Promise made: mass deportation [Archive] - Page 15

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 08:14 AM

warrantless arrests are unconstitutional without articulation of probable cause

Judge Howell's ruling only covers DC

Government attorneys had disputed whether agents are using a lower standard than probable cause, but Howell ruled the plaintiffs’ accounts of their arrests and multiple public statements by high-ranking officials proved otherwise.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement (https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/25/dc-ice-arrests-lawsuit-trump/) in September that it uses a “reasonable suspicion” standard to make arrests. Officials, including Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, have also said publicly that authorities are or should be using a lower standard of suspicion, Howell wrote, calling those comments “blatant misstatements” of the law.

“Rather than the possible alternative excuse that such public statements are the result of ignorance or incompetence on the part of DHS’s high-ranking officials and legal counsel, the better, straight-forward explanation is that DHS’s statements derive from an intentional policy and practice of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests without the requisite probable cause findings,” the judge wrote.

Howell also used the ruling to scold immigration agencies for declining to properly identify themselves when making arrests, saying the practice is intended to terrorize.

“Requiring defendants to put pen to paper and explain who made each arrest and why constitutes the bare minimum to ensure defendants are compliant with the Constitution,” the judge wrote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/immigration-arrests-order-dc-00674125

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 08:18 AM

^^^ follows a similar ruling in Colorado

https://www.aclu-co.org/app/uploads/2025/11/WA-PI-ruling.pdf

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 08:19 AM

from the DC ruling

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Winehole23

12-03-2025, 08:34 AM

tips and uploaded videos up to 5 gigs are welcome on the FBI tipline for Louisiana

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https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/f104f181931a09a

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 08:36 AM

official animus, based on country of origin

https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-st-paul-somalia-immigration-4c7468b0bdc6e23b510d4755c55b9294make no mistake, this is a pogrom

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 09:00 AM

spirit of the season

peace on earth, goodwill toward men (Luke 2:14)

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Winehole23

12-03-2025, 10:24 AM

federal district courts are overwhelmingly finding Trump's mass deportation illegal

At least 225 judges have ruled in more than 700 cases that the administration’s new policy, which also deprives people of an opportunity to seek release from an immigration court, is a likely violation of law and the right to due process. Those judges were appointed by all modern presidents — including (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447617/gov.uscourts.flmd.447617.31.0.pdf) 23 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.insd.225553/gov.uscourts.insd.225553.11.0.pdf) by Trump (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.644987/gov.uscourts.paed.644987.13.0.pdf) himself (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172874216/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172874216.11.0.pdf) — and hail from at least 35 states, according to a POLITICO analysis of thousands of recent cases. The number of judges opposing the administration’s position has more than doubled (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention-deportation-00632086) in less than a month.

In contrast, only eight judges nationwide (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.moed.223800/gov.uscourts.moed.223800.26.0.pdf), including six appointed by Trump (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.113566/gov.uscourts.wied.113566.20.0.pdf), have sided with the administration (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.474886/gov.uscourts.caed.474886.10.0.pdf)’s new mass detention policy (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.412090/gov.uscourts.txnd.412090.6.0.pdf).

Courts, increasingly aware of the one-sided rejection of the administration’s policy, have grown exasperated by the deluge of litigation that has flooded their dockets. Some have made a partial accounting (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.643989/gov.uscourts.paed.643989.11.1.pdf)of the sheer volume of rulings (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.647311/gov.uscourts.nysd.647311.28.0.pdf) against the administration. But even those don’t capture the breadth of rulings against the administration revealed on dockets across the country.

“The Court is unable to remain current on all new case authority supporting the Court’s conclusion, given the continued onslaught of litigation being generated by [the administration’s] widespread illegal detention practices,” U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder, a California-based appointee of Bill Clinton, wrote in a Nov. 21 ruling (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.995243/gov.uscourts.cacd.995243.15.0.pdf).

U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou, a Michigan-based Trump appointee, described receiving more than 100 cases herself before another 97 detainees filed a joint lawsuit (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.117522/gov.uscourts.miwd.117522.8.0.pdf)pleading for release. Judges have assailed the administration (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.647311/gov.uscourts.nysd.647311.28.0.pdf) for defying the law and suggested the unprecedented interpretation of the law could subject millions of people to detention, even if they have lived in the country for decades without incident.

“Dozens of district courts across the nation — with more each day — have rejected DHS’s expansion of … mandatory detention,” U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill, an Idaho-based Clinton appointee, wrote in a Nov. 19 ruling (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.idd.58239/gov.uscourts.idd.58239.15.0.pdf) releasing 17 people detained during an Oct. 19 ICE raid at a racetrack. “This court joins the overwhelming majority.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/28/trump-detention-deportation-policy-00669861

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 03:43 PM

James Comer just called Minnesota's Somalis "illegals" but that's wildly inaccurate -- 90% of them are US citizens

Winehole23

12-03-2025, 07:13 PM

calling BABIES criminals

shitposting is the house style

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Winehole23

12-04-2025, 06:24 PM

whottt prefigures DHS/Homeland security social media shitposting and Trump's diatribe on Somalians

X is a sh!thole country with a sh!thole culture, ergo all persons from X are dangerous, depraved barbarians

Winehole23

12-04-2025, 06:26 PM

(hiccup)

Winehole23

12-04-2025, 08:48 PM

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 08:07 AM

just rounding up brown people, tbh

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Winehole23

12-05-2025, 12:33 PM

I AM THE LAW

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Winehole23

12-05-2025, 02:26 PM

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Winehole23

12-05-2025, 03:24 PM

Gitmo detention challenged, judge certifies the class

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SnakeBoy

12-05-2025, 03:29 PM

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ChumpDumper

12-05-2025, 04:01 PM

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snacks follows a dude named Bubblebathgirl

This tracks.

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 04:16 PM

reportedly, ~90% of Somalians in Minnesota are US citizens

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 04:18 PM

Snake Boy is essentially puffing his chest out about Trump making other Americans afraid to leave their homes

Blake

12-05-2025, 04:26 PM

I AM THE LAW

Is that real?

Blake

12-05-2025, 04:27 PM

snacks follows a dude named Bubblebathgirl

This tracks.

The Russian Twitter bot switched user names on accident

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 04:30 PM

Is that real?I don't doubt lots more "deportation judges" will be needed to fulfil quotas, 100% the current DHS/Homeland social media sh!tposting style

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 04:59 PM

Gitmo detention challenged, judge certifies the class

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rB5ZsEa1QCRk/v0$100,000 a day per detainee, 500 total prisoners for the four month stretch

600 times the average cost of detention elsewhere

Winehole23

12-05-2025, 05:17 PM

evil sickos

Nuremberg is the moderate option

A Charlotte family says their son — a 27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure — was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during last month's immigration operation known as "Charlotte's Web." Federal immigration officials deny the allegation.

An attorney for Williams Javier Toro Enamorado said his client remains in ICE custody as of Monday, and that after he raised concerns about the officers' alleged actions, ICE agreed not to enforce the voluntary deportation order and to allow Enamorado's case to go before a judge.

The family says they’re now worried about his health and fear what could happen if he’s sent to a country with far more limited access to dialysis.
https://www.wfae.org/race-equity/2025-12-03/family-says-critically-ill-man-was-pressured-into-deportation-order-after-charlottes-web-sweep

SnakeBoy

12-07-2025, 12:48 AM

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ChumpDumper

12-07-2025, 03:53 AM

snacks loves him some secret police that could disappear him

Winehole23

12-07-2025, 09:48 PM

this is just evil

if there's a social benefit that would justify it, I would like to hear it

Nayra Guzmán knew there was something wrong with her daughter within hours of her birth — a long and complicated delivery that included a diagnosis of preeclampsia (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/preeclampsia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355745) and ended in a Cesarean section. In the haze of recovery, the first-time mom noticed her daughter was struggling to breathe. When the baby started turning blue, Guzmán watched as doctors whisked her away to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
In the days that followed, the 22-year-old’s sole focus was her daughter’s recovery, even as their home, the greater Chicago area, became the latest target of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda in a campaign titled Operation Midway Blitz (https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-trump-arrests-dd9c7e57fe829665d722c6755dcafd09).

“We weren’t worried about the immigration raids,” said Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico who has a pending petition for asylum and a pending application for a visa for victims of crime (https://19thnews.org/2025/09/u-t-visas-victims-violence-immigrants-women/). “Our worry was, ‘How are we going to get this baby home and out of the hospital?’ That was our number one priority, that she would be safe and healthy, and everything else had fallen to the background.”

That changed on the morning of Monday, October 20. Just 15 days after her daughter’s birth, as Guzmán, her mom and younger brother loaded into their car for their daily drive to the NICU, they were surrounded by immigration enforcement agents and whisked away to detention.

Since Trump took office in January, the administration has abandoned Department of Homeland Security policies (https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/cbp-acting-commissioner-rescinds-legacy-policies-related-to-care-and-custody/#/tab-policy-documents) restricting (https://19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-detaining-pregnant-nursing-immigrants/) the arrest and detention of immigrants who have recently given birth, are pregnant or are nursing. As a result, the administration has taken into custody immigrants like Guzmán, who are medically vulnerable and whose detention threatens not only their own health but also that of their newborn children — typically U.S. citizens — by depriving them of early bonding beneficial to a baby’s lifelong wellbeing.
https://19thnews.org/2025/12/postpartum-immigrant-detention-ice/

Winehole23

12-07-2025, 11:59 PM

it's not crime-fighting, it's ethnic cleansing

Immigration authorities have insisted the sweeps are targeted at “criminal illegal aliens.” But the law enforcement records detail criminal histories for less than a third of the 38 people arrested in the first two days of the operation.https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-online-monitoring-b2c300245ea4ffbef335502245760a1d

Winehole23

12-08-2025, 05:08 PM

torturing people for talking to guards

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Blake

12-08-2025, 05:38 PM

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Winehole23

12-08-2025, 06:20 PM

masked goons chasing Americans to detain them administratively

there are already numerous examples of Americans getting arrested and thrown into squalid ICE detention facilities and their IDs checked way later

administrative detention is punitive and hasn't been customary for US citizens since 1917-1920? and 1941-1948

Winehole23

12-08-2025, 06:54 PM

(wake up y'all, civil war 2.0 already started)

Winehole23

12-08-2025, 06:54 PM

(Trump started it)

DarrinS

12-08-2025, 10:01 PM

(endless screeching)

DarrinS

12-08-2025, 10:01 PM

(wake up y'all, civil war 2.0 already started)

Good luck

SnakeBoy

12-08-2025, 10:07 PM

h6UWUXkzQVA?si=2wRi4Xg8M4X1iWTm

lol

ChumpDumper

12-09-2025, 11:05 AM

lol
Why do you want to be chased and disappeared by secret police, snacks?

Winehole23

12-09-2025, 12:47 PM

Good luckeveryone loses

Winehole23

12-09-2025, 03:28 PM

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Winehole23

12-09-2025, 05:39 PM

better behaved and better students, according to this study

Immigrant students, on average, are disciplined less frequently than native-born students, according to the data. Using disciplinary records as a measure of behavior, they found exposure to better-behaved immigrants had a small, but positive effect on academic outcomes of their peers. This suggests U.S.-born students, particularly less advantaged students, might benefit by being exposed to these better-behaved students and being taught in a classroom with fewer disruptions.

Another possible explanation, Giuliano says, is the “relative standing channel,” which suggests the test scores of economically disadvantaged students or black students “improve because they are exposed to immigrants who perform better academically.” https://sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/sesp-news/2021/presence-of-immigrant-students-boosts-test-scores-for-all.html

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 10:31 AM

refoulement (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refoulement)of Christians to Iran, where conversion to other religions is illegal

under US and international law, refoulement is a crime

When sisters Mahan and Mozhan Motahari first came to St. Thomas Episcopal Church in McLean, Virginia, in 2022, they were “deeply joyful,” said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith, the church’s rector. In Iran, their home country where they first encountered Christianity, they would have risked death, imprisonment or torture to be baptized publicly because it’s illegal for Muslims to convert.

But in Virginia, they were “finally able to practice their faith in the open,” Gardner-Smith told Religion News Service.

“They are regular hosts of our fellowship time after church,” she said, adding that the Maryland-based sisters were baptized in 2022, the same year they arrived in the U.S. “They are regulars at worship. They bring other members of their family with them sometimes. We have a pumpkin patch in the fall and so they’ve volunteered with the pumpkin patch.”

But the priest said she and her congregation were shocked when U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a photo of the two young women Wednesday (Dec. 3) on X (https://x.com/CBP/status/1996250638812856685) and other social media platforms. In a caption, the agency claimed the pair had been arrested at an airport in the U.S. Virgin Islands when the women were “determined to be illegally present in the U.S.”
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/09/border-protection-mocked-two-detained-iranians-on-social-media-their-church-says-theyre-christian-converts/

SnakeBoy

12-10-2025, 12:07 PM

No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present

Blake

12-10-2025, 12:17 PM

No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present

You laugh at the citizens not having any fun in the sun either. Stop pretending it's a "law" thing for you.

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 05:58 PM

No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully presentI take it you approve sending converted Christians back to Iran, where they face persecution, imprisonment and death?

Even if doing so is contrary to US law?

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 06:14 PM

POTUS is supposed to make sure all the laws are executed faithfully, not just immigration administration

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 06:16 PM

(endless screeching)just posting straight political takes like I always do

the voice you hear in your head is in your head, DarrinS

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 07:48 PM

I have a short take, I pull a quote, I give a link

Just basic internet courtesy, so few people have it now

Winehole23

12-10-2025, 07:52 PM

I try to respond to responders with intelligible takes

(These are few, these days)

Winehole23

12-11-2025, 12:45 PM

Judge Xinis orders Kilmar Abrego released without delay

There's a do not remove order, so in principle he can't be deported

I bet DOJ is sorry it dropped all criminal charges against him

Blake

12-11-2025, 03:50 PM

POTUS is supposed to make sure all the laws are executed faithfully, not just immigration administration

Yeah but we have a felon in chief so that's out

Winehole23

12-11-2025, 05:48 PM

Abrego agreed to be deported and Costa Rica agreed to take him -- but the agreement by Costa Rica was kept under seal by DOJ, because they wanted to send him to a country unfriendly to him

Judge Xinis is pissed off about that, but more pissed off that DOJ never produced any evidence there was a prior deportation order in 2019, which it has claimed all along

Winehole23

12-12-2025, 09:42 AM

overnight an immigration judge with ostensibly no jurisdiction gave the government a (new) retroactive order of removal for Abrego and ordered him to appear for an interview this morning with no notice to his lawyers or the court

Judge Xinis issued a new TRO preventing Abrego's removal, ordered the government to transmit the TRO to all relevant parties, and scheduled new hearings

DOJ is very worried about its dirty laundry being exposed

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191591/114/abrego-garcia-v-noem/

SnakeBoy

12-12-2025, 03:25 PM

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Send them back

Winehole23

12-12-2025, 06:02 PM

robbing Peter to pay Paul

Congress appropriated $170B for DHS -- have they already run out of money, or is Sec'y Noem just being slow to approve spending?

A report (https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cost_report_on_diverting_military_resources_for_im migration_enforcement.pdf) prepared by Democratic members of Congress says the Pentagon has diverted at least $2 billion of its own funds to support the Trump administration's immigration operations, negatively impacting what they say is the U.S. military's readiness.

Separately, a response from Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to questions posed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that was shared with ABC News disclosed that two major military exercises were canceled this year and a third was scaled back as a result of the deployment of military forces to immigration operations.

Caine said that both the "Vibrant Response" exercise scheduled for April and May, as well as a rotation by the 10th Mountain Division at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, over the summer were canceled because of the deploymenthttps://abcnews.go.com/US/2b-pentagon-funds-diverted-immigration-operations-congressional-democrats/story?id=128296261

The review found that least $40.3 million has been spent on paying for the U.S. military flights used to deport and transport migrants back to their home countries instead of using the cheaper flights contracted by the Department of Homeland Security.

"This is a baffling waste of military resources considering the appropriation of $170 billion to DHS to fund immigration enforcement earlier this year," said the report. It added that the information used to compile the report indicated that "the vast majority of these funds have not been reimbursed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to date."

"We are particularly concerned that DHS may not be reimbursing DoD for these funds," a group of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter that included a copy of the report. "Allowing DHS to continue to pick DoD’s pockets puts our military readiness at risk."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2b-pentagon-funds-diverted-immigration-operations-congressional-democrats/story?id=128296261

ChumpDumper

12-12-2025, 08:16 PM

1999232373733380392

Send them back

Where did CIS get these numbers?

Are they too emotionally fragile to tell?

Winehole23

12-12-2025, 09:22 PM

Where did CIS get these numbers?

Are they too emotionally fragile to tell?

A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing of credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence (Learn More (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2017/05/31/being-more-media-savvy-wont-stop-the-spread-of-fake-news-heres-why/)). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis. Please note sources on this list are not considered fake news unless specifically written in the reasoning section for that source. See all Questionable sources. (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fake-news/)

Overall, we rate CIS a questionable source based on publishing misleading information (propaganda) regarding immigration and ties either directly or indirectly to the John Tanton Network, a known White Nationalist.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center-for-immigration-studies-cis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tanton

Winehole23

12-12-2025, 09:26 PM

(crooked source for a crooked poster)

Winehole23

12-12-2025, 10:00 PM

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Send them backyou ducked a direct question, are you all out of words for Christians refouled to countries hostile to Christian belief and moreso to Muslim converts to Christianity?

Winehole23

12-13-2025, 12:47 PM

"papers, please"

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SnakeBoy

12-14-2025, 10:21 PM

you ducked a direct question, are you all out of words for Christians refouled to countries hostile to Christian belief and moreso to Muslim converts to Christianity?

They don't have to go back but they can't stay here

She should have self deported and come back legally

ChumpDumper

12-14-2025, 10:24 PM

They don't have to go back but they can't stay hereWhy not?

Your emotional fragility?

Winehole23

12-16-2025, 08:59 AM

counterpoint: forced migration along ethnic and racial lines is very unpopular in the USA

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Winehole23

12-16-2025, 05:14 PM

declaring people illegal with a stroke of a pen has been normal under Trump 2.0, calling people following the rules (i.e., trying to gain admission to the US through the State Dept and US immigration agencies) as invaders -- is a novelty that recalls the 1920s immigration hysteria.

very racist, very xenophobic

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Winehole23

12-16-2025, 05:15 PM

it's like if we put whottt (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/search.php?searchid=770) in charge of US immigration policy

Winehole23

12-16-2025, 05:17 PM

MAGA hates legal immigration too, for all the usual reasons

Winehole23

12-17-2025, 11:23 AM

area Christian unaware of King Herod

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Winehole23

12-17-2025, 03:46 PM

new Quinnipiac poll

basically, only Republicans favor mass deportation

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velik_m

12-20-2025, 03:56 AM

Bulgarian man dies in ICE detention at Northern Michigan facility

BALDWIN, MI - A man died in detention this week at the North Lake Processing Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Northern Michigan, according to congressional sources.

The death on Monday, Dec. 15, first reported by Metro Times Detroit, remains under investigation.

ICE has not publicly reported the death, but its website says it posts new releases about detainee deaths within two business days. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The man was identified as Nenko Gantchev, 56, a Bulgarian who was arrested in Chicago. It’s unclear how long Gantchev was in ICE detention, but a court filing shows he was being held as of Oct. 22.
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This is the 30th death in ICE custody this year, according to the lawmakers, making it the deadliest year since 2005. Not all of those deaths are listed on ICE’s detainee death reporting website. By comparison, 11 people died in immigration detention last year.

It’s the first immigrant death at North Lake, the largest ICE detention facility in Michigan. North Lake opened in June with 1,800 beds under President Donald Trump’s escalated immigration enforcement and mass deportation goal.

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That’s partly because the federal government issued a new policy in July that denied bond to more immigrants, keeping them detained indefinitely while they wait for their court hearings. But a federal judge in California ruled the no-bond policy illegal in late November.

Gantchev died 10 days after Tlaib conducted an oversight visit of North Lake on Dec. 5. Tlaib’s office received reports about the conditions there, a news release said, including cold temperatures, inadequate food, unsanitary facilities and difficulty getting medical care.

“During this visit, we learned there have been multiple suicide attempts at the facility, including one in the last couple weeks, and heard that more medical staff are needed,” she said in a statement. “No human being should be trapped in cages, forced to experience dehumanizing conditions or separated from their family.”

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https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/12/bulgarian-man-dies-in-ice-detention-at-northern-michigan-facility.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor

Winehole23

12-20-2025, 05:15 AM

denying prisoners food and medical care is a crime

https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

Winehole23

12-22-2025, 07:06 PM

Bari Weiss spiked the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT at the last moment, drawing much more attention to it than it would have received in the run-up to Christmas

You can see it here:

https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n

Winehole23

12-22-2025, 07:13 PM

The Trump administration is no longer proud of CECOT for some reason

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ChumpDumper

12-22-2025, 08:08 PM

Winehole23

12-22-2025, 10:33 PM

Weisand effect.also, American samizdat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat)

Blake

12-24-2025, 12:31 PM

"....In the span of less than 72 hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Victor Mojica went from being widely vilified and placed on administrative leave — to being returned right back to his old job.

On a Friday in September, Mojica was caught on several cameras roughly pushing a woman into the hallway and then to the ground, as the woman screamed.

The incident at an immigration court in New York rapidly circulated online and prompted the Homeland Security Department to place Mojica on administrative leave – a rare instance of such leave being publicly announced.

By the following Monday, Mojica was back on the job, without any further explanation from the agency.....

.....NPR has now learned that he returned to work before the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog had concluded a review into his behavior. The DHS Office of Inspector General ultimately decided — nearly two months later — that the incident did not merit a criminal probe....

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5650773/ice-immigration-agent-leave-oversight

velik_m

12-27-2025, 10:18 AM

White South African Who Came To U.S. After Trump Invite Has Been Detained For Months

An Afrikaner who came to the U.S. after President Donald Trump claimed the country would be a safe haven for people like him has been held in federal detention for months since his arrival.

Benjamin Schoonwinkel came to the U.S. in September, believing he would be protected after Trump’s many statements to that effect. But on arriving at an Atlanta airport, he was detained and handcuffed by the U.S. border agents whom Schoonwinkel told he was seeking asylum.

The South African man was transferred to a federal detention facility within two days and has remained there ever since. After leaving behind a life of relative comfort on the word of Trump, he now sleeps on a metal bunk bed.
...

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/white-south-african-who-came-to-u-s-after-trump-invite-has-been-detained-for-months/

Winehole23

12-27-2025, 10:37 AM

4dZky936vtU

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves.

Four ICE officers in masks and tactical gear can be seen in a video surrounding a man with a car full of food while he loads it into his car. A woman watching the arrest asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of the man’s wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.

“No, guess he should’ve complied,” an agent said.

The agents then start to divvy up the man’s groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband.

https://newrepublic.com/post/204750/ice-agents-detain-man-christmas-eve-steal-groceries

Winehole23

12-27-2025, 10:43 AM

The suspended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor accused of strangling a woman (https://www.fox19.com/2025/12/08/ice-agent-arrested-held-no-bond-order-prosecutors-request/) and lying about it to a federal agent will stay behind bars in solitary confinement following a lengthy detention hearing Monday in Cincinnati federal court.

Samuel Saxon, 47, of Corryville, pleaded not guilty to one count of making false statements to a federal officer who is investigating felonious assault, domestic violence and strangulation charges against Saxon from a Dec. 5 incident.

Exhibits of alleged domestic violence, (https://www.fox19.com/2025/12/11/ices-cincinnati-assistant-field-office-director-indicted-additional-charges/)threatening language, mental health concerns and substance abuse allegations were all presented during the hearing.

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Samuel Saxon is on a federal hold without bond at the Butler County Jail.(Butler County Sheriff's Office)Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Garcia showed video clips and read police and medical reports aloud from previous incidents involving Saxon and the victim in court.

According to Garcia, the victim, who is not a U.S. citizen, was 18 years old when she met Saxon, who was 40 at the time. The pair have been together for nearly eight years, and she has been financially dependent on him.

https://www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/ice-supervisor-remains-jailed-federal-prosecutor-details-years-alleged-abuse/

Winehole23

12-27-2025, 11:35 AM

racial profiling is hurting businesses

More than 200 people gathered inside the Brookhaven Event Center in Pharr for a South Texas Builders Association meeting on Monday, aimed at connecting the construction industry with elected officials to share their concerns about immigration enforcement raids (https://www.rgvbusinessjournal.com/news/03/10/2025/ice-raid-at-mcallen-warehouse-raises-concerns-about-local-workforce-leaves-families-in-limbo/) that have detained workers on the job.

“We need to defend our industry. What’s going on now is affecting every major part of our industry, from lumber companies to lenders,” said Ronnie Cavazos, president of The Structure Team, a home builder based in McAllen. “Business is down significantly. If we continue on this trajectory, we will see a lot of businesses fail.”

Cavazos said the issue is especially close to home in South Texas because many residents are naturalized U.S. citizens or have mixed immigration status families. Some workers have been pulled off job sites only to be released later because they did have legal work visas.
https://www.rgvbusinessjournal.com/news/17/11/2025/south-texas-builders-press-officials-for-action-as-rampant-ice-raids-roil-construction-sites-and-strain-the-regions-economy/

Winehole23

12-27-2025, 11:36 AM

https://abic.us/construction-securing-the-workforce-behind-americas-growth/

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 02:34 PM

Subtext: DOJ is trying to legitimize racial animus on the part of the government, we know it currently favors white South Africans

Noem's termination of Temporary Protected Status was blocked to consider official animus against the immigrants

“With the renewed peace in South Sudan, their demonstrated commitment to ensuring the safe reintegration of returning nationals, and improved diplomatic relations, now is the right time to conclude what was always intended to be a temporary designation,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement ahead of the court ruling.

The lawsuit argues the agency’s action violated the statute governing the TPS program, ignored the dire humanitarian conditions that remain in South Sudan and was motivated by discrimination against migrants who are not white in violation of the US constitution’s fifth amendment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/30/south-sudan-tps-end-halted

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 02:46 PM

felony assault charges "against TikToker" dismissed after camera footage surfaces

After the Oct. 21 shooting, prosecutors charged Parias, who authorities say is living in the country illegally, with assault on a federal officer. On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed the case against Parias, finding that he had been denied access to counsel while in immigration detention.

In his order, the judge also cited the government’s failure to comply with discovery deadlines — including the timely release of the body-worn camera footage that captured the shooting. The judge dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning prosecutors cannot refile the same charges.

A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Homeland Security replied with a statement previously sent in October, accusing Parias of attempting to evade arrest and reiterating that officers “fired defensive shots.”https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-28/federal-judge-dismisses-indictment-against-tiktoker

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 03:18 PM

(misfiled)

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 03:48 PM

Emil Bove tipped off Trump to the $50,000 in a Cava to-go bag

a bad penny always turns up

In early January, several days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a Justice Department lawyer passed an envelope across a wide desk to a top Trump transition official. Enclosed was a bombshell, typed up in a one-page summary, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

As he read the contents of the envelope, the official, Emil Bove, closed his eyes and grimaced, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive case. It revealed that Tom Homan — at that time, a frequent companion of Trump’s on the campaign trail who had publicly boasted he would be joining Trump’s administration to lead his immigrant deportation strategy — was the subject of an ongoing bribery investigation. Undercover FBI agents posing as private contractors had recorded him accepting $50,000 in cash in exchange for what they believed was Homan’s vow to help get border enforcement contracts in the new Trump administration.

A small group of career lawyers at the Justice Department felt an urgency to share this sensitive information with the president-elect’s team as soon as possible, hoping to head off potential embarrassment and a security clearance problem before Trump picked his future Cabinet and top appointees. https://www.ms.now/news/border-czar-tom-homan-didnt-receive-normal-background-check-during-bribery-probe

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 03:58 PM

Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service, according to the sources. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted a security clearance, or whom Bove alerted after being briefed on the Homan probe.

Winehole23

12-30-2025, 05:46 PM

Palau pays Trump for forcibly deported laborers

The tiny nation of Palau, where two seasons of Survivor were filmed, has agreed to take 75 migrants for $7.5 million. They have not been charged with crimes and will be put to work filling labor shortages. Now you really are on Survivor. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15415417/amp/Tiny-island-Pacific-Ocean-illegal-migrants-Trump.html)

Winehole23

12-31-2025, 05:23 PM

100 million is radical, some might say extreme

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velik_m

01-01-2026, 05:39 AM

Old car about to be crushed by giant tsunami?

velik_m

01-01-2026, 05:51 AM

DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm U.S. Citizenship

Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID.

But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country.

In a December 11 court filing, Philip Lavoie, the acting assistant special agent in charge of DHS' Mobile, Alabama, office, stated that, "REAL ID can be unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship."

Lavoie's declaration was in response to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in October by the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm, on behalf of Leo Garcia Venegas, an Alabama construction worker. Venegas was detained twice in May and June during immigration raids on private construction sites, despite being a U.S. citizen. In both instances, Venegas' lawsuit says, masked federal immigration officers entered the private sites without a warrant and began detaining workers based solely on their apparent ethnicity.

And in both instances officers allegedly retrieved Venegas' Alabama-issued REAL ID from his pocket but claimed it could be fake. Venegas was kept handcuffed and detained for an hour the first time and "between 20 and 30 minutes" the second time before officers ran his information and released him.

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https://reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-u-s-citizenship/

Winehole23

01-01-2026, 09:53 AM

Old car about to be crushed by giant tsunami?The portion of the US that is foreign born is about 52 million people, ~1/3 of that cohort are people here without legal status, about half have already been naturalized.

The total black and hispanic population of the US is ~104 million people, maybe that's the reference.

Winehole23

01-01-2026, 11:09 AM

from Lincoln's inaugural speech in the Illinois US Senate race in 1858, in Chicago

Trump wants to undo Abe Lincoln patriotism and the spirit of the OG Republican Party

By 1858 Lincoln and the Republican Party had to make a choice. Should the newly-formed anti-slavery Republican Party appeal to the Know-Nothings in order to capture the 20% of the electorate that they represented? Or should they, as Lincoln had argued in Bloomington, stay true to the ideals announced in the Declaration of Independence?

Lincoln made his decision in his inaugural speech in his campaign for the Senate against Douglas. The date of the speech was July10, 1858; it was an Independence Day event. And the speech was in Chicago, Illinois, bursting with growth. In 1830 Chicago had been a village with a population of 250. By 1840 it was a large town with a population of 4,500. By 1850 it had grown into a city of 28,000, and by 1860 it was over 100,000, the ninth largest city in America. Lincoln was speaking to a diverse crowd, at least half of whom were immigrants. What could he say to them about patriotism to America, about American independence, and about the principles of the Declaration? Would he seek the nativist vote by declaring natural-born citizens superior to them?

Here is what Lincoln said. I have highlighted one sentence in bold type.

We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty – or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country, - with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men, - we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves – we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men – descended by blood from our ancestors – among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe – German, Irish, French and Scandinavian – men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

https://www.wilsonhuhn.com/2024/10/lincoln-on-immigration-blood-of-blood.html

Winehole23

01-02-2026, 04:08 PM

https://reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-u-s-citizenship/a truly Orwellian wrinkle here is that for 20 years the right wing has been yammering for REAL ID as national ID

and now that we've got it, DHS -- which certifies REAL ID citizenship and residency information -- has declared REAL ID no good for immigration purposes

Winehole23

01-03-2026, 09:40 AM

Old car about to be crushed by giant tsunami?trademarked artwork used without permission by DHS

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Winehole23

01-03-2026, 10:05 AM

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Winehole23

01-03-2026, 10:08 AM

https://www.vintag.es/2019/06/hiroshi-nagai-paintings.html

Winehole23

01-09-2026, 11:42 AM

nuts and bolts immigration figures

the growth in immigration detainees last year was driven by detention of noncriminals

Non-criminal detainees represent 72 percent of this growth, 20 percent is attributed to people with, at most, pending criminal charges, and just 8 percent of the growth in ICE detention this fiscal year can be attributed to immigrants with criminal convictions. As many other reports have noted, a small percentage of these convictions represent serious violent crimes or public safety threats. See my previous post from the Chicago lawsuit (https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-enforcement-blitz-in-chicago?utm_source=publication-search) or David Bier’s detailed post here (https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions).https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92-of-ice-detention-growth-in-fy?utm_source=activity_item

Yonivore

01-09-2026, 12:20 PM

nuts and bolts immigration figures

the growth in immigration detainees last year was driven by detention of noncriminals
If they were here illegally - they're criminals.

ChumpDumper

01-09-2026, 12:21 PM

That's now how anything works.

Winehole23

01-09-2026, 12:35 PM

If they were here illegally - they're criminals.not necessarily, immigration law is administrative law -- the vast majority of violations are not crimes whatsoever

recently states have nade it illegal to recross or be caught on private property after crossing, but this is a relative legal novelty

Yonivore

01-09-2026, 12:58 PM

not necessarily, immigration law is administrative law -- the vast majority of violations are not crimes whatsoever

recently states have nade it illegal to recross or be caught on private property after crossing, but this is a relative legal novelty

Doesn't change my statement. An illegal act is the defining characteristic of a crime.

ChumpDumper

01-09-2026, 01:13 PM

Donald Trump was convicted of felony crimes.

You don't care about crime.

Winehole23

01-09-2026, 01:26 PM

Doesn't change my statement. An illegal act is the defining characteristic of a crime.

https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/humptytop.gif
https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/humptybottom.gif

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't- till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"

"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all."

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper some of them- particularly verbs: they're the proudest- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"

Through the Looking Glass, Ch. VI

https://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/humpty.html

Winehole23

01-09-2026, 10:17 PM

(Humpty-Dumpty theory of discourse eventually loses -- the people aren't fooled all of the time)

Winehole23

01-09-2026, 10:17 PM

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all."

Winehole23

01-11-2026, 03:24 PM

Trump lies all day long

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment among native-born workers was higher in late 2025 than a year earlier. The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers rose from 3.9 percent in November 2024 to 4.3 percent in November 2025.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, Trump’s claims that his immigration policies are creating job market opportunities for U.S.-born workers are “false and based on a misreading of data from the household survey.”

“If anything, the job market for U.S.-born workers is worse so far in 2025 than it was in preceding years,” senior economist Ben Zipperer wrote in September (https://www.epi.org/blog/dont-be-fooled-u-s-born-workers-are-facing-a-worse-labor-market-in-2025/).

In August (https://substack.com/home/post/p-170876706), Jed Kolko, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and undersecretary for economic affairs at the US Department of Commerce under Biden, accused the president of committing a “multiple-count data felony” in trumpeting a jobs boom for native-born Americans.
htps://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-boasts-jobs-u-born-152722726.html

Winehole23

01-13-2026, 07:32 AM

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Winehole23

01-14-2026, 11:39 AM

Tren de Aragua's organization and presence in the US has been wildly overhyped

As the Trump administration publicly cast Venezuela’s (https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-of-reducing-a-americas-venezuela-invasion-to-a-60-second-video/) Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a unified terrorist force tied to President Nicolás Maduro (https://www.wired.com/story/3-keys-understanding-trumps-retro-coup-in-venezuela/) and operating inside the United States, hundreds of internal US government records obtained by WIRED tell a far less certain story. Intelligence taskings, law-enforcement bulletins, and drug-task-force assessments show that agencies spent much of 2025 struggling to determine whether TdA even functioned as an organized entity in the US at all—let alone as a coordinated national security (https://www.wired.com/category/security/national-security/) threat.

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-warned-of-a-tren-de-aragua-invasion-us-intel-told-a-different-story/

Winehole23

01-14-2026, 11:41 AM

just jumping out on random POC walking down the street in Minnesota

a Minnesota city councilor has advised people of color to stay home

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime.

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 10:34 AM

reported sexual assault and torture of concentration camp detainees at Ft. Bliss

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration#img-1

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Winehole23

01-15-2026, 10:36 AM

According to the letter, ICE officers have been taking some non-Mexican nationals, specifically asylum seekers from Cuba and Guatemala, shackling them and transporting them an hour west from El Paso to the desert border crossing at Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Once at the border, detainees gave accounts to advocates of being met by masked officers, who allegedly ordered them to climb the border wall and cross into Mexico, bypassing all legal deportation proceedings and third-country agreements.

“The masked people sometimes beat on people to get them to jump the wall even if they don’t want to,” said “Eduardo”, a Cuban detainee ordered to be deported and cited under the pseudonym in the letter. He alleged that officers told him if he did not cross to Mexico, he would be charged with federal crimes and sent to a prison in “Africa or El Salvador”.

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 10:39 AM

The letter also says the facility fails to meet basic human needs. The soft-sided tents, which house 72 people per unit, reportedly have failing plumbing.

Detainees have described occasions where sewage backs up from toilets and showers, flooding sleeping quarters and dining areas with water contaminated by feces and urine. And, in some instances, they are allegedly forced to use their own clothing to mop up the waste due to a lack of cleaning supplies, the letter said.

Medical neglect was also described as constituting “deliberate indifference”. The letter details cases of diabetics being denied insulin for days, causing them to faint, and patients with high blood pressure being ignored until they suffer visible medical episodes. Food rations are described as “fist-sized” and often spoiled, leading to rapid weight loss among detainees.

Yonivore

01-15-2026, 02:51 PM

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Well, Winehole, the intent isn't to make Minneapolis, or Minnesota, ethnically homogeneous; it's to make it as criminal-free as possible.

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 03:30 PM

that people are being grabbed off the street without regard to immigration status doesn't concern you?

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 03:59 PM

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r65wy74sxc7bpe55qqydeir3/bafkreiae5t7otb2e4jn5kijbmdo4trv5sird2e2p47lr5ozgr lwehhthqm@jpeg

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 05:28 PM

(rapid deportation is a recipe for deporting US citizens, btw, the number of US citizens deported in more normal times is non-trivial)

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 05:31 PM

between 2015-2020, 70 citizens deported

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_ci tizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 05:32 PM

Based on research and surveys of immigration attorneys, Jacqueline Stevens of Northwestern University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University) estimated that 1% of all ICE detainees are U.S. citizens, based on pre-Trump presidents

ChumpDumper

01-15-2026, 07:20 PM

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Smart of the secret police concentrating them in large camps, eh yoni?

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 08:09 PM

murdering detainees, for some reason

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreig45qw4u3vzfkuknwovhmv6chku2mhnntxjyfqvh4isa q5g34z33i@jpeghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/

(paywalled)

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 09:02 PM

much will be made of the criminal background of the true victim, a ward of the state

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shbmtwpzg4kbwb7onmg27khc/bafkreicvftfe3jn6jdbstu4ttwjrq6gykhbwvwawufecmluea gsysfb7ny@jpeg

Winehole23

01-15-2026, 09:02 PM

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Winehole23

01-15-2026, 09:04 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/

(paywalled)

Blake

01-15-2026, 09:52 PM

that people are being grabbed off the street without regard to immigration status doesn't concern you?

He's a pasty white incel. He's only concerned about the illegal Boogeyman eating his cats.

Blake

01-15-2026, 09:54 PM

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a federal judge he is unable to locate the more than 100 Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador, arguing against further hearings with the men as it would jeopardize “extraordinarily delicate” discussions with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Rubio’s declaration, filed Monday night, is a remarkable pushback from the secretary after the Trump administration was ordered to facilitate the return of the men, who have since been released to Venezuela as part of a July prisoner exchange....."

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5687715-rubio-venezuela-prisoners-return/

What a piece of shit. But that's par.

DarrinS

01-16-2026, 12:28 AM

Blake

01-16-2026, 01:50 AM

I give zero shits

No shit. You're a piece of shit. So what?

Winehole23

01-16-2026, 09:23 AM

Reagan judge calls trump an authoritarian, slams Rubio and Noem, calls deportations of students for speech an unconstitutional conspiracy

A federal judge handling a lawsuit over the deportation of pro-Palestinian activists excoriated top administration officials, including President Donald Trump, for trampling on the First Amendment and for what the judge described as a fearful approach to freedom.

“There was no policy here,” said U.S. District Judge William Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has been on the federal bench in Boston for 40 years. “What happened here is an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people.”

During a hearing on the suit Thursday, Young tore into Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for pursuing a targeted deportation campaign that Young said was at odds with the country’s core values.

“I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government — cabinet secretaries — conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people with such rights here in the United States,” Young said. “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.”

Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep sanction against the Trump administration for seeking to “chill” the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists targeted for arrest and removal weeks after Trump took office — including Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Madhawi, as well as Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk and Georgetown University academic Badar Khan Suri.

Young ruled against the administration’s policy in September after a two-week trial, and held Thursday’s hearing to hash out a “remedy” for the violations. The judge said he plans to issue a ruling that will grant the plaintiffs a “conclusive presumption” that future changes to their immigration status amount to retaliation for their suit. The ruling will put the onus on the government to prove that officials have good cause before moving forward with any planned changes to group members’ immigration status, the judge said.

Young used extraordinarily stark language during the hearing, describing Trump as an “authoritarian” while insisting that he was choosing the term carefully, rather than simply using a “pejorative.” The judge also compared the Trump administration’s broader mass-deportation campaign to historic efforts to return formerly enslaved people to their owners under the Fugitive Slave Act, noting an infamous episode in Boston history when a U.S. marshal was killed near Young’s courthouse as he guarded a man named Anthony Burns who escaped slavery in Virginia.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/unconstitutional-conspiracy-judge-slams-trump-administration-over-targeted-deportations-00733070

Winehole23

01-16-2026, 09:25 AM

"The record in this case convinces me that these high officials, and I include the president of the United States, have a fearful view of freedom.”

ChumpDumper

01-16-2026, 10:49 AM

I give zero shitsYes, you give zero shits about the law.

You are all lawless toadies.

Winehole23

01-18-2026, 11:05 AM

traffic and immigration violations are most common among those with prior convictions

look at the slopes of the lines to judge the trend

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Winehole23

01-18-2026, 11:10 AM

as of October, 2 out of 3 people taken into custody by ICE have no criminal record

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiba4iqzmbjlijffotp4cjo4h6fecwc6vdm2s3wftly7k u5qybj2zm@jpeg

Winehole23

01-18-2026, 12:03 PM

The bar charts were made using large arrest datasets produced by the Deportation Data Project here: deportationdata.org/index.html (https://deportationdata.org/index.html)

The line graph comes from ICE's detention data, published in Excel every other week here: www.ice.gov/detain/deten... (https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management) (Prior data here: tracreports.org/immigration/... (https://tracreports.org/immigration/detentionstats/pop_agen_table.html))https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mcpkwvjmpc2r

Winehole23

01-18-2026, 12:05 PM

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Winehole23

01-18-2026, 03:42 PM

what are they thinking?

"we're going to break the law, take away your rights, and get away with it"

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Winehole23

01-18-2026, 03:44 PM

^^^ that guy got instabanned for some reason

Winehole23

01-18-2026, 06:28 PM

6 in custody deaths so far this year, two of them at the East Montana camp at Ft. Bliss.

Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, lived in Minneapolis. He was captured on Jan. 6 and flown to Camp East Montana, where the ACLU has reported widespread torture, and where a man died after being beaten by ICE guards three days earlier. He now becomes the sixth person to die in ICE custody in 2026.

Winehole23

01-18-2026, 08:30 PM

sounds reasonable to me, ICE and DHS need to no longer exist and the current DOJ should be completely overhauled

WptX5i2_O1U

Winehole23

01-19-2026, 10:49 AM

going after people who complied with the law

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Winehole23

01-19-2026, 06:20 PM

why not post it again?

immigration is an unambiguous social good

makes us richer, makes us safer

Substantial research has assessed (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-009-0117-9) the relationship between immigration and crime. Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite (http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Adelman_2017.pdf). Studies have also examined (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00111287211007736) the impact of the concentration of immigrants in a community on crime patterns, finding that immigration is associated with lower crime rates and an increase in structural factors — such as social connection (https://www2.gwu.edu/~iiep/assets/docs/papers/2021WP/StuartIIEP2021-07.pdf) and economic opportunity (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812293951-002/pdf?licenseType=restricted) — that are linked to neighborhood safety.

When looking specifically at the relationship between undocumented immigrants and crime, researchers come to similar conclusions. Numerous studies show that undocumented immigration does not increase (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9125.12175) violent crime; research examining crime rates in so-called sanctuary cities also f (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1078087417704974)ound (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1078087417704974) no discernable difference when compared to similarly situated cities without sanctuary policies. One study that focused on drug crimes and driving under the influence found (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551598/) that unauthorized immigration status was associated with reductions in arrests for those offenses.

The research also shows that overall, immigrants have a similar or even lower likelihood of incarceration compared to native-born Americans, a trend that holds for immigrants from various source countries. For example, one study found that undocumented immigrants are 33 percent less likely (https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/73/1/200/5572162?redirectedFrom=fulltext) to be incarcerated than people born in the United States. Indications of a negative relationship between immigration and crime also emerge when looking at conviction rates. In a Texas (https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-2017-illegal-immigrant) study, undocumented immigrants were found to be 47 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime in 2017 than native-born Americans. More recently, a study (https://www.nber.org/papers/w31440) looked at census data over a 150-year period; since 1870, incarceration rates of immigrants are actually slightly lower than U.S.-born people and that gap widens in recent years with immigrants 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens.
htps://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wave

Winehole23

01-20-2026, 07:59 AM

Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now.https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

Winehole23

01-20-2026, 09:10 AM

concentration camps --> death camps

it's a process, we're making progress

While ICE employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers. ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, for example, houses over 500 detainees and has no doctor or dentist on staff (https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2025-06/OIG-25-24-Jun25.pdf).

ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers (https://popular.info/p/exclusive-how-the-trump-administration) for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website (https://www.ice.gov/detain/ice-health-service-corps/ihs-managed-care) announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed “to hold all claims submissions.”

ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE (https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/inside-an-ice-detention-center-detained-people-describe-severe-medical-neglect-harrowing-conditions).https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee

Winehole23

01-20-2026, 09:51 AM

According to government documents, the VA “abruptly and instantly terminated” its agreement with ICE on October 3. That cancellation, according to the documents, left ICE with “no mechanism to provide prescribed medication” and unable to “pay for medically necessary off-site care.”

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Winehole23

01-20-2026, 11:54 AM

not surprising , tbh

Overall, CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is FIVE TIMES (https://qz.com/1734240/criminal-misconduct-by-us-border-officers-has-hit-a-5-year-high?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police) higher than other federal law enforcement agencies — and, in fact, if you look over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER (https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police) than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%).https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

Winehole23

01-21-2026, 08:06 PM

homicide, says El Paso coroner

ICE called it a suicide

DHS lies

The death of a 55-year-old Cuban detainee who died on Jan. 3 at a federal immigration detention camp in El Paso was ruled a homicide Wednesday by the El Paso Medical Examiner’s office.

Geraldo Lunas Campos, who had been detained at Camp East Montana, died from “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,” according to the autopsy report, meaning that he couldn’t breathe because of pressure on his neck and chest.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Jan. 9 press release (https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-reports-aggravated-felon-and-convicted-child-sex-offenders-death-camp-east) said Lunas Campos died after “experiencing medical distress.” About a week later, ICE told the Associated Press that he instead died after attempting suicide (https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-detention-death-texas-2bfb614b2b222803d309f338357d04eb) and ICE staff attempted to save him.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/

Winehole23

01-22-2026, 03:42 PM

deportation > justice and public safety

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Winehole23

01-23-2026, 09:16 AM

ICE detention is child abuse

The establishment of a school is an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children at Dilley, which violates a court settlement established 28 years ago. Under that settlement, children may not be held in immigration prison for more than 20 days unless the facility is nonsecure and licensed. But a recent court filing claims that ICE has held hundreds of children for well beyond that limit, in some cases for multiple months, and subjected them to neglect and abuse.

Immigration prisons are not licensed child care facilities, and even if they were, living in one “is going to be harmful and detrimental to kids in lasting ways,” RAICES legal director Javier O. Hidalgo said in an interview. “You’re in jail, and you’re going to school in jail. It’s never going to be appropriate and adequate.”
https://prospect.org/2025/12/10/for-profit-school-opening-in-for-profit-ice-family-prison/

Winehole23

01-23-2026, 09:02 PM

DHS sending people to a torture prison in Equitorial Guinea

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Winehole23

01-23-2026, 09:02 PM

DHS does human trafficking now

Winehole23

01-23-2026, 09:59 PM

defying court orders to remove worst of the worst

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kurmmopu7vfnca3wtknqy6gp/bafkreiei77obljxwcpqmt2ewgl5yvoexidy2hgdofououuhej c3rviw7q4@jpeg[/QUOTE]https://www.startribune.com/agents-detain-and-send-2-year-old-girl-and-her-father-to-texas-despite-court-order-to-release-toddler/601569252

Winehole23

01-23-2026, 10:52 PM

https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/equatorial-guinea/

GAustex

01-23-2026, 11:43 PM

Deport all illegal aliens they are criminals
Get rid of birthright citizenship
Under no circumstances amnesty for any illegal alien
Protect American voters-no disenfranchisement of American citizens by importing illegal aliens
Punish those responsible for open border policy under president shit for brain’s administration

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 09:51 AM

we're sending people who followed the law and who have permission to be here to concentration camps

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Winehole23

01-24-2026, 11:07 AM

Refoulement and third-country removals have been routine since last year

Geneva (ratified in part by US treaty) is still law of the land in the US, this could result in prosecution somewhere down the line

The Trump administration has transferred migrants to countries where they have no ties, including: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Rwanda, South Sudan, Egypt, Poland, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, Uzbekistan, and Bhutan.https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:02 PM

new concentration camp planned for Hutchins, TX

The Washington Post broke the news (https://archive.is/20260115200703/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/) in December of a proposed 1-million-square-foot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Hutchins that could hold up to 9,500 people, more than 10 times the capacity of the nearest ICE detention center, in Prairieland.
Hutchins is a Dallas County city of fewer than 8,000 just south of the Dallas city border. Its mayor, Mario Vasquez, told WFAA (https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-county/we-dont-need-in-our-city-hutchins-mayor-speaks-reported-ice-holding-center/287-bd4ec479-29a4-4464-b055-091e57557764) earlier this month that he doesn’t want the detention center in his city and that there is only one warehouse in Hutchins available for lease that has about 1 million square feet. No media outlet until now has reported the address or owner of the proposed location, and ICE has not released any details to the public. But many people know where it is.

On Friday, members of the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response (CLEAR (https://www.cleardfw.org/contact-1)) gathered at Kessler Park United Methodist Church in Dallas to speak out against the center. “CLEAR has been a part of the group that has first become aware of the exact location of this place,” said Eric Folkerth, senior pastor of Kessler Park UMC. “It has been confirmed to some of our members by ICE officials, and it is disturbing. We should not be housing human beings in warehouses meant for packages.”

In April, the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said (https://archive.is/FcbeK#selection-525.0-525.190) of his agency’s detention process, “We need to get better at treating this like a business, like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”

Folkerth told me Friday that a source within ICE had told a member of CLEAR that ICE had conducted a site visit and rather than lease the space, it had bought a 1-million-square-foot warehouse in Hutchins.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2026/01/ice-buys-massive-hutchins-texas-warehouse/

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:03 PM

similar in OK

turns out people don't like living close to concentration camps

As plans are revealed for a potential large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center in southwest OKC, City officials say they will attempt to seek a “public approval process,” even as they acknowledge that legal options to prevent the project are limited.

On December 23rd, 2025, the Oklahoma City Planning Department received an email from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) informing City staff of DHS plans for a 400,000+ square foot warehouse at 2800 S. Council Rd. to become a processing center for ICE detainees.

The public only became aware of those plans on January 18th when The Oklahoman first reported (https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2026/01/18/ice-in-oklahoma-wants-to-turn-warehouse-detention-center/88214420007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z11xx01p119550c119550d00----v11xx01d--39--b--39--&gca-ft=229&gca-ds=sophi) that they had obtained a copy of that email confirming the location of the planned facility and detailing additions and renovations to the building that might be made.

City Council members say that’s when they first learned of the full plans as well.
https://freepressokc.com/few-options-for-city-council-blindsided-by-ice-facility-plans/

DarrinS

01-24-2026, 10:11 PM

similar in OK

turns out people don't like living close to concentration camps

https://freepressokc.com/few-options-for-city-council-blindsided-by-ice-facility-plans/

Get out there with your vehicle and a whistle. Posting rants into ST subforum is ranting into the void. You have less convictions than crazy ass blue haired Karens.

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:17 PM

you're not the boss of me, Darrin

(Austin hasn't been occupied yet)

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:18 PM

lol dropping into this subforum just to encourage me

nothing whatsoever to say about the politics, ever

GAustex

01-24-2026, 10:24 PM

Deport illegal aliens
No amnesty EVER for any illegal alien
Deport harder
More deportations
Go faster
More faster deportations

SnakeBoy

01-24-2026, 10:31 PM

you're not the boss of me, Darrin

(Austin hasn't been occupied yet)

lol Austin is cooperating with ICE

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:46 PM

(I certainly wouldn't tell you fascists if I was up to anything)

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:47 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_ci tizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 10:49 PM

lol Austin is cooperating with ICEI had heard that, thanks

Did you have a point?

Winehole23

01-24-2026, 11:31 PM

treating people who are here legally as though they were noncompliant is a motif

mind-boggling animus and cruelty

Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.

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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230245/gov.uscourts.mnd.230245.19.0.pdf

ChumpDumper

01-24-2026, 11:35 PM

lol Austin is cooperating with ICEWhy would they not?

And, in your opinion, was the latest killing in Minnesota justified?

Yes or no.

Winehole23

01-25-2026, 12:10 AM

people who spite decency and the law deserve the protection of neither

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Winehole23

01-25-2026, 02:33 PM

cratering

Rasmussen is Trump friendly

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Winehole23

01-26-2026, 11:16 PM

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Winehole23

01-26-2026, 11:17 PM

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Winehole23

01-27-2026, 01:06 AM

Downfall, Bovino edition (https://bsky.app/profile/tom.medsky.social/post/3mdf22bpdz225)

Winehole23

01-27-2026, 09:37 AM

By Kyle Cheney's tally, there have been ~2,300 adjudicated cases of DHS detaining people without bond or due process since July, in many of those cases people were deported also contrary to court orders not to deport (Habeas)

Judge Schiltz in Minnesota is nobody's liberal -- appointed by GWB, former Dean of Notre Dame Law School, clerked for Antonin Scalia. He's mad because ICE refuses to appear in court to answer for its actions in his jurisdiction

DHS/DOJ has been sidestepping the law and judges in order to violate rights and evade accountability for doing so. Refusing to appear in court to justify it underscores the contumaciousness, ICE is now risking charges of contempt in MN

"This is one of dozens of court orders with which respondents have failed to comply in recent weeks," Schlitz's filing reads. "The practical consequence of respondents' failure to comply has almost always been significant hardship to aliens (many of whom have lawfully lived and worked in the United States for years and done absolutely nothing wrong). The detention of an alien is extended, or an alien who should remain in Minnesota is flown to Texas, or an alien who has been flown to Texas is released there and told to figure out a way to get home."

The filing continued: "This Court has been extremely patient with respondents, even though respondents decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provision for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result. Respondents have continually assured the Court that they recognize their obligation to comply with Court orders, and that they have taken steps to ensure that those orders will be honored going forward. Unfortunately, though, the violations continue. The Court's patience is at an end."

Schlitz therefore ordered Lyons to personally appear in court to explain why he should not face contempt charges for his agency's actions. The judge acknowledged that this was an "extraordinary step" to take, but argued that it was warranted in the face of ICE's "likewise extraordinary" defiance of court orders.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230171/gov.uscourts.mnd.230171.7.0.pdfhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-orders-top-trump-official-into-court-on-threat-of-contempt/ar-AA1V4QbH

Winehole23

01-27-2026, 10:34 AM

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Winehole23

01-27-2026, 10:48 AM

beaucoup human rights violations

the story of man's inhumanity to man is being written in the USA today

The office of U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says it has identified more than 1,000 credible reports of human rights abuses inside the U.S. immigration detention system over the course of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House.

Alleged violations include instances of medical neglect, physical and sexual abuse, denial of adequate food and water, and the mistreatment of children and pregnant women, according to a report released by Ossoff on Tuesday, which was first obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Those alleged violations amount to “an undeniable pattern of human rights abuse in immigration detention,” the report says (https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260114_Report_Patterns_v5.pdf).
https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/01/more-than-1000-alleged-rights-abuses-in-immigration-detention-ossoff-finds/

Winehole23

01-27-2026, 10:28 PM

omg this forum is so bricked

Winehole23

01-27-2026, 10:31 PM

why would you shoot people fleeing back to a foreign country?

According to the report, Border Patrol agents in the area “observed several individuals walking north in camouflage clothing.” The agents later approached the group, causing many of them to flee back to Mexico.

A Border Patrol agent attempted to apprehend one male individual, later identified as the 31-year-old man from Mexico who died in the shooting.

“The agent transmitted via radio that he was in a fight and needed help,” the report states. “The agent reported he was engaged in an active struggle with the man for two minutes and ultimately discharged his CBP-issued firearm. The man sustained a total of three gunshot wounds.”

The unidentified Mexican man was hospitalized and pronounced dead later that evening.

According to the report, an autopsy was conducted and findings will be reported to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
https://www.krgv.com/news/border-patrol-agent-fatally-shot-mexican-man-3-times-in-starr-county-report-says

Winehole23

01-29-2026, 08:12 PM

DHS likes to arbitrarily revoke legal status on hundreds of thousands of people, but they're not very good at bureaucratic and legal stuff, so they keep getting slapped down in court

The scale of DOJ legal losses in the last year has been unprecedented

Too much arbitrary and capricious and ultra vires

A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem (https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/kristi-noem) acted unlawfully when she ended legal protections allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to live and work in the United States.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found she exceeded her authority when she ended temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelans under the Biden-era Venezuela TPS designations, (https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration) according to The Associated Press. All three judges on the panel were nominated by Democratic presidents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-court-rules-noem-terminating-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans-in-us-was-illegal/ar-AA1VffxD

Winehole23

01-29-2026, 08:14 PM

people act like it isn't awesome that the USA attracts and assimilates millions of people who eventually become Americans, but it is

an unambiguous social good, if we don't ruin it

Yonivore

01-30-2026, 11:30 AM

people act like it isn't awesome that the USA attracts and assimilates millions of people who eventually become Americans, but it is an unambiguous social good, if we don't ruin it
Trust me, those that want to come to the United States legally and assimilate are still coming. I know it's not in your algorithm but, I see posts all the time of immigrants receiving their citizenship. I also see many posts of legal immigrants blessing America for this freedom and prosperity - after leaving places that offered neither. These same immigrants do not speak highly of those that come here illegally, fail to assimilate and - particularly - ball up in ethnic communities and set about defrauding the American taxpayer.

ChumpDumper

01-30-2026, 11:38 AM

Why are your secret police rounding up and disappearing immigrants who are here legally?

Is the answer in your algorithm?

Winehole23

01-30-2026, 02:37 PM

warehousing people

Despite protests in small towns and cities across the US, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with the purchase of warehouses it plans to convert into immigration jails in what could be the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history.

The cost for acquiring two warehouses alone was $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, could be among the largest jails of any kind in the country if completed as envisioned, with 8,500 beds. The deals mark the latest turn in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to use (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/ice-plans-to-greatly-expand-detention-capacity?srnd=undefined&sref=IUm3fzs0) as many as 23 warehouses for detaining thousands of immigrants arrested by federal agents in Minneapolis and other cities.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

Winehole23

01-30-2026, 02:37 PM

NIMBYs

On Thursday, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt said he’d met with the owners of a warehouse identified by ICE who told him they were no longer going to sell or lease the facility to the agency. “I commend the owners for their decision and thank them on behalf of the people of Oklahoma City,” Holt said. “I ask that every single property owner in Oklahoma City exhibit the same concern for our community in the days ahead.”

Winehole23

01-30-2026, 02:39 PM

Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

The development company, owned by B.C. billionaire and philanthropist Jim Pattison, sent out a single-sentence statement Friday that read, "The transaction to sell our industrial building in Ashland, Virginia will not be proceeding."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jim-pattison-industrial-building-won-t-sell-ice-9.7068494

Winehole23

01-30-2026, 09:51 PM

Trust me, those that want to come to the United States legally and assimilate are still coming. I know it's not in your algorithm but, I see posts all the time of immigrants receiving their citizenship. I also see many posts of legal immigrants blessing America for this freedom and prosperity - after leaving places that offered neither. These same immigrants do not speak highly of those that come here illegally, fail to assimilate and - particularly - ball up in ethnic communities and set about defrauding the American taxpayer.that's bullshit, Yoni

that's just your silly opinion

Winehole23

01-31-2026, 03:25 PM

DOJ misconduct complaint against Boasberg dismissed

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg:

It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3mdqmaoabms2q
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/judicial_complaints/files/2025/06-25-90173(Chad.MO.pdf

Winehole23

01-31-2026, 04:41 PM

contempt for law and other officers of the court

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Winehole23

02-01-2026, 11:24 AM

CBP has a crime problem

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:
• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6z3ZnL8xXlbS43PRPFBF0sYYdTz3J/view

Yonivore

02-01-2026, 02:39 PM

that's bullshit, Yoni

that's just your silly opinion
Nope; not an opinion.

About 900,000 legal immigrants went through the naturalization process and became citizens in 2025 (so far - numbers are incomplete).

7.4 million have become naturalized citizens in the past decade.

https://youtu.be/49KMsDVM8jQ

Doing it the legal way happens all the time.

https://youtu.be/dDhWXq0Ss7k

Legal Immigrants are fed up. Former Democrat fundraiser - Lindy Li

https://youtu.be/zR4i56Yqpkw

Winehole23

02-02-2026, 08:08 PM

Noem's request for a stay of the suspension of TPS for Haitians in Ohio got blocked

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreidhwd4qce43um3kffuneh2jspdddyusq76c375eqm6og 5mshuwkii@jpeghttps://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv2471-124

Winehole23

02-02-2026, 08:30 PM

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Yonivore

02-03-2026, 10:10 AM

https://x.com/jfergu2121/status/2018460972105748651?s=20

https://x.com/JustJenRX/status/2018324084954747174?s=20

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 10:35 AM

CPB officers get arrested more than undocumented immigrants

Undocumented immigrants get arrested less than native Texans in Texas

Try harder, Yoni

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 10:53 AM

lol at Yoni highlighting naturalized US citizens voting

lol demonizing people who followed the rules and did it the right way

lol negging the American Dream

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 11:13 AM

there are thousands of documented cases of wrongful detention already

3d Cir. holds that habeas corpus petitions challenging immigration detention are "civil actions," so prevailing noncitizens may be entitled to attorneys' fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreifhojvyunwowwclpauootto65kdpsbiys2fnp4xboirx jnr7b2coa@jpeghttps://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242990p.pdf

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 05:22 PM

the Daily Beast link is free with registration

"The email also revealed a rather bizarre chain of command, with Bovino saying he reported to Noem’s aide, Corey Lewandowski..."https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-email-reveals-border-patrol-goons-jaw-dropping-complaint-about-tactics/

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 05:24 PM

very shady

“Mr. Lyons said he was in charge, and I corrected him saying I report to Corey Lewandowski,” Bovino reportedly said of the unpaid special government employee.

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 05:53 PM

there are ~73,000 people in ICE detention today

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/liam-ramos-nightmare-dilley-detention-center-texas.html

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 06:01 PM

Judge Simon issues a TRO in Oregon

Judge issues TRO reining in tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists at Portland OR ICE facility. Judge Michael Simon bars use of crowd control munitions against people who don't pose physical threat.

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Winehole23

02-03-2026, 06:04 PM

the "Portland Chicken" is a member of the class

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Foregoncapitalchronicle.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FIMG_1943-2048x1536.jpeg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a63380f845ecad2e4632d161d2375f13abbe75a927a995 c0310dc2800554e1db

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 06:19 PM

The Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (ECF11)and hereby enters the following Order.

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

1.Defendants and their agents, employees, and all persons acting under their direction or in active concert or participation with them (collectively, “Enjoined Persons”) ar ehereby prohibited and enjoined from engaging in or directing or encouraging others to engage in any of the following actions at or in the vicinity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building located at4310 S.Macadam Avenue,near the corner of Southwest Moody Avenue and Southwest Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon (“Portland ICE Building”)

:a.No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions,including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, pepper or oleoresin capsicum spray, tear gas or other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades,unless the specific target of such a weapon or device poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person.

b.No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons(includingthose described above) at the head, neck,or torso of any person, unless theofficerislegally justified in using deadly force against that person.ECF 66 (9th Cir. Dec. 18, 2025). There, the court stayed the injunction “to the extent that [it]appl[ied] to protestors who [were] not parties to this litigation.”Id.at1. The plaintiffs inL.A.Press Club, however, originally did not seek classwide relief, so AARP’s rule authorizing temporary relief to putative class members did not apply to the motion then pending before the district court.SeeC. D. Cal. Case No. 2:25-cv-05563.

c.No Enjoined Person may target any individual with a less lethal munition,if doing so would endanger any other individual who does not pose an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other
person. For purposes of illustration only,no Enjoined Person may use chemical or projectile munitions in response to trespassing, refusal to move, or refusal to obey a dispersal order

.2.Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from making an otherwise lawful arrest if there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being arrested has committed that crime
.3.Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from using proportional force, including less lethal weapons, on any individual who poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person.
4.Defendants shall not be liable for violating this Temporary Restraining Order if a person is incidentally exposed to a crowd-control device,provided that such a device is deployed in a manner fully consistent with thisOrder.
5.Defendants shall promptly provide either a copy of this Temporary Restraining Order or a reasonably complete, accurate,and comprehensive summary to all Enjoined Persons who will likely be assigned any duties at orin the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building. Further,Defendants shall promptly file with the Court a copy of what they provided or will provide in thefuture as new Enjoined Persons begin their work at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building.6.In the interest of justice, Plaintiffs need not provide any security, and the Court waives all requirements under Rule65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

.This Order shall expire fourteen (14) days after entry, unless otherwise extended by stipulation of the parties or further Order of the Court.8.Plaintiffs may file a motion for preliminary injunction not later than February12,2026,Defendant may respond not later than February19, 2026, and Plaintiff may reply not later than February26, 2026. The Court will hold an evidentiary hearing beginning on March2, 2026,at 9:00a.m. in Courtroom 15Bof the United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. All otherprovisions in the Court’s First Case Management Order (ECF44) remain in effect.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED this 3rd day of February, 2026, at 1:57p.m.
Michael H. Simon
United States District Judge

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 07:14 PM

Deportation freaks are 100% wrong on the facts

Immigration is good

Immigrants contribute more than they take

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vhl3hxl4qkpoyyu3knbf7n3c/bafkreihrd6znd5gnoijorzncjwzg5ayplld7cqbrpiifszk7d fosuu5ujy@jpeghttps://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 07:20 PM

The NASEM–Cato model shows the following:

Every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.
Immigrants generated nearly $10.6 trillion more in federal, state, and local taxes than they induced in total government spending.
Accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt, immigrants saved $14.5 trillion in debt over this 30-year period.
Immigrants cut US budget deficits by about a third from 1994 to 2023, and fiscal savings grew to $878 billion in 2023 (Figure 1).
Noncitizens accounted for $6.3 trillion of the $14.5 trillion debt savings.
College graduate immigrants accounted for $11.7 trillion in savings, while non–college graduates accounted for $2.8 trillion.
The cohort of immigrants entering from 1990 to 1993, just before data collection began in 1994, was fiscally positive $1.7 trillion, and was still positive after 30 years in 2022–2023 (Table 1).
Even including the second generation (see Box 1 for definitions), who are mostly still children who will become taxpayers soon, the fiscal effect of immigration was positive every year.
Immigrants in all categories of educational attainment, including high school dropouts, lowered the ratio of deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) during the 30-year period.
Without the contributions of immigrants, public debt at all levels would already be above 200 percent of US GDP—nearly twice the 2023 level and a threshold some analysts believe would trigger a debt crisis.8 (https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=#_edn8)

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 07:23 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Table%201-Fiscal%20flows%20for%20immigrants%20by%20citizensh ip%20status%20and%20educational%20attainment%2C%20 1994%E2%80%932023.png?itok=f8_Y1Cr6

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 07:30 PM

we're freeloading off of them, tbh

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%202-The%20average%20US%20person%20pays%20more%20in%20t axes%20than%20they%20receive%20in%20benefits.png?i tok=yCHU4Gdc

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 08:15 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%204-Immigrants%20are%20much%20more%20likely%20to%20be% 20employed.png?itok=opiFJ0gS

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 08:15 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%206-Immigrants%20consume%20fewer%20government%20servic es.png?itok=GA606Ska

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 08:17 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%207-Immigrants%20cost%20less%20per%20capita%20than%20t he%20average%20for%20the%20US%20population.png?ito k=ckjIbUFt

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 08:20 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%209-Immigrants%20are%20much%20more%20likely%20to%20be% 20in%20poverty%20but%20not%20more%20likely%20to%20 be%20receiving%20welfare.png?itok=Zl6sMRIl

Winehole23

02-03-2026, 08:22 PM

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2026-01/Figure%2011-Immigrants%20are%20less%20likely%20to%20commit%20a nd%20be%20incarcerated%20for%20crimes%20and%20othe r%20offenses.png?itok=XttGHp0U

Winehole23

02-06-2026, 10:48 PM

5th Circuit panel oks DHS's mass deportation scheme three days after oral arguments

Gonna be a lot of people shipped to gulags in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in the short term, where they can't ask for bonds and will be pressured to sign their rights away

(the ruling may or may not survive en banc consideration)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibrwjopqd3qpr74kjcfitbl4pqzoqe2gcl4saokkhc5s gdldiokvi@jpeg
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.227192/gov.uscourts.ca5.227192.507860231.1.pdf

Winehole23

02-07-2026, 11:29 AM

late Friday night, in a ruling handed down just two days after oral argument (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26884355/ca5detention.pdf), a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—holding that, yes, the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/208-the-fifth-circuit-jumps-the-immigration

SnakeBoy

02-07-2026, 07:12 PM

:tu

They have to go back

Winehole23

02-08-2026, 04:10 AM

What the hell is wrong with you, man?

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 07:21 PM

Deportation freaks are 100% wrong on the facts

Immigrants contribute more than they take

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https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023
I love that there are zero replies to Cato murking all of Trump's pretexts for mass deportation

The study above compiled public records from the last 40 years for its analysis

Highlights:

Illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, every single year;

Illegal immigrants are more likely to be working than US natives;

Illegal immigrants consume fewer government services than US natives;

Illegal immigrants cost less per capita than the US average;

Illegal immigrants are much more likely to be in poverty but not more likely to be receiving welfare;

Illegal immigrants are less likely to commit or be incarcerated for crimes than US natives

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 07:26 PM

Every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.

Immigrants generated nearly $10.6 trillion more in federal, state, and local taxes than they induced in total government spending.

Accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt, immigrants saved $14.5 trillion in debt over this 30-year period.

Immigrants cut US budget deficits by about a third from 1994 to 2023, and fiscal savings grew to $878 billion in 2023 (Figure 1).

Noncitizens accounted for $6.3 trillion of the $14.5 trillion debt savings.

College graduate immigrants accounted for $11.7 trillion in savings, while non–college graduates accounted for $2.8 trillion.

The cohort of immigrants entering from 1990 to 1993, just before data collection began in 1994, was fiscally positive $1.7 trillion, and was still positive after 30 years in 2022–2023 (Table 1).

Even including the second generation (see Box 1 for definitions), who are mostly still children who will become taxpayers soon, the fiscal effect of immigration was positive every year.

Immigrants in all categories of educational attainment, including high school dropouts, lowered the ratio of deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) during the 30-year period.

Without the contributions of immigrants, public debt at all levels would already be above 200 percent of US GDP—nearly twice the 2023 level and a threshold some analysts believe would trigger a debt crisis.8 (https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=#_edn8)

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 07:31 PM

we're killing the golden goose, people

ChumpDumper

02-09-2026, 08:19 PM

Fascism always ends up being a suicide cult.

This is why it's popular with bitter white men.

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 08:29 PM

Fascism always ends up being a suicide cult.

This is why it's popular with bitter white men.they're hastening their own demise, but it won't be the death of everybody else

the USA and the world will survive them

all political majorities are transient

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 08:43 PM

the thing about warrantless administrative detention is that it makes little discrimination between citizens and noncitizens

administrative agencies detaining US citizens is getting more frequent, the more frequently citizens object to paramilitary bureaucratic oppression

I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

ChumpDumper

02-09-2026, 08:47 PM

Yep, the plan is to disappear a bunch of Democratic voters during the midterms.

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:09 PM

Yep, the plan is to disappear a bunch of Democratic voters during the midterms.Honestly, they're not ready for the thermostatic response to that, but I wouldn't be surprised to see prosecution of public officials escalate. The pool of targets is much smaller, and the legislative payoff much more immediate.

I don't expect to see mass detainment of American voters before the midterms.

If Republicans lose both legislative bodies in the midterms?

All bets off...

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:16 PM

The bare idea that US citizens are routinely subject to administrative detention and surveillance is extreme and radical

The first thing I would compare it to is USSR-type social control

Trumpism is Bannonist-Leninism par excellence

SnakeBoy

02-09-2026, 09:31 PM

I'm sorry you are being oppressed

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:39 PM

go away with yourself, Snake Boy, you're not a bit sorry!

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:40 PM

besides, you totally missed the tenor, i wasn't speaking of myself

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:41 PM

I am a native Texan, 60 years old, white and IMAB

Winehole23

02-09-2026, 09:43 PM

I am not oppressed, I look like the oppressor

ChumpDumper

02-10-2026, 06:39 AM

I'm sorry you are being oppressed

Not me

Why do you want US citizens disappeared, snacks?

Explain.

velik_m

02-10-2026, 02:42 PM

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

An Irish man has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.

Seamus Culleton was a “model immigrant” who had become the victim of a capricious and inept system, said his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

Originally from County Kilkenny, Culleton is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. While buying supplies at a hardware store on 9 September 2025 he was arrested in a random immigration sweep, according to Okoye, of BOS Legal Group in Massachusetts.

Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90 day-limit but, after marrying a US citizen and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, Okoye told the Guardian. “He had a work-approved authorisation that is tied to a green card application,” she said.

Culleton’s detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October, she said. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention. It does not make sense. There’s no reason why the government shouldn’t just release him and allow him to attend the interview that will confirm his legal status.”

...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

Blake

02-10-2026, 04:26 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

I hope they sue when they finally get out

Yonivore

02-10-2026, 05:31 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

A judge ordered him deported on January 23rd. Order, (Pay close attention to the paragraph on page 6 where Culleton concedes he is "removable under the VWP":

ORDER (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172875340/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172875340.27.0.pdf)

Culleton concedes he is removable under the VWP. Reply 10. But he argues that because USCIS accepted and began processing his adjustment of status application, he is entitled to due process protections in its fair adjudication. Id. at 9. The Fifth Circuit has foreclosed this very argument, reasoning that the VWP waiver includes a waiver of due process rights. See Mukasey, 555 F.3d at 462. And “[t]he fact that [Culleton] applied for an adjustment of status before the DHS issued its notice of removal is of no consequence.” Id

The man entered the country 20 years ago on a 90-day visitor visa and waited until it was apparent he could be deported before asking for an adjustment of his status.

I would think y'all would be glad he's not a person of color. This is what equal treatment under the law looks like -- I know that's a foreign concept to the Left but, yet, here we are.

SnakeBoy

02-10-2026, 05:40 PM

I am not oppressed, I look like the oppressor

You're orange?

Blake

02-10-2026, 05:43 PM

A judge ordered him deported on January 23rd. Order, (Pay close attention to the paragraph on page 6 where Culleton concedes he is "removable under the VWP":

ORDER (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172875340/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172875340.27.0.pdf)

The man entered the country 20 years ago on a 90-day visitor visa and waited until it was apparent he could be deported before asking for an adjustment of his status.

I would think y'all would be glad he's not a person of color. This is what equal treatment under the law looks like -- I know that's a foreign concept to the Left but, yet, here we are.

Yoni doesn't see skin color when it comes to being afraid that foreigners will eat his cats.

ChumpDumper

02-10-2026, 06:04 PM

Winehole23

02-12-2026, 06:49 PM

DHS's mandatory detention policy has been found illegal by ~85% of federal district court judges so far

Trump-appointed judges are ruling against it 2-1

The people and the judiciary are the bulwark against DHS's paramilitary rampage so far. The degree to which the government is failing to indict in grand juries is impressive -- solid citizens straight up nope-ing out on DHS and DOJ's bullshit

For six months, dozens of judges appointed by Donald Trump have rebuffed — and sometimes pointedly rebuked — his administration’s effort to lock up thousands of immigrants under a novel reinterpretation of decades-old deportation laws.

This mass detention strategy, implemented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has met an overwhelming rejection by federal judges (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494) appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan.

A POLITICO review finds that 373 have rejected the administration’s effort to require detention — without the possibility of bond — for anyone who crossed illegally into the United States, even if they’ve lived in the country for decades without incident. That contrasts with just 28 judges who have sided with the administration’s view.

Even judges Trump appointed are largely against him: 44 of them have ruled against the administration in mass-detention cases. Twenty Trump-appointed judges have signed off on the policy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256

Winehole23

02-19-2026, 09:15 AM

DHS mandatory detention policy vacated

A federal judge threw out on Wednesday an administrative board's decision endorsing the Trump administration's policy of subjecting thousands of people (https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/) arrested during its immigration crackdown to mandatory detention.

U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes (https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-orders-trump-administration-provide-bond-hearings-detained-migrants-2025-11-25/) in Riverside, California, vacated the decision (https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/lbvgmqqblvq/02182026bond.pdf)

Sykes' Wednesday ruling, in a class action lawsuit that covers migrants nationwide, is more sweeping than decisions by hundreds of other U.S. judges holding the policy is unlawful and ordering detainees to be freed or given bond hearings.

Sykes, appointed by former Democratic President Joe Biden, called the administration's actions "shameless" and accused it of trying to continue its "campaign of illegal action" by still refusing bond hearings despite her prior ruling.

"Respondents have far crossed the boundaries of constitutional conduct," Sykes wrote.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-throws-out-immigration-boards-ruling-endorsing-trump-mass-detention-2026-02-19/