*** “Evil begins when you begin to treat people like things.” [ Terry Pratchatt ]
This post is the fourth in a series to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end when ICE thugs and Trump DICTATORSHIP cease to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING. – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state if “our’ 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they “NEED’ to do it.
This is the story of one family, of an American citizen: “ICE agents seize U.S. citizen in Robbinsdale encounter” { Kim Hyatt, Sofia Barnett; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/10/26 ]:
7]. “Duffy said she has been unable to get information from federal officials about where he is being detained.”
1] “A Crystal man was detained by immigration agents in Robbinsdale early Jan. 8 in an encounter his family described as violent and that a relative livestreamed on Facebook. The man, Jose Roberto Ramirez was born in Minneapolis..”
2] “Raelyn Duffy, his mother and a member of the Red Lake Nation, said she brought his passport and birth certificate to the Whipple Federal Building..but was turned away. She said she has not been able to contact him.”
3] “It just looked like he got rushed. They just punched him, pulled him out of the car, ‘ Duffy said.”
4]. “Agents briefly put their guns away and got back in their vehicle, SosaClark said. Bystanders urged her to get her nephew into her car and away from the area. but as she attempted to leave, she said, ICE agents suddenly surrounded the vehicle.”
5]. “We just got swarmed up and blocked in, and there was about 20 ICE agents came after us, and that’s when I started recording,’ she said.”
6]. “As they were scanning his face, another agent came and punches him, and they just started hitting him,” she said.”
8] “Meanwhile, Sosa-Clara said she’s afraid to leave her house.”
***. “Power, unless managed with gentleness and discretion, does but make a man the more hated; no intervals of good humor, no starts of bounty, will atone for tyranny and oppression.” [ Jeremy Collins ]
With Justice For All 