Member's statement: USA Regime
Member's statement by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 27 January 2026
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- USA Regime
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5344990
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Text
It is clear that the United States is a country that has been steeped in violence and suppression from the get-go. Parties in the House, especially the unionist parties, would do well to remember that fact as they clamber to celebrate everything red, white and blue this year. What we have witnessed since its creation, but especially in the past few months from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is nothing short of fascistic violence from the biggest army and superpower in the world. In recent days, we have witnessed ICE agents violently arresting a five-year-old, Liam Ramos, and deporting him and his family to Texas, which is a state that they never wanted to go to. Just a few weeks ago, we had the execution of a mother, Renee Good, who was shot dead in cold blood for the world to see. Last Saturday, the world witnessed the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who was a nurse in a local hospital — a veterans' hospital, no less. It seems as though, in the US, there is a Rodney King-type moment every week, with the state's going further and executing people, and it is recorded. Once again, attending a protest can be a death sentence for too many people in the United States. Alex Pretti intervened when he saw an ICE agent pepper-spraying a woman in the face. Despite the lies projected by Trump and others, he was using a phone at that event, but still he was deemed worthy of execution by a trained armed operator. That action — that execution — was committed by somebody who was well trained and funded by the US Government. There are now major questions for the Executive parties about the response that they will take to the US regime. Will they continue to go out of their way to have a cosy relationship with that corrupt and rogue regime? It was bad enough when the US invaded Venezuela and snatched its president for a show trial and when it made threats to Greenland. It is decision time for the Executive and the Taoiseach. Will they support that regime or shun it? The best chance to shun it is to refuse to go to the White House on 17 March.
376 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.31 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.63).
- Subject area: Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers.
- The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.28 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.21 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.05 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.43 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.34 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.27 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.31 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.63 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.08 |
| Adopts it | 0.29 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.96 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.02 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.01 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.01 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 14:21 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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