Promise made: mass deportation

[Blake]

even pro baseball players aren't safe from Trump's deportation thugs

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.co...gration-raids/

Welp if we can get the inside info of which players might be held up by ICE and not be able to play, it would be easier to gamble on

[velik_m]

«You have no right to be here»: A Swiss woman's harrowing tale of arrest and detention at the US border

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Because Lara not only works at a school in Switzerland, but also gives online language courses and counts Americans among her customers, the border officials were convinced that she wanted to work during her stay in the U.S.

The fact that Lara was carrying souvenirs, such as German books and Swiss chocolate, had her laptop and had arranged to meet some of her online students for coffee in New York reinforced the border officials' su ions. When Lara insisted that she did not want to work during her vacation, the officials always responded with the same statement: «You're lying.»

«Then they threatened me: Either I officially say in the interrogation that I came to New York to work, or they will send me to prison,» Lara says, adding that the situation intimidated her. «But I still said: That's not right. If you treat me like this, I will need a lawyer, and I must be given the opportunity to contact the Swiss Embassy. Their response was: You have no right to be here. You are not an American citizen.»

At around 10 p.m., she was allowed to call an American friend of her parents with whom she is so close that she calls her «aunt.» The aunt informed Lara's friends in New York and her family in Switzerland what was happening. At 11:30 p.m., Lara received official notification that she would not be allowed to enter the United States.

However, instead of being put back on the next flight to Switzerland, Lara was placed on a chair anchored to the floor and secured to it with a leg restraint. She waited like this for two hours, not knowing what would happen next. Then she was taken to a small room and subjected to a full-body search. In addition to the ankle restraint she was put in handcuffs and a chain was put around her waist. «That was the first time I cried,» Lara says.
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https://www.nzz.ch/english/you-have-...der-ld.1889535

[Winehole23]

^^^ totally extreme, inhumane and unreasonable

Trump is turning the USA into a hole country

[Winehole23]

There will need to be a Nuremberg-type reckoning for Trump's sadistic man-snatching/human trafficking operation

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.

He asked her to record a message so there would be some lasting evidence of his story.

“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”

The Trump administration had sent dozens of Venezuelan immigrants to Guantanamo. He was afraid the same would happen to him.
“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”

Uncertain about his fate, Ramos wanted to make sure there was a record of what happened to him.
A month later, he was gone.

Ramos never set foot in the U.S. — at least not as a free man. He left Venezuela in January 2024, hoping to earn enough money to pay for his newborn son’s medical needs. Born with a respiratory condition, the family’s “milagrito,” or “little miracle,” had severe asthma and repeatedly needed to be hospitalized. The cost of treatment had become impossible to manage on the meager wages Ramos made washing cars in Venezuela’s collapsed economy, so he trekked thousands of miles through a half dozen countries to reach the U.S. border.


When Ramos arrived, he didn’t sneak into the country. He followed the rules established by the Biden administration for immigrants seeking asylum. He signed up for an appointment through a government app and, when he was granted one, turned himself in to request protection. An immigration official and a judge determined he didn’t qualify, and Ramos didn’t fight the decision.

The government kept him in detention until he could be deported back to Venezuela.

In the months that followed, Donald Trump was elected president for a second term and began his mass deportation campaign. Among his first actions was to fly groups of Venezuelan immigrants whom he had labeled dangerous gang members to a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Ramos, 30, panicked and called his wife to say he was worried that the same was going to happen to him. On a video call his wife recorded, he held up a do ent he said was proof that immigration authorities had agreed to deport him to Venezuela. But he worried that they would not honor that promise.

“I have a family,” he said, staring directly into the camera. “I am simply a hard-working Venezuelan. I haven’t committed any crimes. I don’t have a criminal record in my country nor anywhere else.”

A month later, a more upbeat Ramos called again. He seemed confident that U.S. officials would send him home. Ramos’ family started preparing for his return. They planned to bake him a cake, cook his favorite chicken dish and go to church together to thank God for bringing him home safely.

They never heard from him again.







First image: Bastidas rests with Ramos’ son and her grandson, Jared, at their home in Venezuela. Second image: Rodríguez holds her phone, showing a photo of her husband. Credit: Adriana Loureiro Fernández for The Texas Tribune and ProPublica

On March 15, a day after that call, Ramos and more than 230 other Venezuelan men were sent to the CECOT maximum-security prison in El Salvador, one of the most notorious in the Western Hemisphere. Without publicly providing evidence, the administration accused each of them of being members of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang it designated a terrorist organization.

In the months since the mass deportation — one of the most consequential in recent history — the Trump administration has released almost no details about the backgrounds of the people it deported, calling them “monsters,” “sick criminals” and the “worst of the worst.” Several news organizations have reported that most of the men did not have criminal records. ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of Venezuelan journalists from Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates) and Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters) went further, finding that the government’s own records showed that it knew the vast majority of the menhad not been convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. We also searched records in South America and found that only a few had committed violent crimes abroad.


Now, a case-by-case examination of each of the deportees, along with interviews with their lawyers and family members, reveals another jarring reality: Most of the men were not hiding from federal authorities but were instead moving through the nation’s immigration system. They were either in the middle of their cases, which normally should have protected them from deportation, or they had already been ordered deported and should have first been given the option to be sent back to a country they chose.

Like Ramos, more than 50 of the men had used the government app called CBP One to make an appointment with border officials to try to enter the country. Others had crossed illegally and then surrendered to border agents, often the first step in seeking asylum in immigration court.
According to our analysis, almost half of the men were deported even though their cases hadn’t been decided yet. More than 60 of them had pending asylum claims, including several who were only days away from a hearing where a judge could have ruled on whether they would be allowed to stay. Judges or federal officials had issued deportation orders for about 100 of the men, and a handful had even agreed to pay their own way home. Others, like Ramos, had spent their entire time in the U.S. in detention. They had no opportunity to commit crimes in the U.S.


Meanwhile, many of those who were allowed into the country had been appearing at their court hearings and immigration check-ins. At least nine had been granted temporary protected status, which gives people from countries affected by disasters or other extraordinary conditions permission to live and work in the U.S.

By and large, these were men who had been playing by the rules of the country’s immigration system.

Then, the Trump administration changed the rules.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07...m-el-salvador/

[Winehole23]

prisoner swap with Venezuela, posted within the last half hour

The plane carrying the Venezuelan deportees was expected to arrive in Caracas from El Salvador Friday afternoon.

Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the Trump administration deported the group of Venezuelans in March, accusing them of being criminals or members of the feared Tren de Aragua gang. They were sent to El Salvador and incarcerated at the CECOT maximum-security prison. But the transfer was heavily criticized by human rights groups, which complained that the Venezuelans were accused of being criminals or members of the Venezuelan gang and taken to the maximum security prison in a third country without being allowed to challenge the accusations in court

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nat...#storylink=cpy

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Apparently DHS thinks Tren de Aragua uses autism awareness tattoos to signify membership

Neri Alvarado, the Venezuelan man imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process for 4 months in El Salvador because of bureaucratic errors stemming from his autism awareness tattoo honoring his brother, is FREE.

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia knows it has paid El Salvador to house completely innocent people in a slavery/torture gulag, Alvarado being released means some of them have been used as bargaining chips with Venezuela, this is supervillain level depravity

[Winehole23]

Alvarado originally came to the US because he feared political persecution in Venezuela

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/c...orious-prison/

[Winehole23]

height of hypocrisy

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the U.S. citizens and permanent residents had been arrested and jailed in Venezuela “without proper due process” and called for the “restoration of democracy in Venezuela.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...-salvador.html

[Winehole23]

Arturo Suarez, a Venezuelan musician, released from CECOT, returned to Venezuela in the US prisoner swap

[Winehole23]

what social good is served by this policy?

what problem gets solved by it?

“.. They are nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers and executives. .. They’ve opened restaurants .. paid taxes and contributed to Social Security, living and working legally in the United States since 1999.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-deportations/

[Winehole23]

On Friday, an aunt of one of the men, Widmer Josneyder Agelviz, 24, said she wanted to be grateful to the United States for his release but mostly felt angry at U.S. officials.

“From the beginning, they knew that they were not capturing criminals,” said the aunt, Jhoanna Sanguino, 35, who lives in Colombia.





The Trump administration has said that the men are criminal gang members and that their deportation and imprisonment in El Salvador are part of an effort to make the United States safer.

But a Times investigation found serious criminal accusations for only 32 of the men. Most of the 252 men did not have criminal records in the United States or elsewhere in the region, beyond immigration offenses, the investigation found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...-salvador.html

[Winehole23]

“If the government gets away with sending people to what’s essentially a gulag in a country with which they have no connection, then we are no longer talking about the immigration system we’ve known for more than a century,” he said. “This is a whole new unlawful and gratuitously cruel phase.”


Many of the men were rounded up at their homes or in the streets in the weeks after Mr. Trump took office, according to dozens of interviews conducted by The Times.


It was unclear how long the men were supposed to stay in the Salvadoran prison, known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, had said she believed they should be there “for the rest of their lives.”

[Winehole23]

from the frying pan into the fire

For some relatives, the news of the men’s return to Venezuela evoked more mixed feelings. Maria Quevedo, the mother of Eddie Adolfo Hurtado Quevedo, told Mother Jones she was feeling relieved but still scared. “Happy because God gave me the gift of seeing my son free on my birthday,” she said. “Scared because my son is going to Venezuela, where he was threatened by the [paramilitary group] colectivos.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...n-el-salvador/

[Winehole23]

Survived torture under Pinochet, deported to Guatemala by Trump after he reported a lost Green Card

Finally, on Friday, a relative from Leon’s native Chile was told he had been taken first to a detention center in Minnesota and then to Guatemala. The hospital, citing privacy rules, would not verify his presence there when contacted by The Morning Call

https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui...ice-guatemala/

[koriwhat]

Lol trying to pull on the heart strings of those who just want illegal criminals out. Good luck!

[ChumpDumper]

Heart strings?

Why are you so horny for secret police and concentration camps?