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Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense.

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[–] f1error@thelemmy.club 12 points 6 days ago

Yet one more reason to make sex work legitimate, and in some cases legal. Keeping sex work in the dark shadows only breeds an evil outcome.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The really gross thing is when you consider how many ICE agents are probably actual clients of immigrant sex workers. Because knowing that kind of people who sign up for ICE, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they loved exploiting immigrant women in multiple ways.

[–] Geodad@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. "Rules for thee, not for me."