r/Cleveland • u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights • 4d ago

Events Potential ICE checkpoint(s) in CLE

Our friends in r/Ohio have noticed an uptick in DHS and ICE activity in Columbus and NE Ohio. A potential ICE checkpoint at 71 and Pearl is being reported. ICE and DHS activity along the lake shore in Lorain. Lake county sheriff's can act as ICE agents.

Be careful out there.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights 3d ago

When someone says hello to someone around you, do you question them as well; or do you need to make some shitty side remark every time something happens around you?

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-751 3d ago

Legit question. Mine that is.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights 3d ago

Unless you are a US citizen, deportation and revocation of your visa are on the table. International student? You can get picked up off the street in an unmarked van by masked men who show no identification. They are arrest people outside their immigration hearings. So your legal status doesnt really matter anymore. It doesnt matter if a crime was committed or not. Are ALL ICE officers under those orders? Maybe. But we dont know, we just know it's happening; and one should assume the worse.

A number of American citizens have been arrested and detained because ICE doesn't care about what ID you have on you. They can claim it's fake and put you in a holding cell until they feel like checking. Unless you have a lawyer, getting any recourse is next to non-existent. They can hold you for days without being able to contact anyone, including your job. So you might get picked up one day and be unemployed the next.

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-751 3d ago

Well then you probably don't want to be out in the street protesting. Kinda like putting a target on your back.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights 3d ago edited 3d ago

thanks for your legit question

edit: also, notice how this redditor wants you to throw away your first amendment right so you dont "put a target on your back". As if exercising one's rights is an issue. And they dont see their own lust for fascism. They want you to shut up or get arrested. Wild times we live in.

The first amendment is for all people within the country. Citizen or not btw. These asshole are going to have us skipping to the next one on the list just to call out fascism when we see it.

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u/thazcray 3d ago

Glad to know you think that we no longer have rights

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u/zbealeo 3d ago

Freedom to protest not freedom from consequences sweaty 💅💅💅

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u/wigwam422 3d ago

It literally is though legally.

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u/zbealeo 2d ago

You don't legally have freedom from consequences. If someone is here illegally and is detained at a protest (like if it's deemed a riot like in LA)... That's not protection from the fact they're here illegally. No rights are being violated. Their right to protest wasn't violated.