The Schutzstaffel, literally “Protection Squadron”) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ in Nazi Germany. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–45), it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany. From 1929 until the regime’s collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of surveillance and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe. Source, Wikipedia…

 

U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.

The raids, which officials said targeted known criminals, also netted some immigrants who did not have criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during former President Barack Obama’s administration that aimed to just corral and deport those who had committed crimes. Source, Chicago Tribune…

 

Immigration officials confirmed that agents this week raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, the Los Angeles area, North Carolina and South Carolina, netting hundreds of people. But Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said they were part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE dislikes the term “raids,” and prefers to say authorities are conducting “targeted enforcement actions.” Source, Chicago Tribune…

 

Immigrants and refugees upon arrival in any new place tend to settle in the same areas finding comfort among the likeminded such as themselves which in some large cities can mean as much as five to fifteen blocks, encompassing businesses, schools and religious institutions with reminders all-around of their home counties. So, it was possible for some to peek out of their windows to a sight that they have long feared but prayed would never come, as government box-like shaped vans two or three in number, entered the neighborhood inserting

uniformed men into residential buildings and businesses rounding up men, women and children in a manner not seen since before and including WW2 in Europe, something the older ones have known and have seen before, the younger ones having only seen in movies, with the results the same, deportation, governmental deportation, which has never been a good or welcoming sight or event, their fears dictate harm or even death…not to be witnessed in this home free blessed America…now a myth, where slaves have prayed, if only we can make it North, we shall be free and safe for ever more…the myth once believed now proven to be just that without any words…