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Join us Tuesday June 24, 2025 at 1pm EST/10am PST to discuss Women Dealing With The Business Of Deportation.

Lately the news is showing us a frightening unfolding of civil unrest in the US as we see ICE wrongfully detaining US residents and citizens. Unfortunately, this practice is not new for ICE. Guadalupe R. Plascencia, a long time resident of California and naturalized American who raised five children, welcomed grandchildren, and worked in a salon was wrongfully detained by ICE in 2017 (2018, Hauser).

Image Source: The New York Times. "Guadalupe Plascencia, right, shown with her daughter, Mahria Torres, has won a $55,000 settlement after she was detained by immigration authorities despite repeatedly telling them she was an American citizen. Credit...Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times"

After Guadalupe was handcuffed and detained, documents revealed an ICE officer told her "here you are nobody" and “you are nothing” (2018, Hauser).

"According to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research center at Syracuse University, ICE requested the detention of 2,965 American citizens from 2004 through April 2018 (2018, Hauser).

Some Canadians are critical of the anti-ICE demonstrations and believe they are misguided, manufactured and performative in nature. We may notice outrage over ICE on our social media or the opposite. It seems we live in times where many of us feel we can no longer trust equality seeking activism and uprisings on the so-called left.

Anti-ICE protests were seen across big cities in Canada last weekend. Apparently a few thousand protesters came out in Canada opposing Trump’s immigration policies and military parade in Washington D.C. (2025, Eltherington).

Image Source: CTV News. "Demonstrator Laura Benne, a dual citizen, says she's deeply concerned about Donald Trump's rhetoric towards Canada. (Andrew Adlington/CTV News Ottawa)"

Questions To Consider

Do you believe women being unlawfully detained by ICE should have rights to redress and support from women's equality seeking groups and individuals?

Do you find the Canadian media is giving us enough information about the actions of ICE? Or do you think the Canadian media is giving this issue too much attention?

References

Hauser, C. (2018, October 29). U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE Is Awarded $55,000 Settlement. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/ice-detains-woman-california.html

Eltherington, W. (2025, June 14). Anti-Trump protesters in Ottawa Join U.S. 'No Kings' demonstrations. CTV News. https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/anti-trump-protesters-in-ottawa-join-us-no-kings-demonstrations/

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