Notices by Gabe Ortíz (tusk81@mastodon.social), page 2

"Democratic leaders need to be out there right now, today, every day, vowing to investigate and prosecute this most fundamental attack on America from the ranks of those who issued orders all the way down to anyone who followed them. In both military and civilian government."

https://thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/okay-now-were-being-fucking-invaded

"There's no reason to shoot anybody!" Rep. Waters shouted to the service members. "Don't allow them to make your service a service where you're killing people."

"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"

https://www.rawstory.com/maxine-waters-ice-protest/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6845d6e2144f8900011c1552&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

“This is Gestapo-like behavior, where plainclothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings, and trying to come into this country lawfully.” https://www.amny.com/news/goldman-condemns-ice-detentions-nyc-gestapo

“The arrests, Goldman said, will only discourage people from attending their mandatory, routine immigration appointments and ‘encourage people to avoid the legal system, to avoid following proper procedures.’” https://www.amny.com/news/goldman-condemns-ice-detentions-nyc-gestapo/

“I’m also, as a Jew, very familiar with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, and other forms of secret law enforcement in Russia and elsewhere,” Rep. Goldman continued, “that used fear and intimidation under the cover of night, under the cover of masks, in order to terrorize people that they did not like.”

Trump and Stephen Miller “want to escalate and inflame in order to create chaos and have the excuse to target and scapegoat even more immigrants and unleash violence in American communities,” says America’s Voice Director Vanessa Cárdenas. “Even the LAPD said that the immigration protests were peaceful.” https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/an-excuse-to-deliberately-stoke-violence-and-force-confrontations-around-immigration-americas-voice-reacts-to-trump-deployment-of-national-guard/

“The President has a lot of power here for violence and mischief. But he’s not in charge of what people think about it, whether they think his actions are legitimate, wise, anything they support.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-out-of-los-angeles

One attorney "said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

Marcelo is free, finally.

Stephen Miller is detaining bright, accomplished young people that are beloved by their communities—everything he’s not.

https://apnews.com/article/marcelo-gomes-ice-massachusetts-arrest-volleyball-1356302a723f6f5b0a95028754f7291e?user_email=89ab66e15894366cff317a9fc9704c5c7d0bbd1ae4dd47a91d9df1ba09d18e46&utm_medium=APNews_Alerts&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=NewsAlert_Jun05_2025_04:35PM&utm_term=AP%20News%20Alerts

“I am not just an immigrant. I am a human being,” said Ximena Arias-Cristobal. “I am a Georgian and I am an American without papers.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/dreamers-deportation-risks-georgia-college-student-rcna209802 #HomeIsHere

Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.”

“That child deserves our support,” he continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

https://www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz-backs-transgender-kids-as-democrats-grapple-with-debate-over-sports-ban/601366472

"The bridge stayed upright until the marchers turned around and left, but they didn’t go home.

Instead, organizers pivoted and walked to the nearby Acosta Bridge, which is contiguous. There, they celebrated Pride with the full spectrum of the rainbow—showing they didn’t need permission from the state for queer visibility."

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-desantis-florida-pride-marchers/ #Pride

The House budget is seeking _$175 billion_ in taxpayer funds to turbocharge abductions and cruel mass detention. In fact, this massive bill bloated with giveaways to the wealthy at the expense of the vulnerable would make ICE “the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons."

https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-high-cost-of-the-house-budget

"I am a political prisoner," Jeanette says. "I never thought I would become a political prisoner in the United States, a country where laws are supposedly respected, where freedom of speech is protected, where one supposedly has the right to speak out, to protest, to denounce injustice. That is what I am, a political prisoner.

And not just me; there are others, too, because of their activism who are imprisoned right now."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/28/jeanette_vizguerra

He’s diverting resources from combating _actual_ public safety threats (like drugs and human traffickers) to detain contributors like Colorado mom and immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra. ICE agents stalked her at the Target store where she works as a cashier. She said one told her, “we finally got you."

Shadow president and mass deportation architect-in-chief Stephen Miller reportedly ripped into top ICE officials and ordered agents to inflate their daily arrests to 3,000 people a day – a 450% increase.

For some context, ICE has averaged around 665 arrests a day under Trump, meaning Miller is now demanding a 450% increase:

https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-miller-puts-boot-on-neck

“The Bible says whoever is kind to the needy, honors God.” The MAGA Murder Budget “has other ideas.”

"Sojourners has made the case many times that a budget is a moral document ... Now is the time to pressure Congress to repent from this immoral bill and instead support a budget that reflects our core civic and religious values of economic opportunity and justice, and dignity for all."

https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-inverts-biblical-values

“A gang of nearly two dozen masked federal agents descended on a courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona over several days this week and arrested immigrants moments after they left their immigration court hearings.”

"Lawyers called nationwide incidents a ‘flagrant betrayal of basic fairness and due process.’”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrests-immigration-courthouse-b2757355.html

Marine Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, one of the first US service members to be killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom, was at one time undocumented, arriving here alone when he was just 14. A legal resident at the time of his death, he was posthumously awarded US citizenship. #MemorialDay

Immigrants have a long and distinguished history of serving in the U.S. military. This #MemorialDay, we also remember that some have made the ultimate sacrifice for their adoptive nation: https://americasvoice.org/blog/immigrants-have-long-served-their-country-in-the-u-s-military-some-have-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice/