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ICE in Charles Town!

On December 5, 2024 ICE made one of its raids on two Mexican restaurants in Jefferson County. They tagged along with a US Marshalls team and disrupted a dinner hour for local residents, a raid that including pepper spraying. It didn't matter to ICE that customers were "in the way." These kinds of tactics have to be loudly called out as dangerous and very likely illegal, all for the sake of arresting and deporting cooks and wait staff serving our community. Is this insult to our community going to be commonplace in our future?

What Is Capturing Immigrants Really About?

The anti-immigrant surge in the United States is now manifesting as the out-of-control operations of ICE. ICE agents are acting without regard to due process for immigrants and citizens alike. This is causing even American citizens to fear they may be caught in an ICE raid and deprived of their Constitutional rights. What's the real reason behind this anti-immigrant sentiment? Is ICE one day going to show up in Jefferson County?