cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/usa/p/1078774/breaking-ice-is-using-gps-ankle-monitors-to-prepare-a-mass-roundup-of-350000-haitian-refugee
The letters arrived with almost no warning.
Haitian families who fled a country consumed by violence and natural disaster, built lives here under a humanitarian program that let them live and work legally for years — and then watched that program get eliminated by the Trump administration — opened their mailboxes to a letter ordering them to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office for a mandatory “in-person check-in.”
The letter doesn’t say anything about leaving the appointment with an ankle bracelet bolted on, reporting their every move from then on out back to ICE.
But that is exactly what has awaited them at these mandatory appointments.
Y’all thought it was bad when ice was “allowed” to pull over, chase, jump on, beat up, and shoot anyone with brown skin? trump just declared open fucking season on black folks. This country is going to be on fire. On Fire.
Stand up for your siblings, or fall alone.
