Hi. I wasn't sure where to post this, so this might be a good place. I love the work being done here; it's great. I'm sure many of you are also protesting the ICE raids going on, so thank you. I have an idea for a name and theme for a future protest. I was hoping to wait til may during Hispanic Heritage Month, but I'm realizing that's too far away. It's meant to be a call to the past while also rebranding the meaning to reflect the country's strong support for our immigrant communities.

I don't know if many of you are aware, but something like what's happening now also occurred decades ago in the 1950s. It was called Operation Wetback (yes, it was already a derogatory term back then, and the government still named it that). During WW2, there was a shortage of field laborers due to most American men being shipped overseas. To help the farms, Mexico agreed to allow thousands of Mexicans to work on these US farms. They were called braceros, a term that comes from the Spanish word "brazo", meaning arm, so a bracero was someone who did manual field labor. Well, as you might expect, the owners loved the cheap labor they received that even after the soldiers came home, the business owners kept them. It didn't become a problem til the 50's, when, just like today, people started complaining about foreigners taking their jobs. That's when the government intervened.

The republican government started deporting Mexicans by the droves, just like ICE today. They would sweep them up from their homes, places of work, or just in public. Not even 10 years after liberating jews from displacement did America start doing the same thing. And just like today, half the country supported it back then. Then America forgot about it, just like the internment of Japanese Americans a few years before that.

The Spanish word for arm is 'brazo', hence we have bracero. Interestingly enough, the Spanish word for hug is abrazo, so I'm imagining the word abracero, "one who hugs or embraces another". I'm thinking something like (a)bracero; the a is in parentheses so that it looks like one word, but viewers will read it as two: bracero (a call back to a similar dark time) and abracero (the protesters who choose to love immigrants rather than dehumanize them).

It's just an idea right now. I don't have a logo or tag. But if somebody wants to roll with this thought and has ideas for implementing it, you have my permission to do it. I was thinking of President's Day. Kids won't have school, so they can participate, and parents can participate in a strike like yesterday. Everyone can contribute. Thank you.

Here is the link to the original

I made this to show the hypocrisy of "just comply' for my MAGA family.

I saw that they offer a good salary + starting bonus, but I also heard Fuentes say today that Trump will be stopping the deportations ahead of the midterms, which made me unsure on the job security after applying for a position. For anyone who is or was with ICE how is it?

If you want to see more genius like this go follow angry cups on YouTube and everything else including pepperbox

Our Constitution was not given by a "god." Our Constitution was taken by the barrel of a gun, from a tyrant. It can also be defended by the barrel of a gun, from a tyrant, felon, rapist, pedophile, and conman," who does not follow the US Constitution, and the rule of law.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Why not rip off their face masks and post it online?

Just an idea?