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   From: DB@cocks.net   
      
   On 4/8/2025 1:51 AM, America First - Screw Illegal Aliens wrote:   
   > Kick all the illegal immigrant activists out.  They have no voice in the   
   USA.  Block them from returning for ten years.   
   >   
   > The Trump administration’s escalating efforts to suppress and retaliate   
   against public dissent present a difficult question for noncitizens living in   
   the United States who want to protest the president’s policies.   
   >   
   > Is it worth becoming a target?   
   >   
   > Activists and protest organizers say that’s a calculation that millions of   
   people legally living and working in the United States will have to make as   
   public outrage against the administration grows.   
   >   
   > In Houston on Saturday, several lawyers, lawmakers and organizers hosted an   
   immigration-focused town hall where they explained the constitutional rights   
   that all people have when interacting with law enforcement. But underlining   
   the routine    
   informational session were warnings of caution for those seeking to protest   
   the issues that affect them most closely.   
   >   
   > “As organizers who feel compelled to protest in this day, we have to   
   accept we may be subject to removal,” Jaclyn McJunkin, an immigration-rights   
   organizer and activist, told the group of about 50 people. “It’s just   
   something that you have to    
   embrace, OK? Because if you don’t, then they win, right?”   
   >   
   > For people living in the US illegally, participating in a public protest has   
   long carried the risk of being identified, detained and processed for   
   deportation. Risk is extended to visa holders, lawful permanent residents and   
   Deferred Action for    
   Childhood Arrivals recipients in the country legally — any interaction with   
   law enforcement could lead to a revocation of their status or other   
   immigration-related consequences.   
   >   
   > NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 21: For the fifth day, pro-Palestinian students   
   occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus, on April 21, 2024 in   
   New York City. Earlier in the week over 100 students were arrested by the   
   police and suspended by    
   the university for demonstrating against the war in Gaza and demanding the   
   University divest from Israel.  (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty   
   Images)   
   > But new, sweeping immigration orders from President Donald Trump’s   
   administration, along with the detention of nearly a dozen known students and   
   faculty members in the country legally who were involved in pro-Palestinian   
   protests, have exacerbated    
   concerns about any expression of public discontent toward the administration   
   or its policies.   
   >   
   > Trump has long been angered by protests he disagrees with. During his first   
   term, the president sicced law enforcement on a peaceful crowd outside the   
   White House > > protesting George Floyd’s murder in 2020.   
      
      
   Shame on CNN for repeating this misinformation.  This "story" has been   
   discredited and yet CNN repeats it.   
      
   In the first months of his second term, the president has expanded his   
   efforts to stifle dissent and wield his power against institutions that   
   have angered him, including law firms, educational institutions, museums   
   and performing arts centers.   
   >   
   > He said last month he would try to stop federal funding for colleges that   
   allowed what he described as “illegal” protests. Trump has not said what   
   in his view makes a protest “illegal.”   
   >   
   > “This is something that I’m living every single day,” Cesar Espinosa,   
   a lawful permanent resident who is also the executive director of immigration   
   civil rights organization FIEL Houston, told the Saturday town hall. “I’m   
   in — not fear —    
   but I’m constantly thinking about this, and it’s something that has hit   
   close at home.”   
   >   
   > Espinosa added: “I have embraced the fact that there could be   
   consequences, but at the end of the day, they could try to take me away, but   
   they’re not going to take away our spirit.”   
   >   
   > Hundreds demonstrate in Dallas   
   > One march in Dallas on Sunday drew about 1,200 people, according to   
   estimates from the city’s police department. Protest organizers had hoped   
   for at least 10,000, but said fears about immigration operations might have   
   dampened turnout.   
   >   
   > “It’s a very unique situation with such a hostile political environment   
   that we’re in now. So I wish we had more people, but the fact of the matter   
   is people are scared,” organizer Domingo Garcia told CNN.   
   >   
   > The crowd, which marched from a cathedral in downtown Dallas to City Hall,   
   was encouraged to wear white and carry American flags as a symbol of unity as   
   organizers called for bipartisan immigration reform.   
   >   
   > Some protesters acknowledged anxiety about attending the march but said the   
   moment required them to speak out. Salvador Arthur Cedillo, a 59-year-old Navy   
   veteran who said the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of   
   Veterans Affairs inspired    
   him to protest, said the president’s crackdown on dissent is inspiring him   
   to “stand up and let my voice be heard.”   
      
   People have short memories. There were veterans locked in jail in DC for   
   the entire Biden Administration for marching on the Capitol to protest   
   what they saw as a stolen election in 2020.  CNN wasn't shedding tears   
   for those protesters.   
      
   >   
   > At the front of the march was Democratic Rep. Al Green, who himself is no   
   stranger to dissenting against Trump’s policies. Green, who represents   
   Houston, was kicked out of the president’s joint address to Congress last   
   month after interrupting    
   Trump’s speech to criticize his policies. Green was later censured by the   
   House of Representatives for his interruption.   
   >   
   > The city is no stranger to large-scale mobilizations for immigration reform.   
   Hundreds of thousands of people participated in a 2006 march to protest   
   proposed legislation that would have strengthened the penalties for illegal   
   immigration.   
   >   
   > The Trump administration’s anti-immigration rhetoric has also become   
   personal for many protesters, including Marbella Carranza, who has said her   
   11-year-old daughter, Jocelynn, died by suicide after being bullied due to her   
   family’s immigration    
   status.   
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