mass deportation is bad for public safety
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ng-2026-05-07/
Spot on.
Then the next argument from Trump s 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
Who doing the what where now?
https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2054304339057909827
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when the government loses in court 10,000 times, it's breaking the law and violating people's rights
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...lysis-00914195Ten 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, 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, giving the public an opportunity to see under the hood of our reporting — which has do ented the courts’ lopsided results, ICE’s tactics for defying judges’ orders and the rising tensions between the judiciary and the Trump administration.
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 have sided against the administration.
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9-1 loss to win ratio for DOJ
historically dismal
ICE's mandatory detention guidance is stayed and arrests at immigration courtrooms in NY will stop
racist immigration policy
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/re...4622.312.0.pdf
The person who initiated the vindictive prosecution against Abrego is Todd Blanche, , the current acting US AG
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-...lmost-entirelyDHS 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 cir stances. 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.
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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.
lawyers at DOJ nope-ing out
actual 13th amendment violations -- immigrant detainees by and large aren't convicts
https://prospect.org/2026/05/28/dela...s-bottom-line/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.
administrative detainees are not subject to forced labor under the exception to the 13th Amendment, unless they were previously criminal convicts
ICE sued over inhumane conditions at west Texas concentration camp
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05...tions-lawsuit/Filed by the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU, the Texas Civil Rights Project and law firm Farella Braun + Martel, the federal lawsuitcomes less than a year after the opening of the sprawling tent camp.
In that time, the facility has seenat least three detainee deaths, ameasles outbreak and nearly 50detention standards violations as reported by ICE’s own inspectors, prompting calls for the camp’s closure from immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers.
The civil rights groups behind the lawsuit also alleged in a December letterthat 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 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 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 “uncons utional punishment” and violate detainees’ due process rights under the Fifth Amendment.
“These conditions are longstanding, pervasive, and well do ented, and Defendants’ continued inaction in the face of known risks shows their deliberate indifference — not mere negligence — to detainees’ cons utional rights,” the lawsuit said.
human-warehouse boondoggle
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...ion-rcna347592DHS 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.
Bovino hobnobs with EU neo-nazis
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/g...o-full-fascistAs a term, “remigration” was popularized 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 to vandalizing a Vienna synagogue with a swastika. Years later, he became a leader in Generation Iden y, the pan-European white nationalist group. In 2019, he accepted a donation 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 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.”
www.do entcloud.org/do ents/28...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.
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.
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 lettinginfluence its decision-making.
In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious
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.
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 cons utional 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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