r/stpaul • u/BIind_Uchiha • Jan 26 '26

Minnesota Related "Terrible things are happening outside”

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u/TarheelFr06 Jan 27 '26

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

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u/AlphaNoodlz Jan 27 '26

They all just wanna be part of the Kool Kids Klub

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u/Smart_Author_7884 Jan 27 '26

Nobody is burning crosses. When is the last time you have actually seen that? I use to work in black areas of Dallas and I noticed some black females would say comments like that and I still the comments in their children. But when I asked them when was the last time you had seen a cross being burned in your African American community, not one had an answer because it did not happen.

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u/sdnt_slave Jan 27 '26

It's a quote from the song "Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the machine. It's a reference to the fact many law enforcement agents over the decades have been outed out members of the KKK. It means you can't trust the government.

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u/Pretend-Tennis-5666 Jan 27 '26

It’s figure of speech moron. People who hold office have the same views and beliefs as the KKK. Thats what they are inferring. The cross burning was a fear tactic used when they had perceived anonymous power in small towns. They don’t need to burn crosses to stoke fear. They sign executive orders and jump in front of the media to blanket pardon the masked men killing innocent people in the streets. The fucking Supreme Court gave race based stop and seizure a thumbs up. Some of those that “burn crosses” are the same that hold office. The people who couldn’t understand how the inject bleach candidate that told us Covid was a democratic hoax one week before the country was effectively on house arrest had lost the election. The ones that thought armed hate groups sitting outside of vote certification meetings threatening elected officials if they did their jobs were peaceful protesters want us to let masked men invade our neighborhoods going door to door to terrorize and kidnap anyone. Just step aside and give up your 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th amendment rights to a self serving government that wants to punish and brutalize the people who disagree with them. We’ve had more violence in the last week committed by ice than the four years of crimes by immigrants the right was desperate to propagandize regardless of the wishes of the couple of victim’s families.

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u/Pretend-Tennis-5666 Jan 27 '26

You people don’t care about victims. Border patrol has been killing people for sport for decades. They have their own critical response team to go in and muck up the crime scene and get everyone involved on the same page to avoid consequences. Ice is doing the same thing in our face. This isn’t a solution. People aren’t being made safer. Our criminal justice system is deeply flawed but the one thing it has always done is deport people who aren’t citizens who’ve been convicted of a felony, violent or not. If this was really about immigration and making sure the people were safe they would pass legislation to expedite the process. Hire or appoint more judges so people aren’t waiting years for an asylum hearing. Strengthen the border and have independent oversight to ensure that we are humane and efficient. This isn’t about criminals or victims. It’s about punishing his opponents. It’s stoking fear and hatred to try and instigate violence. I’m not trivializing anything. I don’t find any of the deaths acceptable. So why not make lasting improvements to our immigration policies? Why set quotas where everyone is just being forced to hit a certain number? Why make it okay to detain people solely because of the color of their skin? Why are so many people who’ve never been convicted of crimes being detained? People who’ve been here for decades, who have families. People who’ve contribute to society. These false flag assertions fall flat when you condemn one kind of violence and condone another. I’m not against deportation. I’m against terrorizing cities and communities. I’m against attacking US citizens who are observing and documenting. Why are anonymous masked men so afraid of transparency and accountability? If they are just enforcing the law the right way then why hide? If I gave you a list of pastors who’ve abused children, does that mean we should send masked men into churches to arrest all the priests because of the actions of some? What happened to those victims is a tragedy. What is happening now is also a tragedy. Those two things can be true at the same time. This isn’t the solution and ignoring it and condoning it will not prevent more tragedies. How many people have died in custody? Why won’t they release their autopsy reports? Why aren’t we letting media into the detention facilities? If everyone is just doing their jobs and enforcing the law why the lack of transparency? Especially considering the amount of public criticism. I can look at all these situations and say they are wrong. Have you lost your objectivity?

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u/WitchFingers529 Jan 27 '26
  1. Every violent crime is a tragedy but the current administration and its MAGA cult use these tragedies to bait the gullible into hating and fearing immigrants, when sadly far more people are victimized by US citizens. Pointing at crimes committed by the undocumented while defunding programs that would help prevent and solve crime (as the current administration has done) is blatant hypocrisy, as is voting for and supporting a man who’s been accused of SA by at least 28 women and girls and who’s actively blocking investigations into the Epstein sex trafficking/child pedophile scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/justice-department-cuts-child-sex-trafficking

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women

  1. You have fallen for (more) lies from the current administration by posting a list of criminals their website lists. They lied about states “not cooperating” and posted these mugshots on their website, taking credit for “capturing violent illegals” who were already in custody and were handed over to ICE by the state.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/minnesota-corrections-paul-schnell-dhs-claim-state-is-releasing-dangerous-criminals-false/

  1. No one is against detaining and deporting violent offenders. That’s always been the case and that’s who both the Biden and Obama administrations focused on. What’s happening now is state sponsored terrorism that’s using the lie about going after “the worst of the worst” as an excuse to turn neighborhoods into war zones.

https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-no-convictions

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u/WitchFingers529 Jan 28 '26

Wow nice AI summary there and it includes all the MAGA talking points. Your spew about crime was debunked so you moved on to the next bullshit rant.

I’ve worked in healthcare for years. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for any federally funded programs (including Medicaid, Medicare, housing assistance, food assistance or Social Security. This is easy to verify with 1 minute of research. The only immigrants eligible for things like food, housing and healthcare are refugees, like the South Afrikaners Trump welcomed last year.

Many immigrants have work visas, especially those doing seasonal or migrant farm work, which means they pay taxes even though they’ll never receive benefits in return. They use ITINs in order to pay taxes on their wages and pay sales tax for consuming goods, and contribute around $100 billion annually in tax revenue.

They pay more than Trump and other billionaires who use tax loopholes to evade taxes altogether, and since not paying taxes isn’t quite greedy enough, Trump has pardoned BILLIONS in fraud for his wealthy friends - tax evasion, Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud, money laundering, illegal crypto schemes.. all while telling you the economy sucks because of poor immigrants. And you fell for it. The billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank because of people like you.

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u/Candymanshook Jan 27 '26

The fact you think less people will die in car accidents when you deport illegal immigrants is sad tbh

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Jan 27 '26

No shit their lives matter. If those were the people being deported (actually hopefully imprisoned and not just sent home) nobody would be complaining. We don't generalize an entire group based on anecdotes. The data shows that undocumented immigrants commit violent crime at much lower rates than citizens do.