We all knew they would start wholesale hunting, imprisonment, torture, and murder of antifascists eventually.
Nothings changed. Antifascists need to be prepared for the inevitable now more than ever.
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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No shit, they already shot at least 1.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Around 600,000 people go missing each year in the US. 533,936 reported in 2024. I’m sure undocumented people would be less likely to be reported missing as well. I would be completely unsurprised to learn there were ICE squads disappearing people off official records.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Bad data, or more accurately an attempt to misrepresent the data.
This is basically a total number of all open missing persons cases, not number of cases per year. This represents all open cases within the past 34 years. If we assume an equal rate of people going missing persons year that becomes about 18,000 people a year.
If you actually look at your data you’ll see a pretty sharp decrease in missing persons cases since the 90s.
We know ICE is committing legal actions daily, so what’s the point in trying to misrepresent data and pin this on them in anyway? Even if the argument is so many people go missing its easy for ICE to dissappear people, it fall apart quickly when you look at the actual numbers. They wouldn’t be able to dissappear many people before causing a significant increase in missing persons reports
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m not misinterpreting, maybe you read before I edited the phrasing to make it more clear, I understand this is the number of total open cases each year which is why it’s relatively consistent, cases open and close.
I wasn’t suggesting anything about the number of people they could potentially be taking, just that there are thousands of unsolved cases of missing people each year.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
So why did you present this data then? What was your goal in including it here?
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They shot many more. They killed at least one.
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They killed two here in Portland and then denied it after our media covered it. Somehow the files went missing.