immigration

This is not going to end well

#DHS has requested more than 20,000 #NationalGuard members to help with the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown, according to two US officials with knowledge of the plans.

The request to the #Defense Dept came after Trump asked DHS last week to increase its ranks by pulling in 20,000 officers from state or federal agencies.

#law #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/national-guard-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2101FB33-83F0-4325-83B5-04AFD6257B6C

"Great Replacement Theory, or the idea that White Christians are being outperformed demographically by non-Whites, threatening the survival of the race and 'civilization,' was central to Fascist ideologies and practices and it is central to anti-immigrant and other racist platforms of far-right parties and governments today."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#racism #eugenics #SocialEngineering #pronatalism #immigration #Musk #Vance #GreatReplacement #WhiteSupremacy
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/fascist-population-engineering-yes

Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10 times what was spent during his first term.

Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Trump #Border #Texas #Arizona

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We’re About to Find Out What #MassDeportation Really Looks Like

The #Trump admin’s campaign to remove millions of people from the #US could soon be supercharged by #Congress.

–Nick Miroff

“#Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE w/ a colossal #funding increase”

It will fund the “social & demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”

#law #StateTerror #DualState #Constitution
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/ice-deportation-funding-increase/682480/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQaHREZu2dHnmR9IBjIsyyU

#Trump Admin Plans to Send Migrants to #Libya on a #Military Flight

#HumanRights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant #detention centers “horrific” & “deplorable.”

#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=76A42B13-CE0C-465C-833A-19E7FDFD950C

Nice. Sen #SheldonWhitehouse just mentioned that #KilmarAbregoGarcia has an excellent #BivensAction complaint against #Trump et al.

#DeepCut but exactly on the nose.

A Bivens action generally refers to a lawsuit for #damages when a federal officer who is acting in the color of federal authority allegedly violates the US #Constitution by federal officers acting.

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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers

🚨🚨🚨NEW!!

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has UNANIMOUSLY rejected #Trump’s request to halt proceedings in #KilmarAbregoGarcia's case.
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Reagan appointee Judge Wilkinson wrote that the Trump admin's position is "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans ... still hold dear."

Damn straight.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400/gov.uscourts.ca4.178400.8.0.pdf

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower

We are not sliding into or headed toward authoritarianism.

"At issue is a recently passed law that a federal judge has temporarily barred the state from enforcing, further calling into question the validity of his arrest"
#fascism #trump #desantis #florida #immigration
https://www.rawstory.com/us-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education

Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump

#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_htG1N-1w

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.

What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.

What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #University #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #Boston #Palestine

#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.

The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.

The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”

This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #dehumanization #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #DueProcess

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The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #CivilRights #Immigration #Law #Trump #DHS #Deportation #Border

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

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#RecklessEndangerment

A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an #immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.

#ICE agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with.

#law #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/

Disgusting

The 16-year-old was dragged away & arrested by #Worcester PD because she kicked the car #ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.

"She told MassLive that she, along with a crowd of other people, asked ICE to show a #warrant for the #arrest. She said the agents replied, 'We don’t have to show you anything.'"

#immigration #law #CivilRights #DueProcess #Trump #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2025/05/chaotic-ice-arrest-in-worcester-leads-to-second-arrest-by-local-police.html

WTAF?????

#Newark Mayor #RasBaraka #arrested for alleged trespass at #NewJersey #ICE detention facility

Mayor #Baraka was arrested for allegedly trespassing inside a US #Immigration & Customs Enforcement #detention center in his city.

"He has been taken into custody," #AlinaHabba, a fmr defense attorney for #Trump.

Baraka is a #Democrat running for #governor of #NJ.

At least 3 US #House #Democrats from NJ were also at the detention center.

#law #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/newark-mayor-arrested-baraka-ice.html

The #Trump poster-person for the first Afrikaner #refugees from supposed anti-white racism in #SouthAfrica.

She is not a #refugee by any definition, yet she is being flown here at #taxpayer expense & handed a path to #citizenship while actual refugees are turned away.

Also Trump claims he’s granting "refugee" status to "white farmers”, but this woman lives in Cape Town, isn’t a farmer, & it doesn't seem like she's #Afrikaner since her bio says she was born in Zimbabwe.

#immigration #law

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Judge #Xinis is NOT happy. #Trump #DOJ privilege log that was due today was not filed. She gave them 30 minutes to file with the note: "Failure to file the privilege log or otherwise respond will be construed as an intentional refusal to comply with this Court's orders."

#KilmarAbregoGarcia's lawyers filed their log under seal.

#immigration #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #DueProcess

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FYI this is some kerazy f⁕⚠︎ed up shit

#GiftArticle

#TulsiGabbard #fires leaders of #intelligence group that wrote #Venezuela assessment
[because, facts]

The director of national intelligence [#DNI] fired top officials weeks after their group authored an assessment contradicting #Trump’s #legal rationale for #deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://wapo.st/4kjboU8

#GiftArticle

#Trump says he could bring back #KilmarAbregoGarcia, an #immigrant his admin wrongly deported to the infamous #CECOT prison in #ElSalvador. But he won’t, despite #SCOTUS’ order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who was deported unlawfully in the first place.

by Adam Serwer

#law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-abrego-garcia-smears/682773/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXUvK2gAhWVb3xi8qi5xPpA

#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.176.0.pdf

#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

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The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.

He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf

#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights

“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.

“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”

#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial

Not lost on me that as birthright citizenship is being challenged today, it was because of Wong Kim Ark that we have it at all.

It’s AANHPI month, which we are celebrating at work. I complain these terms are arbitrary (and they are) but also they think we are all the same anyway.

While I can’t do a ton about national legislation, I can do a lot in my community. As an East Asian person, making space for South, Southeast and other Asians and NH (Native Hawaiian) and PI (Pacific Islander) people is absolutely what I want to do. I’m helping to organize some activities at work that spotlight other cultures in our alphabet soup.

Also RIP Henry Fuhrmann, whose exhortation to drop the hyphen in Asian-American vastly expanded and included people who can consider themselves Asian American. Undocumented people. People who don’t yet have citizenship, or won’t, or can’t.

#AAPI #AANHPI #14thAmendment #Birthright #Immigration