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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Doesn’t Trunk wear a deep red gang tie most of the time???
ICE ain’t NICE nor LEGAL
It is the American Gestapo.
Border patrol can get fucked too with that 200 mile inland nonsense.
First they came for the illegal immigrants - and I did nothing…
First they came for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
“gang associations” is ICE’s version of “I smell marijuana”.
Unironically, ICE, DHS, and any “law enforcement” agency is ‘Murica are the real gangs.
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
They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!
Is it just me, or do the two thugs look way too much like thugs?
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.
Violent gangsters who threaten democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street like the feral thugs they are.
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
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Come to St. Louis, guns for days and super liberal
Is it illegal to walk around in a vest that says ICE and such. Like if we all did it, then anyone accosted by the real ICE with no warrant could simply drive away because it would be plausible that it wasn’t an ICE agent.
It’s one of the alphabet agencies. So afaik it’s the same authority as the FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA, IRS, ATF, DEA, that kind of thing
Impersonating a law enforcement officer is a crime, yes.
Would matter if you never claimed to be ICE or anything. Just wore the vest. There must be some legal definition of impersonating.
The only way cops will respect people’s rights is if they’re afraid of what might happen if they violate them. That goes for all people. Power corrupts. Without checks to keep them in line, every cop is corrupt.
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.
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.
Translation: “We associate you with MS13.”
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
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.
I’m not American. Their uniforms say police. Are ICE agents police? How do you recognize them? Do you have the same rights with police or ICE?
From Wikipedia:
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
So they more like FBI than local police or state troopers, but I’m not American either so
You are supposed to have the same rights regardless of the authoritative agency.
However when it comes down to it, it’s guys with guns vs normal people.
If this ever ends we should send all these ICE agents to El Salvador.
Any unbelievable excuse will do. Its always unbelievable because they always make up lies about the people they abuse.
“I didn’t know they could do something like that — especially when you hadn’t done anything,” her daughter said.
What an awful thing to have to learn
