refused to confirm details, including whether or not Leon was even at the Philadelphia office, and said Monday that Ice investigators were not able to contact the family”.


It added that Leon’s granddaughter, Nataly, who refused to provide her last name, said she had visited Leon in a hospital in Guatemala City, where she claimed he was being treated for pneumonia.

But the outlet also reported that a Chilean journalist, Jose Del Pino, said a doctor at the hospital in question had no record of him.

Del Pino also reportedly provided a copy of an alleged death certificate to the Morning Call for a man with the same name and date of birth who died in Santiago, Chile, in 2019. It added that Del Pino said Chilean citizens all have national identification numbers, and none matches another person with that name and birthday.

Late on Sunday her family issued a statement saying they would no longer speak to media and asked for privacy, and Leon’s granddaughter did not respond to the Morning Call’s further requests for comment on Monday.

The Guardian has approached Ice, the Chilean embassy in the US, the municipality of Allentown and various immigration organizations for comment. An attorney at Campos Firm said multiple immigration attorneys had tried to contact the family asking to represent them, but could not reach them.

Leon’s supposed family told the Morning Call in a statement that they would no longer speak to the media and asked for privacy.

The Morning Call did not respond immediately to requests for comment

 

[G0NZ0]

Now the right is having a circlejerk to just blatant police brutality. I don’t know how you can think it’s funny that a cop is pummeling some guy in the back of the head. The protester didn’t assault him and was in the ground not fighting back. That’s funny to you?

I’m confused as to why thry were even allowed to detain him. He’s not blocking the road. Unless something happened before the video this looks like an abuse of authority on yo of obviously being police brutality.

We listened to the right prattle on like the drooling idiots they are about having to fight a civil war because they were asked by the oppressive Biden regime to wear masks at the grocery store. Now we have ICE abducting people and police beating helpless people. You guys are fucking cooked through with brain rot at this a

Now the right is having a circlejerk to just blatant police brutality. I don’t know how you can think it’s funny that a cop is pummeling some guy in the back of the head. The protester didn’t assault him and was in the ground not fighting back. That’s funny to you?

I’m confused as to why thry were even allowed to detain him. He’s not blocking the road. Unless something happened before the video this looks like an abuse of authority on yo of obviously being police brutality.

We listened to the right prattle on like the drooling idiots they are about having to fight a civil war because they were asked by the oppressive Biden regime to wear masks at the grocery store. Now we have ICE abducting people and police beating helpless people. You guys are fucking cooked through with brain rot at this point

Abducting…. lol

 

[Anewt]

Seems like in the current environment you might want to take additional steps to prove your residency or immigration status. Have copies made, pics on your phone, emailed to yourself, etc.

I travel extensively and understand some of the risk. I keep copies, digitized copies, etc of things like passports, cruising permits, visas, crew manifests, etc. I print out copies and keep them in a ditch bag.

Im reading these stories like the 82 year old and BETTING he spoke almost no English, couldnt articulate his reasons for being there or answer simple questions. I run into this sometimes at immigration when I check into a country. I bring someone who speaks Spanish since mine sucks. Compounded by being 82 years old? My dad's 82 and about 80% deaf and is nowhere near peak cognitive abilities, prone to mood swings and outbursts, etc.

ITs fake mate. No 82 year old called leon has been deported .......

He doesnt exist. The photo is of a man who died 4 years ago.

Its been debunkes by Chillian press as well if you dont trust ice