Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed. After seeing 10-year-old Karla Tiul Baltazar off to her class, Tiul Caal didn’t make it back to their nearby apartment before he was stopped by federal immigration agents, detained and taken to a Border Patrol office in North Spokane. Tiul Caal has been in Spokane for six years, said Olga Lucia Herrera, who has been volunteering to help him through court proceedings and regular check-ins with immigration officials in that time. He does not have a criminal record. He has an active asylum case and a court date for 2027, a valid work permit and a Social Security number, Herrera said. He had made nearly every appointment for a regular check-in with immigration officials, except for a recent date around the holidays when he was having phone problems. “He was afraid this would happen,” Herrera said of Tiul Caal’s detention. He waited at the Customs and Border Patrol Spokane sector headquarters for three hours, head full of unanswered questions. He worried about Karla, who was born in Guatemala and is otherwise alone in the United States. “I had told him, ‘If this ever happens, you’re going to cry, scream and beg them, because you cannot leave your daughter,’ ” Herrera said. “So he did that. He said, ‘I cannot leave my daughter. I cannot leave.’ ” Agents allowed Tiul Caal to pick Karla up from school and told him to come back the next day, Herrera said. He signed papers saying he would leave the country voluntarily. But Herrera said he was coerced. “He says, ‘They’re going to come and get me and they threatened me, they said they would separate me from my daughter if I didn’t go,’ ” Herrera said. The next day, Herrera drove Tiul Caal and his daughter back to the Border Patrol headquarters with two bags of belongings each, all the while still trailed by an off-duty immigration agent, Herrera said. They were again detained and later transported to an immigration processing facility in Dilley, Texas, where they now await a court date in March. Herrera said 10-year-old Karla is stressed thinking of the school she’s missing. “She would at least want to finish elementary school,” Herrera said. Spokane Public Schools board member Nikki Otero Lockwood held a moment of silence at Wednesday’s board meeting after she learned of the young student’s detention. “The child’s absence is deeply felt by classmates, educators and a school community that is grieving and trying to make sense of this loss,” Lockwood said. Karla is an “amazing” girl and left everyone with that impression, Herrera said. She came to Spokane at 4 years old and eventually enrolled in school and learned English. She loves books, Herrera said, and was teaching herself to write Japanese characters.
Crazy whacked out commie clergy getting paid to protest today at the terminal where deportation flights happen. The arrests started during a prayer. Over 100 arrests so far.
In case anyone still doesn't get it, the Dilley, Texas "immigration processing facility" is a private, for-profit prison.
This is a great article describing the scope of organizing in Minneapolis. Also, if you want to help provide mutual aid here is a good place to start- https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands Local resistance is “growing exponentially,” says Defend the 612’s Andrew Fahlstrom. Samantha Michaels A new activist twist on neighborhood watch is taking shape in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel drive around these cities, they’re often tailed by people in the neighborhoods. The idea is to make sure witnesses are present for any immigration arrest, to catch incidents on video, and to protest—or at least get the detainee’s name. These ICE watchers are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated. Trump administration officials have called the protesters domestic terrorists. But they say they’re just ordinary folks trying to help their neighbors. I caught up with Andrew Fahlstrom, who helps lead Defend the 612, a hub for these volunteers. He estimates there are tens of thousands of them citywide. In the conversation below, edited for length and clarity, he shares how this massive movement formed, how ICE is responding (poorly), and how people in other cities can prepare for the next invasion. “What we’ve noticed in Minneapolis,” he tells me, “is that having people outside, having people ready to respond, having people connected and communicating about ICE activity has kept so many people safe—more than we’ll ever know, more than we’ll ever be able to track.” How did Defend the 612 come about? I remember being on a call with immigrant rights organizations from LA and DC, and them saying that when ICE came to their cities, their hotlines were overwhelmed, like they could not take 10,000 calls a day, and it really came down to neighborhoods to respond. I was in South Minneapolis, in a neighborhood called Powderhorn, and this was before anything had happened here, but people had been watching things across the country and wanted to do something. So some neighbors and I did a whistle training—like 300 people came to the first, 200 to the second. It took us by surprise, how many people came out. You live near where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020, right? I’m within three blocks of George Floyd Square. During that time, we had created a neighborhood chat, like Signal messenger, with three blocks by three blocks’ worth of people, because there was a lot of activity—the Minneapolis Police Department was constantly trying to open up the street and causing clashes, and we needed to get organized. A lot of that infrastructure and those relationships—like, we would do block parties—continued since 2020. If the power goes out somewhere, you know about it. If a cat is loose, you see the picture of the loose cat and try to figure out where it is. So from that group chat, Defend the 612 formed? Yes, but a three-by-three block isn’t big enough. As we were seeing National Guard and ICE flood into other cities, we started another chat, “Phillips and Powderhorn Federal Threats”—Phillips and Powderhorn are two neighborhoods right next to each other. To the east of us, the Longfellow neighborhood had an even more organized system, like block groups, interest groups, street medics, and they convened other neighborhoods across the city that were starting to think about the same thing. So it was a lot of different people having the idea in different places and starting to slowly reach out to each other. Then December 1 happened. Immediately, in the Phillips neighborhood, there was a Subaru that kidnapped parents out of a vehicle and left a child in the cold crying in the backseat. And from then on, people have been responding to emergencies and building out communication systems and trying to figure out how to face abductors in our neighborhoods. Defend the 612 gives a front door—it gives people an entry point so they can get connected to the 12 or 13 neighborhoods across the city that are organized right now and willing to take people into their rapid response groups. How does the rapid response work? Rapid response only works if it’s rapid; if your neighborhood is big and you’re trying to respond to something that’s 10 minutes away, these abductions are happening within 4 minutes. And so across the city, folks are out on street corners in our cultural corridors, on foot. Folks are in cars because it’s cold in Minnesota, depending on the day, stationed up on corners on their block. Parents and neighbors are out at school starts and school ends to protect the children. And some folks are out being eyes and ears in a mobile way, in cars and on bikes. There’s so much going on right now. There’s this amazing group of people—I have no idea who they are—who are tracking all the [ICE] license plates. There’s this amazing group of people who are making maps about where people are being taken. There are school patrols, block patrols, neighborhood patrols, multi-neighborhood patrols. At this point, I can’t track a fraction of what’s happening, because there’s tens of thousands of people doing things. Wow, tens of thousands. It’s been growing exponentially. As of this morning, there are 12,000 people across Minneapolis on the multi-neighborhood rapid responses. That’s 3.46 percent of the adult population of Minneapolis, and that’s people who can tolerate these giant Signal group chats with a thousand people—most can’t. I would say there’s at least three times that many people in their individual neighborhood groups, block groups, and school patrol groups doing rapid response and ICE watch. And then I would double that number again for the folks who are giving rides, bringing food to people’s homes, going grocery shopping for targeted communities, doing fundraising for rent and other material support. At this point, I don’t know a single person in Minneapolis who isn’t involved in this work.... https://www.motherjones.com/politic...ations-resistance-protesters-whistles-follow/
Lol at the lying-left who say "we're a nation of laws". They are born liars many die in that ungodly state.
Karla was excited to see her mom and sister who live in Guatemala. She said, ‘I’m just afraid that they’re going to make fun of me, because I think I understand English better than Spanish.’ ” Looks like in this case, the family is being reunited. Poor girl was made to leave her mom & sister at 4 years old, trek through Mexico and illegally cross the border with the father to seek asylum?
The Right always say protestors are being paid but Every Major mouthpiece they look and take their Ps and Qs from Are getting MEGA PAID Rocket River
With so much BS on the internet I have no clue if this is just some clown trying to get clicks, but if its real it is STUPID, ICE is already breaking laws, morality and the Constitution, don't fight fire with fire, protest peacefully, you're going to get someone killed
SMH criminal: check pedophile: check closeted gay: check that’s basically the MAGA starter pack probably calls himself a “Christian” too…
And... in red states, I'm sure there must be something, at least some religious people standing up for their neighbors. I've heard there's almost zero in San Antonio, which makes me sad for Texas. And before one of the resident whackjobs says I want to "interfere" with "law enforcement," that's incorrect. I'm impressed by people who stand up for one another's legal rights and try to make sure they're being following AND records any event where their rights are violated. That takes compassion and guts.
Lost in all the people defending the mistreatment of immigrants (legal and otherwise), and the mistreatment of the citizens who speak up for decency, communities of citizens are getting hurt also. How does a kid feel when one of their classmates is disappeared by scary men? I guess MAGA just wants to make this country as sad and as traumatized as possible. Off to a great start, y'all qaeda.
@Salvy @Os Trigonum @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul they are taking the top woke lunatics title away From Portland and San Francisco It’s the whole state Remember how woke they are They aren’t real nba fans
