A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.

Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a detention centre where she was denied medical care and lost consciousness. The Department of Homeland Security said she was an agitator who was obstructing ICE agents conducting arrests in the area.

That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents make arrests amid protests against what local officials have likened to a "federal invasion."

Rahman says she was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she encountered federal immigration agents at an intersection. Video appears to show agents shouting commands over a cacophony of whistles, car horns and screams from protesters.

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[–] 100 points 9 months ago (47 children)

To anyone who didn’t vote last year because they didn’t like the democrats position to a 100%:

I hope you are happy with what you have enabled. You must feel quite clever right now❤️

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I hate the establishment Dems, neo-liberals suck. But I still voted for them because the actual Fascists and Nazis were unconscionable.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Having two federal parties with the Dems and Republicans being the only feasible options sounds antidemocratic. A true democracy would be a bit more.. representative.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    200 NGOs Oppose Biden’s Historic Expansion of ICE Detention System: "Detention should not be about politics."

    ICE records show Biden admin plans could give Trump a head start on deportations

    President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs

    Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress

    Tom Homan - Border Czar was originally appointed by Obama

    Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.

    Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she'd be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.

    The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.

    You realize what the only logical conclusion to your "pragmatic liberal utilitarianism" is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If they had stopped money to ICE it would have been all over the airwaves. “Dems soft on immigration”.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    And if you've reached a point in your political experiment where the only viable "opposition" party is obligated to massively fund fascist brownshirts in order to stay relevant, your experiment has lost legitimacy and must be dismantled.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    BuT TeH GeNoCiDe D:

    Great job, now we have genocide AND this bullshit. Thank you so much for saving Palestine! You fucking did it, I guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Oh, they sure AF do. Just talked to one of these dipsticks in person recently. They feel very clever and smug and look forward to accelerating shit into some kind of Marxist utopia.

    And of course, the 'net is lousy with these types.

    It's all so dumb.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    You should post this on x.com or something. Imagine thinking anyone on this site didn't vote.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Were you not here before the election...?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah there were a lot of bot/troll accounts saying that stuff. The fact it disappeared after the election proves the point: nobody actually believes that. If somebody dresses up as a sasquatch and runs through the woods it doesn't mean sasquatches are real even though it may be followed by credible accounts and videos of a sasquatch running through the woods.

    Elections are when there's a heavy financial incentive for some folks to make bad faith arguments to everyone they can.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    So it’s trolls as long as it “proves” your point? Buddy, I like the drugs you do 👍🏼

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    It proves the point because sock puppets are real thing thats been documented. Can you say for certain none of the 'left wing activist' people that has replied to a comment around an election is not a sockpuppet account or bot?

    I think if you cannot find these people in the real world AND they only show up around election time AND no notable, verified people online are espousing the same stuff then its a reasonable assumption its fabricated.

    The right wing in particular uses a lot of sockpuppets and has a history of invented strawmen. There are instances of republican senators playing black republicans online.

    Its either an effective tactic because they're constantly in power or its something they believe works.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    "voting is wrong" was an incredibly popular position on lemmy

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    people conflated "voting won't save us" with "voting won't do anything". If voting was useless they wouldn't try so hard to stop people from doing it. But also, voting one day a year and shrugging your shoulders 364 days and year cause "I voted" wasn't enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I don't think I've actually seen that in the wild. Usually what I see is either "voting is insufficient" as in, "historically voting has not ended a dictator's career" or just badly disguised bad faith/bot stuff often from accounts banned before I read their comments.

    I feel like "voting is wrong" is what a group of the latter (bot farmers/trolls) want folks to believe is a real opinion here but I haven't seen anyone make that argument in good faith. I've only ever seen it made secondhand in a way that makes it about as credible as a sasquatch sighting (which there 100% are people dressing up as the sasquatch to fuck with people, so real sasquatch sightings =/= real sasquatches existing)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, because why blame the corrupt leadership for offering people shit to eat, blame the people for not being happy eating their shit, because look how much worse shit can be shoved down your throat if you don't like it!

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  • [+] -14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Hey shitbird. ♥️

    Encouraging those people to rise up and act:

    ✅ Helpful!

    Shaming and mocking people for choosing their conscience instead of understanding game theory, well over a year ago:

    ❌ Being a shitbird

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I will keep shaming people if they think they are oh so clever while doing some of the dumbest shit one could imagine.

    Idiots need to be put in their place. Like you. Be quiet 🤫

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I'm going to have to assume you're a Republican if you're still doing this shit a year after the election.

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Still blaming Bernie for you picking unelectable candidates.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (11 children)

    yup...can run the numbers, he won the popular vote. the "palestine or nothing" people are a drop in the bucket

    the overwhelming majority of the country doesn't have the privilege of caring about people outside their immediate bubble...they're too busy living paycheck to paycheck

    don't run on "nothing will fundamentally change" if you want americans to vote for you, simple as. maybe also don't run fucking republicans endorsements during the DNC...

    i'm honestly not sure what's worse, if establishment dems are largely just controlled opposition or if they're really just this incompetent

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    100%. “Everything’s fine, stop complaining” wasn’t a good platform in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.

    Donald walked through a door that liberal democrats opened.

    TWICE.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 and still was below 50% in 2024 AND his policies never got support from a majority ever when presented without a name.

    There has never been a majority who has liked anything he had to offer.

    This was a propaganda war from racist wealthy assholes who bought out a ton of the companies controlling the media landscape. They exploited bullshit election rules and lied and bribed and extorted to suppress resistance, all just so they could be assholes in public without being called in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (7 children)

    So he’s incredibly unpopular.

    And he’s beat democrats two out of the last thee tries.

    Do. The. Math.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    If you asked people about their policies and literally absolutely anything they wanted to do, and hid the names, Trump always lost because he is MORE unpopular

    Media helped Trump steal credit for things others did, instill fear of things his opponents never would do, etc. Nobody lost to Trump by being a worse candidate, but because media refused to be honest and people believed the lies

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    What’s the excuse for Dems losing the second time to Donald?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Did you not pay attention to how Kamala was called a liar by media for saying Trump would send the military against cities?

    ... And then he did?

    Did you not pay attention to how he claimed credit for Covid funds that Democrats established? Blaming Democrats for Trump judges' decisions? Setting up Afghanistan so the exit would happen at the start of Biden's turn to hurt his approval when it predictably turns to chaos? How Biden's age was somehow a problem but Trump's never was?

    Media was hysterical about how democrats would make everything worse somehow but never explaining it, then repeating Trump's claims that he's deliver the best economy ever and all kinds of bullshit like it.

    And with all that Trump still didn't even get 50%!

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    And Kamala did worse. What’s your point? That Kamala scored worse than a fascist dictator?

    RUN. BETTER. CANDIDATES.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Every time the policies and suggestions and everything else was presented without names, Kamala's campaign won. When people didn't know who's proposal they was listening to, Kamala won.

    So please explain what you mean about better candidate, because you have said nothing about how she was worse.

    From here in Sweden, it looks like the things needing replacement is the fucking electorate and the billionaires owning the media companies

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    they wanted to use the threat of fascism to earn free votes, even though they tried that in virginia in 2021 and it failed miserably.

    a lot of it comes down to that they're more convinced by their consultants what works than by the evidence of what works. and their consultants all come from a class of people who make more money the closer an election is to 50/50

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