On the 10th of May (mother’s day weekend), migrant rights activists gathered in Ybor City, Tampa’s Centennial Park to hold a vigil for Heydi Sanchez Tejida. A covered area in the park allowed the vigil to proceed almost unaffected by the day’s drenching rains.
Back in April, ICE ambushed Heydi at a normally scheduled check-in hearing, forcibly tore her nursing baby out of her arms, and deported her to Cuba in chains. This is the cruelty that Donald Trump and ICE are all about. Whatever it takes this evil must be stopped.
It takes a lot of nerve for armed invaders to steal two whole continents, then dare to tell surviving Indigenous people and their descendents where they can travel on their own land!
The inhuman brutality in ICE detention centers, the shackles and chains, and the perfidy of asking people to show up “voluntarily” for these hearings and then throwing them in iron dungeons is beyond intolerable. It is the opinion of this author that ICE will surely find people stop coming to these hearings, just as they are finding when they go into communities to hunt, whole neighborhoods swarm out to resist them.
It is clear that there is nothing to be gained from cooperating with ICE or any part of their “supervision” but suffering and pain.
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