The Trump admin is reportedly deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam—to South Sudan—a war-torn country they’ve never set foot in. A federal judge had barred exactly this. No notice. No hearing. Just vanished.
Lawyers warn: they face irreparable harm in a nation plagued by violence and human rights abuses.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-deported-asian-migrants-south-sudan-lawyers-say/ #press #immigration
This is crazy.
#DHS agents invade a congressman's offices & #arrest a staffer who tried to stop them.
In a dramatic incident captured on video, DHS police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep #JerryNadler’s aides in his Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an #immigration #courthouse.
#law #AbuseOfPower #Trump #Gestapo
https://gothamist.com/news/homeland-security-cops-handcuff-one-of-rep-nadlers-aides-in-chaotic-day-at-ny-fed-building
Judge blasts #Trump admin’s embarrassing retraction of charges’
The #DOJ charged #Newark #Mayor #RasBaraka w/ trespassing during a visit to an #ICE facility in the city, but days later has now dropped the case.
A magistrate judge upbraided federal prosecutors Wed as he granted their request to dismiss trespassing charges against Mayor Baraka, calling the govt’s abrupt about-face “a worrisome misstep” in a case that has stoked a political firestorm.
#law #immigration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/21/mciver-baraka-newark-ice-court-charges/
Judge Finds #Trump Admin Violated #CourtOrder with Sudden #Deportation Flight
to Africa
Lawyers for some of the 8 immigrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to #SouthSudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in #Djibouti.
#immigration #law #rendition #judiciary
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=291694FB-D343-4DAC-A141-08E0F41D1DCF
‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How #Trump Ofcls Were Sent Scrambling to Cover Their Asses in the #KilmarAbregoGarcia Case
A Maryland man’s deportation to #ElSalvador set off a fierce debate among ofcls of 3 cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.
The Trump admin had deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.
#law #immigration #Rendition
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
…after the US #military announced that 700 #Marines would join the now 5,000 #NationalGuard #troops in #LosAngeles on Wednesday, escalat[ing] the [admin’s unlawful] military response — an exceedingly rare use of active-duty #troops on #domestic soil — #Trump suggested on Tues that the #LAprotests were petering out, & gave himself credit. “By doing what I did, I stopped the violence in LA.”
#law #immigration #ICE #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/11/us/los-angeles-protests-trump-ice/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.
#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says
National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to *#LawEnforcement* [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf
We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.
#RiotPolice use force against #LA #protesters
Police in riot gear turned out Friday evening in a tense confrontation w/protesters in #LosAngeles, after a day of #immigration #raids in which dozens of people were reported to be taken into custody.
Live Reuters video showed #LAPD officers lined up on a downtown street wielding #batons, & firing what appeared to be #TearGas rifles…after authorities had ordered…protesters to disperse…
#law #Trump #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/riot-police-anti-ice-protesters-square-off-los-angeles-after-raids-2025-06-07/
#MahmoudKhalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from the #Trump admin
Detained #Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump admin’s efforts to keep the father & infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.
#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #FirstAmendment #dissent #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-louisiana-immigration-406c341b8edf1f92dc44695cefcd8f8c
How is this even slightly legal?
(Hint, it’s not)
#Trump Admin Halts #Harvard’s Ability to Enroll #InternationalStudents
The move was a major escalation in the admin’s efforts to pressure the #college to fall in line with Trump’s demands.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #immigration #BrainDrain #AntiIntellectualism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5
There’s a protest outside of #immigration court in #Chicago today, supporting #RamonMoralesReyes, a #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin man who snatched by #ICE & accused of writing a letter threatening #Trump.
There's just one problem: the letter was fake.
Another man is now accused of forging it an effort to get Reyes — who could testify against him in a criminal case — deported.
Yet Reyes is still facing deportation.
#law #DHS #idiocracy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-threat-letter-charges-ramon-morales-reyes-f90472f31a2209741ebf3866d2f6cef2
In an attempt to circumvent the courts, #Trump Wednesday moved to block nearly all #InternationalStudents from entering the country to attend #HarvardUniversity, in his latest attack on the #school.
In an #ExecutiveOrder Trump declared that it would jeopardize *#NationalSecurity* [his ego] to allow #Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#dictatorship #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-students-ban-foreign-immigrations-a8ab4c05ce284c2625e7f883f8e7e07a
#HarvardUniversity sued the #Trump admin on Friday, <24hrs after #DHS said it would block #international #students from attending the nation’s oldest #university & one of its most prestigious.
#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D207A8FB-3511-4C58-8C06-FB1E6D0F75FE
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
This was never about “protecting” college seats for US citizens. It has always been about fear—about sending a chilling message to undocumented youth that they are not welcome, no matter how long they’ve lived here, or how much they’ve already given back.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dream-act-paxton-trump-immigrant-rights-movement/
Today #Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (#TPS) for #Nepal, which has lasted since 2015. He tried to kill it in his first term, but was blocked in court. That is much less likely this time around, given what's happened already with TPS for Venezuela & the partisan activist #SCOTUS.
#immigration #law #asylum #DHS #HumanRights #WhiteChistianNationalism
#Trump to Send #NationalGuard to #LA to *Quell* #Immigration #Protests
Federal immigration officials squared off with protesters in #LosAngeles County on Saturday using #TearGas & #FlashBang #grenades. The unrest comes just a day after #ICE #raids were conducted through the city of Los Angeles.
#law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/07/us/la-immigration-raid-protests?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump admin halts scheduling of ALL new #StudentVisa appointments
Trump ordered US #missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student & #exchange visitor #visa applicants as the #State Dept prepares to expand #socialmedia vetting of all #ForeignStudents, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tues.
#law #AbuseOfPower #immigration #surveillance #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #tyranny #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/
"Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today."
Via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/fightforaunion.bsky.social/post/3lqxwdph6f22c
The chaos that unfolded in #LosAngeles over the weekend was sparked by …#ICE raids at #workplaces, a controversial #policy that seems designed to appease the #Trump admin’s desire to increase the number of #deportations at all costs.
The policy to #raid workplaces, reportedly pushed by WH Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller & other top #Trump admin ofcls, comes as ICE has tried to increase its deportation numbers.
#immigration #law #CivilRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/la-protest-ice-raid-trump-immigration-dhs-national-guard-workplace-raid/
Since Trump took office, immigration officials have more than quadrupled the number of 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies across 40 states, giving local officers authority to function as deportation agents in jails and the streets.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-deportation-police-287g-program-expansion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Republican *lawmakers* & #Trump admin ofcls lined up on Sun morning to support Trump’s decision to activate 2k members of the #California #NationalGuard to #LosAngeles as part of a crackdown on #protests over #immigration enforcement.
Trump’s decision to deploy #troops came in direct opposition to the wishes of Gov #GavinNewsom & #LA Mayor #KarenBass, both #Democrats, who said that local authorities have it under control.
#law #Title10 #democracy #RightToProtest
https://www.notus.org/us-news/republicans-line-up-to-back-trumps-l-a-national-guard-deployment
"Trump has awakened something he cannot control" says the Guardian....
Well done Los Angeles!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-trump-immigration
700 Marines are being sent to LA to try and stop those who are fighting to protect their immigrant friends and neighbours.
Two journalists have already been shot with “less lethal” ammunition, one of whom required emergency surgery.
They’re shooting at the press.
They seem to want this situation to escalate and they want to silence the brave reporters trying to do their jobs.
Don’t let them. Keep speaking out. Amplify posts from those who are on the ground sharing what’s happening .
Speak up against atrocities. Don’t look away.
#ice #abolishice #uspol #la #fascism #immigration #losangeles
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].](/proxy/post_attachment/732311/56d8ff965e.png "DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].")
