• Public opinion is the difference between some random white dudes being sympathetic and randomly interfering with ICE, and people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants

    Right now public opinion on ICE is terrible, especially in democratic strongholds… which is why I as a nonwhite immigrant I was able to avoid get harassed by ICE or xenophobic mobs for over a year since he took office

    If public opinion on immigrants goes down… if people start beliving in those xenophobic rhetotics… I could get lynched by my neighbors

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      2 days ago

      Excellent point. Good perspective and post.

      people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants.

      That is ICE already. I was thinking "people forming mobs well regulated militias that actively hunt ICE mobs. That just me speaking from my privilege.