Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/michigan-arab-communities-ice-fear

It was still dark when, at about 5.15am last October, her 61-year-old husband and 12-year-old son, Abdullah, arrived at the Furqan mosque for morning prayers. Abdullah recalls his father being approached by two men outside the mosque, grabbing him and asking for his papers. After a brief conversation, he says he was allowed to call his mother and told to go inside the mosque by the agents. When she arrived minutes later, her husband and the agents were gone.

Things have worsened in the months since.___

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“The level of anxiety among people is at its highest; we’ve never seen something like this,” says Imad Hamad, executive director of the Dearborn-based American Human Rights Council.

Dearborn has been on edge for months. In November 2025, rightwing provocateurs held anti-Islam rallies in the city and attempted to burn a copy of the Qur’an. At a city council meeting on 18 November 2025, extremists hurled insults and Islamophobic slurs at local leaders. On 31 January, a masked person allegedly impersonating an ICE agent was reported in a Dearborn supermarket asking shoppers about their visa status.

“We thought that after the national tragedy of September 11 we would never face something more difficult than that particular experience,” Hamad says, referencing the waves of anti-Arab and Islamophobia that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “Nowadays, it’s much tougher; there’s no comparison even – people are very concerned, very worried as they try to pursue their normal life.”

I think translating ICE related materials and resources into more languages is gonna be really important...

are you really going to blame people for not wanting to vote for the people murdering their families?

for them it was either voting for the people murdering their families, or someone else. and instead of blaming the people doing a genocide, you blame the people whos families were executed by the state.

fuck you too

you agree that the dems completely fucked up by financing a genocide then hoping they can gaslight people to vote for another batch of genociders? yet you still blame the people who likely have family murdered by Biden.

Palestinians do not gives a damn abour your trashy country and your trashy electoral system. All they know is that both cults you have is financing israel genocide and settler colonialism

She would have still lost Pennsylvania and the election. Harris was terrible at every single issue

My heroes are considered terrorists in your shitty ass third world country.

You are a genocidal apologist.

you are literally the scum of the earth.

Welcome to Optional, genocide is valid when their preferred color does it.

Murder and genocide is bad even when your team does it. Sorry that offends your morals.

But did you consider when blue team violates federal and international law, they had to do it? Checkmate leftists.

Next time don't ask them to support international rules of war so they can lose even more voters over the violations they explicitly chose to do.

the only class of people that's ok to get rid of are the Epstein class

No shit? Goddamn y’all have fuckin’ cracked it!.

So why do you not have a single official voice in federal government? Too pure eh. That’s a shame. Well, good luck with your default demented sociopathic cult then.

Holy shit look at your mod go! What a great comm this is.

I can tell because of that and all the many many invectives against (((zionism))).

I’ll make sure to be quiet next time and let y’all marinate in your idiocy in peace. Comrades WINK.

Hey hey your bullshit mod flatworm is working overtime so imma let you tankies finish sucking each other off in peace.

Eat shit though! Fuckwit.

Win an election.

nah you need support for that.

aren't there innocent babies that need starving?

anyone who thinks a genocide is something that can be ignored, deserves to be ignored

Agreed! Although it serves no purpose, but hey. It’s not like we’re achieving anything here anyway.

Sure! And any other of the injustices that you are personally sort of aware of and not a single one more. Because it is all about you and your tunnel of truth.

we achieved something, we learned that you are a racist genocider. and your voice should be ignored

where the fuck have I defended Israel?

done with this BS, marking you as a the troll that you are and won't engage anymore with this bullshit

so many comments were deleted I honestly can't keep track of this conversation. and I'm still not sure if I said something supporting Israel, which I doubt I said.

The only way I will say something in favor of Israel is if I make an error typing on my phone. I've lived there and seen first hand how horrible rotten their society is.

My bad I though i replied to the pro genocide guy in the thread

Any decent human would remove your zionazi comments. I am supprised that you re not aleeady banned

hate when that happens. was confused too, because you're also commented against Israel.

think we hit each other with friendly fire.

Clearly you don't have any, that's why you keep losing no matter how much your favorite party caters to the fascists.