I live in an area where people ask you where you’re from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don’t speak English, like they have with my wife.
ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I’m waiting for our turn. I’m light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn’t matter anymore.
I keep waiting for the day when I’m going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she’s at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?
I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.
OP already said they’ll protest and donate, if I read the sardonism correctly.
Anyways, hope your demolition of deathcamps goes better than 22 more years.
Frankly I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make anymore. I never said a single thing about protesting. You’re the one who decided that me saying “pulling a gun on armed thugs is probably not a good idea” means I support full submission to fascism. You just keep putting words in my mouth and providing links to things that are tangentially relevant to what you’re saying, and honestly it’s gotten old. You can believe you bested whatever strawman you’re projecting onto me if it makes you happy, but I’m not interested in continuing this conversation.
I think that’s the raw issue: you haven’t provided a proper solution for OP to protect his family.
We already agreed a frontal confrontation is probably not the best strategy. But I fail to see any other strategies that won’t result in the family still getting abducted, raped, and deathcamped, that history has already proven.