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Are we great yet?

Masked, unidentified thugs are routinely snatching people off the streets and  from their work, homes, schools, even churches without  probable cause other than the color of their skin and the assumption that they just may be undocumented. Unconstitutional and totally outrageous!

In many instances, citizens have been swept up and roughly detained until they could prove their citizenship. Long-term employed, tax-paying residents, an integral part of their communities with jobs and families, have been arrested and sent to detention centers. Children have been picked up at their schools and fathers forced out of their cars in front of their children, even going so far as to break the windows to do so. This isn’t how our country handles things. Everyone’s innocent until proven guilty.

The last straw for me was when a small-statured 30-year resident with no criminal record was violently arrested while doing his landscaping job, by four very large, supposed ICE agents (wearing masks and no badges, uniforms or IDs). They pinned him on the ground, hitting him multiple times around the head and body as he screamed. This man, the father of three Marines, should be immune from deportation due to his sons’ contributions plus his many years of working and paying taxes.

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