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no_hypocrisy

(55,380 posts) Tue May 19, 2026, 06:52 PM 16 hrs ago

This is so sad, so pathetic.

I live in a small town in Passaic County, NJ. More than 50% of the residents are immigrants.

I went to give a neighbor a letter and walked it over. I knocked on the window. Nothing. Again. Nothing.

Then I saw boys about 8 and 10 run furiously to a back bedroom (through the window) and they were yelling, "ICE! ICE! ICE!"

Well, I was in a T-shirt and jeans, a woman and wasn't yelling for them to let me in.

I had to convince their mother to open the door for me. (The letter had to be hand-delivered, not shoved under the door.)

To have children expecting ICE to show up to kidnap them and their parents just breaks my heart.

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This is so sad, so pathetic. (Original Post) no_hypocrisy 16 hrs ago OP

Woah! How horrific and the unfortunately justified fears electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #1

The new Nazi Gestapo arrives on American shores. magicarpet 16 hrs ago #2

So 😔 sad BlueWaveNeverEnd 14 hrs ago #3

lots of immigrants around me Skittles 14 hrs ago #4

MAGA is the new plague. Initech 14 hrs ago #5

No doubt about it. calimary 14 hrs ago #6

The ground floor of my apt complex has a few businesses. wnylib 13 hrs ago #7

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electric_blue68

(27,322 posts)

1. Woah! How horrific and the unfortunately justified fears

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 07:00 PM

16 hrs ago

magicarpet

(19,416 posts)

2. The new Nazi Gestapo arrives on American shores.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 07:15 PM

16 hrs ago

Yeeeeeeee - Haaaaaaa,..

USA,... USA,.... USA.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,996 posts)

3. So 😔 sad

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 08:24 PM

14 hrs ago

Skittles

(172,881 posts)

4. lots of immigrants around me

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 08:37 PM

14 hrs ago

one of them let me know I'm considered one of the "good people"; what an honor that is........

Initech

(109,267 posts)

5. MAGA is the new plague.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:08 PM

14 hrs ago

calimary

(90,797 posts)

6. No doubt about it.

Reply to Initech (Reply #5)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:16 PM

14 hrs ago

Absolutely NONE.

wnylib

(26,464 posts)

7. The ground floor of my apt complex has a few businesses.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:37 PM

13 hrs ago

There's a beauty salon, a very small (and overpriced) mini grocery, and a small, mostly takeout restaurant with a couple small tables.

The diner used to be operated by Columbians, with Columbian food. They closed down and left last summer. A Puerto Rican family has taken it over.

The Chinese restaurant in my small city has been closed and boarded up since last summer. There used to be a couple Mexican restaurants in town. They are all closed.

It's as if immigrants have disappeared. I don't know if they got picked up or if they left to avoid being harrassed or arrested. AFAIK, they were all legal residents, but even legal immigrants are not safe.

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