The abduction by armed ICE agents of a seventh grader in Massachusestts has provoked angry protests. More than 80 residents and city councilors gathered outside Everett City Hall to demand the return of the boy, who was transferred to a juvenile immigration facility in Virginia.

The abduction of a 13-year-old boy by armed agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) provoked angry protests October 14 in the city of Everett, Massachusetts. More than 80 residents and city councillors gathered outside Everett City Hall to demand the return of Arthur Berto, who was taken by ICE and transferred to a juvenile immigration facility in Virginia.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think they know Massachusetts.

    I, a cis white male, was at the dollar store and there was a black woman behind me buying a bunch of SpongeBob candy. She’s doing a trunk or treat tonight at her work, she works at a center for autistic kids. And the cashier, a trans man from Virginia, shared his stories of trunk-or-treats and cakewalks. And she told me a story about one of her kids at the center who loves SpongeBob and got her to do the theme. And I shared my story of how my wife and I dressed as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy for Halloween a few years ago.

    I never heard of a cakewalk before, but that’s beside the point.

    The thing is, I don’t think you’d have a conversation with that particular arrangement of people be so friendly and wholesome in Virginia, at a dollar store of all places.