A week after she graduated from a Vermont high school, an 18-year-old woman was detained by US Border Patrol officers Saturday in what immigrant activists have called a “violent and unlawful arrest” just miles from the Canadian border.
The woman, Heidi Perez, was accompanied at the time by her stepfather, Jose Ignacio De La Cruz, a leader of the Vermont-based Migrant Justice advocacy group. Both are undocumented Mexican nationals and now face deportation proceedings, according to Ryan Brissette, a spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection.
They were being held in separate Vermont prisons as of Monday morning. An attorney for De La Cruz and Perez filed emergency motions seeking their release and calling for the court to keep them in Vermont. Chief Judge Christina Reiss of the federal district court in Vermont granted the latter requests Monday, barring the government from removing either from the state for the time being.
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Their comment and peoples reactions really shows a key issue in the U.S.
People choose to attack or shun anyone that has a hint of possibly supporting “the other side” even if a simple reply is just pointing out the facts of the situation and really doesn’t show a bias in one direction or the other.
There is probably a majority of people across the U.S. who are sick of politics and choose to ignore the news because of these extremist level hostilities from either direction.
Tldr be nice to Nazis so the proles don’t think you’re a dick
No it’s more like “look both ways before crossing the street.” Just because you have the crossing signal doesn’t mean a truck isn’t going to run the light and mow you down