The TACO troops of ICE supported by National Guard have yet to attack actual cities where the “worst of the worst” undocumented people might be:
Based on each city's murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people, determined by FBI crime reports, these are the most dangerous places to live in the United States.
Memphis, TN
Oakland, CA
St. Louis, MO
Baltimore, MD
Detroit, MI
Alexandria, LA
Cleveland, OH
(In Memphis) The county courthouse is overwhelmed. In its first six weeks, the task force conducted nearly 30,000 traffic stops, issued 25,000 citations, and made more than 2,500 arrests—creating a six-month backlog in traffic court, one attorney tells me. That’s not including stops made by federal agents operating solo. An FBI agent speaking to a local rotary club noted that as long as the task force is operating, just about everyone in Memphis can expect to be pulled over at some point. The latest figures show more than 4,000 arrests and nearly 200 people charged by the feds.
Jail overcrowding had resulted in detainees sleeping on mats on the floors, so the county declared a state of emergency and moved some of them to another location. “I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but the jail is at a horrific state right now,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner told ABC24 reporters during my visit. “We hear stories,” Harris, the county mayor, tells me, of “individuals that are standing for 24 hours straight because there’s no room or place for them to sit down. I don’t have the words for what’s happening over there.”
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“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the onslaught of ICE has reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany.
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A day before I visited, news broke that the Department of Homeland Security was considering hiring private contractors to ferret out undocumented immigrants’ home and work addresses, bounty hunter–style—with bonuses for accuracy, volume, and timeliness. The volunteers asked me not to disclose their pantry location and said they were taking other precautions, like varying the stores where they shop and watching for unmarked vehicles that might be tailing them.
It’s not only low-income immigrants who are afraid. At a Palestinian-owned café, I meet Amal Arafat, a naturalized citizen from Somalia who moved to the United States at 4. She lives in Germantown, an affluent suburb, and carries her US passport with her in case she’s pulled over for having dark skin and wearing a hijab. When I ask how this makes her feel, she starts to cry. “It’s a scary time, because there are people with citizenship being snatched away,” she says. She wonders whether the task force will really reduce violence—or just people reporting it. If she were a crime victim, I ask Arafat, would she call 911 now? “It does blur the lines of who is here to protect me and who is here to terrorize and target me,” she replies.
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"If you are part of the Memphis [Un]Safe Task Force & conducting ICE operations, you are in fact ICE.
The US marshals, DSS, FBI, HSI, SCSO, MPD, ATF, etc. All ICE."
Great wealth for whom?
Terra pericolosa is an Italian phrase meaning “dangerous land”. It was used in cartography to indicate areas on maps that might be dangerous to travelers.
The Latin phrase hic sunt leones (here there are lions) refers to the medieval practice among European cartographers of labelling unknown and unexplored lands in Africa and Asia with phrases evoking exotic animals, horrible monsters and sub-humans.
- "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) is a phrase used to indicate dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.[1][2]
The phrase “Here be dragons” is now relegated to fantasy maps popular in role playing games.
The term has also been adopted by programmers to comment on code that is unintelligible but still works. The phrase is intended to serve as a warning for other programmers to not tweak the code in fears of breaking it.
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The December 4 Justice Department document responds to President Trump's NSPM-7 by listing statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 119 for cases involving threats to federal agents, amid references to Antifa-aligned extremists favoring open borders. Reason magazine published the leak, highlighting concerns that routine filming of public operations could be misconstrued as doxing, especially after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeled videotaping as 'violence.' Federal courts protect such filming as First Amendment activity, yet the memo has sparked backlash during Trump's mass deportation push, with DHS itself posting arrest videos online.
