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With ICE agents going door-to-door in Colorado, residents are on edge: Reporter's notebook

abcnews.go.com With ICE agents going door-to-door in Colorado, residents are on edge: Reporter's notebook

ABC News followed federal immigration agents in a Denver door-to-door raid of suspected undocumented immigrants.

Summary

Since Donald Trump’s return to office, ICE and DEA agents have intensified immigration enforcement, conducting door-to-door sweeps in Colorado.

Initially targeting suspected criminals, recent operations now question all residents, regardless of warrants. A Denver apartment complex saw widespread searches, sparking protests and fear among undocumented families.

Activists and attorneys are mobilizing to inform residents of their rights. Schools report growing student anxiety.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed a broad crackdown, declaring, “If you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table.”

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3d ago

With ICE agents going door-to-door in Colorado, residents are on edge: Reporter's notebook

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Oh hey look. Brownshirts.

This is literally what 2A supporters have been saying they need to prepare for. They have proven many years ago that they are interested entirely in being the brownshirts.

Rename the ICE to SA, RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) or NKVD. Leon will approve too.

That's not fascist at all.
Aufmachen!

There's this old song by a British band called The Clash. Something something about Brixton. And the Brits don't even have a second amendment.
- When they kick at your front door How you gonna come?
  With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun

2017 Democrats: "Trump's expansion of the ICE is creating a personal police force to do his bidding."
2025 Democrats: "The fuck you want me to do about it? I already warned you this would happen."
- Should've nominated better candidates.
  
  Bernie was on the ballot and Biden doubled his vote count.

They’re all riding around in militarized machinery with a roof gunner hatch. Full face coverings and taping over doorbell cameras. Goddamned douche larpers trying to pull a Kristallnacht.
Need to create an app like Watch Duty to social track their movements. Local news is doing a good job so far. For now.
- Funny thing is this could be done way more cheaply and humanely.
  Have an amnesty. If you're in the country illegally, turn yourself in. You get $250 cash and a free ticket to wherever you came from.
  Promise that'll cost less than arresting everyone and jailing them.
  
  It's not about money and humanity though.
  It's about punishing "other" people.
  
  But you see, being an asshole and dehumanizing+hurting people with immunity is the whole point.
  
  That's not going to work. You're asking them to abandon their homes, family, friend networks, and be banned from ever returning.
  Conservatives characterize immigrants as poor people who haven't been here long and are a burden on our systems. The truth is almost exactly the opposite. The vast majority of the 11 million people here illegally have been here for years, if not decades. They are productive, they pay taxes, and commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens.
  The answer is to stop worrying about "economic" migrants. Deport immigrants with DUIs and violent or financial felony convictions. Beef up the department of labor and go after companies paying people less than minimum wage. Then it's not a matter of jobs or services or crime. The only thing left is xenophobia.
  
  I think my great-great grandfather immigrated from Ireland. Can I get on board with that?
- Sign me up if this every becomes a thing.

This is awful. Similar to the deportation of Jews in the 1940's in the Third Reich.

Like a Nazi looking for Jews.
- In other news the first arrivals are at gitmo concentration camp.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-migrants.html
  
  In the future: "Everything they had was repossessed by the jackasses associated to these assholes, but now we have freed them and crowdsourced society into compensating them for the stuff those jackasses enriched themselves with, so it's all fine now."

Ah, the freedom-loving government flexing its muscle by turning neighborhoods into checkpoints. Door-to-door sweeps? That’s not law enforcement; that’s a dystopian scavenger hunt.
Let’s not pretend this is about “safety.” It’s about fear—fear as policy, fear as spectacle. When agents knock on every door “just in case,” they’re not enforcing laws; they’re shredding trust. Schools full of anxious kids? Families sleeping with one eye open? That’s the real legacy here.
And Tom Homan’s “on the table” rhetoric? Sounds more like a threat than governance. If this is the new normal, then democracy’s just a word we slap on the side of the bus while it careens off a cliff.
- By instilling fear, fascist regimes aim to create a compliant population that willingly surrenders individual freedoms and critical thinking in exchange for a false sense of security and belonging.....https://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/fascism-and-denigration-individual
- I feel like they are pushing everyone to the breaking point. How long until they knock on the wrong door and get shot?
- Homan didn't just threaten individuals and communities, he threatened city and state officials who would dare get in his way. Almost like he knows what he's doing will draw a lot of ire.
  He's taking small town good ol' boy sheriff attitude to the federal level, that's why conservatives love him.
  
  The good ol' boy sheriff attitude isn’t just a personality quirk—it’s a power fetish wrapped in folksy branding. Conservatives don’t love him for his “toughness”; they love him because he’s a blunt instrument for their authoritarian fantasies.
  Threatening officials isn’t law enforcement; it’s political theater designed to intimidate and dominate. The ire he’s drawing? That’s the sound of people waking up to the fact that this isn’t governance—it’s performative cruelty masquerading as leadership.

I'm....speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.
Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you're happy with your choices.
- Seriously fucked up. Sane people saw this coming and tried to stop it. Now there's straight up Nazi shit happening in America.
- hope you're happy
  Or better, hope your losing sleep and sick to your stomachs and ready to take action in every available protest, election, boycott, donation, etc.
  
  One can dream.
  
  Unfortunately, they are still in "deny genocide is happening" mode.
  Although a handful of them have taken a "America deserves genocide" tack instead.
  
  Pffffft, yeah right. They'll "take action" inasmuch as it saves them a trip to the voting station two blocks away. I'm praying that the people who did that will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
- I hope you get used to this feeling. Cuz it's going to keep happening. It's so fucking clear that the Democrats are not learning a single thing from this utter defeat they suffered. And the many defeats they've suffered the last decade and a half.
  
  Democrats voted. It's independent leftists that didn't vote. And encouraged others to not vote or vote third party. Hope you're happy with yourselves. This is what we get because you ragged on Democrats the entire election season. Gtfoh.

Tell them to suck your dick and get a warrant, that is what I would do. Unconstitutional douchebags need to learn the constitution one insult at time.
- https://denverite.com/2025/02/04/denver-immigration-protest-rights-training-trump-psl/
  that's exactly what you should do, and if you're not the target you should get a megaphone, learn a few phrases in spanish, and show up at the ICE raid to tell them that
- Also make sure to check their warrants when they have them, they often only get an administrative warrant which doesn't mean dick
  
  If they have a warrant they can break my door down to enforce it.
- that is what I would do
  No you wouldn't.
  
  Yeah. I just wouldn't respond to them.
- And then they shoot you in the head and it's fine because this is Trump's America.
  
  Stop resisting! Oh my god, officer down, officer down! Get backup!

How can we make this expensive for them?
- Recreate that party scene from home alone 1, but with Mexican music.

https://immigrantjustice.org/know-your-rights/ice-encounter
- Doesn't hurt to know your legal rights, but we're also in "put people in a concentration camp" territory now, so they will likely be ignored.
  
  The thing is you have to force them to do it illegally, brutally, while people can see it. If you give in, if you agree to things, it's too easy for them.
  Yes, many people who stand up to them will die. It's already been allowed to get to that point. Yet if you sit back and give in, it happens so much more quickly, and much more brutally.
  This is especially true if you're white, or at least not openly a minority. If you're a middle aged white male, make them go through you. It's dangerous, you might not make it, so make sure you're ready. White men standing up to them, constantly, is cognitive dissonance to them. They'll expect you to always be on your side, and when everyone isn't, they stumble.
  If people constantly resist them at every angle they will fail. We will lose good people doing it, and we have to.
- It helps if you google (specifically Google) things immigrants might google. It hides hotspots on the map for search terms.
  
  I would think it would be helpful to use a VPN and switch locations over and over, use servers all around the world as well as all around the country while Googling. Really ~~poison~~ enhance the precision of the dataset.
  
  Do you have any suggestions? I don't speak Spanish but I would assume it's best to search in Spanish?
  
  Specifically, click this and search for a made up name. The goal is not to ddos. This is a useful site that we want to stay up. The goal is privacy. They're not above using this data.
  Tell your loved ones that if you are detained by ICE, they can try to use ICE’s online detainee locator to find you: https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search

Yet another disgraceful and dark stain in American history books with the fascist pig Homan working hard to ruin peoples’ lives for no reason other than petty cruelty.
- It those people's fault. They haven't even tried to be white cis staight Christian males, they were practically asking for it!

Hmmmm those are paper thin plate carriers. Makes you think.
- Are you telling me these tacticool cops aren’t actually operators?
  
  I mean those bump helmets are definitely representative of ICE at large, useless security theater to give fragile white egos an unearned sense of safety.
- Now that I take a closer look, this Patriot Soldier looks a little...husky.
  
  Gravy Seals in a joint strike operation with Meal Team Six.
  But honestly that's soft body armor inserts into a plate carrier. It's fasc fashion.

"If you are in the country illegally, you are on the table"
Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
You people and businesses need to understand you can't build quality of life by using semi slave work
- What you're pretending to miss is that those in powers are making sure that those people remain "illegal" , on purpose. In the first place, you're the one creating the situation of them being "in the country illegally".
  The correct solution is to give them papers, not to deport them and treat them like criminals for a situation you put them in. Remember that the "you're on the table" argument that you claim is reasonable is putting them in prison where you can exploit them harder as slaves, it's only one step after what's happening to them already.
  Everyone can be illegal if you don't make anyone legal and then claim they're only getting punished because they broke the law. There's nothing reasonable there.
- Let me put it to you this way.
  If we really cared about people in the country illegally, we'd aim for having people who hire these people under the table, also illegally, sanctioned. If you were honestly wanting to see less illegal immigration, you'd be deterring them from ever coming in by drying up the supply of under-the-table, low-paying jobs that attract them here. Maybe by advocating for a 10 x median annual salary for every undocumented worker found on your staff, enforced strongly?
  If you can't find it in your soul to do that, then all you're here for is smashing disadvantaged people in the face.
  
  make the penalty payable to the immigrants being exploited and they'll get exposed fast
- Another point you missed, to join on the dogpile, is that all immigration, of all kinds, for any and every country, is a net economic benefit.
  Its shooting yourself in the foot, purely monetarily, economically, fiscally speaking, for ideological-only reasons.
- Yeah, because sending them to guantanamo, children and women included, is so humane. Good thing they won't be in America where they are 'slaves'.
- https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/ cough
- citizenship for all

Next they're going to start marking houses with an X
- It’ll all be OK if your papers are in order….
  
  ...and other lies the Nazis used to say

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