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cbabe

(6,215 posts)
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:10 PM Dec 12

US citizen arrested by ICE in Minneapolis because he 'looks Somali'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice-in-minneapolis-because-he-looks-somali/ar-AA1S9C1O

US citizen arrested by ICE in Minneapolis because he 'looks Somali'

Story by Olivia Ireland

American man was dragged out of a restaurant, forcibly arrested, and detained for two hours by masked federal immigration officers, according to reports.



Due to Mubashir’s refusal to have his picture taken, he was in the car for almost an hour. The agents also tried to take his fingerprints; however, their machine was not working.

Mubashir said the officers drove him to the ICE detention facility at Fort Snelling, a 17-minute drive from where he was arrested. He claimed the officers were lost and did not know their surroundings.

“They kept going back on the same highway. I told them, ‘are you guys lost?; they said, ‘this is our first time taking someone in’. They had their maps out and everything and they were trying to intimidate me,” he said.

Once they arrived, the officers kept him outside until he agreed to have his face scanned; however, like the first machine, the second machine was not working, so he was brought inside.

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US citizen arrested by ICE in Minneapolis because he 'looks Somali' (Original Post) cbabe Dec 12 OP
As a coworker once told me: "We got dummies on our team." rsdsharp Dec 12 #1
Or as a coworker said to me once: good enough for government work. cbabe Dec 12 #2
"good enough for government work"? Zackzzzz Dec 12 #3
What is lumping? cbabe Dec 12 #7
Here this might help reducing the lumping... OhioBack2Blue Dec 15 #18
That's a very old joke. soldierant Dec 12 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author soldierant Dec 12 #12
keystone cops. AllaN01Bear Dec 12 #4
None of their equipment working, but . . . AverageOldGuy Dec 12 #5
MAGA Morons Are Governing America Sogo Dec 12 #6
They had their maps out? Disaffected Dec 12 #8
Hire clowns - get a circus. flashman13 Dec 12 #9
Racism purr-rat beauty Dec 12 #10
Truth. But they picked the wrong guy and we got some frontline reporting from him. cbabe Dec 12 #11
And it's freakin cold in these Dr. Shepper Dec 12 #14
A "Kavanaugh Stop" courtesy of the sinister six. bronxiteforever Dec 12 #15
All the ICE agents look like Nazis... Jack Valentino Dec 12 #16
"This is our first rodeo, and we don't know how to make the equipment work, either." Jack Valentino Dec 12 #17

OhioBack2Blue

(86 posts)
18. Here this might help reducing the lumping...
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 03:13 PM
Dec 15

Good enough for the American Fascist Party.

Also, this:
Close enough for horseshoes, hand grenades, and fascist bullies.

soldierant

(9,287 posts)
13. That's a very old joke.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:07 PM
Dec 12

I've used it myself since I heard it in the late sixties when I was in the Marine Corps. After I separated, I studied music and started using "Close enough for jazz" instead. I never intended for either to be belittling of anyone or anything except maybe obsessive perfectionists. Nor, I'm confident, did anyone around me. It was from the jazz people that I got the second version.

Response to cbabe (Reply #2)

AverageOldGuy

(3,363 posts)
5. None of their equipment working, but . . .
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 08:25 PM
Dec 12

. . . Kristi Noem ordered $200 million in new airplanes and she wears a $56,000 Rolex.

bronxiteforever

(11,106 posts)
15. A "Kavanaugh Stop" courtesy of the sinister six.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:11 PM
Dec 12

What is a ‘Kavanaugh stop’?
The name derives from a September ruling by the Supreme Court, which by a 6-3 vote lifted a lower-court order barring immigration agents in Los Angeles from stopping people based solely on several factors, including race.
What did Kavanaugh say?
He said it was constitutionally permissible—and indeed “common sense”—to target people due to “apparent ethnicity” combined with other factors, such as speaking Spanish or being at a car wash or bus stop. Being stopped on such grounds is a minor inconvenience, wrote Kavanaugh; any questioning is “typically brief” and U.S. citizens and legal residents will “promptly go free.” Immigration lawyers and rights groups reacted with alarm to the ruling. The court “greenlit racial profiling,” said Jennifer Bade, an immigration attorney in Boston. “This effectively makes us a ‘show your papers’ nation where appearance and language is going to make everyone a suspect.”

https://theweek.com/politics/kavanaugh-stop-racial-profiling

Jack Valentino

(4,375 posts)
16. All the ICE agents look like Nazis...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:58 PM
Dec 12

Walks like a nazi, talks like a nazi, acts like a nazi....


a duck by any other name, with apologies to ducks...

Jack Valentino

(4,375 posts)
17. "This is our first rodeo, and we don't know how to make the equipment work, either."
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:02 PM
Dec 12

Keystone cop ICE agents. This would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so disgusting.

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