Tek say resist
My family and I are US citizens by birth. We live somewhere that many of our neighbors and friends are not.
Today I taught Tek Jr that if INS starts approaching them and their friends, they’re to yell “la migra!” and run. When the thugs follow, their friends can run the other way. Doesn’t matter if Tek Jr gets caught; ain’t jack INS can do to them.
Teach your children well.
Tek say resist
@jenzi We’re native as in “European ancestors got here centuries ago”, not as in Native American.
Old Man in the Shoe
@tek They are deporting Native Americans, I'd be careful, they aren't holding hearings they are flying people out the same day.
Total Sonic Media
@tek - given the record of people arrested sometimes getting delayed in release or even "lost" for months in the system, as well as noting the abuses done by CPS in some places, while I sympathize with the spirit of this post, I don't really think it is necessarily good advice for parents to impart to their kids. Better to tell them to observe and report immediately what they saw, rather than endanger themselves - adults are the ones that can better choose whether to place themselves in between.
Tek say resist
@TotalSonic My ancestors volunteered to travel to far continents to fight tyrants. I’ll be damned if I’m not going to protect my own neighbors from the same.
I would rather die protecting the people around me than cowardly allowing them to suffer.
Tek say resist
@martinschlegel Me too. I hope we’re wrong and it never comes to that, but I want history to remember me as someone who tried to prevent it.
Martin Schlegel
@tek es triste que los EE.UU. Se están convirtiendo en este tipo de pais. Me recuerda a cuentos de personas que sobrevivieron el holocausto... Haré lo posible para educar a mis hijos a que no toleren este tipo de represalias y luchen por los derechos de cada persona sin importar su color de piel o pais de origen.
Total Sonic Media
@tek - that is an excellent attitude and more power to you. What I am trying to say is that we can make the decisions to oppose evils ourselves, and as adults more likely have a better level of experience to judge how best to effect that in a particular situation - but we still shouldn't encourage our kiddos to endanger themselves, given they might not be able to reliably navigate the situation in a safe way.
Tek say resist
@TotalSonic Sure, and that’s why we discuss ideas in advance that can do the most amount of good for the people around us, with the least personal risk given our specific circumstances.
Total Sonic Media
@tek - well, obviously you know your kids better than I do, so do what you think is best. I just wanted to note that the advice in your original post might not be best for other parents to heed though.
Tek say resist
@TotalSonic I didn’t advise anyone else to do that. I teach my kids to find ways to help and protect the people around them. Everyone should do that, whatever it may look like for their own situations.
Old Man in the Shoe
@tek I think the problem is, it doesn't matter. Someone in congress wants anyone standing between ICE and an immigrant arrested (especially MAYORS). They are playing for keeps.
Tek say resist
@jenzi You know, sometimes you have to do what’s right, even if it’s not easy. This is my country, dammit, and when my grandkids ask what I did when the thugs came for our neighbors, I want to have an answer I can be proud of.
We can’t all roll over and allow evil to happen when we could’ve resisted. That’s how historically bad things happen.
Tek say resist
@sal INS aren’t cops in the usual sense. The physical risk to my family from immigration thugs is far less than the risk to someone who gets deported.
sal
Tek say resist
And it’s always easier to resist starting early than waiting until the avalanche has started.
Crowjane
In this old lady’s experience, it’s always easier to do the wrong thing. This is not the time to be a slacker. It might be hard it might be terrifying, but do the right thing. Good people must do the right thing or bad people will steam roll us.
Tek say resist
@sal The guns don’t go away just because we comply.
sal
Paul Sutton
Take care, over there , it is gonna get bad The bbc are barely reporting this.
Tek say resist
@sal That’s an excellent idea for them. We all need to do what our situations allow.
Have a nice day.
sal
sal
Tek say resist
@zleap I hope this turns out to be much ado about nothing. We have to be ready for the worst, though.
Tek say resist
@fnord That’s terrifying, and highly motivational.
Fnord Prefect
@tek
thought this document might be worth passing around
https://archive.is/QuMGg
Paul Sutton
Yeah, but as the scouts would say 'be prepared' I don't think it is just this, being prepared for something is always a good thing, could be a natural disaster that displaces you for example and you need to grab an emergency kit with essentials, right up to the government trying to arrest you with the view to deportation,
As I said, take care, We are hoping all this taking over greenland and panama is just bluster, or if Trump orders that, the military just say NO.
Tek say resist
@zleap Good grief. Both of those are so bizarre and out of the blue to me. “He wants to… what?!”
But yeah, we’re preparing for situations I hope never come.
eladnarra
@tek I really hope your kid(s) fully understand the risks involved; "INS" (I'm assuming you mean ICE/CBP) can do plenty.
Whiteness and US citizenship only protect you if the people with guns deign to recognize them.
Tek say resist
@eladnarra Of course they do. We’re not idiots.
eladnarra
@tek Okay. When you said that immigration can't do jack shit to your kids, it made it sound like you weren't aware of the potential violence, indefinite detention, and deportation that even US citizens can face when caught in the system.
Tek say resist
@eladnarra How are they going to deport someone who was born in the US to American parents who were born in the Midwest to American grandparents born in the Midwest? I don’t think Germany wants us back some 400 years after we left.
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