KS Toronado
KS Toronado's JournalICE tried to deport a Native American
BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American.
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to.
Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious.
Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.”
Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!”
But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening.
Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen.
Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely.
And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.”
Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil.
Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country.
This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system.
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Weekend Cartoons #2
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62 year old cartoons today.
By Bill Mauldin, during World War II he portrayed the dangers of war through the eyes of "Willie and Joe"
‘Our President Is Dead’: How The Washington Post reacted to John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
2010, 77 year-old Teddy is welcomed aboard a sailboat by his three older brothers - none of whom experienced the gift of long life. Jack was 46, Bobby 42, and Joe Jr. only 29 years old when their lives ended abruptly and violently.
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MAGAt at the cafe yesterday
Went out for brunch yesterday wearing a new bright red T-shirt for the first time. Soon as I sat down a
lady a dozen feet away asked "What's your T-shirt say?"
So I stood up, pulled all the wrinkles out of Smokey the Bear's face "Only you can prevent Fascism".
She responded with a healthy laugh "I thought that's what it said, I love it" We talked about voting was the
way to deal with Fascists.
Then the elderly gentleman next table over looking straight at me joins in talking how we all need to vote
the Fascist Democrats out before they ruin this country.
So I asked "If you caught our Mayor molesting one of your grand-kids what would you do?"
"I'D KILL THE SON OF A BITCH WITH MY BARE HANDS!"
"If he happened to live should he lose his job as Mayor"?
He agreed, then I asked "Then why do you want a child molester as President"?
We went around and around a few more times when I mentioned the more you hear lies on Fox news
the lies become the truth.
Then the guy sitting with him with his back to me said "This is what I've been trying to tell you dad"
End of conversation with him. 
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