For the past 45 years, Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood has celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a parade featuring Mexican bands, floats and dancers, and a festival at a local park.

But this year’s celebration, which attracts up to 300,000 people annually, has been canceled.

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    Can’t blame em. Time for all of those amazing white cultures to step up and offer their incredible spicy ethnic foods for all to enjoy.

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    Oh. Oh no.

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    It’s time for blue states to exercise their “state’s rights” argument and prevent ICE from operating within their borders.

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      Not one single judge in this country would sign off on this.

      States don’t have the obligation to help enforce federal laws, but they also don’t have the right to hinder the feds from enforcing their own laws. That’s what the whole deal with “sanctuary cities” was all about- telling the feds that those cities weren’t going to spend one dime of their budgets to help arrest immigrants, but they couldn’t legally stop ICE from showing up and doing it themselves.

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        I agree, but the judicial system seems to be in a bit of a constitutional crisis. It’s time to start doing what’s “right” instead of doing what’s “legal”.

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    This is the wrong direction - ICE should be absolutely terrified of coming into any major democratic area.

    If communities just took care of ice any time they congregated and refused to talk to law enforcement, the problem would be solved.

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    While yeah, I get it… I understand the choice- this, too, is a perfectly acceptable outcome by these uh well - nazis by a different name. They get to squelch celebration of other cultures and push their existence out of the public eye.

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    Don’t let them win. They want “these people” off the streets and out of sight. Show them what actually makes America what it is, not what they want to pretend it should be.