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highplainsdem

(62,512 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 03:53 PM 6 hrs ago

ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Drivers at the Gates of a San Diego Military Base

https://capitalandmain.com/ice-has-arrested-dozens-of-delivery-drivers-at-the-gates-of-a-san-diego-military-base

Assim Alkhawaja decided to start driving for rideshare apps to supplement his income while he worked to get a coffee shop business up and running in Oceanside, California.

Roughly two months later, when Alkhawaja was dropping off two Marines at the nearby military base Camp Pendleton, he ended up being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and sent to Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.

While undocumented people have long avoided military bases because of the possibility of deportation, a pilot program launched last year at Camp Pendleton is trapping people with temporary permission to be in the U.S. so that officers can send them to immigration detention facilities and try to convince them to agree to deportation. According to local attorneys, Alkhawaja is among dozens of people detained by ICE at the gates of the U.S. Marine Corps base even though they had temporary permission to be in and work in the U.S.

“It’s a business,” Alkhawaja said. “This is what I found out in the detention center. We are just numbers that generate income to big corporations.”

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Much more at the link. This is outrageous.
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ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Drivers at the Gates of a San Diego Military Base (Original Post) highplainsdem 6 hrs ago OP
K&R 2naSalit 6 hrs ago #1
Kick SheltieLover 6 hrs ago #2
Just when you think ICE has done every shitty thing possible to ruin people's lives, a story like this comes out. sop 6 hrs ago #3
I hope to live to see Miller orangecrush 5 hrs ago #4
Judgment at Nuremberg AverageOldGuy 4 hrs ago #5
He'll never be tried. LuvLoogie 3 hrs ago #10
Just numbers so private corporations can profit. Yup. Evolve Dammit 4 hrs ago #6
I guess I should make it a point... GiqueCee 4 hrs ago #7
Agree with your equivalence of corporatism fascism. However "better tailors"? Witness trump's bags. erronis 4 hrs ago #8
Pitchforks bdamomma 3 hrs ago #9
This needs to stop MustLoveBeagles 3 hrs ago #11

sop

(18,841 posts)
3. Just when you think ICE has done every shitty thing possible to ruin people's lives, a story like this comes out.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 04:11 PM
6 hrs ago

AverageOldGuy

(3,974 posts)
5. Judgment at Nuremberg
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 05:31 PM
4 hrs ago

There's a movie out on Netflix --- Nuremberg -- very well-done. I equate Stephen Miller with Hermann Goerhing who was found guilty of a lot of vile stuff, sentenced to hang. He somehow got his hands on a cyanide tablet and cheated the noose by two hours.

I hope I live long enough to see Miller on a scaffold on the National Mall -- which is where they all belong -- and leave them to rot as a warning to the MAGAts who survive.

GiqueCee

(4,390 posts)
7. I guess I should make it a point...
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 05:56 PM
4 hrs ago

... to reiterate on a daily basis the irrefutable fact that corporatism is a malignant cancer that invariably kills its host, and it will destroy America if it isn't dealt with by whatever means necessary.

Maybe my tagline should be: "Corporatism is what Mussolini preferred to call his form of government. America's version of Fascism 2.0 just has better tailors."

erronis

(24,053 posts)
8. Agree with your equivalence of corporatism fascism. However "better tailors"? Witness trump's bags.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 06:18 PM
4 hrs ago
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