remarkable
CECOT couldn't kill the dream
https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-...o-spain-asylum"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," he said. "But in my heart, I'm American."
white power bull
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.
Trump 2.0 honors the cons ution 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 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 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 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://thehill.com/regulation/court...icies-vacated/“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.”
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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.”
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
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“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 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 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 do ents agreeing to be deported.
the process isn't speedy for many, immigration courts are backlogged
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/...-2026-georgian
13th Amendment forced labor loophole doesn't apply to civil detainees -- or shouldn't
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-poli...nth-amendment/
oh look, another illegal Trump tax
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...3201.106.0.pdfA federal judge has ruled Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unauthorized tax on businesses and must be vacated.
US refuses to admit top African referee for the World Cup
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...eIn 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.
deportation of US citizens is probably already happening
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/b...ls-and-babies/When immigration agents seize “unaccompanied alien children,” a term referring to undo ented kids who have no parent or legal guardian in the United States, those kids don’t usually go into ICE detention. Instead, ICE hands them over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 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 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 aremissing.
When Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro visited the San Benito facility in early April 2026, he saw 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 to answer her questions about where the girls were.
https://www.dw.com/en/trump-doj-to-d...ove/a-77466080Trump 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 Cons ution 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 undo ented 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.
...
sounds like fraud, waste and abuse
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1...ation-facilityA new federal watchdog report 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.
tearing American families apart for no good reason
https://abcnews.com/US/advocates-dec...y?id=133821385According 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.
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
https://boltsmag.org/louisiana-immig...habeas-crisis/
all the chain refoulements need to be prosecuted as jailhouse felonies, for anyone who willingly took part
that includes the airlines and participating LE
https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...ootings-traumaRamirez 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 do ents 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.nber.org/digest/202606/w...suddenly-stops
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.
Concentration camps are very unpopular in the USA
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-sho...ean-monitoring[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 do ents obtained by The New York Times.The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the reporting, saying in a statement that officials intend to rely on “existing detention space.”
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.
international concern for the state of human rights in the USA
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-rig...dy-2026-06-26/The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations intodeaths of people in U.S. immigration custody, 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.
Mike DeWine getting out in front of Trump's next racist pogrom
"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."
WWII-era Japanese internees protest ICE family detention facility in Dilley, TX
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/27/...ention-center/
Free Families, a national coalition of organizations advocating for immigrant families, organized the pilgrimage with Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministries, Grassroots Leadership and Tsuru for Solidarity, 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.”
"worst of the worst"
https://www.valleycentral.com/news/l...callen-church/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, 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.
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