The 18-year-old and her mother — Elsy Noemi Berrios, 52 — planned to ride to work together, which happened daily in the month of March. Cruz Berrios recently started as a seamstress where her mom had worked for the past five years.
But March 31 was different for Cruz Berrios.
Their car on a street in Westminster was suddenly surrounded by ICE agents, with at least one wearing a face covering. The agents didn’t present a warrant, according to Cruz Berrios. They shouted orders at the mother to get out of the car.
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The mother and daughter believed the agents had been after her undocumented mother. That’s because ICE officers previously came to the family’s Westminster home twice but were denied entry each time.
“They didn’t have a warrant. They knew their rights. ICE went away,” said Halle Blitzstein, the mother’s Baltimore-based attorney.
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“I don’t need to show you the order,” an officer said in Spanish. Most of the video includes the officer speaking in Spanish, but the voice was barely audible in the video because the car window was partially rolled up.
“I’m not going to give you the order, it’s in the car,” the officer said just before the mother was taken from the car.
“No!” the daughter screamed. “You guys cannot take her just because you want to.”
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The government said that Berrios’ apprehension was driven in part because she is an associate of the violent gang MS-13, which has Salvadoran roots.
“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email. McLaughlin did not respond to a request for details of Berrios’ alleged gang behavior.
Cruz Berrios and her mother’s attorney vehemently deny that Berrios has a connection to gang membership.
ICE are nothing but Brown Shirts doing the bidding of the Mango Mussolini. This is disgusting and when are we going to do something about this. My congress-monkey is part of the problem so not matter how much I complain to him nothing will get done.
Terrorists do this. Sounds like terrorism. Protect your fellow citizens everyone.
Anyone who sees ICE performing an arrest has the moral obligation to run them over with their car.
That woman, is a dangerous gang member? THAT woman? And her screaming, terrified 18-year-old daughter who had the audacity to demand cops show a fucking warrant.
If you aren’t filled with rage at this point, you’re either evil, or painfully ignorant.
She wasn’t evena gang member.
She had an ‘association’.
Like, maybe the evil lady was at some point a co-worker or a neighbor or said hello to a gang member.
Be on guard, this must stop.
They will come for tbw associate of the associated next.
Translation: “We associate you with MS13.”
She had an ‘association’.
Like, maybe the evil lady was at some point a co-worker or a neighbor or said hello to a gang member.
She had an association, ethnicity. That’s good enough for the right.
That 52 year old woman. Prime gang demographic
Have you seen how old most bikers in the US are? The stigma that most bikers are in a gang is stupid but there are SOME bikers who are seniors and who are in something like Hell’s Angels.
Also, I’ve seen TV shows where they depict the grandmother as a sweet innocent lady who was actually the drug runner for the gang. It’s plausible.
That being said, there needs to be…I don’t know…actual evidence that she’s a part of said gang to justify this insanity.
that being said
Man, fuck off. Why did you think that needed to be said, really?
“Old people are in gangs on TV. I’m JK though, this is actually bad.”
Wow great addition to the conversation.
Sure, plausible …… smash her window and drag her out of her car with no warrant, no exigent circumstances, just a verbal claim that sounds like a pretense these days …. Insanity is right
If you can’t assume you’ll get due process, people are going to decide whether to defend themselves when their rights are being violated. Honestly it’s going to make being a cop less safe.
Genuinely surprised it hasn’t happened yet
They must not be apprehending very dangerous people.
Cops almost always target the easy ones instead of the dangerous ones. Cowards, racists, and bullies, the lot of them.
So true
Kinda my thinking, too.
If I know I’m going to see a judge, I might not force the issue if I think a cop is violating my rights. I’ll wait until the hearing and go from there. If I can’t count on seeing a judge, does it become my job to defend my rights?
Especially when the alternative is being sent to a Gulag in El Salvador where you will either die or spend the next decade in squalor.
Right? If I can’t count on a judge to stop that from happening, I gotta stop it myself.
Change, rights, progress, come from and are reinforced out of four boxes. Soap box. Ballot box. Jury box. Cartridge box.
We are at jury box, it seems. I really hope the tide turns and we start winning. That last box is terrifying.
Yes.
But didn’t you hear? The 52 seamstress was a notable MS-13 player. ICE are so brave…or MS-13 has gone real downhill…or, ya know, it’s neither of that…
But American citizens are now completely under the thumb to Kremlin-style narrative. It’s not like anyone’s going to react
Now you’re under control and now you do what they told you. Every. Time. It’s too easy!
ICE only goes after the most vicious, violent & inked seamstresses on their way to work with their daughters
It’s much easier than arresting an actual armed MS-13 gang member. /s
/s is completely unnecessary here, as that’s exactly how they operate.
A bleak truth, but the first time that happens is going to be the last time that happens.
Once an ICE agent gets shot for trying to disappear someone out of their own home or car, they’ll start disappearing people with guns drawn and a finger over the trigger. Innocent people are going to get killed, and the agents won’t be held accountable because it was “self-defence”.
Honestly it’s going to make being a cop less safe.
Good.
My money’s on orangeboi invoking the insurrection act the first time some serious resistance (read: an ICE agent gets plinked) to this secret police shit happens. They’re doing this in large part to trigger a reaction, imo, and when they get a reaction they’re gonna just go “BDJEKDNEEKENJE ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE AND WOKE PEOPLE AND LIBS ARE TERRORISTS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” and then it’s open season.
What do you think will happen when someone defends the self with deadly force? Do you think these people will stop or do you think that person will end poorly?
That’s why you need a militia.
But liberals hate guns for some reason.
It’s so hard to get a permit to carry in a blue city. You literally need permission from the fucking cops to excercise your constitutional rights.
Meanwhile, a rural hillbilly can just stock up automatic weapons. Zero permits.
It’s so ironic. The laws are in favor of fascists, because the lesser evil of the two main parties are kneecaping us before the fight against fascism began.
Thanks alot, Democrats!
(We really need a true leftist party that’s Pro-2A)
Missouri is very lax on gun laws and the St. Louis area is very liberal and hillbillies are fucking terrified to come around here. Just floating ideas
Here he is:
What a mom, just reassuring her daughter the whole time.
I’ve been donating to Democracy Forward, who is suing people around the clock.
Dox this terrorist.
Him, and every other one. Please. We can’t let terrorists get away with this.
Violent gangsters who threaten our democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street.
These fucking nazis man, sickening.
Thank you - a friend of mine is a Senior Counsel for them and has been working almost non-stop since this administration took office, every donation helps.
So they wouldn’t let ICE inside their house to search for the grandmother, correct?
And then days later, ICE suddenly decides that the mom and granddaughter have “gang ties”, correct?
Riiiiiiiiight. Having “gang ties” is now the equivalent of cops planting a crack pipe on you.
Gang ties is actually quite genius. Nothing to plant. No evidence required.
It’s like Whose Line is it Anyway. The crimes are made up and the evidence doesn’t matter.
Evil genius is also a kind of genius.
ICE are LITERALLY HUMAN TRAFFICKING and LITERALLY ARMED THUGS who LITERALLY WEAR COLORS FOR THEIR ORGANIZATION which is a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION
These gangsters should be dealt with like the gangsters they are.
Doesn’t Trunk wear a deep red gang tie most if the time???
States need to start stepping up to protect their population. They can’t legally prevent ICE from entering the state, but they can refuse to share information with them, pardon crimes, hand out informational pamphlets educating them on their rights, declare state of emergency if need be.
I thought sheriffs had authority to get rid of federal agents and/or shoot them.
I do wonder how much further red and blue states can move away from each other before they un-unite.
It will come down to state budgets getting wrecked, not civil rights abuses. I also think they will coordinate and won’t pull the trigger until they get multiple states ready to do it.
Pardons doesn’t matter in the eyes of USCIS.
Overturned and expunged convictions doesn’t matter.
Even just arrests records without convictions are shown.
USCIS see them all.
Even arrests and “convictions” (technically its: called “Adjundicated Delinquent”) for people under 18 are seen by USCIS, if it happened within the past 5 years.
And you are required to tell the truth. (Or else they can retroactivly anull your immigration benenifits, including naturalization)
And Juveniles doesn’t have a right to jury trial.
So a 17 year old kids can be “Adjundicated Delinquent” by one corrupt judge, and the USCIS could use that info against them.
A small fight at school under 18? Well, they’ll say you have a “violent” character because you have committed an act of “moral turpitude” and therefore inadmissible/deportable.
How do I know? I got into a fight in school (it was self-defence) and started googling laws and stuff. Was the most horrifying google searches in my life.
Charges ended up getting dropped, so I’m good. (ACAB)
Fuck this bullshit.
Luckily, my mother’s Naturalization made me automatically a Citizen by Derivation. I can’t imagine whay that other timeline would’ve looked like.
“gang associations” is ICE’s version of “I smell marijuana”.
Unironically, ICE, DHS, and any “law enforcement” agency is ‘Murica are the real gangs.
“Americans can rest assured” no the fuck I cant
The government said that Berrios’ apprehension was driven in part because she is an associate of the violent gang MS-13, which has Salvadoran roots.
Then habeas corpus those roots to a judge otherwise it is time to change tactics with law enforcement.
Law enforcement agencies keep making the country less safe for Americans so that it is more safe for law enforcement. At some point it is the duty of the residents to stop the police.
Not even a joke at this point. If ICE takes your family member you should expect them to be tortured. What point is there in being alive, if that just happens and you do nothing but watch.
“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email.
DO NOT WORRY CITIZENS, I HAVE RESOLVED THE PROBLEM I INVENTED
McLaughlin did not respond to a request for details of Berrios’ alleged gang behavior.
TRUST US. WHY WOULD WE LIE?
They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!
This is a bad comic, the last 3 pillars are the same. There is no legal distinction between those 3. Of course that is the argument the administration is trying to make
These people need to be shot. I’m not kidding, if they come for a member of your community fucking shoot them; that’s the only way to stop them.
You can FOIA request the names and at the very least home offices of every person that works for ICE. It’s public information for now
Because the Republicans/Nazis are respecting FOIA‽
It comes down to the official that processes the requests too. Kinda why they’re firing everybody
The people who are most anti-fascist live in anti-gun jurisdictions. So ironic. (Thanks to Democrats)
Come to St. Louis, guns for days and super liberal
Violent gangsters who threaten democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street like the feral thugs they are.
Apparently it doesn’t matter if she actually was in a gang, the mere accusation is enough!
Guilty until proven innocent.
With the current state of the justice system, it’s just: Guilty
until proven innocent
