{"id":3198,"date":"2026-02-05T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:00:11","slug":"we-are-here-courts-join-the-furious-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"We Are Here: Courts Join the Furious Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Predictably, the exit of mini-Nazi Bovino did little to staunch ICE abuses – kids gassed, women dragged, skulls fractured, observers facing guns – which go on apace. But so do growing protests, testimony and court rulings against them. This week saw a spectacularly scathing one as ICE Barbie tried to strip protections from 350,000 Haitians peaceably living and working here – en route, dubbing them “killers” and “leeches.” The result: “Federal judge reaches down Noem’s throat, rips out her heart, and eats it raw.”<\/p>\n

Amidst a half-assed government shutdown that’s funded vast venal parts of the regime but temporarily left out DHS, “metaphorically trapped on the street in its weaponized SUV,” nobody’s mourning the abrupt departure<\/a> of former “commander” Greg Bovino, who quietly slunk back to whatever dark dank cave he crawled out of. Swapping him out in the wake of outrage over ICE’s murderous abuses, it was agreed, was “like shitting your pants and then changing your shirt.” “To stem a spiraling crisis, the White House replaced an asshole with a different asshole,” reported Andy Borowitz, who quoted “senior asshole” and Nazi ghoul Stephen Miller on what’s next: “Anyone who thinks this administration is going to run out of assholes any time soon better think again. We have a very deep bench.” (It includes<\/a> his ignorant, hateful wife.)<\/p>\n

The bench boasts Noem, Rubio, Drunk Pete and Miller himself, who’s taken to not just raving that ICE stormtroopers have total immunity<\/a> (NOT) but desperately advertising for them on X – “If you want to combat fraud, crime and illegal immigration, reach out. Patriots needed.” It also includes Tulsi Gabbard, fresh from charging Obama with “treasonous conspiracy” in the 2016 election and<\/em> running <\/a>her own <\/em>investigation into – as well as inexplicably joining the FBI raid on a Georgia election office aimed at – the hoary, tired, alleged steal of the 2020 election. (Really.) Finally, don’t forget cartoon thug Tom Homan, Bovino’s replacement, who wisely blames<\/a> anti-ICE “rhetoric” for his goons shooting Renee Good in the head and Alex Pretti in the back several times, in the fine tradition of abusers everywhere who plead, “Why did you make me kill you?” <\/p>\n

In Minneapolis, meanwhile, a county medical examiner\u2019s office ruled <\/a>the death of Pretti “homicide by multiple gunshot wounds”; it also found agents denied aid<\/a> to the dying nurse by turning away a physician who offered to help. Last week, ProPublica <\/em>identified<\/a> his killers as Border Patrol agents Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, at their jobs <\/a>11 and 7 years respectively, after federal officials refused <\/a>to release their names. An internal federal report also found<\/a> Good’s killers violated policies on use of force “during every step of the encounter” – from deescalation to handling guns to moving<\/a> vehicles to calling her “a fucking bitch”; law enforcement experts agreed agents made “grave tactical and legal mistakes” in a \u201ccompletely uncoordinated and chaotic” assault. To date, her killers have only been put on administrative leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since both murders, DHS made small, contradictory shifts. Agents were told not to engage with \u201cagitators,\u201d aka peaceful protesters, and to only target immigrants with criminal charges – like they said they were doing all along but obviously weren’t. Yet an internal memo claims <\/a>they’re newly free to make random, warrantless arrests to skirt court orders that demand warrants. Experts and veterans deem them inept “fake soldiers<\/a>” and brazen “mercenaries”; <\/a>Mayor Jacob Frey calls<\/a> them “marauding gangs…indiscriminately picking people up,\u201d and often attacking them. When Casta\u00f1eda Mondrag\u00f3n arrived <\/a>at the hospital, agents boasted he “got his shit rocked.” After scans showed he had eight skull fractures with life-threatening brain hemorrhages – and staff called <\/a>bullshit – agents said <\/a>he tried to flee, cuffed, and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”<\/p>\n

\u201dIt was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one nurse bitterly, who described fractious ICE agents roaming the halls, harassing patients for their papers as fearful hospital staff huddled, and insisting a comatose Mondrag\u00f3n – who came here legally, started a construction company, and has no criminal record – be shackled to his bed. After two weeks, a judge ordered him released; with no family nearby, co-workers took him in for a long recovery. Across the state, a similar sense of siege reigns. While five-year-old Liam Ramos, grabbed<\/a> in his bunny hat, was released, several more kids from his school have been detained, <\/a>school officials, parents, grandparents, neighbors patrol in shifts outside at dismissal time as ICE agents prowl, and streets are littered with empty ghost cars – <\/a>doors open, sometimes running – of other victims whisked away.<\/p>\n

This week, it happened twice. Footage by Ford Fischer shows <\/a>agents swarming a car of legal observers and dragging them out at gunpoint. One thug claimed they were threatening them with “hand guns,” which lamely turned out to be gun motions with their hands. Yelled one enraged bystander, “Put away your weapons, you douchebags.” Outside the small city of St. Peter, a woman driving behind agents filmed <\/a>herself – and, preternaturally calm, phoned colleagues to call 911- as they swerved in front of her, jumped out with guns drawn, dragged her out, and shoved her into their car. She was ultimately released and driven <\/a>home by the police chief, a friend, after her husband notified him (see small city), but residents were horrified by the jumpy, masked, trigger-happy scene. “This is just insane,” said<\/a> one. “It\u2019s only a matter of time before (they) kill another innocent person.”<\/p>\n