A story I like to tell about accents is Lawrence Welk, who didn't speak fluent English until after he left his home in North Dakota around age 21. Kept the vaguely Germanic accent for life.

Time to bust out the shittiest Irish brogue these fascists have ever heard

Civil war people

I mean is it though

To be fair I think Tom Homan should be arrested for the way he talks.

But it's the content of his speech, not his accent.

Different accent but better English than average MAGA!

Jeez, I wonder if the agencies will stop…

Homan admitted to it live on Fox yesterday. Their physical appearance

Accents? Just wait until ICE encounters a bus load of tourists from Scotland.

I feel like they’re not even to really bothering to pretend not to be racism at this point.

If you think them arresting people on something is arbitrary as job or accent, wait till they see your voting record!

It’s insane! What the hell happened with the famous “ democracy” of “God’s own land”?

No wonder Melania barely says anything.

Can totally see ICE agents arresting Cajuns and Yankees from Maine thinking they are foreigners.

ayuh.

My guttural Scots would be allwhite though?

Scared for my great aunt who's English breaks when nervous or excited.

A sitting US President is hawking perfumes and meme coins like a cheap salesman is as wild, if not wilder ……

I've noticed that a lot of these 'agents' have strong 'accents' themselves.

Yes. An accent heard in the Bible Belt

Insane. Side bar: studied linguistics, including phonetics and phonology, and highly doubt these brownshirts even know what they hear.

I am told that my accent sounds vaguely German, do I get a Zig Heil from them??

Like we knew they let it influence them but they at least pretended it didn't

A month or so ago, my white mom & I decided to start a very small act of both resistance & community by speaking only Spanish in public. While a tiny thing to show neighbors we care, it may end up meaning more than we thought to these masked assholes. Bring it racist mfkrs.

I think members of the Klan just swapped out their hoods for some ICE uniforms

Indeed. Doubtful that any of those cretins could hear the difference. And many people can do excellent accents.

am absolutely terrified for my Puerto Rican librarians here in Florida.

It’s a inhuman shitshow.

Dude they are arresting people for their job description.

Jeff Dunham is getting tired of them crashing his shows to arrest him, he is considering no longer using the Jose the Jalapeno puppet in his act.

look out Kiwis!

It amazes you to read it. They’re not even operating off any valid intel, detective work, or whatever to find specific people. They’re just rounding people up they don’t think belong in that community. We just gave them more money than the marines to accomplish these ad hoc kidnappings.

Everyone tag Governor Newsom and ask how he will enforce this ruling and the restraining order Karen Bass got for LA. I did. It means nothing unless California fights back when those in power are ignoring orders.

Some bold design choices for the new uniforms.

A melting pot filled only with white American cheese is the worst kind of fondue

*dyed orange American cheese

True. Even worse.

line of work while in this case also a big issue, as a phrase is more nebulous, your line of work could be hitman. But "accent" is just an absolutely WILD thing to just admit openly

They would probably shit five bricks to hear me slipping back and forth between east coast US flat newscaster, vaguely Mexican chola, and fucking Received Pronunciation.

God, my army back accent from when we returned to the states from overseas would break their brains.

I don’t do it as much anymore, but when I lived in Ohio and worked in a call center I’d start shifting more and more into RP as I got stressed (and I worked customer service so… yeah) and it didn’t occur to me that it was very thick until a customer asked me how long I’d lived in the US.

Lived in Germany for 7 years on a military base to Iowa, and my accent did not go unnoticed in the midwest.

Without being seen to be pro-hitman or in the pocket of Big Assassin, I'm not sure I want ICE arresting people on the basis that they work as a hitman either.

Right, you want a real law enforcement agency for the hitman cases

Breaking into ICE headquarters to delete their training materials and its just a bunch of Speedy Gonzales cartoons

Absolutely insane shit to hear it in person

Were there any visible surprise reactions from ppl in the courtroom?

Place was packed and I was pretty focused on my notes. A few raised eyebrows, at least

prejudICE cowardICE malICE

Then when will Melania be arrested?

Xenophobia with a badge and a gun. And a mask of course.

An "order" is not going to do diddly-squat, there needs to be real consequences, i.e. arrests.

Reason I won’t to travel to the US for company meetings until this mandate is over even

500,000+ Europeans are in the United States illegally; how many has Tom Holman and ICE deported? It’s all about race!