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I'm afraid of my neighbors calling ICE and breaking up my family (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by muxika@lemmy.world to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I live in an area where people ask you where you're from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don't speak English, like they have with my wife.

ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I'm waiting for our turn. I'm light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn't matter anymore.

I keep waiting for the day when I'm going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she's at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?

I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

|What do you have to lose? They are going to imprison and torture you anyway.

no, they can leave me alone and take the people in the streets. You are the absolute King/Queen of bad advice

[–] frizzo@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lol dreams of a fool. Who do you think is next after the street people. I've never been a Kang.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 29 minutes ago

Well do me a big and go out there and get napped off to another country, i got a fam to look after.