The 18-year-old and her mother — Elsy Noemi Berrios, 52 — planned to ride to work together, which happened daily in the month of March. Cruz Berrios recently started as a seamstress where her mom had worked for the past five years.
But March 31 was different for Cruz Berrios.
Their car on a street in Westminster was suddenly surrounded by ICE agents, with at least one wearing a face covering. The agents didn’t present a warrant, according to Cruz Berrios. They shouted orders at the mother to get out of the car.
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The mother and daughter believed the agents had been after her undocumented mother. That’s because ICE officers previously came to the family’s Westminster home twice but were denied entry each time.
“They didn’t have a warrant. They knew their rights. ICE went away,” said Halle Blitzstein, the mother’s Baltimore-based attorney.
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“I don’t need to show you the order,” an officer said in Spanish. Most of the video includes the officer speaking in Spanish, but the voice was barely audible in the video because the car window was partially rolled up.
“I’m not going to give you the order, it’s in the car,” the officer said just before the mother was taken from the car.
“No!” the daughter screamed. “You guys cannot take her just because you want to.”
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The government said that Berrios’ apprehension was driven in part because she is an associate of the violent gang MS-13, which has Salvadoran roots.
“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email. McLaughlin did not respond to a request for details of Berrios’ alleged gang behavior.
Cruz Berrios and her mother’s attorney vehemently deny that Berrios has a connection to gang membership.
Anyone who sees ICE performing an arrest has the moral obligation to run them over with their car.
ICE are nothing but Brown Shirts doing the bidding of the Mango Mussolini. This is disgusting and when are we going to do something about this. My congress-monkey is part of the problem so not matter how much I complain to him nothing will get done.
The only way cops will respect people’s rights is if they’re afraid of what might happen if they violate them. That goes for all people. Power corrupts. Without checks to keep them in line, every cop is corrupt.
ICE ain’t NICE nor LEGAL
It is the American Gestapo.
Border patrol can get fucked too with that 200 mile inland nonsense.
Terrorists do this. Sounds like terrorism. Protect your fellow citizens everyone.
Look at those cheeseburger eating, wiping the paper bag with their face, off brand Nazis. The extra dumb kind that doesn’t fit into Hugo Boss. What a micropenis convention the US has become.
It’s only matter of time till people start planting ICE agents for this shit.
This is good internet tough guy rhetoric, but there is a reason people don’t do this.
Yes, in theory, it might be possible to make a self-defense claim if you’re charged with murder for killing an ICE agent. If some plain-clothes thug comes and tries to abduct you off the street, how are you to know they’re not human traffickers trying to abduct you instead of federal agents? The entire reason we have uniformed law enforcement is so that people can know they are agents of the law. A good self defense claim could absolutely be made, a simple case of mistaken identity, entirely the fault of agents who chose not to wear their uniforms.
The problem with this isn’t legal, it’s practical. If you shoot an ICE agent, you’re never going to make it in front of a judge to make that claim. They will kill you. You will be dead. Even if you somehow escape the scene, they will follow you to your house. They’ll put on their full uniforms, break down your door, and claim you pointed a weapon at them as they fill you full of lead. You are never going to be allowed in front of a judge to make your claim of self defense. You will simply be executed. This is how police officers always treat cop killers. Cop killers, even if they kill in self defense, do not get their day in court.
Killing an ICE agent is simply committing suicide. And while some would argue that this would be preferable to ending in an El Salvadoran prison, the truth is that, right now, very few people are actually ending up in such places. Only a tiny fraction of those detained by ICE end up in a place like that. That could change in the future, but right now, if you’re apprehended by ICE, the most likely outcome is that you’ll simply be deported. And even if you’ll be deported to a country where you face a high risk of violence, a high chance of death tomorrow is often preferable to a guaranteed death today.
This is the same reason very few Jews in the Holocaust took up arms against the Gestapo. Sure, it’s tempting to look back and ask, “why didn’t those condemned Jews fight back? Why didn’t every Jewish man sit in their home with a shotgun pointed at the door, waiting to take out the first Nazi bastard that barged in? If every Jew killed took one Nazi bastard out with them, the Holocaust would have never happened! It’s not like they had anything to lose!” It’s easy to say that. But again, a slim chance at life tomorrow is preferable to no chance at life today. A few people did get lucky and actually manage to survive the concentration camps. Better a chance at life than a guaranteed death.
Getting shipped off to a prison in El Salvador is a death sentence as well dude.
States need to start stepping up to protect their population. They can’t legally prevent ICE from entering the state, but they can refuse to share information with them, pardon crimes, hand out informational pamphlets educating them on their rights, declare state of emergency if need be.
Pardons doesn’t matter in the eyes of USCIS.
Overturned and expunged convictions doesn’t matter.
Even just arrests records without convictions are shown.
USCIS see them all.
Even arrests and “convictions” (technically its: called “Adjundicated Delinquent”) for people under 18 are seen by USCIS, if it happened within the past 5 years.
And you are required to tell the truth. (Or else they can retroactivly anull your immigration benenifits, including naturalization)
And Juveniles doesn’t have a right to jury trial.
So a 17 year old kids can be “Adjundicated Delinquent” by one corrupt judge, and the USCIS could use that info against them.
A small fight at school under 18? Well, they’ll say you have a “violent” character because you have committed an act of “moral turpitude” and therefore inadmissible/deportable.
How do I know? I got into a fight in school (it was self-defence) and started googling laws and stuff. Was the most horrifying google searches in my life.
Charges ended up getting dropped, so I’m good. (ACAB)
Fuck this bullshit.
Luckily, my mother’s Naturalization made me automatically a Citizen by Derivation. I can’t imagine whay that other timeline would’ve looked like.
I do wonder how much further red and blue states can move away from each other before they un-unite.
It will come down to state budgets getting wrecked, not civil rights abuses. I also think they will coordinate and won’t pull the trigger until they get multiple states ready to do it.
I thought sheriffs had authority to get rid of federal agents and/or shoot them.
That woman, is a dangerous gang member? THAT woman? And her screaming, terrified 18-year-old daughter who had the audacity to demand cops show a fucking warrant.
If you aren’t filled with rage at this point, you’re either evil, or painfully ignorant.
She wasn’t evena gang member.
She had an ‘association’.
Like, maybe the evil lady was at some point a co-worker or a neighbor or said hello to a gang member.
Be on guard, this must stop.
They will come for tbw associate of the associated next.
She had an ‘association’.
Like, maybe the evil lady was at some point a co-worker or a neighbor or said hello to a gang member.
She had an association, ethnicity. That’s good enough for the right.
Translation: “We associate you with MS13.”
That 52 year old woman. Prime gang demographic
Have you seen how old most bikers in the US are? The stigma that most bikers are in a gang is stupid but there are SOME bikers who are seniors and who are in something like Hell’s Angels.
Also, I’ve seen TV shows where they depict the grandmother as a sweet innocent lady who was actually the drug runner for the gang. It’s plausible.
That being said, there needs to be…I don’t know…actual evidence that she’s a part of said gang to justify this insanity.
Sure, plausible …… smash her window and drag her out of her car with no warrant, no exigent circumstances, just a verbal claim that sounds like a pretense these days …. Insanity is right
that being said
Man, fuck off. Why did you think that needed to be said, really?
“Old people are in gangs on TV. I’m JK though, this is actually bad.”
Wow great addition to the conversation.
“gang associations” is ICE’s version of “I smell marijuana”.
Unironically, ICE, DHS, and any “law enforcement” agency is ‘Murica are the real gangs.
“I didn’t know they could do something like that — especially when you hadn’t done anything,” her daughter said.
What an awful thing to have to learn
This is a bad comic, the last 3 pillars are the same. There is no legal distinction between those 3. Of course that is the argument the administration is trying to make
They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!
Here he is:
What a mom, just reassuring her daughter the whole time.
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Dox this terrorist.
Him, and every other one. Please. We can’t let terrorists get away with this.
Violent gangsters who threaten our democracy with their terrorism should be shot in the street.
These fucking nazis man, sickening.
Is it illegal to walk around in a vest that says ICE and such. Like if we all did it, then anyone accosted by the real ICE with no warrant could simply drive away because it would be plausible that it wasn’t an ICE agent.
It’s one of the alphabet agencies. So afaik it’s the same authority as the FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA, IRS, ATF, DEA, that kind of thing
Impersonating a law enforcement officer is a crime, yes.
Would matter if you never claimed to be ICE or anything. Just wore the vest. There must be some legal definition of impersonating.
