ICE is going away from Chicago! They didn’t like our winter rehearsal :), and now they want to return in March. Well, we can absolutely create a snowstorm in March!
I had a very disturbing conversation at work. One of my co-workers told us about his “buddy” who joined ICE. He was like “I just told him: don’t you dare to touch the kids,” but it didn’t seem like he was horrified with this confession. The rest of us were more disturbed, especially having two Latino co-workers present.
That first co-worker who mentioned his friend joining ICE, told us, that according to his friend, the pay was good, and he was getting three times more than otherwise (and if I recall correctly our earlier conversations, “otherwise” was police). So we are talking about three times of police pay, and also, they were getting 1.5K for each person arrested! No wonder they were snatching people off the streets! I went ahead with a speach about moral values, and others were like “how can he sleep at night?”
My Venesuelan co-worker, who voted for Trump, now uses each opportunity to tell me how much she regret it, and how instead of sending criminals out of the country, Trump is now detaining hard working good people, and my other co-workers do not even try to say something in opposition.
The Judge ordered to release most of people who were seized by ICE in Chicago.
And today was the first time in two months, that I saw a woman with a little girl tighed to her back, walking with a box of candies through the CTA car.
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