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Some US cities are canceling cultural events over fears of ICE raids and deportations

www.cnn.com /2025/05/03/us/cultural-events-canceled-trump-deportations

For the past 45 years, Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood has celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a parade featuring Mexican bands, floats and dancers, and a festival at a local park.

But this year’s celebration, which attracts up to 300,000 people annually, has been canceled.

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Domestic Terrorists causing Terror.

Can't blame em. Time for all of those amazing white cultures to step up and offer their incredible spicy ethnic foods for all to enjoy.
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Oh. Oh no.
- The recipes are simple. Just boil until tough.
- A turnip truck just doesn't pack them in like a taco truck.
- what, do you not like the kraft singles pizza?
  
  what about Literally Just Ground Beef, Corn And Potatoes But We Gave It A Racist Name For Some Reason?
  
  pinnacles of white culture right there!
  
  It’s only called that in Canada where I live. Have heard it called anything but Shepards Pie before that.

I don’t blame people at all, but this is exactly what the Trump administration wants. Goddammit.
- This is an example of terrorism working. :(

I still want to see some sort of honey pot for ICE and the other goons. Like leak there's going to be a big "illegals" celebration in a meeting hall, wait for them to show up, then lock the doors. Fill room with carbon monoxide. Let them pass out and die while looking for their victims.
- Speaking of honey pots... ☝️
- Nitrogen would be better. CO and CO2 both affect the human body in negative ways that tells the person "hey somethings wrong" or confuses them enough into thinking they're fine.
  The human body has no way of knowing if it takes in nitrogen though, so you can be perfectly fine conscious and happy one second, the air changes to nitrogen and suddenly you're on the floor unconscious. If nobody collects you in time, well your brain can't live without oxygen.
  
  No, CO doesn't. That's why it's so dangerous.
  The human body only has receptors for a build-up of CO2 in our bodies. We can't tell if we have a lack of oxygen, so any odorless gas in large enough quantities will kill you without you knowing. Hypoxia looks the same no matter what the cause is.

It's time for blue states to exercise their "state's rights" argument and prevent ICE from operating within their borders.
- Not one single judge in this country would sign off on this.
  States don't have the obligation to help enforce federal laws, but they also don't have the right to hinder the feds from enforcing their own laws. That's what the whole deal with "sanctuary cities" was all about- telling the feds that those cities weren't going to spend one dime of their budgets to help arrest immigrants, but they couldn't legally stop ICE from showing up and doing it themselves.
  
  but they also don’t have the right to hinder the feds from enforcing their own laws
  The Feds aren't following their own laws. They're doing whatever they please without warrants, breaking into vehicles and abducting people, which is not allowed by their own laws. They're breaking into homes without warrants and stealing peoples' property, money, and people, which is against their own laws. They ignore court orders if they don't want to follow them. The Gestapo is doing whatever it wants, ignoring the law.
  So, in turn, their Federal laws are meaningless to states and the citizens of those states.
  
  I agree, but the judicial system seems to be in a bit of a constitutional crisis. It's time to start doing what's "right" instead of doing what's "legal".

This is the wrong direction - ICE should be absolutely terrified of coming into any major democratic area.
If communities just took care of ice any time they congregated and refused to talk to law enforcement, the problem would be solved.

This is exactly what they want.
- The fascists don't have to shut you down if you do it yourself.

So, they're complying with the Reich's demands? Continuing the genocide.

I would not be out at any celebrations today if I were brown, even as a legal citizen.

While yeah, I get it... I understand the choice- this, too, is a perfectly acceptable outcome by these uh well - nazis by a different name. They get to squelch celebration of other cultures and push their existence out of the public eye.

Don't let them win. They want "these people" off the streets and out of sight. Show them what actually makes America what it is, not what they want to pretend it should be.