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  1. Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South #Texas Airport

    The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a #Raymondville #DetentionCenter. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

    by Gaige Davila
    April 15, 2026, 8:54 AM, CDT

    "Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case. She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide, where she’s contracted to help people making their way through the immigration court system, just as she did for herself 35 years ago when she immigrated from India to New Jersey before settling in Texas.

    "She planned to meet with her adult children in Austin after the Wisconsin trip, the only difference she foresaw in an otherwise typical trip. Her routine for years included flying from either Harlingen or Brownsville to far-flung parts of the country where South Asian immigrants needed language access. For this trip, the flight was out of Harlingen.

    "But, around 5 p.m. on March 17, Batra was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) agents after passing through security at Harlingen International Airport. In a sworn deposition that was filed as part of a petition for habeas corpus—a legal request to be released on the grounds that the detention is unlawful—Batra said the people who arrested her did not have visible badges nor were they wearing uniforms. One of those agents had asked Batra if she knew she was in the country illegally and that she had a deportation order. She replied that her work authorization status, which she applied for regularly after being granted a legal status called withholding of removal by a New Jersey immigration judge decades ago, was good for another four years.

    " 'That doesn’t mean you can be here forever,' the agent replied. Two more plainclothes agents would join the two that detained her, bringing her down the escalator and to the front of the airport."

    Read more:
    texasobserver.org/immigration-

    #USPol #HumanRightsViolations #Disappeared #Orwellian #ICESucks

  2. Thursday, March 19 2026

    Major Russian aircraft manufacturing plant hit in Ukrainian strike -- Battlefield analysis: What Ukraine’s recent front-line gains really mean -- Russian oil shipments en route to Cuba despite US blockade -- Russian psyop allegedly targets Hungarians in western Ukraine as Budapest-Kyiv tensions rise ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  3. I let the smokers use the room, and some art disappeared

    misryoum.com/us/today/i-let-th

    DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room. After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and...

    #let #the #smokers #use #the #room #and #some #art #disappeared #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  4. I let the smokers use the room, and some art disappeared

    misryoum.com/us/today/i-let-th

    DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room. After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and...

    #let #the #smokers #use #the #room #and #some #art #disappeared #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  5. I let the smokers use the room, and some art disappeared

    misryoum.com/us/today/i-let-th

    DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room. After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and...

    #let #the #smokers #use #the #room #and #some #art #disappeared #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  6. #Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

    "you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

    "Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

    youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

    #FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
    #80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
    #Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

  7. #Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

    "you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

    "Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

    youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

    #FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
    #80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
    #Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

  8. #Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

    "you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

    "Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

    youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

    #FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
    #80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
    #Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

  9. #Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

    "you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

    "Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

    youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

    #FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
    #80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
    #Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

  10. #Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

    "you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

    "Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

    youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

    #FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
    #80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
    #Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

  11. #Mamdani Signs Executive Order Requiring #ICE Agents to Get #JudicialWarrants in #NYC

    “ICE is more than a rogue agency—it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” the mayor said.

    Stephen Prager
    Feb 06, 2026

    Excerpt: "As the #Trump administration claims federal agents have the authority to raid Americans’ homes and carry out arrests without a warrant, New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani signed an executive order on Friday barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies from entering properties without getting a warrant from a judge.

    "It was part of a suite of policies Mamdani announced at an interfaith breakfast to reaffirm New York’s status as a #SanctuaryCity amid President Donald Trump’s surges of immigration agents to other US cities, which have resulted in extrajudicial killings and rampant civil rights violations by agents.

    " 'Across this country, day after day, we bear witness to cruelty that staggers the conscience. Masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars, violate the #Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors,' Mamdani said. 'That is why this morning, I am signing an executive order that will strengthen our city’s protection of our fellow New Yorkers from abusive immigration enforcement.' "

    Read more / listen:
    commondreams.org/news/mamdani-

    #USPol #ResistICE #DefundICE #SanctuaryCities #NYC #NewYorkCity #ICESucks #Disappeared #ICEKidnapping

  12. #Mamdani Signs Executive Order Requiring #ICE Agents to Get #JudicialWarrants in #NYC

    “ICE is more than a rogue agency—it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” the mayor said.

    Stephen Prager
    Feb 06, 2026

    Excerpt: "As the #Trump administration claims federal agents have the authority to raid Americans’ homes and carry out arrests without a warrant, New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani signed an executive order on Friday barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies from entering properties without getting a warrant from a judge.

    "It was part of a suite of policies Mamdani announced at an interfaith breakfast to reaffirm New York’s status as a #SanctuaryCity amid President Donald Trump’s surges of immigration agents to other US cities, which have resulted in extrajudicial killings and rampant civil rights violations by agents.

    " 'Across this country, day after day, we bear witness to cruelty that staggers the conscience. Masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars, violate the #Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors,' Mamdani said. 'That is why this morning, I am signing an executive order that will strengthen our city’s protection of our fellow New Yorkers from abusive immigration enforcement.' "

    Read more / listen:
    commondreams.org/news/mamdani-

    #USPol #ResistICE #DefundICE #SanctuaryCities #NYC #NewYorkCity #ICESucks #Disappeared #ICEKidnapping

  13. #Mamdani Signs Executive Order Requiring #ICE Agents to Get #JudicialWarrants in #NYC

    “ICE is more than a rogue agency—it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” the mayor said.

    Stephen Prager
    Feb 06, 2026

    Excerpt: "As the #Trump administration claims federal agents have the authority to raid Americans’ homes and carry out arrests without a warrant, New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani signed an executive order on Friday barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies from entering properties without getting a warrant from a judge.

    "It was part of a suite of policies Mamdani announced at an interfaith breakfast to reaffirm New York’s status as a #SanctuaryCity amid President Donald Trump’s surges of immigration agents to other US cities, which have resulted in extrajudicial killings and rampant civil rights violations by agents.

    " 'Across this country, day after day, we bear witness to cruelty that staggers the conscience. Masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars, violate the #Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors,' Mamdani said. 'That is why this morning, I am signing an executive order that will strengthen our city’s protection of our fellow New Yorkers from abusive immigration enforcement.' "

    Read more / listen:
    commondreams.org/news/mamdani-

    #USPol #ResistICE #DefundICE #SanctuaryCities #NYC #NewYorkCity #ICESucks #Disappeared #ICEKidnapping

  14. #Mamdani Signs Executive Order Requiring #ICE Agents to Get #JudicialWarrants in #NYC

    “ICE is more than a rogue agency—it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” the mayor said.

    Stephen Prager
    Feb 06, 2026

    Excerpt: "As the #Trump administration claims federal agents have the authority to raid Americans’ homes and carry out arrests without a warrant, New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani signed an executive order on Friday barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies from entering properties without getting a warrant from a judge.

    "It was part of a suite of policies Mamdani announced at an interfaith breakfast to reaffirm New York’s status as a #SanctuaryCity amid President Donald Trump’s surges of immigration agents to other US cities, which have resulted in extrajudicial killings and rampant civil rights violations by agents.

    " 'Across this country, day after day, we bear witness to cruelty that staggers the conscience. Masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars, violate the #Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors,' Mamdani said. 'That is why this morning, I am signing an executive order that will strengthen our city’s protection of our fellow New Yorkers from abusive immigration enforcement.' "

    Read more / listen:
    commondreams.org/news/mamdani-

    #USPol #ResistICE #DefundICE #SanctuaryCities #NYC #NewYorkCity #ICESucks #Disappeared #ICEKidnapping

  15. 🚨 The #GhostFlights: #Deportation Flights #Disappearing Thousands Arrested by #ICE

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 6, 2026

    "We've been tracking the Ghost Flights, disappearing migrants, moms, asylum seekers, and others arrested in Minneapolis, who are quickly grabbed and taken away at a private terminal at Minneapolis international airport.

    "The charter airlines are making it harder to track them, but here's what we found: #GlobalX, #Eastern and #Omni based in #TulsaOK, have operated most of these, with Sun Country also operating some of the flights.

    "These secretive flights take those arrested to deportation hubs in isolated areas, where they are sent to prison, deported to other countries, or constantly shifted on flights. These secretive hubs are in #DadeCollier in the Florida Everglades; Alexandria in central Louisiana; and Harlingen on the Texas border.

    "Those arrested are boarded shackled in chains from their wrists to their feet, and often denied water and food, and abused. While these secretive flights disappear people, their families desperately search for them.

    "The flights out of #MesaAZ in the #Phoenix area are deporting hundreds on each flight to #Venezuela. A recent flight out of Mesa deported those arrested to #Russia and #Iran. The past flights show the men were immediately given #Draft notices for military service when they arrived in Russia. Protesters and political #AsylumSeekers face worse.

    "As for the chartered airlines, the main contract is held by #CSI in #AlbuquerqueNM, who contracts out the other airlines.

    "Yesterday, a Ghost Flight landed in #Guantanamo and then #Haiti. These are #moms, #workers, asylum seekers, #LegalResidents, and most are whisked away and denied due process. More than 2,000 have been deported from #Minneapolis.

    "Other major hubs for deportation flights are #ElPaso, #Miami, #SanAntonio, and #TacomaWA. The deportation flights are arriving in every region of the world, the Americas, Asia, and Africa." 😱

    Read more (includes flight maps):
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02

    #ReaderSupportedNews #DefundICE #StopTheDeportations #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICESucks #KristiNoemSucks #USPol #SilencingDissent #Disappeared #Orwellian

  16. #OglalaLakota President Refuses #ICE Manipulation and Deal -- as Three #Lakota Remain #Disappeared at #FortSnelling

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Jan. 15, 2026

    MINNEAPOLIS -- "ICE's violence continued on Wednesday night with another #ICEShooting. Three #Lakotas arrested by ICE remain disappeared at Fort Snelling, the long time site of the genocide of #Dakota people.

    "In the search for the three disappeared Lakotas, Oglala Lakota President #FrankStarComesOut says he refuses to cut a deal with ICE, which ICE is demanding to release more information.

    "Meanwhile, a whistleblower has leaked the secret ICE operations underway -- including the targeting of #activists, recruiting informants in jail, and 'Operation A' exploiting migrants for intelligence.

    "Both the #TohonoOodham Nation government, and #Navajo President #BuuNygren, play roles by recruiting and promoting ICE agents."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01

    #ICESucks #ReadersupportedNews #ResistICE #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  17. #NationalGuard Ordered to Do #ICE Paperwork at #Immigration Facilities in 20 States

    #Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between #military and #LawEnforcement.

    by Nick Turse, July 31 2025

    "The Trump administration authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to immigration facilities in 20 states beginning early next month, further entwining the military in civil and law enforcement functions.

    "The move undermines long-standing prohibitions on the use of the armed forces in domestic operations, sidestepping the Posse Comitatus Act and accelerating the U.S. transition into a #PoliceState, experts said.

    "The National Guard will be deployed in #Arkansas, #Florida, #Georgia, #Indiana, #Iowa, #Louisiana, #Nebraska, #SouthCarolina, #Texas, #Utah, and #Virginia, among other states, according to a defense official who was not authorized to disclose the information.

    "Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged it was now finalizing the parameters of its expanded collaboration with the Pentagon. 'We’re engaged with the Department of Defense and we’re figuring out the next steps,' Tanya Roman, an ICE spokesperson told The Intercept.

    "Guard members will assist ICE officials in 'alien processing' – administrative work preceding detention — in 20 states while ICE leadership will 'direct' troops assigned to the mission, which will begin in early August, according to a memo first revealed on Wednesday by the New York Times.

    " 'The National Guard serving as camp administrators for ICE’s infamous #DetentionCenters is a dangerous and shameful step for everyone involved,' said #SamRatner, policy director at #WinWithoutWar.

    "The Pentagon told The Intercept that these troops will operate under so-called Title 32 status, meaning they will be under state, rather than federal, control, unlike deployments in Los Angeles and across the southern border. Experts say it hardly lessens the dangers to democracy.

    " 'This move raises almost all the same concerns as using active-duty troops, and then some,' Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center’s liberty and national security program, told The Intercept. 'This is yet another attempt to circumvent the #PosseComitatusAct, which normally prohibits the military from engaging in civilian law enforcement activities.' "

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/07/31/na
    archive.ph/xe4X4

    #Militarization #Authoritarianism #ICEDetention #ICEKidnapping #USPol #Disappeared #DueProcess #Fascism

  18. #BorderPatrol Wants Advanced #AI to #Spy on American Cities

    A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for #drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.

    by Sam Biddle
    July 23 2025

    Excerpt: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking 'advanced AI' technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated #autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.

    "A CBP presentation for an 'Industry Day' summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for #SurveillanceTowers along the #border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s #AntiImmigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

    "The recent passage of Trump’s sprawling flagship legislation funnels tens of billions of dollars to the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity. While much of that funding will go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bolster the administration’s arrest and deportation operations, a great deal is earmarked to purchase new technology and equipment for federal offices tasked with preventing immigrants from arriving in the first place: Customs and Border Protection, which administers the country’s border surveillance apparatus, and its subsidiary, the U.S. Border Patrol.

    "One page of the presentation, describing the wishlist of Border Patrol’s Law Enforcement Operations Division, says the agency needs '#AdvancedAI to identify and track suspicious activity in urban environment [sic],' citing the 'challenges' posed by 'Dense residential areas.' What’s considered '#SuspiciousActivity' is left unmentioned.
    Customs and Border Protection did not respond to questions posed about the slides by The Intercept."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/07/23/cb

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/ohLtM

    #ThoughtCrime #PoliceDrones #AISucks #SurveillanceState #USPol #CPB #DHS #ICE #ICEKidnapping #Disappeared #Orwellian #NoPrivacy #MinorityReport #ElectronicBigBrother #BrotherEye #DoublePlusUngood #BigBrotherIsWatching #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou

  19. 82-year old diabetic grandfather sent to Guatamala! WTF!

    #ICE secretly deported #Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost his #GreenCard

    ‘I can see all my family is in pain right now,’ Luis Leon granddaughter said

    by Kelly Rissman, Sunday 20 July 2025

    "The family of an 82-year-old Chilean national feared he was dead for weeks before discovering that he had been detained by ICE after he misplaced his green card, according to a report.

    "Relatives last saw Luis Leon, who lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on June 20, when he and his wife visited the Philadelphia immigration office to replace his lost green card, The Morning Call first reported.

    "There, officers handcuffed him and took him away without explanation, relatives told the outlet. His family was left scrambling, contacting immigration offices, hospitals and even a morgue for more information on Leon’s whereabouts.

    "Then, on July 9, Leon’s wife received a call that seemed to confirm the family’s worst fears; the caller claimed the 82-year-old had died.

    "Thankfully, this week, his family members learned that Leon had been moved from a #DetentionFacility in Minnesota to #Guatemala. He’s now in a hospital in Guatemala City, the outlet reported. The Independent has reached out to ICE for more information.

    It’s not immediately clear why he was sent to Guatemala. But last month, the Supreme Court left the door open for the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries they have never called home.

    " 'I can see all my family is in pain right now,' his granddaughter Nataly told The Morning Call. She’s planning to fly to Guatemala to see her grandfather, who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and other conditions."

    independent.co.uk/news/world/a

    #ICEKidnapping #Disappeared #ICEGestapo #TrumpSucks #ResistICE #DHS #Kidnapping

  20. Friday, June 13, 2025

    Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  21. Friday, June 13, 2025

    Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  22. Friday, June 13, 2025

    Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  23. Friday, June 13, 2025

    Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  24. Friday, June 13, 2025

    Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  25. Healey ‘demands answers,’ community members rally after ICE detains Milford high school student

    The high school junior was arrested Saturday morning on his way to volleyball practice. Governor Maura Healey said she is "demanding immediate answers."

    By Molly Farrar, June 1, 2025

    "A Milford #HighSchool student was detained by federal immigration officials on his way to volleyball practice Saturday, prompting a protest of hundreds of people.

    " 'It was shocking. It’s frankly disgusting,' said coach Andrew Mainini.

    "The high school junior was arrested when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled over a car full of students, according to multiple reports. The boys were on their way to an early Saturday morning volleyball practice; Mainini told Boston.com he initially thought they overslept.

    "But, one of the student athletes texted Mainini, letting him know that the driver of their carpool had been detained by federal agents. The coach learned more details from the students Sunday, who said that upwards of ten masked people, who appeared to be ICE agents, began questioning the three high schoolers and scanning their faces with cell phones on their way to practice.

    " 'These are high school students. They’re #honors and #APLevel students. They are members of athletic teams. They are members of the student council. They are members of the school musical ensembles,' Mainini said.

    "Sunday morning, Milford families celebrated during the high school’s graduation ceremony. Afterwards, community members gathered to support the detained student at Milford Town Hall. The town, which is about 40 miles southwest of Boston, is nearly 30 percent foreign-born, according to census data.

    "During Sunday’s demonstration, family members identified the detained student as 18-year-old #MarceloGomes, according to reports. He is originally from Brazil, and his full name is #MarceloGomesDaSilva, according to the ICE inmate tracker. The tracker did not say where he is currently being held as of Sunday evening."

    boston.com/news/local-news/202

    #FreeMarcelo #ICERaid #ICESucks #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Disappeared #Massachusetts #BigBrother #Orwellian #ResistFascism #ResistICE

  26. @JuliusGoat

    Also... it seems most/all of the masked "black-baggers" are #HSI agents, not the usual #ICE "Enforcement and Removal Operations" #ERO officers. ?!?

    Apparently HSI stands for "Homeland Security Investigations". There is very little objective info on their involvement online. (I treat all .gov info on this topic as suspect.)

    Based on bits of reporting I've heard, these are *investigators* and not enforcers. I assume using them as the equivalent of secret police is a tactical move by #DHS to misdirect and obfuscate.

    Whoever they are, they should be in uniform with proper ID plainly visible!

    #Misdirection #Obfuscation #Disappeared #Authoritarianism

  27. 3 ways #Trump's #immigration #crackdown could hit #USCitizens

    Brittany Gibson, Apr 23, 2025

    "#Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants — who criticizes Trump's policies.

    "Why it matters: Such moves — described by officials in recent days — would show how U.S. citizens could be impacted by the growing number of tactics President Trump is using to, in his view, improve national security.

    "They'd also be certain to ignite new legal battles over how far Trump's team can go in fighting illegal immigration and responding to #dissenters.

    "Zoom in: Here are three tactics the administration has teased that legal analysts say would challenge Americans' rights:

    1. Sending convicted U.S. citizens to prisons abroad.

    This has been floated as a spinoff of Trump's deal with El Salvador, where a high-security prison is holding about 300 U.S. immigration detainees that the administration says are suspected criminals and gang members.
    "Homegrowns are next," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last week, referring to sending Americans convicted of crimes to serve time in foreign prisons.
    "We always have to obey the laws," Trump said, "but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies over the head ... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country."
    Trump's suggestion — echoing a similar proposal Bukele made to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February — drew a storm of criticism from legal advocates, who called it unconstitutional.

    2. Putting critics of the administration's policies in jeopardy.

    Some officials say U.S. citizens who #criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.
    "You have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them, because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime," White House senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka said in an interview with Newsmax.
    Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing #immigrants with "#KnowYourRights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.
    "They're trying to use terrorism laws to attack people for their speech and for their political activism, and that's an authoritarian effort," said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an immigration advocacy group.

    3. Questioning the authority of court orders.

    The administration's resistance to returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was legally in the U.S. with an order not to be deported back to El Salvador, but deported to the prison there anyway — has raised questions about how far Trump's team can go in trying to skirt court orders.
    The White House says the decision to return #AbregoGarcia rests with El Salvador because the U.S. Supreme Court told the administration only to "facilitate" his return, not "effectuate" it.

    Advocates worry the resulting confusion has laid the groundwork for Trump's team to send a #USCitizen to a foreign prison, then claim that person couldn't be returned.

    A federal judge raised this concern in Abrego Garcia's case.
    "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" wrote Judge Harvie Wilkinson III.
    "And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?"

    What they're saying: Michelle Brané, former executive director of the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force, echoed Wilkinson.

    "If they can send a noncitizen to a prison in El Salvador without due process ... why would a U.S. citizen be safer?"

    The White House didn't respond to a request for comment. But officials have argued that they have an electoral mandate for stricter immigration enforcement, and that opposition to their policies is against the will of voters.

    Trump's handling of immigration polls well in public surveys.
    But sending immigrants to El Salvador's prison without criminal convictions or due process does not — about 60% were opposed in a recent YouGov survey.

    Between the lines: U.S. citizens have been mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before, including cases this month in Arizona and Florida.

    "People are realizing that this is going to impact all communities," Talbot said, "and that if one citizen can be picked up, then any of us can be picked up and put into proceedings, or labeled a #terrorist, or removed to a foreign prison."

    Original article:
    axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-imm

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/wUUdG

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    #Disappeared #USCitizens #ICEDetention
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  28. "More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again. One never had the smallest clue as to what had happened to them. In some cases, they might not even be dead."
    - George Orwell, 1984
    #Deportations #Disappeared #MemoryHoled #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusUngood

  29. Yesterday marches have been held in different parts of #Mexico in support of the 43 #Normalista #students who were #disappeared by the #State on Sept 26. 2014.

    Students & #family members of 43 #protested at the #NationalIntelligenceCentre (#CISEN) in #MexicoCity. They’re demanding the #military hand over crucial documents involving the whereabouts of the missing #youths.

    :antifa_100:

    t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/167