Feral Human Rights Lawyer

Exactly. What we are seeing now is what I call the Border Patrolification of ICE. Voting over the decades to send more militarization and harsher processes for asylum seekers at the border at the expense for protections for people in the interior was a Faustian gamble that hasn’t paid off.

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There is also routine explicit coercion by officers who want to increase their removal numbers. Too many officers will lie to the people they have detained to convince them that defending themselves will come at too high a cost.

I’ve spoken to too many lawyers whose clients were murdered upon deportation after they lost the will to keep fighting their case from detention. It has been this way for decades. Detention is meant to break people into giving up, even at the ultimate cost. The system works as it was designed to.

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Ilan Wurman & @ilan _wurman • 5h l actually appreciate your engagement. I think the statement is accurate as written as to all the sources cited except Story, but the full quotation makes clear his position and doesn't hide the ball. Still, given Story, I could have said "were or should be, " and it would have been sensible to say that, yes.

It has been two days since Professor Ilan Wurman acknowledged that there is an inaccurate statement in the brief that submitted to the Supreme Court in the birthright citizenship case. To my knowledge, he has no plans to amend the brief. This is a problem to which I will continue to draw attention.

The lesson is that violating human rights anywhere does not protect others. Hurting asylum seekers in Arizona does not help our neighbors in New York. Human rights should never be bargaining chips. We are paying the price now.

The Faustian trade of more boots and militarization at the border in exchange for “our neighbors” in the interior got us to this point. Every refugee seeking asylum who has been screwed over by Dems trying to appeal to centrists was sacrificed for nothing.

What we are seeing are models that have long been used against migrants far from cities and the interior. We are seeing an expansion of the policies that Dems endorsed to be carried out at the border now being deployed at rapid speed in the interior.

And people intercepted in the Caribbean were taken to Guantánamo before it was used post-9/11. Immigrants are still detained there today.

I would argue that operations at the border have always been more militaristic. Border Patrol facilities forbid visitors, there’s no registration system, and phone access is almost non-existent. USMC ships in the Caribbean are even more remote.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Gov refusal to disclose detainee locations would be enforced disappearance:

“‘The state cannot prevent the public from knowing where they are keeping deportees who are not even citizens,’ said Mr. Fru, the lawyer supporting the deportees. ‘That goes to the whole idea of shady deals in the dark.’”

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls

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The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

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A real headline that should frighten everyone in the US:
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Immigrant Safety Act: Bill to ban immigrant detention in New Mexico heads to governor's desk "If the bill becomes law — it'll make it a crime for these counties, any county, any local government to contract with ICE to house ICE detainees," KOAT legal expert John Day said.

Really proud of New Mexico!

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Incredible. Share the good news far and wide.

Also gotta drop a sneak preview of a paper I’m finalizing, for a symposium as we speak covering this very subject. (Gonna try and capsule it in the alt text because there’s way too much here for bluesky’s interface, alas)

Also see prior iteration here: gowder.io/decay.pdf

THIS. Every time bozos in the interior voted to give more weapons to the largest LE agency in the country terrorize people at the border and hold them in incommunicado detention in exchange for less enforcement in the interior, we only made today’s nightmare more possible.

Amazing! Just messaged you.

Oh, I’d love to read this when it come out!

And make sure your representatives stop voting to fund BP to violate asylum seekers rights to get some fleeting protection for folks in cities.

The ICE that everyone is chanting should be abolished is really about the Border Patrolification of ICE. If you don’t like what you’re seeing now, you need to be at least as dedicated to addressing CBP abuse.

Sacrificing the rights of asylum seekers at the border over the past several decades in hopes it would protect cities and people in the interior only created a more powerful Border Patrol, which has now been unleashed everywhere.

THIS. Every time bozos in the interior voted to give more weapons to the largest LE agency in the country terrorize people at the border and hold them in incommunicado detention in exchange for less enforcement in the interior, we only made today’s nightmare more possible.

Masks, no uniform, missing license plates, delays/failure to register detention, no phone calls: these all contribute to enforced disappearance. If your loved one is taken by Gov agents, the detention isn’t registered, and they can’t contact anyone, report it to the UN: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Masks, no uniform, missing license plates, delays/failure to register detention, no phone calls: these all contribute to enforced disappearance. If your loved one is taken by Gov agents, the detention isn’t registered, and they can’t contact anyone, report it to the UN: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

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