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“Deep concern for safety”. Is there a salmonella outbreak? Is severe weather in the forecast? Are they worried about Indy’s crime wave?
Nope. They are worried about attendees getting deported (and in Democrat speak, that somehow becomes safety). The obvious question then becomes, exactly how many of your attendees are here illegally? Clearly it’s a significant number if the entire event is cancelled
Don’t hold your breath for any “journalists” to ask that obvious question. It doesn’t fit the pre set agenda
“Somehow becomes safety”?
Maybe read up on the conditions in the camps, Chuck. But hey, “they” had it coming and they “deserve” being treated like animals because they’re not real people, right?
Exactly how the same people who claim they want a Christian Nationalist version of America can sit silent at this is beyond me. Maybe they just ripped the first four books out of their version of the New Testament. The guy featured in them is pretty woke, after all.
https://reason.com/2025/08/15/the-human-rights-crisis-in-ice-detention-centers/
Chuck, you have clearly fallen for the propaganda in assuming that all of the people caught up in immigration roundups are actually undocumented violent people, the ones the president promised to target. The actual, factual statistics show something very different. Despite what the administration says, a large percentage of people picked up by ICE have no criminal records at all, and quite a lot of them are here legally — they were simply picked up and hauled off without cause, due to the color of their skin. Once picked up, they are often detained without due process, and family members and lawyers sometimes have trouble even locating where they have been taken. In most other situations, that would be considered abduction. Given that reality, any person whose skin is not white — regardless of their citizenship or legal status — is at risk of being abducted by masked, unidentified, non-uniformed people who might or might not actually be agents. The attendees of this event would definitely be at risk, and yes, being whisked off the street with no cause nor due process is a “safety” concern.
ICE is abducting PEOPLE at their immigration hearings as these people go through the “legal” process. So I think fearing for the safety of attendees at this event is warranted.
Smart to cancel, although a real shame. Masked “cops” in unmarked cars patrolling for anyone hispanic looking isn’t my idea of a fun environment. Its what a police state looks like.
I have very dear friends who are here perfectly legally, went through the process, but they’re terrified of leaving their house because of how violent and racist ICE is. They just know that they will be racially profiled for being brown and having an accent and, at best, potentially be detained for hours or, at worst, be illegally sent to an El Salvadorian prison like so many other legal residents. I’m so over right-wingers trying to claim that ICE isn’t racist. Yes, it is. The very creation of ICE was based in race and racial-profiling. I have no interest in hearing the excuses from Fascists.
If you are here legally, you have no reason to worry. Not one US citizen has been deported. Not one.
If you are here illegally, maybe take the cash and plane ticket and self deport.
Not one other country allows illegals to safely stay in their country.
We have a huge legal immigration process open to anyone who applies.
WRONG. Did you read the story of the Evansville Nurses aid that was snatched by ICE. She was here legally, granted asylum, attending a hearing in Indianapolis as part of getting a permanent visa. People with legal status need to worry. Trump and ICE don’t care.
A lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process and deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to Honduras in April 2025.
The lawsuit, which names the attorney general, Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and various Ice officials as defendants, alleges Ice violated its own policies, and multiple federal laws, when officers secretly detained the families, denied access to counsel and swiftly deported them to Honduras, ignoring legal filings.
The claim, JLV v Acuna, filed by the National Immigration Project, says that three of the children – a four-year-old boy with stage 4 kidney cancer, his seven-year-old sister and a two-year-old girl – were included in the deportation sweep despite being American citizens.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/ice-lawsuit-louisiana-immigration-deportation
People with visas are being reviewed and deported. People with visas are here legally.
Oh, and as to that huge legal immigration process open to anyone…
during MAGAt Term 1, the MAGAts deliberately slowed down that process so it could not process applicants. An early Biden order sped things back up, but after three years of few applications even being processed, the backlog never really went away.
A young woman of Indian birth, here in this country with appropriate paperwork for employment, was nearly deported while her husband would have been allowed to stay. Fortunately, life worked out favorably, and she stayed and was able to work and raise her son, a US citizen. But if Trump had won in 2020, her family would have been split apart.
Not one other country in the world has a statue in a major harbor upon which are inscribed the following words:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883
Or can we expect that as Trump and his MAGAt followers trash colleges and museums, and tell us how wonderful slavery was for the slaves, they will come to the Mother of Exiles, and with hammers and demolition bars, tear the words from our Statue of Liberty???
As noted, few of those kidnapped by masked men with no identification and no warrants, have been criminals outside of having come here illegally and now trying to become legal. And the impact on our economy is just beginning to be felt. It’s not like WCNs are lining up to harvest crops, work in slaughterhouses, or help build roads and buildings. These immigrants you unreasonably fear are the backbone of much of the US economy. And once the MAGAts are done, our economy will be the worse off.
Come in IBJ, the government is not deporting “immigrants.” Context matters. Everyone has high hopes that this publication will not become what the IndyStar represents. And for clarification they are deporting Law-breaking Illegal immigrants. And yes, if they are here illegally, they are law-breaking. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Why would you expect the IBJ to listen to you when you can’t even read the comments from other readers that clearly point out that what you’re saying … has been proven incorrect on numerous occasions?
While I’m not holding my breath, realistic reasonable immigration reform for those without a serious criminal history needs to take place. Yes, the violent ones need to be deported. Of the estimated “15 million” illegals, a vast majority of them work in jobs that Americans will not because employers will not pay a wage that is acceptable to them. Which means that if all the illegals were deported tomorrow, havoc would be immediate for the economy etc. Think of the jobs they perform in construction, leisure and hospitality, agriculture, manufacturing, landscaping and on and on.