This is a potato gallette, and also a reminder to call your representatives and senators and tell them to stop ICE.
And did you know, what’s happened in Minnesota has shifted to Maine, where ICE launched its operation called “Catch of the Day,” ostensibly to pursue the worst of the worst criminals.
But why Maine, though? Maine has one of the smallest immigrant populations — about 56,000 people, comprising about 4% of the state population.
That pales in comparison to states like Florida, Texas, and California. Surely if the mission was really to go after the worst, you would go where the numbers are.
But no, this is a political paramilitary operation.
In a grocery store parking lot, a Black mother screams “I’m a citizen” as ICE agents rip her from her car—her toddler shrieking in the back seat. It doesn’t matter. They handcuff her anyway.
Senator Susan Collins says she got the operation stopped. She says she called Kristi Noem. She says it’s over.
But it’s not. ICE agents are taunting residents on the street. One rolled down his window and called a woman a “Karen” for filming them and said laughing, “I’m gonna arrest three more families today, just for you.”
I think we know who the worst of the worst are. It’s not the families getting arrested. It’s not the immigrant workers—many of them citizens, many with legal work permits— who are now sheltering in place, too terrified to go to their jobs, to ride the bus, or get groceries.
No, it’s the armed and unidentifiable agents of this administration stopping and detaining anyone they want based on looks. And because of them, law and order has given way to chaos and terror.
So everyone should be calling their Representatives and Senators in Congress and demanding that this stops.
And if you’re a resident of Maine, call Susan Collins and tell her to stop funding fear and start protecting the rights of Mainers. The impact of her voting record on this is unbearable.
U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
Sen. Collins D.C. office: 202-224-2523
We need ICE out.
Be Kind, and … you know.
