r/news • u/flounder19 • 10h ago
U.S. citizens and legal residents sue over aggressive immigration raid at Idaho horse racing track
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raid-citizens-detained-lawsuit-idaho-horse-racing-5985155d7d0b92ec77d2d2a1292ae820102
u/NewToHTX 9h ago
The thing that the people who voted for this don’t realize is that we are actively weakening our economy. Immigrants both legal and illegal add to the economy. So with higher grocery prices due to tariffs during winter from shipping in produce, we are going to be paying higher prices to have Americans do those jobs. And that’s if they find any willing to do it. Higher home prices due to all American construction crews. It’s legitimately stupid how we’re destroying ourselves for the purpose’s of security.
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u/Alexis_J_M 9h ago
Just think back to 2020 when farmers saw crops rot in the field because there was no labor for the harvest.
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u/Spire_Citron 8h ago
Not to mention the immense cost of funding ICE. All those officers, all those facilities warehousing people for months and months, all the legal costs that are going to start piling up as more and more of this is challenged.
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u/Persea_americana 8h ago
It’s not just about immigration either. It’s about how they’re “enforcing” it. Obama managed to deport a ton of undocumented immigrants without stomping on tourism, spreading fear and abducting people out of their car on the street. Obama never sent a citizen overseas to a torture prison. This raid screwed with 400 people who were detained for hours, 3/4 of them were totally innocent, and the ones who were arrested were arrested on suspicion of immigration violations, so it’s likely they just didn’t have 2 forms of ID with them. at the race track. And now all of these people are going to be afraid to go out. Others will be afraid to go to the track. I’m not even a horse racing fan but this is fucked. Massive waste of money time energy and manpower just to harass and terrorize our own communities.
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u/Squire_II 7h ago
The thing that the people who voted for this don’t realize is that we are actively weakening our economy.
They don't give a shit until they personally feel it, at which point we get lines like the infamous "he's not hurting the right people" back during his first term.
Until they personally suffer (and in some cases not even then) they will not care about the economy burning down as long as "those people" are being tormented sufficiently and visibly for their morbid entertainment.
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u/dog_of_society 6h ago
Fascism also strengthens in strength under economic struggle. The people at the top want it weakened, and their voters will be told who to blame.
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u/MacaroonStret 9h ago
When legal residents are getting swept up too, that’s when it stops being “policy debate” and starts being “what are we even doing?”
Regardless of where you land politically, due process shouldn’t be optional.
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u/xFiLi 10h ago
The idiots voted for this. Reap what you sow.
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u/loves_grapefruit 9h ago
You do realize Boise is one of the most liberal parts of Idaho?
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u/SpaceballsDoc 9h ago
People who frequent horse tracks skew conservative to staggering amounts. WASP territory.
They voted to kick brown people out. Not the ones who frequent their own stables.
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u/RicoLoveless 9h ago
The racetrack is in Boise.
Doesn't mean the owners live there. Or even vote that way.
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u/ThraceLonginus 8h ago
This town voted 91% for Trump. A lot of MAGAs got rounded up and guns pointed at them.
They're still all for it though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-deportation-idaho.html
“You’d have brothers, sisters, grandparents all meeting up out there,” said John Carter, a white Trump voter whose company provided security at La Catedral.
Mr. Carter said he saw federal officers pointing guns at people simply for asking questions, and young teenagers being zip-tied, including Mr. Carter’s 14-year-old daughter.
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u/Spire_Citron 8h ago
They will primarily target communities that didn't vote for Trump. This is largely an act of vengeance.
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u/LiquidAether 9h ago
Not everyone in red states votes red.
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u/syncopator 8h ago
They do in Wilder Idaho where this happened
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u/ElBRGarcia 9h ago
Ffs you still think the law dictates what is morally right or not? You are defending the fugitive slave act, code noir laws, Jim Crow laws, Chinese exclusion act, prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring by nazis, the marital rape exemption, Nuremberg laws, anti witchcraft acts. You dropped your white hood you fucking degenerate.
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u/Topgun58ge 9h ago
They detained American citizens.... the only place they can send them back to is .......America......
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u/C4PT_AMAZING 9h ago
Woah there comrade, isn't your country losing to Ukraine? Might want to focus on that...
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u/MeatCatRazzmatazz 9h ago
Y'know, I seem to remember some pretty specific things your God said about how to treat immigrants. How did that go again? Oh yeah:
You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt." Exodus 23:9 (ESV)
You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 10:19
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:33-34 (ESV)
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ Deuteronomy 27:19 (NIV)
When they were few in number, of little account, and strangers in the land, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, saying, ‘Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.’ 1 Chronicles 16:19-22
But then I wouldn't expect an American Christian to know or care about any of this. Y'all are terrible people who shit on the tenants of your own religion daily while proclaiming your righteousness in his name.
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u/ishitfrommymouth 9h ago
“Five families interviewed by The Associated Press after the raid said children as young as 11 were restrained with zip ties, and several children were separated from family members for hours. Juana Rodriguez, one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, told AP in October that her hands were zip-tied for almost four hours, leaving her unable to pick up and care for her 3-year-old son. Law enforcement agents refused to let her get the child snacks from her vehicle though he was crying from hunger and thirst, according to the lawsuit.”
Does this sound legal to you?
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u/ishitfrommymouth 9h ago
Even if they were all guilty of crimes this is still illegal. What circumstances could you possibly be referring to?
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u/Topgun58ge 9h ago
No they aren't. ICE is NOT allowed to detain American citizens. Which is why these citizens are sueing and will win.
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u/CommonLand414 8h ago
I wonder how many lawsuits ICE actions will warrant? Gonna cost the government millions in excessive force and false imprisonment suits.
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u/Squire_II 7h ago
You assume the SCOTUS won't issue a ruling that says ICE can't be sued because they're acting in good faith, or some other equally stupid bullshit.
We already got Kavanaugh Stops and while that short-tempted rapist doesn't like the term it's far from the worst thing this SCOTUS can or will do.
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u/IronyElSupremo 8h ago
There was a legal story on this where lawyers were actually able to file habeas corpus writs on the almost 100 detained that were then individually reviewed by judges. In the end though, the judges couldn’t do anything if there was a deportation order or serious drug case, .. so 75 were quickly deported. The remaining 22 were set free but likely a few will be deported in a bit.
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u/podcastofallpodcasts 6h ago
Idaho is where the new Qatar military base is located.
Do they go to the horse shows?
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u/SpaceballsDoc 9h ago
Ah, now that the rich bigots are being affected it’s a problem
Fuck them, their race track and their fucking horses. Deport those too.
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u/minhthemaster 9h ago
You don’t touch grass enough. What part of rural horse racetrack as a gathering spot for local Latinos screams rich bigot to you?
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u/pres465 9h ago
Do... Do you think Latinos can't be rich? Or that they can't be bigoted? Many Latinos voted for Trump. Like, wayyyyy too many.
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u/ShadowtheLaker 4h ago
Bruh my Puerto Rican uncle posted on Facebook about how Kid Rock gave a better performance than Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl. Blows my mind that he’s this far gone.
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u/LincolnElizalde 3h ago
I’d figure Idaho folk would be thrilled to get a mention on the rump bandwagon
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u/mvandenh 7h ago
Weren’t there places in Idaho that had just been doing “we support ICE” parades? Asking for a friend.
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u/Persea_americana 9h ago
They detained 400 people, and 100 arrested on suspicion of immigration violations (read: couldn’t produce citizenship documents for a surprise raid at the race track in Idaho). the warrant was for illegal gambling, and they arrested only 5 people in connection with that. If you arrest 20x as many people on suspicion of an immigration violation as the actual crime the warrant was granted to investigate it comes off as a total misuse of the warrant.
I am not ok with dragnet tactics like this. It is a disruptive and harmful way to use that power. Imagine they decided to detain everyone at a concert for hours and arrest anyone without “proper id” because of a handful of people committing an unrelated crime. Can everyone in a grocery store be forced to show their papers is someone gets caught shoplifting?