Weekend Quotables

ICE invades Chicago...Resistance builds

It was around 8 a.m. Sunday when a family friend called Maria to ask why her husband of nearly 10 years hadn’t shown up for work. Minutes later, with federal immigration agents banging on the front door of her apartment in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood, she had an answer.

Maria’s husband was one of an as-yet-unknown number of people taken into custody Sunday morning in what appeared to be the opening salvo in the long-promised — and much-feared — federal immigration blitz on Chicago. (Chicago Tribune)

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Trending on X -- In various U.S. cities like Chicago, Dallas, and Houston, significant protests against ICE and deportation policies...Concurrently, some social media posts reflect a community of Latinos expressing regret over political support for Trump due to fears of job loss from immigration actions.

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Weekend Quotables

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour blocking Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

"I've been on the bench for four decades; I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is," he said. "There are other times in world history where we look back, and people of goodwill can say, 'Where were the judges? Where were the lawyers?'" — NPR

Martha Raddatz interviews Trump’s Border Czar

RADDATZ: What criminals are hiding in schools? Middle schools, elementary schools -- you gonna go into those?

HOMAN: How many MS-13 members are aged 14-17? Many of them. — ABC’s This Week

Colombian President Gustavo Petro

Petro

You will never rule us. You're opposed to the warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, whose name is (Simon) Bolívar. — Newsweek

Lawrence Herman, an international trade lawyer and former Canadian diplomat

"Trump is threatening the Canadian economy and Canadian livelihood, and in effect threatening Canada as a country. And we have to respond accordingly.” — CBC

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This week, Rev Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as “nasty.” Here’s an excerpt.

Let me make one final plea, Mr President. Millions have put their trust in you. As you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families who fear for their lives.

And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, labor in our poultry farms and meat-packing plants, wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shift in hospitals—they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.