With ICE agents going door-to-door in Colorado, residents are on edge: Reporter's notebook
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.”
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.
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.
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
How can we make this expensive for them?
Recreate that party scene from home alone 1, but with Mexican music.
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.
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.
that is what I would do
No you wouldn't.
Yeah. I just wouldn't respond to them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, they are still in "deny genocide is happening" mode.
Although a handful of them have taken a "America deserves genocide" tack instead.
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
poisonenhance 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.
