Alex Rivera

Conceptual art.

THE OOPS DOCTRINE:
Oops, we deported you illegally but, now that we did, it's a matter of 'foreign policy,' LOL, so you can do nothing about it in American courts.

The only thing that *might* stop them is a direct and explicit order from the Supremes - which seems unlikely.

That, or the streets.

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Anyone talking about secession?

'Blue' states pay far more into federal govt than we receive.

The power of states like CA and NY is wildly diluted in the electoral college and senate.

Know it's unlikely - science-fictional even - but think it's worth injecting into the conversation at this point.

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

Turns out yes: www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Are they using A.I. to read social media histories in order to cross reference with immigration rolls to generate ‘target lists’?