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.
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”.
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