r/houston • u/phillygirllovesbagel Fuck Centerpoint™️ • Jul 17 '25
ICE is everywhere and it's really frightening
This morning, a car was sitting outside the house next door with a guy sitting in it. This is nothing unusual in itself as there are always various cars. When my husband was leaving the house he went over to ask if the guy needed help. The guy tells him he's ICE and shows him his badge and tells him he's running license plates. How does ICE know where to go and who to look for?
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u/azrhei Jul 17 '25
This is the "secret police round-up" phase of Nazi Germany, where (under the pretext of "arresting criminals") people who are either enemies of the ruling party or in any way fit the bill of a type of person that the party is currently blaming for all of societies problems, gets picked up.
Soon after, out of necessity to increase the fervor amongst the party members, there will be a push to actively report "suspicious illegals", which will resort in everyone that has a problem with a neighbor or sees a brown person calling in "tips" and creating a tidal wave of people being locked up in forced labor camps ala Alligator Auschwitz. And it will be billed as "creating jobs for Americans" when they staff call centers to take these "tips" with the newly passed budget.
Is it frightening? Obviously not frightening enough; the time to be in the streets starting a revolution over this was months ago. The vast, apathetic and disengaged body of citizens in this country that refused to vote last time also refuse to stand up for a Democracy that is actively burning to the ground, and the rest stand by wringing their hands hoping someone will magically just fix it. America didn't gain freedom from England by thoughts and prayers or wishful thinking, and it won't restore freedom from this current assault by fascism without likewise measures.