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I should post here more often, but I bet I won’t.

Did they give him a plastic badge and a whistle?

Just dropping a note into o the abyss here that the US paid $6 million to El Salvador to imprison 137 Venezuelans for approximately 4 months. That is significantly more expensive per person per day than it cost NYC to house them in the former Roosevelt Hotel.

I’m feeling cynical enough to wonder if that wasn’t the goal. Make up implausible stories about ICE abuses to discredit all stories about ICE abuses. I’m ultimately reserving judgment, but the thought crossed my mind.

Didn’t DHS say it was the ones without a criminal record we really have to worry about? Obviously, this octogenarian asylee must be very wily indeed. That’s why the notoriously leftist Reagan administration granted him asylum, right?

(I hate this place)

Sadly, I have no faith that SCOTUS won’t uphold this ridiculous policy, and possibly without explanation.

Incidentally, how many of these IJs have stock in private prison corporations?

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, recent detainees and advocacy groups are raising concerns about food in ICE facilities nationwide.

Cut funding for social services and funnell it into these private prison companies running inhumane torture camps. It’s the american way. This isnt fiscal responsibility. It’s graft. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Manifest destiny is “fashionable” again.

This is not the country I wanted to live in, but here we are.

So is their excuse going to be “she would probably have abused the kid anyway, so we saved her the trouble and she didn’t even say thank you”?

It definitely is.

Maybe I should be more cynical, but this arrest raises him in my esteem.

ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary

Oh no! Dirt! Poors! How terrifying! Must be tough going through life afraid of everyone.

Jesus. What a terrifying thought.

Are they just googling “dystopia” and trying a version of whatever comes up?

That’s a familiar play. Everyone he wants to target was a “terrorist” last month, but “enemy combatants” are even easier to disappear.

Fuck around and find out, DOJ.

Also, when was Abrego Garcia ever ordered deportable, let alone twice? All I’ve seen is a bond memo denying bond, an appeal regarding that bond, and an order withholding removal. Am I missing something or is he just lying?

I keep seeing a version of this line about “due process” from individuals who commit crimes, as if they are in any way analogous to a large, powerful nation with a constitution.

ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now He's in El Salvador's Mega-Prison. Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.

“Just take him anyway,” they said. Again, it’s never really been about illegal immigration.

Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.

It has never really been about coming here legally or doing things the “right way.”

When they reclassified gang members as terrorists, this seemed inevitable. Just legally define everyone you want to disappear as a terrorist and you’re done.

That appears to have been alleged in the order denying him bond in 2019. The evidentiary standard is so low here it’s underground.

Email from DHS to unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni

1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here

The provision being used is an artifact of McCarthyism, which is among the nation’s more shameful episodes. It’s deeply unjust and should have been thrown out as unconstitutional decades ago.

But USAID was “waste.”

Who could have predicted a complete lack of due process would lead to “administrative errors” of this type? (Everyone. Every single person who gave it a modicum of thought.)

Now my penguins will cost 10% more.

Reciprocal Tariffs Reciprocal Tariffs Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A. Country China 67% European Union 39% Vietnam 90% Taiwan 64% Japan 46% India 52% South Korea 50% Thailand 72% Switzerland 61% Indonesia 64% Malaysia 47% Cambodia 97% United Kingdom 10% South Africa 60% Brazil 10% Bangladesh 74% Singapore 10% Israel 33% Philippines 34% Chile 10% Australia 10% Pakistan 58% Turkey 10% Sri Lanka 88% Colombia 10% U.S.A. Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs 34% 20% 46% 32% 24% 26% 25% 36% 31% 32% 24% 49% 10% 30% 10% 37% 10% 17% 17% 10% 10% 29% 10% 44% 10% Country Peru Nicaragua Norway Costa Rica Jordan Dominican Republic United Arab Emirates New Zealand Argentina Ecuador Guatemala Honduras Madagascar Myanmar (Burma) Tunisia Kazakhstan Serbia Egypt Saudi Arabia El Salvador Côte d' Ivoire Laos Botswana Trinidad and Tobago Morocco Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A. 10% 36% 30% 17% 40% 10% 10% 20% 10% 12% 10% 10% 93% 88% 55% 54% 74% 10% 10% 10% 41% 95% 74% 12% 10% U.S.A. Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs 10% 18% 15% 10% 20% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 47% 44% 28% 27% 37% 10% 10% 10% 21% 48% 37% 10% 10%

The full list.