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Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas
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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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How much do you want to bet that her husband voted for Trump? She probably did too.
You don't know that.
This woman and her daughter are going through a terrible time right now and you want to blame her instead of our fascist government. Why?
Why are you insisting on placing blame on this woman?
Do you know what "how much do you want to bet" implies? Should I imply it harder? Do you need your rhetorical question answered? I'm just curious.
Seriously though, of course I don't know, but I do have a real funny intuition about this sort of thing that works in some really interesting ways. Sometimes it's wrong, granted, but a lot of the time it's right.
There's just something about the level of "surprise" they seem to be exhibiting in their comments about what happened to them. I feel like people who are more aware of what ICE is and has been doing are likely going to sound somewhat less surprised than the people who voted for it thinking it would only happen to brown people and not to them.
I think their surprise at being detained is because she had a valid work permit and visa.
Not everyone in Texas is MAGA.
The rush for people to blame the woman in this story reeks of something else to me.
Does it reek of anger? Is that the something else? Because I'm pretty fucking angry about what ICE is doing, and I find it pretty hard to believe that any people (who have some level of consciousness and aren't MAGA) in Texas, literally a border state with the second highest number of immigrants in the entire US, don't have any clue that ICE is regularly arresting people who have valid work permits and visa, were the first few hundred thousand not a clue?
In my experience, the people who are surprised about this tend to be the people who knew it was happening (how can you NOT know it's happening at this point?) but just never thought it would actually happen to them.
Likewise, the surprise here reeks of something else to me. The surprise reeks of "How could this happen to me? I'm white"
I’m pretty fucking aware of what ICE has been doing and I would still express surprise and shock if my spouse was detained at a checkpoint on the way home from a baby shower.
The fact that you’re looking to blame the victims here instead of the government is interesting.
I can be very angry at and blame multiple groups at the same time. I'm multitasking.
You're dogpiling on the woman in this story.
And you've decided that's unfair. Good thing she has white knights like you. She'll be safe. Unlike all the brown people.
You've decided the victim in this story deserves blame with zero evidence and I'm calling you out for it. That's it.
She's a victim the same way "all the brown people" are and we shouldn't be blaming them. We should be pushing back against the fascist government committing these acts.