Having watched their workforce fall behind in the American League Championship Series two games to none after Monday’s drubbing at the hands of the Seattle Mariners, will followers of the Toronto Blue Jays need to danger crossing the border to catch the following video games in Seattle?
The largest danger might be experiencing extra disappointment if the Mariners preserve profitable, however there may be additionally the potential of getting entangled with amped up Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. Oh, Toronto followers could also be positive if they’re white sufficient, however, if their pores and skin is a bit brown and their accent a bit international, there is the chance they might end up in a detention center rather than a ballpark.
Is that far-fetched and paranoid? Probably not.
Of their aggressive quest to satisfy quotas set by the Trump administration, immigration enforcement brokers are going far, far past their alleged mandate to spherical up harmful criminals who’re within the nation illegally. Criminals, whether or not actually harmful or simply petty, are a really small share of the parents being tracked down. Most of these rounded up for attainable deportation are staff upon whom farmers, building corporations and different companies rely. They’re moms hauled from their vehicles, youngsters nabbed at faculties, nurses, educators, veterans and all kinds of peaceable, tax-paying residents of our communities. An enormous share of them have been in the USA for many years.
There are additionally fairly a couple of Americans who’ve been grabbed by ICE and locked up in harsh detention for days, if not weeks, with out being granted the important proper of due course of that is supposedly assured by the U.S. Structure.
Given all that, is anybody naive sufficient to consider Trump’s federal thugs would hesitate to hogtie a couple of Canadian baseball followers if it helped meet their quota?
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