This is Portland Police saying this, so a slightly smaller grain of salt than the Rock of Gibraltar sized one for the DHS tweet.

Male shot in the arm released to FBI custody, female shot in the chest still hospitalized and stable.

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    As soon as the term deport was used to describe the wildly unconstitutional act of kidnapping someone people showed they were willing to pass judgement first in order to justify the violation. You can’t just walk that back.

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    The federal government’s criteria for being considered a member of Tren de Aragua is 1. being Venezuelan and 2. having any tattoo - despite the gang not using tattoos as an identifying marker. So, I’m gonna need more than “unspecified ties” from the police to consider this anything more than justifying another attempt to murder someone trying to escape the US gestapo.

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    If they were, they wouldn’t have called 911…

    So I suspect the “ties” are gonna end up something like testifying against them and getting refugee status here as a form of witness protection.

    I’d say we should wait for details, but we can’t count on local PD in a major city to be the truth tellers either.

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      “Hello, 911? Your friendly neighborhood cartel bro here. Yeah, just wanted to tell you my exact location so you can come pick me up while I’m incapacitated. No, this isn’t my burner phone, this is my regular one with the caller ID. Took out a Fed on my way down, so you might wanna send some heavily armed cops too, tee hee :3”

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    “Couple was extra-judicially murdered because…”

    There is no way to conclude that sentence that anyone should give a rat’s ass about. If you buy this sort of post-facto justification for the Brown Shirts murdering people, you’re a Nazi.