Promise made: mass deportation

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Link

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you're welcome

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"you look like someone we're looking for"

A US citizen was arrested during an immigration raid in downtown Los Angelesthis week in what her family described as a “kidnapping” by federal immigration agents.


Andrea Velez, 32, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister, the pair said, when they saw agents grab her.

“My mom looked at the rear mirror and she saw how my sister was attacked from the back,” Estrella Rosas told ABC7. “She was like: ‘They’re kidnapping your sister.’”




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US citizen arrested during immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles – video

Velez, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, was taken into custody during an immigration raid on Tuesday. In video captured from the scene, agents can be seen surrounding her as a crowd gathers in the street and police officers stand by. Meanwhile, Rosas and her mother, who has residency but is not a citizen, screamed from a nearby vehicle for help.


“She’s a US citizen,” Rosas said through tears. “They’re taking her. Help her, someone.”


In other video, an agent can be seen lifting Velez off the ground and carrying her away. Witnesses told media, including CBS Los Angeles, that the agents never asked Velez for identification, and that she did nothing wrong.


“The only thing wrong with her … was the color of her skin,” Velez’s mother, Margarita Flores, told CBS Los Angeles.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...d-andrea-velez

[ChumpDumper]

what's with you telling me what to do?

is that what you do with your precious free time?

He certainly isn't trying to mate with real white women.

[Winehole23]

He certainly isn't trying to mate with real white women.

While brushing his hair in the mirror here?

Probably not

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Costa Rican judges order the detainees released

this is barbaric





hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/g...ed/ar-AA1HuJOw

[velik_m]

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’

A US citizen was arrested during an immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles this week in what her family described as a “kidnapping” by federal immigration agents.

Andrea Velez, 32, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister, the pair said, when they saw agents grab her.

“My mom looked at the rear mirror and she saw how my sister was attacked from the back,” Estrella Rosas told ABC7. “She was like: ‘They’re kidnapping your sister.’”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...d-andrea-velez

[velik_m]

Trump Admin Moves Quietly To Drop Charges Against MS-13 Leaders, Cites Other National Security Priorities

President Donald Trump made of law and order a key pillar of his campaign and administration, promising to prosecute and deport undo ented migrants, many of whom are believed to be violent gang members.

However, as he strengthens his relationship with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, Trump is reportedly willing to drop charges to leaders of one of the most prominent international gangs that hails from the Central American country and has been linked to Bukele.

According to a new report from El Faro, an outlet extremely critical of Bukele, the president has seemingly convinced Trump to drop charges against leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) gang who had been accused of terrorism and ordered to be prosecuted during the first Trump term.

If the charges are dropped, the Republican president would also be tossing the work of Vulcan, a joint task force with great fanfare announced in 2019 as a unit specially designed to combat MS-13, bringing together the Department of Homeland Security, several federal agencies, and ten prosecutors' offices which had operated in five countries.

Notably, the joint task force's work led to the capture of nine leaders of MS-13, all Salvadorans accused of narco-terrorism, human trafficking, murders committed in the U.S., planning the assassination of an FBI agent, and more, El Faro reports.

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Bukele's close relationship with Salvadoran criminals and gang members is an open international secret. Last month, Carlos Caragena Lopez, one of the most recognized gang leaders in El Salvador whose charges were recently dropped in his home country, gave a 41-minute interview to El Faro, where he detailed how his gang, as well as other criminal organizations, allegedly helped the president rise to power.

Oscar Martinez, editor-in-chief of El Faro and co-author of the article, told El Pais that "[this interview] describes how gangs turned Bukele into a relevant politician. It allows us to reach the stark conclusion that it is impossible to understand Bukele's rise to total power without his association with gangs."

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-adm...ecurity-585602

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“Right now, I have zero workers,” said Nick Billman, who owns Red River Farms, a farm-to-table operation in Donna, Texas. He wonders whether to plant if he has no one to maintain the fields and harvest them. “We need to figure out what we’re doing, you know?”

htps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/border-immigration-farms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.RBHe.-pqu6-1KVhbI&smid=bs-share

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https://www.jacksonville.com/story/n...s/84357231007/

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"We've got showers. There you see the shower and bath facilities."

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https://www.latintimes.com/trump-adm...ecurity-585602

besides you and me, I don't think anyone has passed comment on this

Trump obliterating the work of his own MS-13 task force

[Winehole23]

(eat a roll, or piss on it, it's yours)

[velik_m]

Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening


A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans.

According to a witness, plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles handcuffed Madonna “Donna” Kashanian and transported her to a Mississippi jail before transferring her to the South Louisiana Ice processing center in Basile, reports Nola.

Kashanian arrived in the US in 1978 on a student visa and later applied for asylum, citing fears of persecution due to her father’s ties to the US-backed Shah of Iran. Her asylum request was ultimately denied, but she was granted a stay of removal on the condition she comply with immigration requirements, a condition her family says she always met.

She has no criminal record but remains in Ice custody.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...an-new-orleans

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Trump Administration Terminates Legal Status for More Than 500K Immigrants

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Under U.S. law, at least 60 days before TPS designation expires, the Secretary must consult with relevant government agencies and review conditions in the designated country to decide whether the cir stances that justified the protection still exist and, if so, whether to extend the designation and for how long.

DHS claims that conditions in Haiti no longer meet the requirements for TPS. This decision was made following a review from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and consultations with the Department of State.

DHS argues that "country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can return home in safety," however, gang violence is still a major issue in the country.

"I'm still in shock, but I'm totally disgusted. This is a complete lie stating that the situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home. This is a lie," Tessa Pe , executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition and a Haitian immigrant, told Newsweek.

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https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin...s-noem-2091814

[ChumpDumper]

It's not a hole country anymore?

[Blake]

https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/...stody-florida/

Per Darrin: cry harder

[Winehole23]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...an-new-orleans

The whole world is watching with concern

as Trump devastates civilization as we have known it

[Winehole23]

Can't read a graph

is there an empirically measurable public safety emergency that corresponds to that graph?

Why don't you tell us what it means?

[DarrinS]

Per Darrin: cry harder

Probably overdosed on his drugs.

[Winehole23]

Probably overdosed on his drugs.

ICE allows personal drugs for detainees?

how permissive

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"You can stop the federal funding,” Tuberville said. “President Trump can do anything he wants when it comes to the federal. Again, these inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt.

“And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.”

The dehumanization ("rats") is striking, and so is the lack of self-awareness

federal transfer payments account for 23% of personal income in Alabama

Alabama receives $1.80 in federal spending for every $1 it contributes to the public fisc

[Winehole23]

two things about having reached the "papers, please" phase of things

pretty soon everybody better have their papers in order

but even if you do, it doesn't matter at all to the arresting agencies -- they can just call it fake and detain you administratively

In April, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless raids in the Central Valley. “You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers,’” U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Thurston said, finding the warrantless stops likely violated the Cons ution’s protection against unreasonable searches.


The man who led that operation, El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, is now in charge of the operations across Los Angeles.


U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino attends a press conference in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025. Photo by Aude Guerrucci, Reuters

The men’s stories also suggest that agents are pushing people to sign removal forms before they can call home or speak with an attorney. Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, said those tactics would be “blatantly illegal.”

“You can’t condition phone access on anything,” Arulanantham said. “They have a right to call their family. They have a right to call a lawyer.”

He also raised concerns about the treatment the men described in government facilities. “It’s not permissible to manipulate the conditions of detention to encourage people to give up their rights,” he said.

https://calmatters.org/investigation...gration-raids/

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https://www.latintimes.com/trump-adm...ecurity-585602

U.S. wants to deport FBI informant who was set to testify in gang case in Mass.

In November 2022, a man in El Salvador believed he had few options: be snatched off the street by police or testify against Massachusetts members of MS-13, the criminal organization responsible for countless murders and other violent crimes in the U.S. and Central America.

But both happened. After nine months in Salvadoran prisons, the man only known as John Doe in court do ents came to the United States as a material witness for a racketeering case in exchange, as he understood it, for refuge in the U.S.

He's now locked up in a facility here. A material witness often has testimony crucial to a case, and can be detained to protect them or prevent them from fleeing.

In the midst of the MS-13 case, the U.S. government revealed his iden y in evidence and has been attempting to deport him.

In January, Doe filed a habeas corpus pe ion in Massachusetts federal court in his ongoing fight with the U.S. government to remain here as an asylum seeker.

Exposed as a snitch, Doe stated in the pe ion that he faces a death sentence if he returns.

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https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/27...nt-immigration

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https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/27...nt-immigration

Radio silence from MAGAs on Donald Trump trashing the success of the MS-13 task force he started