We Shouldn't Make Jokes About ICE

ChaCha ☕️💟@ChaChayourvmom

I addressed the rumors about ICE yesterday concerning Filian

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Now I know that the golden rule has been don’t talk about politics. For me personally I have this rule simply because of how heated I get and how much my blood pressure has raised as a result. Now mind you, I’m only 35. When I was in my teens and early twenties, it would raise to the point where I would start to feel physically sick and get light headed. I would often joke that I was likely going to die on an anerysum because what was going on would anger me so much and getting into arguments would often times rile me up to the point where it was greatly affecting my health.

Now for those of you who don’t live in the United States or doesn’t pay attention to the news or lives under a rock (God I wish I did), ICE which stands for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement which was built up from already existing programs and from the creation of Homeland Security back in the early 2000’s. It’s been around since I was in high school.

The purpose is to apprehend those who are perceived as being here illegally and sent to their home country. Now there have been people taken in loads before recently but none were taken in a manner that injured people, killed people, raped people, sexually assaulted people or treated inhumanely en masse as recently. Now as the granddaughter of a green card holding immigrant and someone who has had to study immigration as part of their bachelors degree, I will say fully of two things.

The first being that the United States has long since hated immigrants and this goes back to the late 1800’s with the creation of the Know Nothings. It did not matter if you came here illegally or legally, there was no distinction back then. If you weren’t what was called a WASP (White, Anglo, Saxon and Protestant) then you were a slimy piece of shit and needed to be dealt with. For Italian immigrants and Italian Americans living in New Orleans in the 1890’s, this meant you got lynched. (And for me being a European mutt and being baptized Catholic, I am everything that this white supremacists hated.)

This went on up until likely the 1980’s or 1990’s when everyone got thrown in together and were called white. But honestly, I look at it more as a token than anything. The thing about privilege is that it’s something that can be taken away and one thing I realized having researched white supremacist groups and having a narcissistic mother who is also a racist, if you go against them you lost that white privilege. They don’t see you as being white but as other. Or a race traitor. I mean hell just being disabled or homeless and people don’t see you as being white or a person for that matter. Especially if you’re homeless.

Anyway, with that out of the way, ICE recently has been kidnapping people presumed to being illegal immigrants for the past year. One of which was an elderly man who was trying to renew his green card. My grandfather immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1952 at age 11. (I thought he was 13, I recently looked at his immigration record and it showed otherwise.) He had filled out his green card every year, even when he married my grandmother. When my grandmother passed away in 2021, he had help from friends to fill out his paperwork to make sure that he could stay in this country. He never got his citizenship because he can’t read or write in English and likely didn’t feel the need to. He likely got a reprieve because my grandmother died. But he passed away in 2023 due to complications due to prostate cancer.

Now had he survived, he likely would have been picked up by ICE and given with how much of a loud mouth he is, would likely get killed. Though if he still had cancer, he would be sent back to a country he hadn’t set foot since he was 11 not having a home or a pot to piss in and likely succumbed to the cancer. Everyone that was left in Germany on his side of the family is dead with my mom’s cousin taking her life in the 70’s. There would be no one to take care of him, whereas there would be myself, my parents, my aunt, and cousin.

Recently, there was a woman by the name of Rachel Good who was gunned down by ICE in Minnesota and at Target there was a young man who was kidnapped and then dropped off at a local Walmart after ICE agents realized he wasn’t illegal. I can empathize with what Latinos are facing because again if the complications didn’t kill my grandfather surely getting kidnapped by these Gestapo like people would. I will called them Gestapo because my great grandmother was a survivor of the Holocaust and was taken when my grandfather was two.

One thing that I do not get is the need to make light of things. ChaCha’s joke was completely insensitive. And before anyone says anything about how I can’t take a joke, one of my favorite comedians is George Carlin. There is also a time and a place for jokes and making one based on what is going on isn’t funny at all. People have been taken captive, people have been raped and even were killed. It is honestly reprehensible as is this:

Now when I was trying my best to go back to being a Christian. I struggled with my faith for years and wanted to give it another go due to the fact that I was dating a Catholic last year. (Who ended up dumping and abandoning me in Denver and I became homeless as a result. But whose keeping track??) Anyway, there was a lot of un-Christian things that Celestium has said and I blocked her for. Sorry but I don’t have time for false pretenders and especially those that ignore the part of the Bible where Jesus says “He who goes against my brethren, goes against me.” Jesus marked the sick, the homeless and the poor as his brethren. In our modern world he was illegally born in Bethlehem. We also don’t know what form that Jesus is going to take for his second coming and we know that his first form he was in the form of a Shepard, a carpenter and didn’t wear the nicest robes either.

But her tweet about making an ICE inspired outfit to wear is honestly the most sickening. Especially for someone that calls herself a Latina and a Christian and doesn’t have the sense of having an ounce of empathy is sickening. It’s reprehensible but she’s not the only so called Christian making waves like this. It’s honestly enough for me to renounce myself as a Christian and go back to being Pagan. If I end up in hell then so be it, but I’d rather not be associated with a bunch of fakes.

Now I don’t have the means to donate as I’m not earning enough with my side hustle and won’t get paid until… March for my writing gig. But if you could consider donating to Freedom for Immigrants and other charities working to help victims of ICE brutality, that would be great.

What do you think? Is this the time to joke about politics? Why or why not? Let me know in the comments below. Like this post? Don’t forget to share it with your friends. Want to keep up with the latest post? Hit the subscribe button. Want to support the blog? Check out my tip jar.

Until next time!

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