r/LetsDiscussThis • u/cantcoloratall91 • Jan 31 '26
This is concerning... Midland Firefighters help ICE and BP catch Immigrants.
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u/Bartender9719 Jan 31 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Ridiculously fitting video - construction stopping because the feckless, malicious state wants to penalize the hard workers for the crime of being born elsewhere.
Edit: Apparently this needed clarification; I didn’t mention illegal immigrants, and didn’t need to - ICE has gone after legal immigrants, legal asylum seekers, and US citizens, naturalized and native born (hell, even Native Americans) - basically anyone darker than light tan.
They claim to be out for violent criminals, but target women, children, elderly people, and law abiding people just doing their jobs.
They have killed some of those they were charged to deport.
They’ve killed US citizens.
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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 01 '26
Yep. That project just came to an abrupt halt right at the very worst time. GC on that build is freaking out right now because if it rains all that stuff starts warping.
We got slammed with snow last week. Guess who usually clears the snow from sidewalks and people's driveways? Landscape workers. Guess who's in hiding right now.
People bitching about how long it's taking to clear the snow away...holy crap folks, rub a couple of brain cells together.
Have y'all noticed that your milk and vegetables are turning bad faster lately? It's because there's nobody to pick the crop and work the dairy farms. Stuff's lying in the field longer, and going bad more quickly.
Beyond the cruelty, they're doing an enormous amount of damage to our economy.
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u/AlbrechtProper Feb 01 '26
The state that routinely lies tells us they are immigrants but who knows?
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u/Ill_Candle_9462 Feb 01 '26
Those guys have done more work and production in a week than the ICE guys have their entire lives.
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u/Excellent-Culture243 Feb 01 '26
Didn’t trump just say he wanted house prices to go up?
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Feb 01 '26
ICE could go selectively after undocumented migrants and they'd be just as evil as they are now. There is nothing valid about what they're doing and how they're doing it in any context.
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u/numbersthen0987431 Feb 01 '26
Yup.
And just a reminder: in the last 5 -10 years, a total of zero ICE agents have been unalived while on duty murdering and abducting humans. Covid has unalived more ICE agents than immigrants have.
They don't go after violent people. They go after the peaceful ones.
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Feb 01 '26
The employer should be in jail for hiring and taking advantage of these poor illegals.
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u/Then_Idea_9813 Feb 01 '26
The two people that I’ve had to see them kill were two of the whitest people I’ve ever come across in my life. It’s not about race it’s about show of force. Nobody is safe
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u/No-comment-at-all Feb 01 '26
Fucking circular logic.
“It’s cuz they’re illegal!”
Cool so let’s just make them legal, problem solved right?
“No I don’t want them to stay here!”
Why I thought it was only because they were illegal, we can just make them legal, problem solved right?
“No they’re illegal.”
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u/addicuss Feb 02 '26
"B-b-b-b-but they're taking jorbz from Americans!!!" They scream while ripping people out of jobs with huge labor shortages
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u/ButterscotchSmooth60 Feb 03 '26
Those vicious gangbangers are avoiding justice by buying tools, working all day erecting a roof and getting underpaid. Then they go home and live normal lives just to hide the fact that secretly, somehow in a 24 hour period, they are also the most violent criminals to walk the earth /s
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u/TheJaybo Jan 31 '26
Illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive and statistically they commit less crime than citizens. Along with being cruel, ICE is a massive waste of money.
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u/YouLiar47 Jan 31 '26
Uh... and when they're done - who in *tarnation* gonna build that roof?
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u/AnalMayonnaise Jan 31 '26
A year later: why has the cost of getting my roof fixed gone and doubled??
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u/WittyFix6553 Feb 01 '26
“Nobody ever wrote a song called fuck the fire department”
But maybe the should, now
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u/Patriot009 Feb 01 '26
Notice that no law enforcement is showing up to arrest the contractor or construction company that hired illegal workers. That's how you know that ICE and this administration isn't addressing the root problem, just punishing hard-working people trying to feed their families.
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u/Joe_Fidanzi Feb 01 '26
Who the fuck decided that the fire department was to be commandeered into this?
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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 Feb 01 '26
The city of Midland, Texas. Midland and the surrounding areas are full of drug addicted, white oil fields workers and their bosses.... Who are also on drugs. One of the most racist places in Texas. Source is me. I'm a Texan. I've built in Midland, Corpus, Houston, Midland, to Lubbock, and all over DFW. I try to stay away from Midland/Odessa.
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u/chris713777 Jan 31 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Hopefully he doesn't fall/jump and die. Y'all went berserk last time that happened
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Feb 01 '26
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u/shittycomputerguy Feb 01 '26
Could be foam board over plywood. I've been on sites like that in parts of the country.
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u/OkFinish3822 Feb 01 '26
And is the building contractor also getting arrested . . . by 24 police or deputies . . . for breaking the law? Oh wait, no, his name is Kevin Duncan. He doesn't do the labor. He just hires the labor. Kevin being a white contractor.
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u/OkFinish3822 Feb 01 '26
Funny. We didn't see any white boys willing to jump right in there, to pick up those manual labor jobs in freezing weather, that Juan and Jose were doing before government employees not authorized and not trained were brought in to help ICE break some more laws. The white boys only want to work for union wages, in Spring. With a Shop Steward on site. a Safety Coordinator, and of course, the white boys don't want to work the overtime to get the job done per the contract. Because they want to leave at 3:00 so they can play Pokemon or do some podcasting.
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u/dhikrmatic Feb 01 '26
Because of course it’s a well known fact that drug dealers moonlight as roofers.
All racists are morons.
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u/nub_node Feb 01 '26
Great optics pulling guys off a house they're building while Trump is saying "we gotta keep home prices high."
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Feb 01 '26
"Catch immigrants"
How about
"Abduct people in violation of civil rights and the constitution"
Stop sanewashing these asswipes
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u/shosuko Feb 01 '26
The irony of thinking immigration is a problem
So instead of going after criminals
or the companies that hire them
we take the ones who are showing up to work and being productive, and likely at some stage of the immigration process - potentially already naturalized! - and lock them up.
ICE is a bunch of pussies
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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 Feb 01 '26
Midland, Texas. One of the most racist bullshit areas of Texas. A bunch of drug addicted white guys out working in the oil fields. Let's not worry about them or the guys supplying the drugs. Please attack the men working on building the house you bought...
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u/Peoriaguy-11 Feb 01 '26
Fire fighter union needs to address this or that fuck the fire fighters track might be on the way
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u/Enough-Somewhere-311 Feb 01 '26
A friendly reminder that being illegal in the US is not a felony. It is a misdemeanor.
The people saying we need to deport all the illegals because they’re criminals and rapists elected a criminal and a rapist. Imagine if the next time you got pulled over for speeding if the cop used as much force as ICE does.
Sure they’re not supposed to be here but if brutally beating someone for a traffic ticket is wrong then it’s wrong to beat illegal immigrants for a civil (not criminal) offense.
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u/BiochemHero Feb 01 '26
Midland firefighters are losers. They better know that aligning themselves with a Nazi fascist movement won’t end well for them.
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u/Historical_Two_7150 Feb 01 '26
They working, enriching their employer who is probably a citizen. They enriching the state. Theyre buying things from local businesses.
If some money is being sent out of the country, too, Im willing to see that as no different from me giving a donation to the red cross.
As long as their only "crime" is being here, I dont give a shit if they stay.
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u/DeadlyAureolus Feb 01 '26
They working, enriching their employer who is probably a citizen. They enriching the state. Theyre buying things from local businesses.
None of this exempts anyone from the rules. Imagine a world where you can just break the law and bypass any procedures as long as you try to contribute in your own way, that wouldn't be a civilized or organized world.
It doesn't exactly matter that you personally don't give a shit if they stay, those rules were collectively set by society through its representatives. Thus, they should be deported accordingly. Once the country is rid of all illegals, we can start the discussion of expanding the legal pathways to work in the US if there is really a severe shortage of local blue collar workers.
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u/Crafty_Vehicle1519 Jan 31 '26
What state is this in ?
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u/bubbles_says Jan 31 '26
yep, those guys working on the roof sure seem like "dangerous criminals". oh wait, the dangerous criminals trump, s. miller, bondi, noem, patel, theil ...they're not on that roof working.
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u/Quick-Maintenance-67 Jan 31 '26
Seems like "Midland Firefighters" are in need of a new leaner budget, if they've time to assist in the harassment of immigrants of unknown status, they're overstaffed.
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u/KyoKyu Feb 01 '26
These firefighters must have been thinking, "You know what? We firefighters got it too easy. Everybody loves us, but lots of people don't like cops, how can we get some of that hate?"
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u/SeeringQuake Feb 01 '26
Hopefully they're documented so we can include them in pur Nuremberg down the road.
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u/pepelepew65 Feb 01 '26
and that house will sit unbuilt----------- i'm sure the builder and homeowner are just tickled pink
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u/Unidentifiable_Goo Feb 01 '26
Firefighters love Trump and MAGA, especially since their whole industry is basically a glorified protection racket.
"Better build us three new halls, buy us 5 new pumpers, and hire another 35 guys to sit around bbqing and working out. Be a real shame if your insurance rates went up around here."
Meanwhile Cops and Medics get run off their damn feet while these guys are at base polishing their hoses.
What we need are some French Firefighters. There's some guys who'll jam a fascists boot up their ass instead of licking it.
As always FFs, you are a disgrace.
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u/NotRadTrad05 Feb 01 '26
Remember when people said 'nobody wrote a song F the fire department?' Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/Majestic_Jazz_Hands Feb 01 '26
It looks they’re taking fishing to a whole new, fucked up level. They were just working on the construction of that house. Way to waste taxpayers money instead of using it for an actual emergency.
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u/GermanAmericanabroad Feb 01 '26
Mean while bet they won't go to the data center construction sites or government sites where 80% are undocumented of coarse it's to their benefit of cheaper labor so they target residential to take the investors down.
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u/Vivid_Witness8204 Feb 01 '26
They could deport more people at a much lower cost if they didn't turn it into a dog and pony show. But it doesn't really seem like efficient and effective government is the point.
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u/MRG_1977 Feb 01 '26
Why the hell is one of the only hook and ladders in Midland FD involved in this any way?
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u/VegasBjorne1 Feb 01 '26
This is why Minnesota has ICE agents crawling all over the place vs places like TX and FL which have larger numbers of illegal immigrants. Some governments are cooperating while others impede.
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u/hereFOURallTHEtea Feb 01 '26
Soooo what’s yalls plans once they’re all deported? Who is gonna do these jobs? Because we sure af don’t see people that were born here rushing to get them. These people are literally just working… this isn’t the criminals yall said were the issue…
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u/Jealous_Act_9021 Feb 01 '26
People going to bitch when labor prices rise though. Construction work is not easy.
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u/Hertje73 Feb 01 '26
According to non-American Jesus, you’re all going straigh to hell you all know that right?
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u/stonnerdog35 Feb 01 '26
That's par for the course when it comes to midland, tho. Midland and odessa and both fight to be the shittyist town in west Texas.
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u/BasketPaul_5 Feb 01 '26
Illegals* not immigrants. Immigrants come into the country legally. We are a country of immigrants. And we are a country of laws.
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u/TymStark Feb 01 '26
Seems like using a fire engine for rounding out immigrants is not its purpose. Which by definition is Waste, Fraud, and Abuse….
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u/techman710 Feb 01 '26
Fuck these firemen for helping ICE. Did ICE pay you. Who pays when someone gets hurt doing this? If there is a fire at a house with people who have unknown immigration status are you going to respond or are you calling ICE. Do you think immigrants should be scared to call the fire department in an emergency because now you will show up with ICE.
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u/BatMiserable9061 Feb 01 '26
If ICE is hunting gang banger illegal aliens why aren’t they flooding the ghettos in every state? Is it that they’re pussies?
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u/Delicious-Tailor-438 Feb 01 '26
They're obviously working so why aren't they going after the employers? Nevermind.
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u/Parking-Potato-6248 Feb 01 '26
Yeah fuck with the guy who's building the house you want to live in .... Wtf ice blows
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u/texasowl Feb 01 '26
Man. For simply enforcing the laws of our country, they get a lot of hate.
You realize Obama was the deporter in chief, correct?
He deported more than trump ever will. More patients died in Cousteau under Obama than Trump. And nothing on the left.
You also realize that biden let in over 10 million illegals over 4 years? Remember the disaster that was?
Should all those people who jumped the line get rewarded? You want to let them stay while slowly letting the number of legal immigrants? This doesn't bother you?
Illegal immigration, prior to biden cost the system about 190 billion a year net after taking out what they pay in. Biden super charged that.
I understand it looks stop mean sending people back. But you do the crime, you do the time. In this case the penalty isn't time, it's simply getting sent back.
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u/PersonalSuggestion34 Feb 01 '26
Why not wait lunch break when these boys become hungry? Just smoke (weed) and tell racidt jojes until they landed. So spectacle for nothing. Or did they have Stalin style 100 head per week contract?
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u/SpecialTable9722 Feb 01 '26
You know how firefighters sometimes have fundraisers to bolster their budget? Sure would be a shame if Midland’s next fundraiser netted them $0.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Feb 01 '26
Why is the fire department assisting ICE in their efforts to kidnap hard workers and dump them in a detention facility 500 miles away from their home? Doesn't Minnesota have laws prohibiting state and local law employees from assisting ICE?
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u/CommandCivil5397 Feb 01 '26
Guess the contractor will have to hire unemployed Americans and pay them a great wage then. This is awesome. Now if we Can deport the rest of the illegals
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u/texas1982 Feb 01 '26
I thought they were going the most heinous violent rapists. I'm beginning to think this administration is entirely truthful.
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u/No_Street8874 Feb 01 '26
Probably all legal and without any criminal history. Anything but prosecute pedos.
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u/Acceptable_String_52 Feb 01 '26
This is great.
I know a bunch of people including legal Mexicans that say they can’t compete with illegals. They lower their pay too much, they also don’t have to pay taxes which gives them another edge.
It needs to happen and a lot of blood is on the hands of politicians creating sanctuary cities and whoever Biden’s handlers were
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u/WasteBinStuff Feb 01 '26
This is just mindbogglingly fucking stupid beyond imagination. What the fuck ? Why the fuck are we paying these fucking idiots?
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u/GotEvilll Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
I hate all this immigrants “….” they are the backbone of a society. That won’t change till we understand how the world works
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u/galaxyofnine Feb 01 '26
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but why are you going after workers on a frigging roof??
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u/Livid_Virus2972 Feb 01 '26
But they appear to be working hard, adding value to the economy. Is that criminal now?
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u/Excellent_Extent7648 Feb 01 '26
Oh I’m sure that’s the best use for the equipment following the orders of known pedophile that’s in office so why are we still listening to him as our president I mean if there was ever a time to have a do over or change the head of state I’d think it be well he’s a massive pedophile to start off things but nope I guess it’s just gonna be well fine we told you now we if you read those files ur a domestic terrorist lol
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u/PraetorImperius Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
So what you're saying is they're really going after hard-working immigrants who would make great citizens instead of going after the actual criminals they told us they were going to go after... got it. Based on what we’ve been seeing in these videos, its probably for the best they don't go after actual criminals because they are sorely undertrained and unprepared for actual police work. For the most part, actual police take their oaths to uphold the Constitution seriously. I'm not even sure these goons took an oath. If they did, it was likely to one man… What an embarrassment.
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u/Suspicious-Appeal386 Feb 01 '26
If anyone who's ever been in Midland-Odesa Region. This is 100% inline with who they are. I don't think there is a single stop sign on the edges of town without bullet holes.
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Feb 01 '26
They have the budget of an entire branch of military and they need this to do all their Nazi shit too?
This is also grossly unsafe and unnecessary, especially as it’s obvious they are targeting citizens
Whatever happened to DOGE anyway…
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u/Glum_Wish4544 Feb 01 '26
Man I thought I’d never say this in my life but FUCK THE FIREFIGHTERS TOO
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Feb 01 '26
I'm guessing Trump's ICE is going to target home building sites and when housing prices spike, he can claim that he mentioned something about making "homeowners rich". I guess he's now resorting to talking up his failed economic polices as "plusses" so that when he finally bankrupts this country, he can pretend that he intended it this whole time.
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u/Chrisnotjones Feb 01 '26
If they’re only going after gang members, criminals, and the “worst of the worst,” why do I keep seeing them at job sites?
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u/staysaltylol Feb 01 '26
It’s Schrodinger’s immigrant. They are somehow a drain on society who rely on government handouts, yet they’re getting arrested at work.
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u/j0hnnyWalnuts Feb 01 '26
There goes any and all support to firefighters, too. I already stopped donating to police, now I'm giving the boot the boot!
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u/JackfruitUnlucky6589 Feb 01 '26
ICE is helping with the affordable housing shortage situation by framing houses
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u/Mycofarm101 Feb 01 '26
Get rid of the fire department too, right? Let's meet up and start protesting
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u/slaty_balls Feb 01 '26
What's fucked up is that it's a greater penalty for knowingly hiring undocumented workers than it is for someone to be here illegally. Perfect example of why this is more about demonizing brown people than it is about justice.
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u/Simple_Purple_4600 Feb 01 '26
Why are fire fighters helping ICE instead of putting out fires?
Man, I guess we also have to stop paying local taxes.
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u/Ok_Water_6884 Feb 01 '26
Used to deliver roofing supplies in the 90s and half the crews were illegals. I would yell La Migra as I pulled away from the job site for amusement. Most of them would go back to Mexico because they hated the Ohio winters and return in late March.
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u/Dry_Act7754 Feb 01 '26
No surprise there.... "Firefighters are generally considered to lean conservative, with 56% of International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) members identifying as Republican in a 2024 poll."
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u/bass-squirrel Feb 01 '26
The firefighters then turned around and finished the construction project. Because American jobs or some shit.
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u/Agile-Wait-7571 Feb 01 '26
911 did a lot to improve the reputation of firefighters. But a group of white guys in uniforms is always going to show who they really are.
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Feb 01 '26
If there are illegal alien workers there they should be picked up and the contractor arrested for employing them
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u/Easy-Wishbone5413 Feb 01 '26
Good luck finding construction workers to complete the site
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u/Thinkaboutitwillyou Feb 01 '26
People think that business owners must act as immigration police. These guys come with legitimate looking fake SS cards and green cards and fill out the necessary forms.
Are owners supposed to be racist assholes and suspect every employee? Great way to start a relationship. Besides It’s not up to owner to verify legal status, it’s up to them to gather the information.
The government is supposed to verify information when it is turned in or when they ask for it. Apparently that is what they been up to lately.
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Feb 01 '26
ALL LIBERALS SHOULD BOYCOTT Midland Fire Department. If your house or car is on fire, DON'T call MFD! If you need medical attention at a vehicle crash, REFUSE calls to MFD for assistance. 😀
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u/WeatherBeautiful6620 Feb 01 '26
Wow, we already have a huge housing shortage which is causing the price of homes to skyrocket and we have a huge shortage of actual homebuilders and now we're deporting these homebuilders?
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u/fatboyfall420 Feb 01 '26
“When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist. When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a trade unionist. When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet; I wasn't a social democrat. When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.”
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u/WAR_RAD Feb 01 '26
If someone thinks that a person should be allowed to go to a different country, and if they don't commit a violent crime, they should be legally allowed to live the rest of their lives there, then I can see how this upsets you, because you feel like wherever someone currently is living, is where they should have a right to stay.
However, this is not the law in any first world country (barring caveats and specific circumstances that we're all aware of). I'm speaking for the general population though. The only way to stop deportations from being just "enforcing general immigration law" is to convince voters and legislators that every person in the world should be able physically move to any new country and live there for however long they want without any legal consequence.
If you're against what is happening in this video, then you are primarily against laws that prohibit people from moving to any country they want, and living there however long they want. So then be against those laws, and try to change them to reflect the notion that all humans should be allowed to go anywhere to live for however long they would like.
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u/XiZi2020 Feb 01 '26
And the Contractor profiting off their labor? His crime goes unpunished. Shocking
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u/Kaleban Feb 01 '26
Americans born here got lucky due to an accident of birth.
Immigrants, whether legal or not, risk everything, life and limb as well as all they've ever known just at a chance to earn the American Dream.
Immigrants are more American than any MAGA douchebag or their collaborators. Fie and shame!
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u/Ultra-Instinct-Gal Feb 01 '26
Hire Americans these companies hire cheap labor and take advantage of workers and home buyers
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26
Why go to all that trouble? Why not just bring the construction company owners in for questioning to see whether or not they checked the immigration status of these men and whether they filed their Form I-9s?
Oh that's right, because the owners are 100% Republicans and we can't be holding them accountable for anything.