Many Americans are witnessing immigration arrests for the first time and reacting

[Dulcinea]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Adam Greenfield was home nursing a cold when his girlfriend raced in to tell him Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles were pulling up in their trendy San Diego neighborhood.

The author and podcast producer grabbed his iPhone and bolted out the door barefoot, joining a handful of neighbors recording masked agents raiding a popular Italian restaurant nearby, as they yelled at the officers to leave. An hour later, the crowd had grown to nearly 75 people, with many in front of the agents’ vehicles.

“I couldn’t stay silent,” Greenfield said. “It was literally outside of my front door.”

More Americans are witnessing people being hauled off as they shop, exercise at the gym, dine out and otherwise go about their daily lives as President Donald Trump’s administration aggressively works to increase immigration arrests. As the raids touch the lives of people who aren’t immigrants themselves, many Americans who rarely, if ever, participated in civil disobedience are rushing out to record the actions on their phones and launch impromptu protests.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-arrests-ice-los-angeles-0de11b5bc6ef962b79e084fb9e648a87

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. And, there is the problem we have with most of us.

“I couldn’t stay silent,” Greenfield said. “It was literally outside of my front door.”

Why did you stay silent until then, assuming you are not in favor of the current regime and its actions?

The average American is not going to act until it is happening to them or right beside them.

So, how do we get past the apathy? Make sure every American feels personally threatened? Because that seems to be the only way to get the numbers we need to change things.

[niyad]

3. Sadly, you are quite correct.

[William769]

2. K&R!

[niyad]

4. It is good to see you.

[William769]

5. Thank you.

It's good to be seen.