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Today is Monday, May 18th, Day 347, and these are your updates on the ICE siege, which, yes, is still ongoing.
Less than a week after ICE raided the homes of people associated with VCDefensa, the community watch group that’s been legally observing and warning their communities of ICE’s presence in the 805 areas, ICE is now heavily targeting those areas, beginning with Oxnard, and taking people from their vehicles.
The attack on VCDefensa comes days after the White House published Trump’s “Counterterrorism Strategy,” in which he includes “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists” as a threat to the U.S.
Trump declares that Americans who oppose his fascist administration will face a very fascist response, writing, “We Will Find You, and We Will Kill You.”