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North End resident describes ICE asking about Asian neighbors
Elizabeth Lugert-Thom, of St. Paul, warned people on social media last week that two men came to her door in the North End on Wednesday. One had a badge hanging around his neck and she could make out “HS” on it and may have said “Homeland” on it, leading her to believe it was a Homeland Security badge.
“They did not identify themselves,” she said Monday. “They just starting asking questions and showed me a picture and asked if I knew who this person was.” She didn’t and told them so.
“They said, ‘This is for your safety. We need to find this person,’” according to Lugert-Thom, who said she doesn’t know why they came to her home.
“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street and in the neighborhood.”
Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” and she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?” She also told them she didn’t know, so they would leave.
She said she posted about it on Facebook because “I was a bit shaken and a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”
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City Council Member HwaJeong Kim, who is a volunteer with the Immigrant Defense Network and who represents Lugert-Thom’s ward, said she’s hearing frequently from neighborhood networks about people being taken into custody.
“They took someone walking on the sidewalk this morning in my ward before 9:30 this morning,” Kim said Monday. “… Rolled up, took them, gone.
“We already knew that they were doing it, and now they’re just not even hiding. … If you are Black, if you’re Brown, if you are Asian, Latina, even Indigenous, if you are just not white, at this point, you are a target.”
“roughly detained”
they killed him. He stopped breathing and went limp and was carried off like a sack of meat and thrown in the back of the cruiser instead of given medical aid
these fucks spent 20 minutes trying to get 1 guy out of a car and handcuff him, he wasn’t even resisting, to the point where they suffocated him and killed him. Crazy how in other countries cops can just arrest people and put handcuffs on them without strangling them to death, that IDF training really coming into play
“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street and in the neighborhood.”
About 95% of Hmong in the USA are citizens, which is actually only slightly less than the percentage of non-hispanic whites in the USA who are citizens (I believe that would be ~97%, based on the number of non-citizen residents from Europe and the Anglosphere)
Similar statistics to Somalis but it doesn’t matter, they aren’t white and the nazis have decided that they’re the enemy
They should all infiltrate ICE and then feed them incorrect information
That would be a cat Hmong the pigeons
I think there’s something to be said for emulating the behavior of cats toward pigeons in this situation, but that behavior isn’t spreading misinformation.
I couldn’t think of any other way to do the pun
ICE is probably foaming at the mouth to try to annihilate the hmong population in the midwest
