Scott
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I haven't read the whole article from which this article gets its name. I think reading the title alone was more than enough, but I did read a bit further than that. Quoting the introduction and the part where Jazzmin's father died:
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ICE didn’t start abusing immigrants when Trump took office. No, this brutality has been unfolding for years, with the only change being its escalation. ICE’s violence, its indifference to human suffering, its utter disregard for the rights and lives of those it ensnares.. this is nothing new. It’s systemic, entrenched, and devastating. For decades, ICE has had a free pass to tear apart families, to erase lives, and to do so with impunity.
And as Jorge Luis Rosales Villanueva’s story painfully shows, this isn’t just an isolated incident it’s a legacy of violence. A violence that has no name but the one it wear.. enforcement.
In 2007, ICE showed up at Jorge’s door, not to arrest him, but to arrest someone else. They lied, claiming they were looking for someone else… a tactic they’ve used time and time again. In that moment, Jorge, confused and scared, “gave himself up.”
His only crime? Being there. Being undocumented. In that moment, he handed over his life to them, hoping that complying would bring him safety. But safety never came.
Jazzmin, his daughter, talks about it like it was yesterday. “Can you imagine Gestapo just banging on your fucking door?” she says.
In her words, you feel the weight of the fear she felt. The fear of losing her father. The fear that’s now ingrained in every immigrant community, every family that lives in constant terror of that knock at the door.
[snip]
Jorge, living with HIV since the '90s, had been managing his condition with medication. But ICE made sure he would not receive it. They withheld the very medication that kept him alive.
“They want them to die,” Jazzmin says, her words charged with anger and the cold truth that her father’s suffering wasn’t a mistake.
It was deliberate because ICE knew and they didn’t care.
Jorge’s condition deteriorated. What had been manageable turned into full-blown AIDS. His body, weakened, was sent back to Mexico, abandoned in a foreign land. “They just dropped him off at a border town, no money, nothing, his daughter Jazzmin recalls, and you can hear the anger in her voice. She is not just remembering a broken system; she’s calling it out for what it is a system that let her father die, a system that doesn’t care who it leaves behind.
Jorge, already broken by ICE’s neglect, made his way to his family’s village south of Guadalajara. He was weak. His immune system destroyed. And soon, he contracted pneumonia, a sickness that for most people is treatable. But for Jorge, it was a death sentence.
He had no chance. And within a year, he was gone.
“He died of AIDS complications,” Jazzmin says in tears. “He contracted pneumonia and had no immune system left.”
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Full article:
dissentinbloom.substack.com
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ICE didn’t start abusing immigrants when Trump took office. No, this brutality has been unfolding for years, with the only change being its escalation. ICE’s violence, its indifference to human suffering, its utter disregard for the rights and lives of those it ensnares.. this is nothing new. It’s systemic, entrenched, and devastating. For decades, ICE has had a free pass to tear apart families, to erase lives, and to do so with impunity.
And as Jorge Luis Rosales Villanueva’s story painfully shows, this isn’t just an isolated incident it’s a legacy of violence. A violence that has no name but the one it wear.. enforcement.
In 2007, ICE showed up at Jorge’s door, not to arrest him, but to arrest someone else. They lied, claiming they were looking for someone else… a tactic they’ve used time and time again. In that moment, Jorge, confused and scared, “gave himself up.”
His only crime? Being there. Being undocumented. In that moment, he handed over his life to them, hoping that complying would bring him safety. But safety never came.
Jazzmin, his daughter, talks about it like it was yesterday. “Can you imagine Gestapo just banging on your fucking door?” she says.
In her words, you feel the weight of the fear she felt. The fear of losing her father. The fear that’s now ingrained in every immigrant community, every family that lives in constant terror of that knock at the door.
[snip]
For 18 months, Jorge was held in detention.
A year and a half away from his family, from everything he knew, and in those 18 months, ICE did not just take his freedom… in the end they took his life.Jorge, living with HIV since the '90s, had been managing his condition with medication. But ICE made sure he would not receive it. They withheld the very medication that kept him alive.
“They want them to die,” Jazzmin says, her words charged with anger and the cold truth that her father’s suffering wasn’t a mistake.
It was deliberate because ICE knew and they didn’t care.
Jorge’s condition deteriorated. What had been manageable turned into full-blown AIDS. His body, weakened, was sent back to Mexico, abandoned in a foreign land. “They just dropped him off at a border town, no money, nothing, his daughter Jazzmin recalls, and you can hear the anger in her voice. She is not just remembering a broken system; she’s calling it out for what it is a system that let her father die, a system that doesn’t care who it leaves behind.
Jorge, already broken by ICE’s neglect, made his way to his family’s village south of Guadalajara. He was weak. His immune system destroyed. And soon, he contracted pneumonia, a sickness that for most people is treatable. But for Jorge, it was a death sentence.
He had no chance. And within a year, he was gone.
“He died of AIDS complications,” Jazzmin says in tears. “He contracted pneumonia and had no immune system left.”
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Full article:
ICE Killed Her Father. Now She's Speaking Out.
ICE’s Violence Didn’t Start with Trump it’s Been Systemic for Decades
dissentinbloom.substack.com
