Seriously, as a woman this concerns me. I wanted to get out jogging again when the kids go to bed but now I’m really frightened by it. I live in MA and there have been a lot of raids and innocent people being abducted. Who’s to say some maniacs won’t start human trafficking under the guise of it being ICE? A lot of these people aren’t wearing anything identifying. Terrifying times.
Edit: Oof and it is strange I am slightly fearful of the traction this post is getting 🥴
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That’s the neat part, absolutely nothing! And they don’t care!
It kind of is human trafficking with a sticker on anyway.
Heck, ICE are probably human trafficking. Remember all the kids that disappeared during the last Trump administration?
You are correct. The whole objective of the Trump regime is for white men to be able to do whatever they want with impunity. This is exactly what his supporters want and will do.
The ICE kidnappings ARE human trafficking.
This is how it happens. This is what it is.
If they’re kidnapping people without due process to imprison in lifelong labor camps then it’s just trafficking.
Nothing and this has already been an existing problem the last time we went down this path. If you can stomach it, there should still be plenty of articles going into how the babies/children/teenagers who were abducted at the border during the first admin were either thrown into modern concentration camps. Or more “fun”, passed along through a REALLY fucking shady adoption process. Basically all the young girls pass through the system and went directly to environments where women are regularly sexually abused/groomed. The biggest one (at the time of reading) was a mormon organization in the midwest that were oddly pretty open about what they were looking for, young women. Mind you this is all under the guise of being “legal” and official. Doesn’t even begin to cover what you’re rightly concerned with and has literally already happened. Cosplayers dressing up as ICE or just lying about it to intimidate people of color because, I dunno conservatives are all missing that part of the brain that makes them unable to empathize with fellow human beings.
There is going to come an incident where they pull this stunt of nabbing someone while completely unmarked and someone is going to stand their ground and shoot. Not going to be a fun day when that happens as the admin is specifically pushing for that.
For “traditional” human trafficking, they don’t target random people. It wouldn’t work out well, because it would make them a target, and get them caught very quickly.
Traffickers almost exclusively go after victims who people aren’t going to be looking for, and victims almost always know their traffickers. There’s very specific types of people that are targeted for trafficking.
If you’re just going out jogging, this isn’t something you need to be concerned with. There’s a lot of fear mongering videos and posts, with people saying they’re too scared to go to the grocery store or target because of trafficking, but that’s not how any of it works.
Nothing. We all have to be even more vigilant (great, as though many of us weren’t already losing sleep) and be prepared to whip out our phones, go on IG Live or whatever, and start yelling “where’s your warrant” when we see something suspicious.
People are going to get hurt. People are going to die. I’m so sad this is the reality of our times but it is.
I saw an article that three men have already been arrested for impersonating ICE.
BOY, WHAT A GOOD QUESTION THAT IS!!
It’s already happening. I can’t find the article but you can google it. 3 men were pretending to be ICE agents, they were trafficking women and raping them. Approaching them the same way ICE does.
Nothing that is a fixture to guarantee fear.
That’s what I automatically assume is going on. Even if they claim they’re ICE, you can’t trust it.
Yall need to exercise your 2nd amendment right if they’re not identifying themselves
If your household can sustain one and you are willing to make your house a home for one, get a medium to large dog. They’re the only thing that makes me feel safe to walk around at night without my partner.
If someone did try something, dogs might not actually be much help, but they can help deter predators from targeting you, specifically.
Predators will go for the easiest target every time, and I hate to say it but a woman with no dogs is easier and less risky to grab than one with a large dog or two that look like they could bite (even if they’re big sweeties who never would bite, it’s what they look like that counts). Predators don’t want someone who might put up a real fight for them, or who has strength in numbers.
Seems like communities need to organize defense groups, to protect ANYONE from kidnapping, including by ICE… I’m not from the US, but the situation over there is scary as hell. I’m really sorry. Here, just North of your border, people are pretty pissed and many talk about joining the military (and the military is overrun with applications right now) because they want to defend everyone against your country’s fascist regime. You guys desperately need to organize to resist, too. We know most of you don’t want to go to war with us. We now know that you’re scared of being disappeared. Don’t let them. If you see someone being disappeared from the street, be ready to quickly gather a large group of people to surround the scene and refuse to let them go anywhere.