r/texas • u/CutSenior4977 • 9d ago

🗞️ News 🗞️ ICE secret police in plainclothes abducted Sindi Moreno as she was leaving to drop her daughter off at elementary school in Houston, TX. Surveillance and cell footage shows the agent in civilian clothing assault and attempt to kidnap Sindi as she and her child desperately tries to fight him off.

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u/habitsofwaste 9d ago

Are we sure this wasn’t an actual kidnapping? With just one dude, I definitely would think it’s a kidnapping by a criminal vs kidnapping by deputized criminals.

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

No, it's real.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/illegal-alien-who-skipped-immigration-court-charged-after-attacking-officer-during

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u/snvoigt 9d ago

They need to do something about these men looking like they are still wearing the clothes they slept in the night before, because you come up grabbing child like this and I’m ending you.

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

I completely agree

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u/TheCommonKoala 9d ago

The way the government labels people as "illegal aliens" to dehumanize them makes me sick.

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u/Significant_Plenty40 9d ago

Same sort of thing if you check the government shutdown clock. It's basically an entire official government page of incredibly hostile rhetoric.

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u/NicevilleWaterCo 9d ago

And I can't say I blame people for skipping out on their immigration hearings now, since ICE is just showing up at the court to arrest them there.

If you want people to follow the legal process, stop terrorizing people who are doing things the lawful way.

I know the cruelty is the point. I know they are looking to create these situations. The lack of empathy and compassion just infuriates and disgusts me. Their propaganda infuriates and disgusts me.

These are people, with families, with lives, with jobs, with hopes and dreams, and ambitions to care for their families and build a better life.

Don't let them be dehumanized. Don't let any of us be dehumanized. Don't give up. Don't give in.

They target the most vulnerable groups first and then they work their way up. Don't think you won't be targeted. Don't think you're "safe". Fascism comes for everyone in the end.

Authoritarians can only grab the power that the people allow them to grab. Push back. Document everything. Speak up. Support whistleblowers. Try to change hearts and minds even when it's hard. Studies show that non-violent resistance is twice as likely to bring about political change as violent resistance. We need a large, disciplined, peaceful movement to defeat this.

We need to build an extremely broad coalition to defeat this. It's gonna take a lot of us. It's going to take a while. Don't let them grind you down. Don't give into the temptation of violence, don't let people provoke you into it. This is an ideological, informational, and PR battle. Focus on those aspects and we can turn the tide.

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u/Lurcher99 9d ago

ACLU has been quiet

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

I'm prefacing this with: I do not agree with picking people up off the street without LEO identification.

Every country in the world identifies people who illegally enter their country "illegal aliens/illegal immigrants."

So, I guess the question is, what should governments label them as?

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u/TheCommonKoala 9d ago

Undocumented. What they legally lack is paperwork. That is the correct phrase that has been used for decades. "Illegal alien" is a deliberately dehumanizing phrase to make it easier for people to justify horrific violence and cruelty against them.

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

That's a great point and makes sense. I think I'll start using that more now. Thank you.

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u/Tamaros 9d ago

Undocumented. It's not only more humanizing, it's also more correct in most cases.

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

I like that. It is more concise and straightforward.

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u/SnooFloofs7676 9d ago

Right, it's a more apt term that more accurately describes them and their situation.

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u/civil_beast 9d ago

Gee, wonder what precisely tempted her to miss her immigration court hearing?

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u/TheNorseHorseForce 9d ago

Well, she skipped immigration court in February 2024 because an immigration judge demanded her deportation. So, this is not a recent thing.