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The case has drawn national attention because the brothers, Antonio Yesayahu Gámez-Cuéllar, 18, and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 14, travelled to Washington DC last summer after their high school’s mariachi ensemble, Mariachi Ono, won a state mariachi competition. Their congresswoman, Monica De La Cruz, invited them to the House floor, where she celebrated their accomplishment.

Late last month, the brothers and their parents, Luis Antonio Martínez and Emma Guadalupe Cuéllar, as well as their younger brother Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar, 12, were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to Texas representatives.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 5 hours ago

Republican Congressional Representative Monica De La Cruz, that is. I really like it when magats get annoyed at the current administration's policies. Another tiny lever against trymp, another tiny crack in this dam that must soon burst. Release the leopards, let the face eating continue!

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 22 points 6 hours ago

Ah yes, finally. I can eat my burrito in peace.

But seriously. I grew up in the south, every Sunday after church we'd go to a Mexican restaurant and they'd have a roaming mariachi band. Good fun dancing at the table while waiting for more queso as a kid. This is just bullshit

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Criticism is no longer enough. You need to go in and physically attack the people that do these things, and then, battered and bleeding, throw them into prison and fire them.

You'll only have to do this like ten times and the rest of ICE will take notice that they can't fuck around and violate constitutional rights.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is precisely what they want you to do my friend, it is what they fantasize about you doing in fact.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

Not if you're a police officer with the backing of a judge