Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Why Are So Many Deportation Protestors Geriatric or Transgender? - Michigan Enjoyer

It was a strange alliance: Hmong immigrants, families of the detained, geriatric white boomers, transgender activists, and zoomer organizers wearing N95 face masks. - Bobby Mars
Regarding the issue at hand—ICE claims the detainees have criminal records which make them eligible for deportation...
A quick look down their purported rap sheets: breaking and entering, selling controlled substances, child sex abuse, weapons violations, that sort of thing...
  • The Hmong protestors carried signs and placards advocating for the rights of their specific ethnic group like, “Stop Attacking Our Kin” and “Justice for Hmong.”
  • The geriatric white boomers carried signs of a more universalist variety, like “Immigrants Make America Great,” or “Protect Refugees” and “Reject Tyranny.”
  • A few confused, scattered remnants of the “No Kings” protests showed up, elderly couples in festive costumes. They didn’t get the memo that their slogan failed and it’s time to make new signs, apparently. 
  • Some boomers went even darker, like “The Holocaust Started as a Mass Deportation.” Another compared ICE to the Gestapo, the Nazi party’s secret police organization. 
  • My favorite was a man with a cardboard sign that simply read “No.” ...

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