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  1. europesays.com/people/132820/ People Are Furious After J.D. Vance Reveals Ivanka Trump’s Husband Handled ‘Billions Of Dollars’ In Iranian Assets: ‘He’s Not A Member Of Government’ #AmericanCitizens #AnnaMoneymaker #FrozenIranianAssets #IranianAssets #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Trump #Vance

  2. #ICE Targets #Somali Community in #Minneapolis

    By L. Cam Anderson, Niko Georgiades, Dan Feidt, #UnicornRiot
    December 5, 2025

    Minneapolis, MN — "About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population. The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 'criminal illegal aliens' so far, six from #Mexico, five from Somalia and one from #ElSalvador.

    "During a cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, President Donald Trump conflated the entire Somali community in the state with recent financial fraud scandals that have received national attention.

    " 'We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking garbage into our country,' Trump said. 'Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage… When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”

    "In a press release from the White House on Dec. 1, the administration announced that it would be reversing #TemporaryProtectedStatus for Somali immigrant refugees as well as indefinitely pausing all 'migration from third-world countries,' including asylum decisions.

    "City leaders condemned the federal government’s plans in a Dec. 2 news conference live streamed on YouTube. Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey opened the conference, showing his support for the largest Somali community in the country.

    " 'Targeting Somali people means that #DueProcess will be violated,' Frey said. 'Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that #AmericanCitizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali. That is not now and will never be a legitimate reason.'

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis City Council member #JamalOsman and #MinneapolisPoliceChief #BrianOHara also spoke at the conference. O’Hara said MPD would not work with federal law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement."

    unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar

    #RacialProfiling #USPol #ICERaids #ICESucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  3. #ICE Targets #Somali Community in #Minneapolis

    By L. Cam Anderson, Niko Georgiades, Dan Feidt, #UnicornRiot
    December 5, 2025

    Minneapolis, MN — "About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population. The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 'criminal illegal aliens' so far, six from #Mexico, five from Somalia and one from #ElSalvador.

    "During a cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, President Donald Trump conflated the entire Somali community in the state with recent financial fraud scandals that have received national attention.

    " 'We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking garbage into our country,' Trump said. 'Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage… When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”

    "In a press release from the White House on Dec. 1, the administration announced that it would be reversing #TemporaryProtectedStatus for Somali immigrant refugees as well as indefinitely pausing all 'migration from third-world countries,' including asylum decisions.

    "City leaders condemned the federal government’s plans in a Dec. 2 news conference live streamed on YouTube. Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey opened the conference, showing his support for the largest Somali community in the country.

    " 'Targeting Somali people means that #DueProcess will be violated,' Frey said. 'Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that #AmericanCitizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali. That is not now and will never be a legitimate reason.'

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis City Council member #JamalOsman and #MinneapolisPoliceChief #BrianOHara also spoke at the conference. O’Hara said MPD would not work with federal law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement."

    unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar

    #RacialProfiling #USPol #ICERaids #ICESucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  4. #ICE Targets #Somali Community in #Minneapolis

    By L. Cam Anderson, Niko Georgiades, Dan Feidt, #UnicornRiot
    December 5, 2025

    Minneapolis, MN — "About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population. The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 'criminal illegal aliens' so far, six from #Mexico, five from Somalia and one from #ElSalvador.

    "During a cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, President Donald Trump conflated the entire Somali community in the state with recent financial fraud scandals that have received national attention.

    " 'We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking garbage into our country,' Trump said. 'Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage… When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”

    "In a press release from the White House on Dec. 1, the administration announced that it would be reversing #TemporaryProtectedStatus for Somali immigrant refugees as well as indefinitely pausing all 'migration from third-world countries,' including asylum decisions.

    "City leaders condemned the federal government’s plans in a Dec. 2 news conference live streamed on YouTube. Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey opened the conference, showing his support for the largest Somali community in the country.

    " 'Targeting Somali people means that #DueProcess will be violated,' Frey said. 'Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that #AmericanCitizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali. That is not now and will never be a legitimate reason.'

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis City Council member #JamalOsman and #MinneapolisPoliceChief #BrianOHara also spoke at the conference. O’Hara said MPD would not work with federal law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement."

    unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar

    #RacialProfiling #USPol #ICERaids #ICESucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  5. #ICE Targets #Somali Community in #Minneapolis

    By L. Cam Anderson, Niko Georgiades, Dan Feidt, #UnicornRiot
    December 5, 2025

    Minneapolis, MN — "About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population. The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 'criminal illegal aliens' so far, six from #Mexico, five from Somalia and one from #ElSalvador.

    "During a cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, President Donald Trump conflated the entire Somali community in the state with recent financial fraud scandals that have received national attention.

    " 'We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking garbage into our country,' Trump said. 'Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage… When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”

    "In a press release from the White House on Dec. 1, the administration announced that it would be reversing #TemporaryProtectedStatus for Somali immigrant refugees as well as indefinitely pausing all 'migration from third-world countries,' including asylum decisions.

    "City leaders condemned the federal government’s plans in a Dec. 2 news conference live streamed on YouTube. Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey opened the conference, showing his support for the largest Somali community in the country.

    " 'Targeting Somali people means that #DueProcess will be violated,' Frey said. 'Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that #AmericanCitizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali. That is not now and will never be a legitimate reason.'

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis City Council member #JamalOsman and #MinneapolisPoliceChief #BrianOHara also spoke at the conference. O’Hara said MPD would not work with federal law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement."

    unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar

    #RacialProfiling #USPol #ICERaids #ICESucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  6. @ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who PUBLICLY issued an (likely illegal) order to Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth to deploy the US military to #Portland, #Oregon and to use "full force" against #AMERICANCITIZENS protesting "if necessary." youtu.be/p-DklVPcW-s?...

    🚨 EMERGENCY: Trump AUTHORIZES ...

  7. @ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who PUBLICLY issued an (likely illegal) order to Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth to deploy the US military to #Portland, #Oregon and to use "full force" against #AMERICANCITIZENS protesting "if necessary." youtu.be/p-DklVPcW-s?...

    🚨 EMERGENCY: Trump AUTHORIZES ...

  8. @ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who PUBLICLY issued an (likely illegal) order to Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth to deploy the US military to #Portland, #Oregon and to use "full force" against #AMERICANCITIZENS protesting "if necessary." youtu.be/p-DklVPcW-s?...

    🚨 EMERGENCY: Trump AUTHORIZES ...

  9. Rep #HakeemJeffries of NY, the #Democratic leader, just went past the 6-hour mark on his floor speech. He condemned #Republicans for an “all-out assault on law-abiding #immigrant #families,” including #AmericanCitizens, saying it was “unconscionable, unacceptable & it’s un-American.” The #OneBigBeautifulBill includes about $175 billion for the #Trump admin to boost #immigration *enforcement* & border security.

    #House #Democrats #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute

  10. Rep #HakeemJeffries of NY, the #Democratic leader, just went past the 6-hour mark on his floor speech. He condemned #Republicans for an “all-out assault on law-abiding #immigrant #families,” including #AmericanCitizens, saying it was “unconscionable, unacceptable & it’s un-American.” The #OneBigBeautifulBill includes about $175 billion for the #Trump admin to boost #immigration *enforcement* & border security.

    #House #Democrats #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute

  11. Rep #HakeemJeffries of NY, the #Democratic leader, just went past the 6-hour mark on his floor speech. He condemned #Republicans for an “all-out assault on law-abiding #immigrant #families,” including #AmericanCitizens, saying it was “unconscionable, unacceptable & it’s un-American.” The #OneBigBeautifulBill includes about $175 billion for the #Trump admin to boost #immigration *enforcement* & border security.

    #House #Democrats #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute

  12. Rep #HakeemJeffries of NY, the #Democratic leader, just went past the 6-hour mark on his floor speech. He condemned #Republicans for an “all-out assault on law-abiding #immigrant #families,” including #AmericanCitizens, saying it was “unconscionable, unacceptable & it’s un-American.” The #OneBigBeautifulBill includes about $175 billion for the #Trump admin to boost #immigration *enforcement* & border security.

    #House #Democrats #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute

  13. to all the brave men and women of our active duty #military, THANK YOU for your service.
    #Felon47 again said he wants to deport #AmericanCitizens to a foreign #gulag without due process.
    Will you be an #American or do you not recognize the THREAT to #TheConstitution?

  14. to all the brave men and women of our active duty #military, THANK YOU for your service.
    #Felon47 again said he wants to deport #AmericanCitizens to a foreign #gulag without due process.
    Will you be an #American or do you not recognize the THREAT to #TheConstitution?

  15. to all the brave men and women of our active duty #military, THANK YOU for your service.
    #Felon47 again said he wants to deport #AmericanCitizens to a foreign #gulag without due process.
    Will you be an #American or do you not recognize the THREAT to #TheConstitution?

  16. to all the brave men and women of our active duty #military, THANK YOU for your service.
    #Felon47 again said he wants to deport #AmericanCitizens to a foreign #gulag without due process.
    Will you be an #American or do you not recognize the THREAT to #TheConstitution?

  17. Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador

    Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador

    By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025

    "Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.

    "Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'

    "El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.

    "Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.

    "The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.

    " 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.

    " 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'

    "In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."

    Read more:
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/xliRd

    #Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared

  18. Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador

    Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador

    By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025

    "Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.

    "Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'

    "El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.

    "Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.

    "The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.

    " 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.

    " 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'

    "In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."

    Read more:
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/xliRd

    #Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared

  19. Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador

    Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador

    By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025

    "Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.

    "Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'

    "El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.

    "Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.

    "The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.

    " 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.

    " 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'

    "In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."

    Read more:
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/xliRd

    #Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared

  20. Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador

    Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador

    By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025

    "Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.

    "Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'

    "El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.

    "Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.

    "The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.

    " 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.

    " 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'

    "In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."

    Read more:
    rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/xliRd

    #Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared

  21. #BlondiBondi:

    "My advice: If you are a Gang Member in the U.S., I would Self #Deport right now b/c we are coming for you."

    Can SOMEONE inform our #AG that NOT EVERY GANG MEMBER IS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. 🤦‍♂️ #DeportToWhere #AmericanCitizens #TooStupidForPolitics #DisasterPresidency

  22. #BlondiBondi:

    "My advice: If you are a Gang Member in the U.S., I would Self #Deport right now b/c we are coming for you."

    Can SOMEONE inform our #AG that NOT EVERY GANG MEMBER IS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. 🤦‍♂️ #DeportToWhere #AmericanCitizens #TooStupidForPolitics #DisasterPresidency

  23. #BlondiBondi:

    "My advice: If you are a Gang Member in the U.S., I would Self #Deport right now b/c we are coming for you."

    Can SOMEONE inform our #AG that NOT EVERY GANG MEMBER IS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. 🤦‍♂️ #DeportToWhere #AmericanCitizens #TooStupidForPolitics #DisasterPresidency

  24. #BlondiBondi:

    "My advice: If you are a Gang Member in the U.S., I would Self #Deport right now b/c we are coming for you."

    Can SOMEONE inform our #AG that NOT EVERY GANG MEMBER IS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. 🤦‍♂️ #DeportToWhere #AmericanCitizens #TooStupidForPolitics #DisasterPresidency

  25. #ACLU: President #Obama Signs #IndefiniteDetentionBill Into Law

    December 31, 2011

    WASHINGTON – "President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (#NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had 'serious reservations' about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill.

    "'President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,' said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. 'The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and FUTURE PRESIDENTS to militarily #detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.'

    "Under the #BushAdministration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of #AmericanCitizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.

    "'We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court,' said Romero. “Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the #WarOnTerror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.'"

    aclu.org/press-releases/presid

    #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
    #USPresidency #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #Trump

  26. #ACLU: President #Obama Signs #IndefiniteDetentionBill Into Law

    December 31, 2011

    WASHINGTON – "President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (#NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had 'serious reservations' about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill.

    "'President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,' said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. 'The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and FUTURE PRESIDENTS to militarily #detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.'

    "Under the #BushAdministration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of #AmericanCitizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.

    "'We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court,' said Romero. “Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the #WarOnTerror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.'"

    aclu.org/press-releases/presid

    #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
    #USPresidency #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #Trump

  27. #ACLU: President #Obama Signs #IndefiniteDetentionBill Into Law

    December 31, 2011

    WASHINGTON – "President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (#NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had 'serious reservations' about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill.

    "'President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,' said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. 'The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and FUTURE PRESIDENTS to militarily #detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.'

    "Under the #BushAdministration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of #AmericanCitizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.

    "'We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court,' said Romero. “Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the #WarOnTerror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.'"

    aclu.org/press-releases/presid

    #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
    #USPresidency #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #Trump

  28. #ACLU: President #Obama Signs #IndefiniteDetentionBill Into Law

    December 31, 2011

    WASHINGTON – "President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (#NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had 'serious reservations' about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill.

    "'President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,' said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. 'The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and FUTURE PRESIDENTS to militarily #detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.'

    "Under the #BushAdministration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of #AmericanCitizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.

    "'We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court,' said Romero. “Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the #WarOnTerror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority.'"

    aclu.org/press-releases/presid

    #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
    #USPresidency #HR9495 #Terrorists #Activists #Trump

  29. @VeroniqueB99
    If T**** and his #JusticeDepartment decides to simply IGNORE the 14th Amendment in order to deport #AmericanCitizens (family members of undocumented immigrants)... since it was the basis for passing "Loving vs Virginia" (Interracial Marriage), I will PERSONALLY start a #petition drive to dissolve Clarence & Ginni Thomas' marriage. 🤔

  30. @VeroniqueB99
    If T**** and his #JusticeDepartment decides to simply IGNORE the 14th Amendment in order to deport #AmericanCitizens (family members of undocumented immigrants)... since it was the basis for passing "Loving vs Virginia" (Interracial Marriage), I will PERSONALLY start a #petition drive to dissolve Clarence & Ginni Thomas' marriage. 🤔

  31. @VeroniqueB99
    If T**** and his #JusticeDepartment decides to simply IGNORE the 14th Amendment in order to deport #AmericanCitizens (family members of undocumented immigrants)... since it was the basis for passing "Loving vs Virginia" (Interracial Marriage), I will PERSONALLY start a #petition drive to dissolve Clarence & Ginni Thomas' marriage. 🤔

  32. @VeroniqueB99
    If T**** and his #JusticeDepartment decides to simply IGNORE the 14th Amendment in order to deport #AmericanCitizens (family members of undocumented immigrants)... since it was the basis for passing "Loving vs Virginia" (Interracial Marriage), I will PERSONALLY start a #petition drive to dissolve Clarence & Ginni Thomas' marriage. 🤔