An interview with Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the #ACLU, who is leading the charge against Trump’s descent into authoritarianism.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/aclu-hits-trump-hard-on-illegal-acts #Trump #ICE #resist #lawlessness #deportations #ElSalvador #CECOT #Bukele
"3 ways Trump's immigration crackdown could hit US citizens."
Trump admin officials are suggesting: deporting convicted US citizens & charging anyone -not just immigrants -who criticizes Trump's policies.
Trump's team tactics
(legal analysts: challenge Americans' #rights):
*Sending convicted US citizens to prisons abroad
*Putting critics of the admin's policies in jeopardy
*Questioning the authority of court orders.
#Immigrants #Fascism #Deportations #Courts #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
Hermosillo, a 19-yr-old US citizen, waswrongfully incarcerated by IMM authorities in AZ. He was held for 10 days at a privately run IMM det fac, before being released.
He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything."
But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
#ICE agents only want warm bodies who fit the profile, to detain, & likely deport, to meet their daily quota.
#Immigrants #Deportations #Resist #USPol
https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border
The behind-the-scenes discussions about family policy suggest #Trump is quietly building an ambitious plan to promote the issue, even as he focuses much of his attention on higher-profile priorities such as federal cuts, #tariffs & mass #deportations. #Project2025, the policy blueprint that has forecast much of Trump’s agenda so far, discusses family issues before anything else, opening its 1st chapter w/a promise to “restore the family as the centerpiece of American life.”[their idea of family]
Did the Supreme Court Just Grow a Spine?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/did-the-supreme-court-just-grow-a-spine/
The court’s ruling ordering Trump not to deport a group of Venezuelan immigrants was an unprecedented rebuke. Are they finally taking back power?
“Evidence suggests that ICE did not transfer Rümeysa (Ozturk) to a Louisiana detention facility due to a lack of bed space in New England, as the government has claimed, but instead in an attempt to hand-pick the courts that will decide her case. These actions raise serious questions about the fairness and integrity of our immigration enforcement system and underscore what is at stake for all of us.” —Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. #ICE #deportations #legal #deportation #kidnapping #TheSquad #Democrats #resistance #resist
Four weeks ago, Trump terminated funding for legal services to support unaccompanied children.
Children as young as 4 years old are having to represent themselves in court when facing deportation.
WHAT THE FUCK!! 
"A federal judge in Colorado has blocked potential removals under the Alien Enemies Act, saying a series of recent SC basically required her to issue a restraining order.
She also found Trump's invocation of the AEA was flawed."
-K Cheney
#Courts #Deportations #AEA #DueProcess #Immigrants #USPol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cod.243061/gov.uscourts.cod.243061.35.0_1.pdf
"BYU doctorate student’s visa reinstated after unexpected revocation."
"Another story of
1. Admin sends fascist order
2. Media reports on it
3. People are outraged, say no
4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”
Lesson is defy fascist orders"
-J Grumbach
"The reinstated visa came just minutes after they filed a lawsuit in fed court."
#Deportations #DueProcess #Visas #Immigrants #Courts #USPol
https://kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcasts/jeff-caplans-afternoon-news/visa-byu-student/2204681/
"A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on Mar 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to #CECOT that day & no one spotted him among those men.He's just... gone."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Ricardo Prada Vásquez doesn't appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, & his family & friends
have no idea of his whereabouts.
More atrocities: A growing number of SE Asian #immigrants in LA & Orange cos whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years: being detained +some deported after showing up for routine check-ins at #ICE enfor offices.
Breaks families apart-aligns with the msg -admin came in with *threatening to deport as many ppl as possible. The Trump admins looming tariff threats may have made some countries more willing to coop & accept deportees.
#USPol #Deportations https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-22/southeast-asians-los-angeles-region-detained-deported-routine-ice-check-ins
And for those who are outraged by the deportations to El Salvador, without charge and without due process, and think that America is a democracy where the Constitution is respected: reccently there were still 40 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, most of whom had been held for nearly two decades without being charged or tried.
Following the release of 25 detainees, 15 detainees remain as of January 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
#Trump #deportations #ElSalvador
#Bush #Obama #Biden #GuantanamoBay
U.S. News
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new #deportations under 18th century wartime law
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MARK SHERMAN
Updated 2:06 AM EDT, April 19, 2025
For decades the #unitedstates was considered by many to be the leader of the #free #world. That is no longer the case. #bigtech will be playing its role in #mass #deportations.
I can only hope this project fails spectacularly.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/ice_enlists_palantir_to_develop/
“Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data.”
#Resist #Fascism #DOGE #Immigrants #Deportations #GeneralStrike #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/21/doge-ecas-justice-immigration-courts-trump/
“In complete disregard for the lives of innocent Venezuelans, Bukele is proposing to trade human beings he was paid to lock up for a grp of ppl he wants in SLV -incl: son-in-law of fmr VE pres cand E González, ATTY/activist R San Miguel, journalist R Carreño, 4 pol ldrs seeking asylum in the AR embassy..."
Swap *as Trump admin is trying to deport more VE IMMs thru the AEA. It looks like he'll do everything he can to capitalize on Trump’s stupidity...
#Deportations #USPol https://newrepublic.com/post/194203/nayib-bukele-donald-trump-mass-deportations-venezuela
#ACLU lawyer Tim Macdonald told Sweeney on Monday that a bus carrying 28 migrants turned around en route to the Abilene, Texas, airport last week after his group challenged their pending #deportations.
Judge Charlotte Sweeney said during a court hearing in Denver that notices of looming #deportations given to #Venezuelan immigrants held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas made no mention of #HabeasCorpus, which refers to the right of detainees to challenge the legality of their detention.
The #KilmarAbregoGarcia family is closing in on their #GoFundMe goal - they’re just a few thousand dollars away. Join me in donating to put them over the top. #deportations #kidnapping #ICE https://gofund.me/5d0d45c0 #MutualAid
"The Trump administration is ending work authorizations for two hundred union members who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. It also revoked the visas of several members of the Graduate Workers Coalition at the University of Indiana. The union frequently strikes and pickets for better wages for student teachers."
