It’s started. Federal persecution of political prisoners have started in earnest. And what awful crimes did these activists commit to warrant federal charges and FBI raids?
FBI agents on Tuesday morning arrested and searched the home of at least one of multiple people who took part in the protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Spokane.
Among those arrested was former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, who is charged with conspiracy to impede or injure law enforcement, according to court records.
The grand jury indictment filed July 9 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington alleges Stuckart, Justice Forral, Mikki Hatfield, Erin Lang, Collin Muncey, Thalia Ramirez, Bobbi Silva, Bajun Mavalwalla II and Jac Archer used “force and threats” against federal agents to “impede” the transport of federal detainees to their immigration hearings in Tacoma and to “coerce the release” of the detainees. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/15/spokane-ice-protesters-including-stuckart-arrested/
All for blocking the driveway of an ICE facility in a peaceful protest and refusing to move. They did not resist arrest. They were there to defend two men who were in the country legally under asylum, the men were arrested when they went to the ICE office for a scheduled meeting.
Stuckart sparked the protest that swelled to hundreds of people that day by posting a call to action on Facebook after ICE agents detained two young men who had appeared at ICE offices for a check-in.
Archer posted on social media a call for others to come and join, noting the intent was to “risk arrest to block the exits to ICE,” according to the indictment.
The indictment alleges Stuckart blocked a transport bus carrying the two immigrants. Archer, Stuckart and others blocked the pathway and door to the transport bus despite orders to disperse, the indictment says.
Stuckart and most of those who were arrested June 11 for blocking the bus did not resist arrest.
This is a clear pattern. In the last two weeks there’s been a noticeable change in how these “ICE agents” interact with the general public. In the months prior they weren’t laying hands on protestors and the only citizens detained were due to racial profiling, citizens detained due to the agents believing they were an immigrant due to their race. That policy took a clear turn in the weeks leading up to the Camarillo marijuana farm raids.
“ICE agents” have been grabbing US citizens who are doing nothing more than filming them and exercising their first amendment rights. During the Camarillo raids, the same raid where a farm worker fell 30ft to his death as he was being chased by ICE agents, agents detained US citizens and forced them to delete videos from their phones.
And now we’re here, protestors being given trumped up charges simply for exercising their first amendment rights of free speech and assembly.
The request for a detention hearing is partly because Hatfield threw a smoke canister back at police when they deployed it into the crowd, the government alleged, calling it “a dangerous weapon.”
How ironic, when the police threw the smoke can at the protestors it was okay, but when the protestors toss it back toward the cops that smoke can all the sudden becomes a “dangerous weapon” and warrants federal charges. As far as I’m aware there’s been zero accountability of the police who have injured numerous protestors with 40mm rounds and flashbang grenades, including blowing off the finger of one protestor in Los Angeles.
A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests. https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000010259036/los-angeles-protests-lapd-violence.html
I have a friend from the Army that has been a FBI agent for a decade. The last time I checked in on him, in 2022, he was working to catch child sex predators in Pennsylvania. I wonder if he’s been pulled off that task and reassigned to go after dangerous criminals that sit in drive-ways. I wonder if he’s raiding the homes of political enemies now rather than child sex predators.
This is the other side of this theatre the regime has created. They’ve diverted agencies like the FBI, DEA, ATF from their duties to do immigration enforcement. Agents who were investigating terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking, weapons trafficking are now doing pre-dawn raids on farm and construction workers. Our nation is quantifiably less safe today and real criminals are being let off the hook due to this diversion of attention and resources.
Temporary Blocking Order Against ICE for Racial Profiling Might be Holding
A federal judge in Los Angeles issued an order temporarily blocking US authorities from using racial or ethnic profiling during immigration sweeps in the region and requiring that detainees get access to lawyers. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/construction-labor/judge-blocks-ice-from-randomly-stopping-suspected-migrants
There has been a de-escalation of ICE activity in the days following the Camarillo raid. Whether this is related to the federal judge’s temporary blocking order against ICE is unclear.
We’ve seen this pattern before. ICE will push aggressively and overstep bounds and then there will be a lull before they escalate even further. This is most likely the phase we’re in right now. They’re letting their agents rest and planning further escalations and in a week or two we’ll see more outrages. The next step in escalations will be shifting the focus from immigrants onto citizens, which has always been the end-game, to use ICE as a tool for political persecution.
I’m concerned that they intend to perform a massive crack down in Portland. The Noem, Homan, and trump all seem to be obsessed with Portland. They bring up Portland every-time they discuss attacks on ICE even in unrelated incidents. Portland seems to be a real thorn in the side of the regime and it could likely be a site for future deployment of troops.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/ice-officers-doxxed-by-antifa-anarchists-in-portland-dhs-says.html
We have to step up the resistance. They are scared little boys when confronted with the same tactics back. Portland has always been a flashpoint with the regime. During his first term during COVID, they went in the with force because the people weren’t having it. And as far as this political crackdown, you can’t be alone.You need a crowd to push back agains the thugs. Are these real ICE agents or white supremacists cosplaying? That’s how they feel like men.
United We Stand ✊🏼