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These are people with legal status to reside in the US, who had broken no laws
Dilley, TX will be covered with historical ignominy and opprobrium because of Donald Trump
Dilley, TX doesn't deserve it
Nobody deserves it
https://www.thenation.com/article/so...ran-ice-essay/My name is Maryam Tahmasebi, and I am a professor of psychology and statistics at Los Angeles Pierce College—or, I was, until April 9, when my life, and my family’s lives, changed forever.
On that day, I was teaching a class when my son texted me, saying that my husband hadn’t picked him up from school and wasn’t answering his phone, which is very unlike him. I picked my son up from school, came frantically back home, and called the police, thinking that something horrible must have happened to him. Even so, it never occurred to me that he could have been detained by ICE. We are legal permanent residents with valid green cards. My husband, Eissa Hashemi, is also a professor, and has dedicated his life to mentoring PhD students in the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School. We have both mentored many PhD candidates, among whom are veterans who have served this country for decades. We don’t have any criminal record—not even a traffic ticket. I believed in the “rule of law,” and trusted that if there was anything wrong with our immigration status, the government would notify us through legal channels.
I was beyond shocked to realize that an online smear campaign without any merit or legal standing had convinced the US government to try to revoke our green cards overnight without due process or even telling us. The government had decided to punish my husband for being the son of a woman who was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before Eissa was even born.
I came here because I wanted to build a life for myself and my family that was defined by my own actions, not anyone else’s. But now our lives are being upended for something someone else did nearly 50 years ago.
Imagine that you are an independent woman wading through the waters of sexism and patriarchy every day, and then you are told that not only do your own ideas and academic achievements not matter, but you are somehow now responsible for decisions you never made, and for things that happened before you were ever born. That you don’t have an iden y of your own, and that your existence can be negated based on relations. This is bloodline punishment. I was hoping that the United States of America, the country that I loved, would be different.
Eventually, my husband’s phone location showed he was at an ICE center in downtown LA. I talked to him there for a minute. He said he had been told that, while he was under arrest, our son and I were safe. That turned out to have been a lie. The next day, when I took my son to school, my car was surrounded by DHS cars, and my son and I were detained. I had to watch my son, who is in high school and has been a legal resident of California for 12 years, be handcuffed. We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter. We have remained in Texas ever since.
My son and I have spent over 120 days in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, away from my husband, who was taken to the South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, Texas. There, he faces even more horrible conditions, and he faces them alone. When I requested that my husband be reunited with us in Dilley, a so-called “family detention center” (the very existence of such a term is deeply troubling), I was told that in our specific case, family separation is the policy and the rule.
I have struggled to understand how this can happen to people who have never broken the law, in a system I believed to be based on the rule of law.
We have been put through for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years. We are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision. My son, who only speaks English and has been in California’s school system since pre-K, is struggling to understand why the only country he considers home is treating him this way.
What has happened to us was designed specifically to break our body and spirit. I am a mother, not a martyr, so I would always choose my son’s health and well-being over any dreams or aspirations I have. But even when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the United States—the place we consider our country and our home—the government not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure.
In other words, they want to continue our indefinite detention without any end in sight. But for what purpose? I have been asking myself that question over and over. I can’t think of any reason why we are being put through this punitive ordeal. We don’t have money or power to help us, shield us, or buy us favor. We are two working-class educators who had been living a working-class life in a rented apartment, and had never imagined anything like this happening to us.
This is why we need your help. We are in tremendous pain and have been trapped in an unendurable, unending nightmare. I want my son to have a normal life, not spend his days in this awful detention center in Dilley. No child deserves this. No human deserves this. We are asking anyone with a conscience to help us end this nightmare. There are more things I want to say, but this is the shackled version of what I feel safe saying right now. I will end on this: If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone.
These are people with legal status to reside in the US, who had broken no laws
"For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage"
https://apnews.com/article/ice-elect...7a9a3f1f576252AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
en pussies
paramilitary tactics for civil offenses -- they don't come for contract disputes, building code violators, traffic tickets and municipal infractions like this
Last edited by Winehole23; 08-11-2026 at 09:51 PM.
except for felonious reentry, a legal novelty -- crossing a border without permission is 100% an administrative law violation, akin to a parking ticket or a municipal code infraction
not criminal whatsoever
if you think a tyrannical government will cease at an alien's administrative infraction you're a stupid asshole
in the case I just cited, there was no infraction at all
no lawbreaking
one of their ancestors just happened to be a bad person from Iran -- from 50 years ago -- so we threw the whole family in the gulag
government thug pleads guilty to assault
An U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has pleaded guilty to throwing a protester to the ground during a confrontation in the Chicago area while he was off duty.https://abc7chicago.com/post/off-dut...2025/19670379/The incident happened at a Brookfield gas station on December 27, 2025, records showed.
The ICE agent, Adam Saracco, was sentenced Wednesday to a year of supervision for a misdemeanor count of battery.
Saracco was also ordered to have no contact with the victim and to pay all fines, fees and costs, officials said.
like police everywhere, CBP misuses surveillance tools for improper purposes
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-work...nd-colleagues/Internal records obtained by WIRED reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing sensitive government databases for reasons that had nothing to do with their jobs. The records contain hundreds of allegations of misuse of law enforcement databases, including federal agents querying data to look up romantic interests, monitor family members, expose various personal information and, in some cases, provide intelligence to suspected smugglers or drug-trafficking organizations.
Acquired through Freedom of Information Act requests to CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, the records reveal the breadth of alleged database abuse by CBP employees spanning more than a decade. As immigration and border authorities expand their surveillance through facial recognition, license plate readers, mobile-device searches, and commercially purchased location information generated by ordinary apps, the sheer range of these records, which date from 2009 through 2022, highlights how US residents can be—and have been—targeted by federal government employees with access to highly sensitive data and powerful tools.
In one case, a CBP officer allegedly used government databases to contact a flight attendant. In another, an officer was accused of pulling information from trusted-traveler applications to ask people out. Other CBP employees were accused of providing border-crossing data to someone involved in a “heated divorce.” And yet another DHS employee allegedly used controversial ad-tech-derived location data to track several coworkers’ cell phones—which appears to be the first known internal abuse case involving DHS use of ad-tech-derived mobile location data.
Of the almost 300 data-related entries identified by WIRED, 138 were referred to CBP management for review, 78 were serious enough to be assigned to OPR criminal investigators, and 43 were classified as “Information Only,” meaning OPR did not open its own investigation. A smaller number fell into other categories: 12 misconduct allegations were sent for management review, where they were handled internally by the employees’ supervisors rather than by CBP’s central investigators; three were logged as “Law Enforcement Records” cases, meaning criminally investigated misconduct; two were logged as “Immediate Management Actions,” meaning minor misconduct resolved without opening a formal case; and only one as logged as an administrative inquiry, a formal fact-finding investigation conducted by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility. CBP withheld 21 cases, citing an exemption protecting active law-enforcement proceedings, suggesting criminal misconduct.
WIRED identified 99 entries involving alleged breaches or unauthorized disclosures of data and 48 explicitly involving improper database queries. Many of these cases happened around 2020, when the pandemic-prompted shift to remote work led CBP employees to start emailing work files to their personal accounts.
At least six entries explicitly describe employees querying themselves. According to Daniel Altman, the former head of the Office of Professional Responsibility, who left his post in 2025, the agency treats self-queries as a warning sign of future misconduct. They often surface early in corruption cases either as a way for employees to test whether searches are monitored or to check if they themselves are under investigation. From there, escalation is just a matter of degree.More serious allegations involved employees providing law-enforcement information to people suspected of criminal activity. In 2016, OPR investigated an allegation that a CBP employee was giving database information to a drug-trafficking organization. A separate 2021 entry accused a Border Patrol agent of querying databases to advise smugglers which lane to use at the border.
people keep dying in the immigration gulag
contractors and ICE officials need to be held responsible and when applicable, punished to the fullest extent of the law
18 US Code, Section 242 includes the death penalty for deprivations of rights under color of law leading to death
https://www.nj.com/essex/2026/08/dhs...-scrutiny.htmlHis death went unreported until U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, D-8th Dist., learned of it and revealed details during an Aug. 3 press call.
“ICE – consistent with the entire ethos of the Trump Administration – is dead set on avoiding public scrutiny and taking any accountability for its failures,” Menendez said in a statement Wednesday night.
“ICE purposely reversed a Biden-era policy to create a loophole in which it can ‘release’ someone from ICE custody and then claim it has no responsibility to investigate their death or inform Congress and the public,” Menendez said.
A DHS spokesperson said in an email on Thursday that immigration authorities arrested Chajon-Raxon and processed him at Delaney Hall on July 18.
Chajon-Raxon experienced a seizure the following day and was found by a nurse. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital, according to DHS.
The department did not say what happened after he was hospitalized, when he died or whether he had been released from the hospital before his death.
“Per ICE policy, when an individual is no longer in ICE custody then ICE will no longer be responsible for monitoring or reviewing deaths that may occur,” DHS said.
allegedly spied on Minneapolis churches during Metro Surge
So much for freedom of religion
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/d...torney-allegesFederal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to observe a climate group and into churches, and obtained financial records for labor unions, as they sought to crack down on mass protests in Minneapolis following the Trump administration’s surge of federal officers into the city, attorneys alleged in a new filing.
immigration agents have no business surveilling Americans, period
as ty as COINTELPRO was, it was at least plausibly within the ambit of the FBI's mission
domestic resistance to ICE, not so much
time for lawless birds to pay up for violating court orders
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...A federal judge in Washington state has sanctioned ICE $5,000 in compensatory damages and $11,000 in attorneys fees for illegally transferring a man twice in violation of her orders.
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born.
the stigmatization of law-abiding immigrants with legal residency status in Springfield, Ohio isn't an accident, nor is their ethnicity
there is no valid public safety rationale for treating them this way
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/...nkle-monitors/Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Haitians in Springfield are getting letters telling them to report to the ICE office in either Blue Ash (near Cincinnati) or Westerville (near Columbus).
“When they do, their passports are collected,” said Carl Ruby, pastor of Springfield’s Central Christian Church.
it's not like haitians chose Springfield willy nilly -- Springfield, Ohio ing encouraged them to come
A year of supervision?
Hopefully the victim also files a civil suit
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