Promise made: mass deportation

[velik_m]

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

...
The dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as Karen and Bill were trying to leave the US. When they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn’t have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them. They were turned back to Montana on the American side – and to US border control officials. Bill’s US visa had expired; Karen’s had not.

“I worried then,” she says. “I was worried for him. I thought, well, at least I am here to support him.”

She didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.

Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

[Winehole23]

deporting the parent then releasing the child to foster parents without parental consent or notification isn't quite human trafficking, but damn close


As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: "They want to steal my daughter!"

It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.

What followed — one foster family's initially successful attempt to win full custody of Alexa — reveals what could happen to some of the infants, children and teens taken from their families at the border under a Trump administration policy earlier this year. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/sessions-parents-children-entering-us-illegally-will-be-separated-n872081)The "zero-tolerance" crackdown ended in June (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-says-he-ll-sign-order-stopping-separation-families-border-n885061), but hundreds of children remain in detention (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dhs-not-prepared-family-separations-under-trump-zero-tolerance-policy-n915916), shelters or foster care and U.S. officials say more than 200 are not eligible for reunification or release.

Federal officials insist they are reuniting families and will continue to do so. But an Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-parents-may-lose-kids-adoption-investigation-finds-n918261

[Winehole23]

here's a case where ICE "lost" an "unattended minor"


Sixteen-year-old Sebastian, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, was driving alone in north Minneapolis when immigration agents apprehended him in early January. Moments before his phone was confiscated, the teenager called his father and told him what was happening.

He is one of many children who have been swept up under Operation Metro Surge. But instead of taking Sebastian to the Whipple Federal Building and sending him to another detention center, the feds sent him to a Christian youth shelter in Michigan.

The government then lost track of his whereabouts for the better part of a week, during which his family searched frantically for their son.


Sebastian’s journey is one of the strangest wrongful-detainment petitions to emerge from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It’s also illustrative of the administration’s new approach to the “unaccompanied minor” system.

Long a designation for youth apprehended while crossing the border alone, the unaccompanied minor system now applies to immigrants detained in interior operations like Metro Surge. The children are sometimes kept from their parents and placed in a vast, increasingly impenetrable network of shelters holding immigrant kids in government custody.

Agents first took Sebastian to Bloomington, where they moved him from one holding area to another before taking him to a local hotel for the night, he told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Four Spanish-speaking agents guarded him but wouldn’t answer his questions.

“I just was thinking, I don’t want them to take me,” he said through a translator. “I asked an agent if they were going to deport me. He said they can’t deport me, but they were going to transport me to a different location.”

In court filings, the teen is known only as “M.S.V.I.” The Minnesota Star Tribune met with him and his father, Manuel, and verified their backgrounds. We’re using their middle names because the family is fearful there could be political retribution for speaking about Sebastian’s detention.

The next day, Sebastian was flown to Michigan, where he was checked into Bridgeway, a short-term residency program owned by Bethany Christian Services. He was given five vaccines in each arm, he said.

For more than a week, Sebastian was unable to leave. He spent most of his time watching television and listening to music in the federally contracted agency. He was permitted to call his father under staff supervision, but he wasn’t allowed to disclose where he was, he said.

Finding him took detective work.

His family contacted Claire Glenn, who, like other Minneapolis lawyers during Operation Metro Surge, pivoted to filing emergency wrongful-detainment petitions.

After a federal judge ordered the government to respond to Sebastian’s case last month, ICE attorney Julie Le wrote in an email, “I have done some research, and it does not appear that this Petitioner is in ICE custody.”

Glenn couldn’t believe it. “Are you saying that you do not have a record of him ever being in ICE custody, or that you have record he was released?” she asked.https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-labeled-a-minnesota-teen-an-unaccompanied-minor-and-lost-him/601578960

[Winehole23]

ain't that some shit


After the feds apprehended Sebastian, they labeled him an “unaccompanied minor” and gave him a new “alien number.” As an asylum-seeker, Sebastian already had an A number, so the second one made him virtually untraceable after DHS transferred him into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the network of federally contracted shelters housing unaccompanied immigrant children.




Once Glenn figured out where Sebastian was, she made a deal with Le to dismiss the wrongful-detainment case in exchange for his release.

[Winehole23]

insanely intrusive screening, completely out of keeping with a free country



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[Winehole23]

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[velik_m]

Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants are ramping up India hiring.

If tech talent can’t come to the U.S., American companies will go where the talent is.

Hiring by Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google has risen sharply in India in recent months. This trend coincides with the growing scrutiny of the H-1B visa, often used by tech companies to bring international talent to the U.S.

There were about 4,200 open positions at these companies in India as of February 5, Anuj Agrawal, founder and CEO of talent advisory and recruitment firm Zyoin Group, told Rest of World.

Of the current openings, just 15% are for entry-level roles that require less than three years of experience, while AI, machine learning, cloud, and cybersecurity roles comprise nearly half of the vacancies.
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In 2025, these companies added around 33,000 workers in India, a roughly 18% increase from the previous year, Bengaluru-based human resources expert N. Shivakumar told Rest of World.

“This probably has been the strongest growth in several years,” Shivakumar said. “There is so much abundance of mature talent available — not just talent which is doing the basic job, but they are into deep tech, deep learning, and they’re heavily into AI.”
...


https://restofworld.org/2026/h1b-visa-impact-india-tech-hiring-faamng/

[Winehole23]

^^^ is rejiggering the US racial mix worth the hit to US innovation and productivity?

[Winehole23]

DHS is rendering people with legal US residency status deportable by stealing their documents and less employable by stealing their work permits


I can’t think of a client I’ve had detained that did not have their documents taken,” says Maria Miller, chair of the Minnesota and Dakotas chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She estimates that 35 of her clients have come out of detention with missing documents.


“It’s more the rule than the exception that people generally are not given their stuff back,” says Graham Ojala-Barbour, a Minneapolis immigration attorney. “As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”


Isabel, a 41-year-old single mother of two from Honduras, was arrested in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, at her monthly immigration check-in last month. (Isabel’s name has been changed to protect her privacy.) Her lawyer immediately filed a habeas petition (https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump), demanding her release from custody. According to court records, Isabel has a pending asylum case, no criminal history, and a five-year work permit, which she uses to work at a factory making baked goods. She was detained for four days in three different places before a federal judge ordered her release, stipulating that the government return Isabel’s belongings and immigration documents.


But when an agent at the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE operations in Minneapolis are based, brought Isabel a plastic bag with her belongings, she opened her wallet to find that her work permit and state ID were missing. Also missing were two checks that she hadn’t yet cashed, worth more than $700, and her daughter’s US passport, which she’d brought to the immigration check-in. When she asked about the missing items, she was told they were probably left behind at one of the jails where Isabel was detained. She eventually got back the checks, but to date, ICE has not returned the other documents.


In the meantime, without her work permit and license, she feels even more vulnerable than she was before her arrest. “When I leave work or go to work, I’m shaking because I’m afraid that I’ll get arrested,” she says.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ice-detention-keeping-not-returning-immigration-documents-work-permits/

[Winehole23]

DHS intimidates children into signing away their rights by threatening lengthy detention and prosecution of sponsors


Specifically, the Processing Advisal tells unaccompanied children (in English and Spanish) that they have “the option to voluntarily return to your country of origin … within 72 hours.” Ex. B. “If you choose to voluntarily return to your country,” the Advisal says, “there will be no 3This declaration was submitted in Garcia Ramirez v. ICE, No. 18-cv-00508 (D.D.C. Nov. 13, 2025). 3 Case 1:25-cv-02942-TJK Document 74 Filed 02/24/26 Page 4 of 17administrative consequence,” and you can “apply for a visa, through legal means, in the future.” Id. But for those who decline to be immediately returned, the document threatens dire consequences. For children who “choose to seek a hearing with an immigration judge or indicate a fear of returning to” their home country, the Advisal warns: (i) “You will be detained in the custody of the United States Government[] for a prolonged period of time”; (ii) your sponsor4 may “be subject to arrest and removal from the United States” and “subject to criminal prosecution for aiding your illegal entry”; and (iii) “[i]f you cannot substantiate your claim of fear of returning to your country, you can be barred from legally applying for a visa.” Id. And for those who “turn 18 years of age while in U.S. Government custody,” the Advisal contends, “you will be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal (deportation) from the United States,” resulting “in being barred from applying for a visa in the future.”https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284360/gov.uscourts.dcd.284360.74.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

background


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[Winehole23]

^^^ the judge who barred removal is a Trump-appointed judge

[Winehole23]

Refoulement is strictly speaking illegal and unconstitutional

Beside that, it's morally depraved




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[Winehole23]

the DHS policy change allowing due-process free third-country removals will blocked in the 1st Circuit in fifteen days unless an appeals court binds it


Judgment will enter for Plaintiffs as follows:

1. The Court DECLARES that 8 C.F.R. § 1240.12(d) requires Defendants, before effecting removal of a class member to any third country, to first seek removal to that class member’s designated country of removal or specified alternative country or countries of removal, as provided in that class member’s final order of removal.

2. The Court DECLARES that 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b) requires Defendants, before effecting removal of a class member pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(2)(E), to first seek removal to that class member’s designated country of removal or country or countries of citizenship, if any.

3. The Court DECLARES that class members have the right to meaningful notice before removal to any third country.

4. The Court DECLARES that class members have the right to a meaningful opportunity to raise a country-specific claim against removal before removal to any third country. 5. The Court DECLARES that Defendants’ third-country removal policy, as embodied in DHS’s March 30, 2025 memorandum, titled “Guidance Regarding Third Country Removals,” and ICE’s July 9, 2025 memorandum, titled “Third Country Removals Following the Supreme Court’s Order in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., No. 24A1153 (U.S. June 23, 2025),” is unlawful and SETS ASIDE that policy.

6. This JUDGMENT is STAYED until fifteen days from date of issuance or until the First Circuit rules on any motion for an administrative stay or stay pending appeal, whichever occurs first.

So Ordered.

Dated: February 25, 2026

/s/ Brian E. Murphy Brian E. Murphy Judge, United States District Court

[Winehole23]

I love that there are zero replies to Cato murking all of Trump's pretexts for mass deportation

The study below 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 nativeshhttps://www.cato.org/white-paper/imm...gets-1994-2023 (https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023)

[Winehole23]

DHS intimidates children into signing away their rights by threatening lengthy detention and prosecution of sponsors

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284360/gov.uscourts.dcd.284360.74.0.pdfback in Obama's time, using immigration detention punitively was frowned on by the Supreme Court

(yes, Obama did it too)

maybe not so much now

[Winehole23]

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 also 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]

the count on both sides is a little higher now, but the ratio hasn't really changed

Trump is on the wrong end of an 85%-15% split in federal district courts on the DHS mandatory detention policy

[velik_m]

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration?

Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

Since the Eisenhower administration, the U.S. hasn’t collected comprehensive statistics on the number of citizens leaving. Yet data on residence permits, foreign home purchases, student enrollments and other metrics from more than 50 countries show that Americans are voting with their feet to an unprecedented degree. A millions-strong diaspora is studying, telecommuting and retiring overseas.

The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.

...

There is no single data set that precisely registers the estimated 4 to 9 million Americans already living outside the U.S. The State Department estimated 1.6 million lived in Mexico in 2022, a number that has likely grown in the postpandemic years—although recent cartel violence has unnerved some expats. Canada’s count, at more than 250,000, doesn’t fully capture dual citizenship, or the flow of Americans whose daily lives straddle the border. The U.K. hosts more than 325,000—part of the more than 1.5 million now living in Europe, per the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, a Paris-based nonprofit.

The figures that exist likely undercount, overlooking locals born to an American parent, students on long-term visas or others exploiting a common loophole: arriving on 90-day tourist visas, leaving for a day to reset and returning for another three months. But a vast and fragmented pile of immigration statistics, stitched together by the Journal, depicts a historic pattern.

In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising. The total living in Portugal has jumped more than 500% since the Covid pandemic and grew by 36% in 2024 alone, official data there showed. In the past 10 years, the number of American residents has nearly doubled in Spain and the Netherlands, and more than doubled in the Czech Republic.

Last year, more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved to America. The same was true in Ireland, which welcomed 10,000 people from the U.S. in 2025, about double those who came in 2024.

....

The figures that exist likely undercount, overlooking locals born to an American parent, students on long-term visas or others exploiting a common loophole: arriving on 90-day tourist visas, leaving for a day to reset and returning for another three months. But a vast and fragmented pile of immigration statistics, stitched together by the Journal, depicts a historic pattern.

In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising. The total living in Portugal has jumped more than 500% since the Covid pandemic and grew by 36% in 2024 alone, official data there showed. In the past 10 years, the number of American residents has nearly doubled in Spain and the Netherlands, and more than doubled in the Czech Republic.

Last year, more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved to America. The same was true in Ireland, which welcomed 10,000 people from the U.S. in 2025, about double those who came in 2024.
If there was any thought that this was a fleeting pandemic-era experiment of laptop nomads logging in from distant shores, data hints at its longevity. The U.S. government has a monthslong backlog of Americans asking to renounce their citizenship, either to secure a foreign passport or to avoid taxation of their earnings abroad. In 2024, requests jumped 48% and likely outpaced that in 2025, immigration firms say.

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In his rallies, Trump has mused about attracting Norwegian immigrants. But the number of Norwegians living in the U.S. has fallen over the past 10 years, and in 2024, it crossed a symbolic milestone: There are now more natural-born Americans living in Norway than Norwegian-born residents in the U.S.

Evidence is mounting that the draw of expatriate life extends beyond the cost of living. Last year the dollar weakened 12% against the euro, yet the influx of new U.S. residents accelerated in all of the large euro countries—France, Italy, Spain, Germany—and continued in smaller nations like Slovenia and Portugal.

“I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans,” said Michael Le Blanc, a 56-year-old former creative producer at Adobe and Paramount now freelancing from Lisbon, as he bought a hefty plastic bottle of Hidden Valley ranch dressing and Pillsbury Funfetti cake mix at one of the city’s American stores. “I’m trying to learn the language but it’s a real challenge.”

He moved with his two children after the second active shooter scare at his 8-year-old son’s Los Angeles school. In the six months since, his wife, Stephanie, a 42-year-old academic adviser in the U.S., has found work selling Lisbon real estate to incoming Americans. Some 58% of foreign buyers in Portugal are from the U.S., and house prices have doubled in five years in some of the upmarket historical districts.

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International students coming to America fell by 17% last fall and is expected to decline more quickly in years to come—while the cohort of Americans obtaining a degree in Europe has doubled from 2011, rising 14% last year alone in the U.K., according to UCAS, the British university admissions service.

Prince William’s alma mater, Scotland’s elite University of St. Andrews, receives so many Americans it is now sometimes referred to as “mini-Nantucket.”

Of the 12 American students the Journal spoke to for this story, studying across Spain, Scotland and England, only one planned to return to the U.S.

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa

[Winehole23]

another Trump judge orders yet another illegally detained person released

seems DHS honors the law more in the breach than the observance



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[Winehole23]

WV court puts state and federal officials on notice that there will be consequences for breaking the law


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This court will not permit constitutional violations to proceed piecemeal while officials await appellate reversal of rulings they are presently bound to obey. If systematic violations continue despite repeated judicial findings of unconstitutionality, this court will employ the full range of its inherent authority, including (1) injunctive relief prohibiting detention without individualized custody determinations,(2) contempt proceedings against officials who defy this court’s orders or constitutional rulings, (3) monetary sanctions against responsible officials, and (4) any other such other relief as may be necessary to vindicate constitutional rights and enforce this Court’s rulings.

The Constitution requires immediate compliance with judicial determinations, not continuation of violations pending appeal.

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

But ok for this foreign born immigrant to sit in the potus seat


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations on Thursday said would be a first.

When the wife of President Donald Trump takes her seat in the president’s chair on Monday afternoon, it “will be the first time a first lady, or first gentleman for that matter, has ever presided over a Security Council meeting,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-united-nations-security-council-a73e49e3062a991c634292cee89220ed

[Winehole23]

19 guys we sent to CECOT want to come back to contest their designation as gang members


19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.


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[Winehole23]

DHS losing habeas cases ass over teakettle in Maine


“People were held in detention facilities for weeks for an immigration judge to essentially find that they were not a danger or a flight risk and should be released,” said Jenny Beverly, an immigration attorney in Portland and a former immigration judge. “That tells me that the arrests were needless to begin with.”https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/01/mainers-detained-by-ice-are-coming-home-by-the-dozens/

[Winehole23]

Arizona entrepreneur released


Her release came after U.S. District Court Judge Krissa Lanham granted a habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf. The petition argued that her continued detention had become punitive because deportation was not imminent.https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/west-valley-sushi-shop-owner-released-from-ice-detention-after-eight-months-arizona/75-70353573-e7ca-4566-9492-d7a41a4f1af2

[Blake]

DHS losing habeas cases ass over teakettle in Maine

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/01/mainers-detained-by-ice-are-coming-home-by-the-dozens/

Yeah they're just flooding the courtrooms at this point. There's nothing they lose by doing what they're currently doing.

[Winehole23]

Yeah they're just flooding the courtrooms at this point. There's nothing they lose by doing what they're currently doing.well, they're losing in federal district courts

pissing off judges and forfeiting the presumption of regularity in federal district courts isn't nothing, it used to be a main prosecutorial advantage for DOJ, courts presumed the honesty and professional competence of federal filings absent specific evidence it wasn't reliable

now their word's no good, because they lied to too many courts

[Blake]

Yeah but at the end of the day, no one is being held criminally, civilly or even workplace policy accountable for all of this incompetent and illegal behavior, including the public execution of two US citizens.

At least not yet.

[Winehole23]

Yeah but at the end of the day, no one is being held criminally, civilly or even workplace policy accountable for all of this incompetent and illegal behavior, including the public execution of two US citizens.

At least not yet.that's not technically true, contempt fines have already been laid

the courts will have to figure out what to do with a faithless government

[Winehole23]

Also, when the government loses a lot in court, people notice

not necessarily to the advantage of the current political majority

[Winehole23]

courts aren't frictionless, the whole system is vendible

and DOJ keeps shrinking

$$$

[Winehole23]

DHS arrested the wrong guy for looking latino, then detained him constructively

(Judge Brown was appointed by Trump)



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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Nuremburg 2.0 is coming


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:kkjomzfxvdwfsma2hgp3lnf5/bafkreihwbk3cleiaup3jqj3v7etwb3p6vn3fzvk2qtokg4lev nl442ebfq@jpeghttps://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34

[Winehole23]

arbitrary and abusive detention seems to be official policy, cases like this are not unusual



A judge ordered the release of a man with lawful permanent resident status — who twice won bond before an immigration court — but has remained detained for 200 days because of the Trump administration's use of a (previously) little used "automatic stay."





The Court concludes Petitioner has been deprived of his Due Process rights. Accordingly, the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is GRANTED as follows.

1. Respondents are ORDERED to immediately release Petitioner from custody.

2. Respondents shall make accommodations available for Petitioner until such time as arrangements can be made for Petitioner to be returned to the location of arrest or other location agreed by the parties.

3. Petitioner shall promptly report to the Court any failure to comply with this Order by Respondent.

4. Petitioner may submit an application for fees under the EAJA within thirty days of the entry of final judgment.

5. It is FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents are enjoined from relocating Petitioner outside the jurisdiction of this Court prior to compliance with this Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.



DATED: March 4, 2026

/s/ Douglas Harpool
DOUGLAS HARPOOL
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE


https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...188939.7.0.pdf (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mowd.188939/gov.uscourts.mowd.188939.7.0.pdf)

[Winehole23]

Norwegian diabetic denied medicine (and overmedicated) in ICE detention


Nonetheless, Hanne had to be placed in medical isolation on November 21 because she became severely ill after being "denied treatment." During the four days in medical isolation, antibiotics were requested to treat her infections, but she said she never received them.


Much of the available food was carbohydrate-heavy (such as rice, pasta and oats), which requires careful insulin dosing before and after. As that was not provided, Hanne lost 10 pounds in just nine days, leaving her severely weakened.
https://www.newsweek.com/diabetic-woman-arrested-by-ice-almost-died-after-being-refused-insulin-11611498

[Winehole23]

"It was checked by finger prick glucose test when I was sent to medical on the 20th at around 9:30 a.m. because I was feeling severe symptoms of hyperglycemia. I was tested and the number was 508. I was starving, extremely weak, and experiencing severe symptoms of hyperglycemia. I blacked out multiple times, collapsing to the floor and regaining vision seconds later. I also developed multiple infections."

[Winehole23]

22 alleged TdA members who were sent to CECOT want to come back to the US knowing they will be detained, to contest their gang designations


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vrmx2e5gsi23srsy2n7vljvb/bafkreiafsw6xnnvximalvzi2yxgdc4ecoxe2jnw4vigigb66w bap6jtqg4@jpeghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.257.0.pdf

[Blake]

that's not technically true, contempt fines have already been laid

the courts will have to figure out what to do with a faithless government

Where have they been laid?

Even so, meh.... that's not justice.

[Winehole23]

daily arrest quotas, due-process free racial profiling


The US judge Mustafa Kasubhai sharply criticized ICE’s tactics in Woodburn, noting Elite could surface inaccurate information and lead to targeting of people lawfully in the US. He also said JB’s claims of human smuggling were “unfounded” and “inappropriate” and that ICE targeted the area simply because many farm workers lived there.

The arrested farm workers were among at least 35 people (https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/ice-detains-29-people-in-woodburn-immigrant-rights-coalition-says.html) detained by ICE that day in the Woodburn area, the judge noted, writing: “To serve the president’s demands for 3,000 immigration arrests each day nationally, evidence shows that ICE officers deployed to Oregon communities and arrested an ‘extraordinary’ number of Oregonians in October of 2025 with little regard for conducting lawful arrests.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon

[Winehole23]

Where have they been laid?

Even so, meh.... that's not justice.most good things take time, justice takes even longer

we're in a bad moment, the challenge is not to stay there

[Winehole23]

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...Trump starts WW3?

All bets off...

[Winehole23]

Where have they been laid?

Even so, meh.... that's not justice.I think I posted it elsewhere, but if a link would gratify you I can dig one up

[Winehole23]

Driving US agricultural wages down

Trump administration putting its thumb on the scale for migrants


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vigjrjdxctfd2xk6wnxgohq4/bafkreigisrw3k6y7b6iyhrc3xnpevkcv5bjovofltrdrtpe7f uw7scswr4https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/farm-labor-trump-migrant-workers-h2a.html

[Winehole23]

Trump usually succumbs to the system of patronage, corruption limits the animus against foreigners

[Winehole23]

lol corruption as a moral restrainer

[Winehole23]

that's how evil Trump is, his corruptibility limits the harm of his policies

withholding harm is the basic gambit of extortion

[BadMotorscooter]

that's how evil Trump is, his corruptibility limits the harm of his policies

withholding harm is the basic gambit of extortion


You snowflakes crying a river.....lmao. You shouldnt have let CamelToe run after the cryptkeeper quit. Trump won all swing states and the popular vote....how does that happen when he is 34 count convicted felon unless your party is just an absolute joke? And you think Newsom or AOC is the answer in 2028?....:lmao Easy money for me to pick republicans again......have fun with your meltdown when JD Vance wins. I told you dumbass democrats that Shapiro would win against Trump in 2024.....and Im telling you again he would win in 2028 but your party doesnt want a moderate anymore. You even pulled Biden to the far left.

[Winehole23]

^^^ JD Vance/Josh Shapiro fancier

[Winehole23]

anything on topic?

many handles are provided itt

[BadMotorscooter]

Its not rocket science....its why Crockett a far leftie lost to a left moderate in Texas. But democrats want to double down on stupidity and pick a far lefty like Newson or AOC instead of a guy like Josh Shapiro who won a republican leaning Pennsylvania.

[BadMotorscooter]

You tell me Einstein(Wine Ho)....why did you lose to Trump twice and lose control of the house and the senate if your party is so smart and progressive?....

[ChumpDumper]

You tell me Einstein(Wine Ho)....why did you lose to Trump twice and lose control of the house and the senate if your party is so smart and progressive?....Mostly because many Americans are petulant children like you.

Why are you so stupid that you voted for this guy who started this stupid war and drove all your costs up for no reason?

[Winehole23]

illegal detainment tracker


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qbhe7fhie2ggsw6cp33sgrjd/bafkreidjruzhsr2xfslclsmbiboa3erfzdgwd7wn7txor5vmc abcxfxegehttps://projects.propublica.org/habeas-tracker/

[Winehole23]

Contempt proceedings blocked again

https://www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit-trump-appointees-again

[Blake]

Contempt proceedings blocked again

https://www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit-trump-appointees-again

Running roughshod.

Republicans are such sycophants

[Winehole23]

believe it or not, there's a relatively quick, proven solution to declining population rates



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[Winehole23]

(the GOP turning into a pro-teen pregnancy party WAS on my 2026 bingo card)

[Blake]

believe it or not, there's a relatively quick, proven solution to declining population rates

Looks like she's pro- teen births?

[Winehole23]

sure does

[Blake]

She also sounds like a spoiled right wing radio church indoctrinated brat that thinks living in 1950s suburbia with her Pinterest and Facebook would be a slice of heaven. Just guessing.

[Winehole23]

discharge petition leads to a bill approving TPR for 350,000 Haitians -- it passed the House with 10 Republicans voting yes

House bowing up to Trump's ethnic cleansing program just a little bit


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[Winehole23]

The whole world wanting to come to America has made us safer and so much richer over the years

Trump wants to put an end to that and kill the golden goose

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bgt62gzl3y5ke7b45xi5vkvu/bafkreiddzdwe4vgx4ylyuc3hbi2tvrgcjayjghebnmrkmeiu4 3ynisjcbm


Trump: "For the first time in more than 50 years, we now have reverse migration. A beautiful thing actually."

[Winehole23]

"I made the United States into a country nobody wants to come to and many want to leave"

[Winehole23]

Republicans are on the wrong end of a 4-1 split


When asked if immigration is generally a good thing or bad thing for the country, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults call it a good thing; a record-low 17% see it as a bad thing.


This is consistent with the long-term pattern of more Americans viewing immigration as helpful than harmful to the country. But today’s endorsement is up from 64% last year and represents a reversal of the downward trend seen in this view from 2021 to 2024.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:6atndoisyyyqwmqz6bxcdesm/bafkreictzeuwvixpc5rxvkja2o3cdbzrydbhyoqc2vm7fcax4 wtt5cm7mq

[Winehole23]

before the Texas Rangers got professionalized, they were more or less an eliminationist death squad

this is from Greg Grandin's END OF THE MYTH

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:dsbpb3w7glnyddtbewg73g74/bafkreicok2u2ypgomtfdbl7y5kmay7ienc5iyb5dvpkx5iit4 fwhitnvs4

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https://greggrandin.com/book/the-end-of-the-myth-from-the-frontier-to-the-border-wall-in-the-mind-of-america/

[Winehole23]

this is unambiguously bad for the USA



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vhl3hxl4qkpoyyu3knbf7n3c/bafkreib4mi3tsbuj37mkrucpkvd7ftmhxfibdctlspn5olro2 lsfx3gwhihttps://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration

[Winehole23]

McCarthyism 2.0


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[Winehole23]

pure viewpoint discrimination

[Winehole23]

this and chain refoulement need to be prosecuted as crimes


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dzezcmpb3fhcpns4n4xm4ur5/bafkreif6vlficybxgfbyzh5e7ebkrtz6vls2imlnmm6nmo6th y7clhukwuhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/politics/migrant-children-deportations-trump

[Winehole23]

"Children as young as 4 are being forced to repeatedly appear in court and provide updates on their case, at times without legal help, within a matter of weeks.

"Children are feeling 'enormous pressure' and some wet their pants when they have to go to court..."

[Winehole23]

lol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eivqo2tskdfn4dbrm3dv2mku/bafkreig42hdwqwrilnq3taskkbuqz7yjbsces6dlsep2u56ko ctwlz6jd4

[Winehole23]

mass deportation is bad for public safety


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rjczpaotvf22sva3wheiwmgk/bafkreid2n55osoaru72fmxnjbsp3zgltww3jjvjrynv6my7ms zldhvczlm

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rjczpaotvf22sva3wheiwmgk/bafkreif5rxgniubntggq5lsdyg4wehvzc4ssgturlfz2nmdvw i4lhcdrbahttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-trumps-minneapolis-immigration-blitz-hobbled-federal-crime-fighting-2026-05-07/

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

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Spot on.

Then the next argument from Trump tards is that illegals drain our tax dollar...... while they have no problem with a billion dollar ballroom and a stupid war that nobody but Trump wanted.

[Winehole23]

Spot on.

Then the next argument from Trump tards is that illegals drain our tax dollar...... while they have no problem with a billion dollar ballroom and a stupid war that nobody but Trump wanted.like the public safety argument, the public charge argument is untethered to facts -- pure folklore and demagoguery

[Winehole23]

I love that there are zero replies to Cato murking all of Trump's pretexts for mass deportation

The study below 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

https://www.cato.org/white-paper/imm...gets-1994-2023 (https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023)

[ChumpDumper]

President Trump & Gov. DeSantis confirm Florida will deputize National Guardsmen as immigration judges

Instead of waiting 3 years for a deportation decision, it will be made in less than 3 days at Alligator Alcatraz

RONWho doing the what where now?

2054304339057909827

https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2054304339057909827

[Winehole23]

when the government loses in court 10,000 times, it's breaking the law and violating people's rights




Ten thousand losses.

That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.

Trump’s unprecedented detention policy (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/ice-detention-immigration-policy-00573850), which is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court, infuriated lower courts in ways no other modern issue has. It ruptured the relationship between the Justice Department and the judiciary; pitted the administration against itself; and upended innumerable lives — not just of the people swept up by immigration agents, but of their spouses and children, many of whom are U.S. citizens.



POLITICO is tracking the tens of thousands of detention cases that have flooded the system since ICE adopted its detention policy last July. Today we are releasing a full database of those rulings (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/mandatory-detention-ice-cases-rulings-database-00913988), giving the public an opportunity to see under the hood of our reporting — which has documented the courts’ lopsided results (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/trump-judges-immigration-detention-00784614?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it), ICE’s tactics for defying judges’ orders (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-immigration-detention-court-orders-00771727) and the rising tensions between the judiciary and the Trump administration (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/ice-immigration-court-orders-00757894).

The trend is clear from every angle. The administration has lost nearly 10,400 of the cases that have been decided, and prevailed in about 1,200. While some judges have heard more cases than others, the overwhelming majority of judges — more than 425 — have reached the same conclusion. Even a majority of Trump-appointed judges (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256) have sided against the administration.


https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195

[Winehole23]

9-1 loss to win ratio for DOJ

historically dismal

[Winehole23]

ICE's mandatory detention guidance is stayed and arrests at immigration courtrooms in NY will stop





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[Winehole23]

racist immigration policy


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n74wy26n6klbv7xgrndeog7s/bafkreifjsivqdw4dlmztxsu4272nov2ywljt62ss4qvyrav6q t2ygnc5zm

[Winehole23]

Criminal case against Kilmar Abrego dismissed as vindictive prosecution -- punishment for successfully challenging his illegal detention

DOJ keeps piling up the L's

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.312.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

The person who initiated the vindictive prosecution against Abrego is Todd Blanche, , the current acting US AG

[velik_m]

DHS Quits Granting Green Cards—Almost Entirely

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday that it will cease granting green card applications except in extraordinary circumstances. In short, DHS grants green cards when a qualified immigrant who is inside the United States applies to adjust their status to legal permanent residence. Now, every legal immigrant must leave the country—that is, self-deport—even if they are qualified for a green card and even if leaving would disqualify them.

The policy is a radical expansion of DHS’s “quiet quitting” on legal immigration that has been going on for months. As I previously detailed, DHS—or, more precisely, its component known as US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)—has slashed green card approvals in half over the last year. This drop came primarily from not processing applications. Now USCIS’s new memorandum details a plan for mass denials. USCIS has gone from the “quiet-quit” to walking out on 1.2 million green card applicants.

...

The memo doesn’t explicitly cover asylees and Cuban Adjustment Act cases because it only discusses adjustment of status under one particular section of the law, but it notes that only a few categories—like refugees admitted abroad—have mandatory adjustment of status processing guarantees in law and would be exempt from the logic of the memo (i.e., that adjustment of status is discretionary and disfavored). Therefore, there is reason to believe that the same policy could eventually be used for Cubans and asylees, even though there is no way for them to be granted an immigrant visa. The only way to receive permanent residence is through adjustment of status. As the figure above shows, USCIS has stopped processing these humanitarian categories anyway.

The upshot of USCIS’s bizarre new policy is that the vast majority of the 1.2 million backlogged legal immigrants with pending green card applications for legal permanent residence will have to self-deport. This includes spouses of US citizens and legal permanent residents, as well as their minor children. It includes skilled H‑1B and L‑1 workers who have often waited for over a decade or more for green cards, along with their spouses and minor children.

Further implications:



Forcing green card applicants to leave will render many green card applicants’ ineligible because, when they leave the United States, they will trigger the 3- or 10-year bars on receiving an immigrant visa based on accrual of unlawful presence.
It may cost them their jobs and, therefore, their sponsorship if visa delays prevent them from returning quickly (which is guaranteed to happen based on the flood of new applications).
It will cause them to be subject to the Trump administration’s 75-country immigrant visa suspension and 40-country travel ban (92 total countries)—or half the immigrant visa flow.
It will cause them to forfeit hundreds of millions in application fees.
It will force them to apply at consulates where the doctrine of consular nonreviewability protects any denial from judicial review, and there is no administrative appeals process.
When people are denied, if their underlying status has expired, they will be eligible for arrest and deportation—juicing ICE’s deportation machine.





https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely

[Winehole23]

lawyers at DOJ nope-ing out

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[Winehole23]

actual 13th amendment violations -- immigrant detainees by and large aren't convicts


Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free.https://prospect.org/2026/05/28/delaney-hall-ice-detainees-take-aim-at-geo-groups-bottom-line/

[Winehole23]

administrative detainees are not subject to forced labor under the exception to the 13th Amendment, unless they were previously criminal convicts

[Winehole23]

ICE sued over inhumane conditions at west Texas concentration camp


Filed by the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU, the Texas Civil Rights Project and law firm Farella Braun + Martel, the federal lawsuit (https://www.texastribune.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Camp-EM-lawsuit.pdf) comes less than a year after the opening of the sprawling tent camp.

In that time, the facility has seen (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/ice-detention-deaths-texas-east-montana-dilley-campos/)at least three detainee deaths (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/ice-detention-deaths-texas-east-montana-dilley-campos/), a (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/texas-ice-detention-measles-east-montana-dilley-el-paso/)measles outbreak (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/texas-ice-detention-measles-east-montana-dilley-el-paso/) and nearly 50 (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/03/texas-el-paso-camp-east-montana-immigration-inspection-violations/)detention standards violations (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/03/texas-el-paso-camp-east-montana-immigration-inspection-violations/) as reported by ICE’s own inspectors, prompting calls for the camp’s closure from immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers (https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/26/democrats-veronica-escobar-detention-deaths-texas-east-montana-campos/).

The civil rights groups behind the lawsuit also alleged in a December letter (https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-migrant-detention-fort-bliss-abuse-allegations-aclu-report/) that detained immigrants were subject to medical neglect, physical and sexual abuse by officers, insufficient food and denial of meaningful access to attorneys. In March, ICE switched out (https://apnews.com/article/ice-detention-facility-camp-east-montana-conditions-contract-c7d369ed5fcbe19d87868b9b337f5211) the facility’s prime operator for a more experienced contractor, saying the agency would “work closely with them” to improve services, including higher standards of medical care.

Still, in a subsequent letter (https://www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/2026/05/Camp-East-Montana-Letter-May-2026.pdf) to ICE dated May 22, the groups said the situation “continued to deteriorate” and outlined additional complaints such as hazardous dust exposure.

Friday’s lawsuit argues that conditions at the facility are “unconstitutional punishment” and violate detainees’ due process rights under the Fifth Amendment.

“These conditions are longstanding, pervasive, and well documented, and Defendants’ continued inaction in the face of known risks shows their deliberate indifference — not mere negligence — to detainees’ constitutional rights,” the lawsuit said.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/30/texas-ice-camp-east-montana-conditions-lawsuit/

[Winehole23]

human-warehouse boondoggle


DHS and ICE officials have identified several of the eleven previously purchased warehouses, some of which were expected to be repurposed to hold as many as 8,000 immigrants, for potential sale, the officials said. But, they said, the facilities have not yet been put on the market, and no final decisions have been made on the matter.



The warehouses were purchased under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as part of a plan to build the capacity to detain 100,000 immigrants across the country at a single time. They were in addition to existing facilities capable of detaining tens of thousands of immigrants. The total cost of the warehouse purchases was estimated at over $38 billion. (https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt971/files/media/media_document/merrimack-nh-detention-reengineering-initiative-final.pdf)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-eyes-selling-mega-warehouses-purchased-mass-detention-rcna347592

[Winehole23]

Bovino hobnobs with EU neo-nazis


As a term, “remigration” was popularized (https://www.csohate.org/2026/01/20/remigration/) by one of the Portugal summit’s main organizers, the Austrian white nationalist Martin Sellner, who Bovino indicated was a friend. “Martin Sellner, you’ve invited me here today. Thank you,” Bovino said in his speech. “Your ideas, we’ve talked a lot on that, and those ideas mirror each other. We’ve never talked before, face-to-face, until yesterday and we were on the same sheet of music almost immediately.”


It should be a giant scandal that an only-recently retired top American immigration official — who led the Trump administration’s siege and occupation of Chicago and Minneapolis by border patrol agents, terrorizing immigrant families and killing two protesters — has admitted to an ongoing relationship with someone like Sellner.


At age 17, Sellner admitted (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47822454) to vandalizing a Vienna synagogue with a swastika. Years later, he became a leader in Generation Identity, the pan-European white nationalist group. In 2019, he accepted a donation (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/16/christchurch-shooters-links-to-austrian-far-right-more-extensive-than-thought) from, and exchanged emails with, a man named Brenton Tarrant, who a short time later massacred 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2023, an investigation (https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue-rechte/2024/01/10/geheimplan-remigration-vertreibung-afd-rechtsextreme-november-treffen/) by the news outlet Correctiv found that Sellner orchestrated a clandestine gathering with members of the German political party AfD to hash out a “remigration” plan that would expel all refugees and immigrants, regardless of their legal status, along with “unassimilated citizens,” from Germany, sending them to a “model state” in North Africa. The scheme was Sellner’s idea, and hearkened back to “The Madagascar Plan,” the German Nazi Party’s initial idea to send all Jews to the African island country.
In his speech in Portugal, Bovino described his own conversations with Sellner as “very special.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/greg-bovinos-retirement-plan-go-full-fascist

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Judge blocks series of Trump administration immigration policies adopted following National Guard shooting in DC last November. Judge John McConnell (Obama/RI) says holds on USCIS asylum grants & work permits are illegal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28199744-dorcasopn060526/)

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In ruling on these motions, the Court is reminded of a line often repeated indiscussions around immigration policy: If people wish to immigrate to the UnitedStates, they ought to “follow the law” and “do things the right way.” This case servesas a perfect example of immigrants doing just that.Plaintiffs and their membershave observed the legal processes that Congress enacted by statute and USCISpromulgated by regulation so that they may one day obtain immigration benefits.They have, for example, filed the appropriate paperwork, paid the required filing fees,submitted to the requested biometrics collections, and attended the necessary in-person interviews.Even so, Plaintiffs and their members are stuck waiting, formonths on end, for benefit requests that USCIS refuses to adjudicate.

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But the rule of law has to apply to everyone equally and, as evident here, USCIS has neither “followed the law” nor “done things the right way.”Indeed, the agency has violated the very immigration laws that Congress has charged it with administering, as well as the administrative laws that govern the agency’s actions. In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of “national security” that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.

In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious

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Accordingly, as set forth below, each of the Challenged Policies that USCIS enacted — the Benefits Hold Policy, the Global Asylum Hold Policy, the Comprehensive Re-Review Policy, and the Country-Specific Factors Policy — are declared unlawful and are vacated and set aside.

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When USCIS first enacted the policies at the center of this litigation, the agency did not simply place a hold on adjudications. More fundamentally, the Challenged Policies placed the lives of countless individuals on hold—solely by virtue of their countries of birth. Over six months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, and without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures. Ultimately, it is not the Court’s role to pass on the wisdom of the Government’s policy choices. Under our constitutional system, those judgments are reserved for the political branches. It is, however, the Court’s duty to determine whether the Government’s policies comport with the law. Having undertaken that inquiry, the Court concludes that they do not and therefore must be set aside.

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remarkable

CECOT couldn't kill the dream


"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," he said. "But in my heart, I'm American."https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-hernandez-romero-spain-asylum

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white power bullshit


in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans.

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Trump 2.0 honors the constitution and the law more in the breach than the observance -- as evidenced by the thousands of losses piling up in federal district courts.

DOJ has been eating shit in federal court and it's getting worse the weaker Trump gets.

This is a multi-pronged loss for Trump, but the intended violation of law was complex, absolutely contemptuous, and of purportedly universal scope.


A federal judge on Friday vacated a series of President Trump’s (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/)policies enacted in the wake of a deadly attack on National Guard members, forcing immigration agencies to again process applications from citizens of nearly 40 countries.

In the days surrounding last Thanksgiving, Trump barred the processing (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5635199-noem-trump-travel-ban-30-countries/) of any immigration application for those from 39 travel ban countries, halting the ability to get green cards and leading to widespread cancellation of naturalization ceremonies.

He also put a stop to the processing of asylum claims from any country and ordered a review of all immigration benefits bestowed to those from the 39 travel ban countries under former President Biden.

Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell found all of the actions were unlawful.

“More than six months ago, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (‘USCIS’) enacted a series of policies that threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo,” McConnell wrote in the 135-page ruling (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72369535/28/dorcas-international-institute-of-rhode-island-v-united-states-citizenship/).



“USCIS’s hold on adjudications cannot be attributed to anything that these individuals did wrong; rather, it arises solely by the happenstance of their birth.”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5912086-immigration-applications-trump-policies-vacated/

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"the immigrants did everything right, the US government broke the law"


“In ruling on these motions, the Court is reminded of a line often repeated in discussions around immigration policy: If people wish to immigrate to the United States, they ought to ‘follow the law’ and ‘do things the right way.’ This case serves as a perfect example of immigrants doing just that,” he wrote.

“But the rule of law has to apply to everyone equally and, as evident here, USCIS has neither ‘followed the law’ nor ‘done things the right way.’ Indeed, the agency has violated the very immigration laws that Congress has charged it with administering.”

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Inumane conditions in the American immigration gulag

An overwhelming majority of the detainees have committed no crime and present no danger to the community outside


“The conditions in this prison are not fit for human beings over such a long period of time: medical neglect, water unfit for consumption, food that is past its expiration date and in poor condition, bathrooms that are unusable, and ventilation systems that have never been maintained and because of this, we are constantly sick,” the latestletter (https://www.lahuelga.com/freedom) reads. “We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”


The first three letters released by striking detainees also listed a series of demands: a meeting with New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, who has come under fire (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/new-jersey-delaney-hall-governor) from protesters; the release of sick and elderly detainees; for immigration cases to proceed more quickly; and for immigration officials to stop pressuring them to sign documents agreeing to be deported.
​ttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/07/ice-jail-new-jersey-delaney-hallttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/07/ice-jail-new-jersey-delaney-hall

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the process isn't speedy for many, immigration courts are backlogged



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13th Amendment forced labor loophole doesn't apply to civil detainees -- or shouldn't


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oh look, another illegal Trump tax


A federal judge has ruled Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unauthorized tax on businesses and must be vacated.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.293201/gov.uscourts.mad.293201.106.0.pdf

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US refuses to admit top African referee for the World Cup


In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...e

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deportation of US citizens is probably already happening


When immigration agents seize “unaccompanied alien children,” a term referring to undocumented kids who have no parent or legal guardian in the United States, those kids don’t (https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management) usually go into ICE detention. Instead, ICE hands them over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (https://acf.gov/orr/fact-sheet/programs/uc/fact-sheet), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services that Congress tasked with those children’s custody and care.


In July 2025, ORR Acting Director Angie Salazar announced (https://www.kut.org/politics/2026-02-11/texas-trump-immigration-pregnant-migrants-shelter?ref=autonomynews.co) a new custodial policy: “any pregnant children” should be placed in a particular group home in San Benito, Texas, a small city near the Mexican border—and far from the obstetric care that those children, and their children, are likely to need.


The policy change alarmed several ORR officials, who told reporters at The California Newsroom and The Texas Newsroom that the Trump administration was “playing politics with children’s health.” The officials provided agency leadership with a list of facilities far better-equipped to handle the girls’ pregnancies. But higher-ups ignored their objections. Since Salazar issued her directive last year, the Trump administration has sent more than a dozen pregnant children to the ORR shelter in San Benito. Some of them were as young as 13. At least half of them were pregnant as a result of rape. All of them had high-risk pregnancies. And now, they and their babies are missing (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/pregnant-minors-texas-ice-facility).


When Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro visited the San Benito facility in early April 2026, he saw (https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2026-04-07/rep-castro-inspects-san-benito-immigration-detention-center-housing-pregnant-minors) several teenagers who were pregnant or had recently given birth, and their newborn infants. But when Oregon Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, a physician, inspected the facility on April 24, she saw no children, and shelter staff refused (https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/29/maxine-dexter-san-benito-texas-office-of-refugee-resettlement-pregnant-unaccompanied-minors-immigrant-women-girls/) to answer her questions about where the girls were.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birthright-citizenship-missing-girls-and-babies/

[velik_m]

Trump DOJ to denaturalize 17 US citizens in rare move

...

Denaturalization is rare in the US and can only occur in federal court. Denaturalization is only for US citizens who received US nationality via the citizenship process.

Birthright citizenship is protected by the US Constitution and is explicitly granted to any individual born under the legal jurisdiction of the US federal government.

But the Trump administration is also going after birthright citizenship.

An executive order signed by Trump early in his presidency sought to revoke birthright citizenship to Americans born to undocumented parents.

The Trump administration is also targeting foreigners who come to US territory to give birth to a US citizen baby, a phenomenon known as "birth tourism."

The US Supreme Court is expected to issue a possible decision by the end of this month regarding the Trump executive order to end automatic birthright citizenship.

...



https://www.dw.com/en/trump-doj-to-denaturalize-17-us-citizens-in-rare-move/a-77466080

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sounds like fraud, waste and abuse


A new federal watchdog report (https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108886.pdf) has found severe violations at one of the country's largest immigration detention centers, including millions of dollars wasted, detainee health endangered, and the destruction or loss of evidence in a detainee death investigation.


The report, produced by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), focuses on Camp East Montana. The facility opened in August 2025 on the grounds of the U.S. Army's sprawling Fort Bliss military installation in El Paso, Texas. The facility canhold up to 5,000 immigrants.


But the detention center, formerly operated by Acquisition Logistics LLC and since March operated by Amentum Services, has been dogged by problems and has not been running at full capacity. The report found millions of dollars wasted on meals and operations billed at full capacity even when the actual detainee population was far lower.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5853534/report-ice-wasted-millions-endangered-detainees-in-largest-immigration-facility

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tearing American families apart for no good reason



According to the data, only 3% of individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction.


The data also showed that in the first eight months of 2025, ICE apprehended the parents of approximately 14,450 U.S.-born children. More than 9,700 children saw at least one parent placed into immigration detention -- more than in previous years. Of those detained, parents of more than 7,000 children were eventually deported.
In the first eight months of 2025, ICE also apprehended 4,843 spouses of U.S. citizens. During the first seven months of the term, more than 2,000 of these spouses were deported.https://abcnews.com/US/advocates-decry-targeting-migrants-thousands-us-citizens-spouses/story?id=133821385

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the conditions of detention in ICE facilities are bad enough, but holding people not guilty nor suspected of any crime longer than a year is barbaric



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all the chain refoulements need to be prosecuted as jailhouse felonies, for anyone who willingly took part

that includes the airlines and participating LE

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https://www.bing.com/th/id/OGC.3604564632f6c7e304a77902f0308950?o=7&cb=thfc1falcon2&pid=1.7&rm=3&rurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia1.tenor.com%2fm%2f8CPvdgIH cZ4AAAAC%2frookie-numbers.gif&ehk=V2nW6PVv4oFBNpnmIEcT6MjzxVDVkb5e3A2HqksjbwQ%3d


Ramirez and Valdez are among the dozens of U.S. citizens and immigrants who are seeking financial compensation for damages they say they suffered during President Trump’s immigration dragnet. For Valdez, that includes the cost of hospital visits, lost wages as she recovered, anxiety medication and seeing a therapist.


After reviewing public accounts and legal documents and interviews with more than a dozen lawyers and immigrants, The Times found that claimants from across the country are seeking at least $260 million.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-05-26/those-caught-in-trump-immigration-dragnet-seek-millions-for-raids-shootings-trauma

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A sudden halt in South Korea’s low-skilled guest worker program led to firm closures, production disruptions, and wage declines for native Korean workers.
https://www.nber.org/digest/202606/what-happens-when-flow-immigrant-workers-suddenly-stops

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Concentration camps are very unpopular in the USA



[I]n a major turnabout, the agency is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.


The decision to sharply scale back the warehouse plan is a rejection of a signature initiative under the previous homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who pushed the boundaries of what the government can do to aggressively round up potential deportees. The new secretary, Markwayne Mullin, who had privately expressed skepticism about the plan, has said publicly that he wants the agency to be quieter about how it carries out immigration enforcement.


The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the reporting, saying in a statement that officials intend to rely on “existing detention space.”
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-folds-ice-warehouses-ocean-monitoring

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international concern for the state of human rights in the USA



The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations intodeaths of people ​in U.S. immigration custody (https://www.reuters.com/world/eleven-people-died-us-immigration-custody-this-year-ice-says-2026-04-18/), saying that 19 people have died in detention so far this year.

"Those responsible ​for violations of the law must be held to account, and the ⁠rights of the victims’ families to truth, justice and reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence ​must be upheld," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-rights-chief-calls-investigations-into-deaths-us-ice-custody-2026-06-26/

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Mike DeWine getting out in front of Trump's next racist pogrom

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"It is not in the United States' interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, buying houses, and really are contributing, and yank them out."

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WWII-era Japanese internees protest ICE family detention facility in Dilley, TX


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Free Families (https://freefamilies.net/#partners), a national coalition of organizations advocating for immigrant families, organized the pilgrimage with Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministries (https://txuujm.org/), Grassroots Leadership (https://www.grassrootsleadership.org/) and Tsuru for Solidarity (https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/mission-history/), a group of Japanese American concentration camp survivors and descendants who work to end detention. The goal of the pilgrimage was “to shut down Dilley, end family detention in its entirety, and stop family separation caused by ICE targeting and detention.”

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"worst of the worst"


Rio Grande Valley nun who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while on her way to Sunday Mass has been released, according to U.S. Representatives Monica De La Cruz and Henry Cuellar.


In an update from U.S. Rep. Monica de la Cruz (R), Texas 15 (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1825piV7NV/), stated that after speaking with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mullin, Sister Letty is coming home.


“My office worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security, and I’m grateful they acted to resolve this quickly. Thank you to everyone who kept her in their prayers,” De La Cruz said in her update.
https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/ice-detains-nun-while-on-her-way-to-mcallen-church/

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was right then, is right now


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5th Circuit panel curtails indefinite detention of people arrested without any probable cause

newsworthy because it's the normally Trump-friendly 5th Circuit circumscribing Trump

tl;dr

5th circuit requires that ICE detainees receive a bond hearing within 90 days if authorities had no probable cause to detain


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one of the judges preferred 30 days, the Trump judge thought the whole matter was nonjusticiable

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when the government loses in court 10,000 times, it's breaking the law and violating people's rights




Ten thousand losses.

That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.

Trump’s unprecedented detention policy (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/ice-detention-immigration-policy-00573850), which is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court, infuriated lower courts in ways no other modern issue has. It ruptured the relationship between the Justice Department and the judiciary; pitted the administration against itself; and upended innumerable lives — not just of the people swept up by immigration agents, but of their spouses and children, many of whom are U.S. citizens.




POLITICO is tracking the tens of thousands of detention cases that have flooded the system since ICE adopted its detention policy last July. Today we are releasing a full database of those rulings (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/mandatory-detention-ice-cases-rulings-database-00913988), giving the public an opportunity to see under the hood of our reporting — which has documented the courts’ lopsided results (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/trump-judges-immigration-detention-00784614?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it), ICE’s tactics for defying judges’ orders (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-immigration-detention-court-orders-00771727) and the rising tensions between the judiciary and the Trump administration (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/ice-immigration-court-orders-00757894).

The trend is clear from every angle. The administration has lost nearly 10,400 of the cases that have been decided, and prevailed in about 1,200. While some judges have heard more cases than others, the overwhelming majority of judges — more than 425 — have reached the same conclusion. Even a majority of Trump-appointed judges (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256) have sided against the administration.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195

[Winehole23]

Trump's contemporary mass revocation of asylum for hundreds of thousands of people is a probable economic shot in the foot

this 2024 report mainly rehashes the 2017 study that Trump shitcanned at the time

refugees appear to be a clear net economic plus for the USA



A report released this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found (https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fiscal-impact-refugees-asylees) that refugees and asylees have generated tens of billions of dollars more in local, state, and federal tax revenues over the last 15 years than they have cost in direct government services—ultimately representing a net fiscal gain at all levels of government.

From 2005 to 2019, refugees and asylees paid a total of $123.8 billion more in taxes than they cost in government services, for a net fiscal gain of $31.5 billion to the federal government and $92.3 billion to state and local governments combined. Refugees and asylees paid an estimated $363 billion to the federal government through payroll, income, and excise taxes, and $218 billion to state and local governments through income, sales, and property taxes.

Even when factoring in their spouses and children under 18, many of whom are U.S. citizens, refugees and asylees still provided a net fiscal gain, costing $723.4 billion in government services yet paying $739.4 billion in tax revenue, for a net gain of $16 billion.

“This historic federal study is important data-driven evidence demonstrating that over time, refugees, asylees, and their immediate families have made significant positive fiscal contributions to our country,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the agency press release (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/02/15/new-hhs-study-finds-nearly-124-billion-positive-fiscal-impact-refugees-and-asylees-on-american-economy-15-year-period.html). “I hope this report becomes a key reference for decision-makers in all levels of government when it comes to refugee resettlement.”

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) report considered all refugees and asylees who had arrived since 1980. A refugee is defined (https://www.dhs.gov/ohss/topics/immigration/refugees-asylees-AFR) as someone who cannot return to their homeland for fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and who applies to come to the United States from another country.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/refugees-and-asylum-seekers-generate-billions-dollars-more-than-they-cost/

[Winehole23]

mass deportation is bad for public safety




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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-trumps-minneapolis-immigration-blitz-hobbled-federal-crime-fighting-2026-05-07/

[Blake]

was right then, is right now

I mean, technically you can become a Frenchman...

[Winehole23]

No thanks, I'm good right here!

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

deporting refugees from communism is morally deranged


A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China (https://www.theguardian.com/world/china) where he would face persecution.


Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers. He travelled to the US on a tourist visa and made an asylum claim in 2020, for which he is still awaiting a decision.



In the US, he found work as an Amazon courier while remaining active in China’s embattled human rights community.


On Wednesday, Wu was stopped by ICE officers the Mount Holly Springs borough in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, while delivering parcels.


According to an account relayed through Shi Minglei, a friend who spoke to him in detention on Thursday, ICE officers asked Wu to provide proof of his citizenship. Wu presented proof of his pending asylum application and explained that he had entered the country legally.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/ice-arrests-human-rights-lawyer-wu-shaoping-fled-chinese-crackdown

[Winehole23]

mass deportation with a child trafficking kicker


It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.What followed — one foster family’s initially successful attempt to win full custody of Alexa — reveals what could happen to some of the infants, children and teens taken from their families at the border under a Trump administration policy earlier this year. The “zero-tolerance” crackdown ended in June, but hundreds of children remain in detention, shelters or foster care and U.S. officials say more than 200 are not eligible for reunification or release.

Federal officials insist they are reuniting families and will continue to do so. But an Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents. https://apnews.com/article/97b06cede0c149c492bf25a48cb6c26f

[Winehole23]

no commandeering, especially via illegal orders


A federal judge in Minnesota — Trump appointed chief judge Eric Tostrud — has rejected the administration's effort to force Minnesota to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.228038/gov.uscourts.mnd.228038.76.0.pdf)

[Winehole23]

1997's SCOTUS decision "Printz v U.S.", thrilled right-wingers cause it was the decision that killed the Brady Handgun Law. SCOTUS said the feds can't force state and local cops to enforce federal law. MAGA is learning that knife cuts both ways.

[Winehole23]

US opinion appears to be thermostatic after 2001, but recent trends are visible


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[Winehole23]

same or increased is ~2/3

2/3rds against continued mass deportation

[Winehole23]

deep underwater on one of his stronger issues


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[Winehole23]

1/4 of polled Republicans support abolishing ICE


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