#art #history: i wish those bampots who're going about with their flags of st george & their paintbrushes & their screaming at hotels & their fear-based, media-&-rich-folk-stoked racism would realise that immigration is an integral part of a strong society. where would england be without freddie mercury? nowheresville.
happy 79th, mr bad guy. <3
#illustration #music #freddieMercury #queen #immigrants #immigration
Sworn declarations submitted overnight from #Venezuelans deported by #Trump to #ElSalvador prove innocent & legal #immigrants were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center forced labor facility.
Here is one from a professional soccer player imprisoned in #CECOT & forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos & a single, innocent hand gesture.
#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #Trump
"Anyone who can walk 3 grueling months with a child to escape death and violence and want a better life, can live next to me any damn time."
#Immigrants #asylum #AsylumSeekers
A federal appeals court on Tues said the #Trump admin did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give #DueProcess to scores of #Venezuelan #immigrants who were deported to #ElSalvador under a wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The ruling, by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, came one day before the admin was supposed to outline for a lower-court judge how to allow nearly 140 deported #Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion.
#immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-venezuelans-deportations-el-salvador-boasberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"One of the ppl arrested this week -was arrested coming out of a church service -no criminal record -had a job at a local tire store -an ankle monitor so #ICE knew where he was at all times & still in immigration court.
Does that make us safer?"
-A R Melnick
The Trump admin isn't prioritizing detaining & deporting criminals, many of those they're arresting are undoc. #immigrants w/o criminal records -filling jobs needed for the economy.
Amplify their cruelty & dishonesty.
"On Holocaust Remembrance Day, migrants hide in the attic from Trump raids. ...
The fear is the point, and so, apparently, is the cruelty. ...
The irony of all of this — good people cowering in their attics, praying to avoid getting cuffed and shipped thousands of miles away by camouflage-wearing soldiers — happening on Holocaust Remembrance Day is almost unbearable."
~ Will Bunch
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #Holocaust #cruelty #ICE
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The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.
“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”
The blitz of Trump's immigration executive orders has continued, so fast and sweeping that it’s been hard to keep up, much less gauge their potential impact.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune explain the most consequential changes he made on Day 1.
#News #Trump #Immigration #Immigrants #USPolitics #WhiteHouse
We spoke to the relatives of three immigrants transferred to Guantanamo, who said they’ve been left in the dark about their loved ones.
“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump
"Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.
Mahmoud Khalil
Rümeysa Öztürk
Mohsen Mahdawi
Yunseo Chung
Alireza Doroudi
Badar Khan Suri
Kseniia Petrova
Kilmar Ábrego García
Andry José Hernández Romero
Jerce Reyes Barrios
+ Hundreds More
Don’t forget their names and don’t look away."
~ The Contrarian
Something we shouldn't allow ourselves to forget or unsee as the Roberts Supreme Court invents legal fictions to provide cover for Donald Trump as he rounds up and deports immigrants who are afforded no due process:
The Roberts Supreme Court is controlled by a bloc of right-wing "pro-life" Catholics, Roberts himself included in their number.
#Trump #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #ProLife #Catholics #immigrants #FederalWorkers
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Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
#law #immigration #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2E999096-F869-486C-80A2-740E7C065EBC
Ok now this is absolutely revolting:
A #RealityShow where #immigrants compete for US #citizenship? #DHS is considering it.
DHS is considering taking part in a #RealityTV program that would have immigrants go through a series of challenges to get American citizenship, ofcls said Friday.
#immigration #law #debasement #humiliation #idiocracy #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html?smid=url-share
"On Thursday morning, a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s effort to quickly deport Venezuelans under a wartime power only previously exercised three times in the nation’s history — most recently during World War II — was illegal."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #AlienEnemiesAct #immigrants #courts #DueProcess #Texas #FernandoRodriguez
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/aea-trump-appointee-texas-final-ruling
"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/
#Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtests
Misleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.
#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump already has the weight of the #ExecutiveBranch behind his efforts to strip funding from top #universities, #deport millions of unauthorized #immigrants & pressure #ForeignGovernments to change their economic policies.
With the sprawling bill that passed through the #House on Thurs, #Republicans are also preparing to enlist the #TaxCode as another tool against Trump’s political foes.
#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D8897650-C8DC-4320-B385-DFA3B3D729D8
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The #Trump administration is using the claim that #immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.
A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
#Immigration #News #Law #HumanRights #government
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
Lisa Tate, a Ventura County, California, farmer talks about what's happening on farms in that county, where fruit and vegetables are grown to supply the whole country:
“'In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,' she said in an interview. 'If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day.'"
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #ICE #WorkForce #agriculture #FoodChain
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/ice-raids-crops-california-farms
The #VA, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83K WKRs.
Morale is plummeting inside the VA as 10s of 1000s of WKRs prepare for deep staffing cuts, raising alarms among staffers, vets & advocates *fear the reductions would severely damage care & benefits for Ms of the US' former service members.
Trump doesn't respect #Vets, POC, #Women, #disabled #LGTBQ ppl, #immigrants...
Amplify: #TrumpRegime's betrayal, & the carnage it's enacting.
#USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
![Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.](/proxy/post_attachment/654365/b41b7c47fc.png "Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word \"Dies.\" OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.")
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![A FIELD GUIDE to CIVIL UNREST 2nd Edition
"Peaceful Protestors"
[QAnon Shaman and Jan 6 MAGA with a "Hang Pence" sign]
"Violent Insurrectionists"
[Non-white woman with a sign that says, "Immigrants are Humans," with a child and tear gas all around them]](/proxy/post_attachment/738350/d819df586a.png "A FIELD GUIDE to CIVIL UNREST 2nd Edition
\"Peaceful Protestors\"
[QAnon Shaman and Jan 6 MAGA with a \"Hang Pence\" sign]
\"Violent Insurrectionists\"
[Non-white woman with a sign that says, \"Immigrants are Humans,\" with a child and tear gas all around them]")