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Oh, and attorneys representing protesters and dissidents are getting hassled at customs now. This is tinpot dictator shit
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/
According to Makled, here are the events that unfolded at Detroit Metro Airport after his family landed back home from a five-day stay in Punta Canta:
It was about 7 p.m. when the Delta flight landed back at Detroit Metro. Makled, his wife and two daughters exited the plane and made their way to the passport checkpoint for screening. Their photos were taken.
Mom and the kids got through with no problem. But when Makled's photo was taken, a notification popped up and Makled said he heard one agent ask another agent: "Hey, are the TTRT folks around?"
"I thought, 'What the hell is that?' So, I Google that quickly," Makled recalled of the acronym.
He quickly learned that TTRT stands for Tactical Terrorism Response Team.
Makled said his wife looked at him and asked what was going on, but he said he didn't know. As the border agents let his wife and kids go, they took Makled into a small interrogation room.
While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: "We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases."
Makled said he responded: "I said, 'I’m not a famous lawyer. Let’s get to the bottom. What's the issue here?' "
According to Makled, there were two men in the room with him. One told him it's a federal crime to lie to a federal agent.
"I'm aware of that," Makled said. "But you're not identifying yourself."
One agent handed him a pamphlet about confiscating phones at the border. Makled, who is familiar with the law, said he was well aware that the government can confiscate one's phone for a period of time and then give it back. But he said he told the agents he wasn't going to let them have his phone because it contained privileged information with all of his clients.
So, he said, the agents asked for a list of texts that he believed to be privileged. Makled said he told them that that was impossible given his thousands of texts.
So they kept pushing.
"I said, 'Listen, why don’t you ask me what you want. What is it that you’re looking for, and I’ll decide if I’m going to give you the answer.' "
"He said, 'Nope. It doesn't work like that ... we want your contact list,' " Makled said he was told.
Makled agreed to let them see his contact list. The agents asked who various people were, though Makled said he only told them that they are his clients, nothing more.
The meeting ended with the agents writing up a report and releasing Makled without incident.
Before Makled left the room, he said he asked the agents whether this was going to be routine in the future — him getting stopped at airports and questioned.
The agent told him he didn't have an answer, but said he would write up a report and that "as a result, you should be fine," Makled said he was told.
Makled said he then left the room and soon reunited with his family.
So be aware, surlyites. ICE and CBP are looking for fuckin any reason to stop and interrogate anyone.

Duh. We have a Stasi now, the Regime can disappear anyone it wants. It’s just a matter of time before it happens to someone here or a family member.
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Crazy. ICE agents are unilaterally deciding who is and isn't a gang member, without any due process 

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/immigration-ice-gangs-deport-decisions

Immigration agents are the "principal" deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview.

  • If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee's rights to due process are limited.
  • Not so fast, the Supreme Court said late Monday. The court signaled that detainees designated as "enemies" of the U.S. could be deported, but should have some way to challenge their removal.
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1 hour ago, Captainant said:
  • Not so fast, the Supreme Court said late Monday. The court signaled that detainees designated as "enemies" of the U.S. could be deported, but should have some way to challenge their removal.

That's big of them. I was fully prepared for them to say, "Everyone should have the opportunity to challenge their removal, but the courts have no ability to contest the 'no backsies' clause of the Trump administration's agreements with foreign governments, so, sorry, the best we can do is send a 'I was wrongfully deported" t-shirt to CECOT memorializing your big win in the U.S. courts."

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Should focus on deporting the people that don't return their shopping cart to the stalls at HEB, without regard their immigration/naturalization/birth status. Put them in Gitmo or El Salvador. I care not which. 

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6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Should focus on deporting the people that don't return their shopping cart to the stalls at HEB, without regard their immigration/naturalization/birth status. Put them in Gitmo or El Salvador. I care not which. 

Nbc Noice GIF by Law & Order

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Six-minute interview with the attorney who represents protesters and was detained coming back to the States at the airport where they insisted on searching his phone:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detained-by-immigration-authorities

It sure is comforting to know we commingle daily with tacit fascists, who are too cowardly to even speak out on an anonymous message board, and outright Nazi wannabes who have a hard-on for this kind of shit.

 

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11 hours ago, Captainant said:

90% of deported people had no criminal record.

Where'd you go @ChickenSandwich and @futureman and @52-80? I thought yall were enjoying lack of due process. How bout you @DaggerHorns? You've disappeared now that there's more hard evidence of the shit you denied was happening 

Maybe I've missed it, but this sounds almost like the exact formerly hypothetical tyrannical government oppression gun rights groups cited as the basis for their need to bear arms.

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Some quotes from administration officials speaking at a “Border Security Expo” in Phoenix attended by companies looking to profit off the mass deportations. These people see deportees as a profit center and Amazon packages.

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'

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“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

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“We need to buy more beds, we need more airplane flights and I know a lot of you are here for that reason,” Homan told the crowd in his keynote speech, which kicked off the expo.

“Let the badge and guns do the badge and gun stuff, everything else, let’s contract out,” he said.

 

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15 minutes ago, royiv said:

Some quotes from administration officials speaking at a “Border Security Expo” in Phoenix attended by companies looking to profit off the mass deportations. These people see deportees as a profit center and Amazon packages.

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'

 

So instead of having a number tattooed on their forearm, they’ll get a bar code or a QR code.

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6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

So instead of having a number tattooed on their forearm, they’ll get a bar code or a QR code.

And, in an ironic turn of events, a “Made in China” sticker.

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http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/federal-employees-denied-entry-to-two-lausd-schools/3675573/

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Russell Elementary was visited by four individuals who identified themselves as Homeland Security agents asking specific questions about four students, he said. The students range in age from first to sixth grade.

"What interest should Homeland Security have in a first-grader?" Carvalho said. "Two hours later, the same type of event took place at Lillian Elementary School."

Three individuals, who also identified themselves as Homeland Security, asked questions about a sixth-grade student at the school, the superintendent said

 

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

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The court, in an unsigned decision, said that the judge's order "properly requires the government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

The administration, meanwhile, "should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps," the court directed.

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The court hearing over this was wild. The defendants (the Government) have not taken any steps to comply with lawful court orders and maintain that things are being asked too quickly of them. 

If you click through, there's a whole minute by minute recap of the back and forth. It's apparent the government has not taken any measures to determine even if the plaintiff is alive or not. 

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Let’s put this in terms we can relate to:
Court: “Trump Regime, you snatched a Surly poster, a US citizen, off the street and sent him down to a Salvadoran gulag immediately. You now admit that you did. It have a legal basis or right to do so. Return him.”
Trump Regime: “Gee, sorry, we can’t.”
Court: “Provide me daily reports of your effort to get the Surly poster back.”
Trump Regime: “LOL OK. Here’s my report: we didn’t do shit.
Result: it is 100% allowed for the Regime to disappear anyone it wants, and there is no remedy.

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We need to send Noem to film another propaganda video there. Maybe she’ll see him.

One of the posters deftly observed that Trump has orchestrated a meeting with the El Salvadorian president on Monday, so they can claim executive privilege.

I think their response is proof the US cannot send prisoners there, if it wasnt already clearly in violation of several constitutional rights

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The notion that a college student presents potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is absurd. This isn't some asshole who gassed a bunch of people and is wanted for genocide in Europe and if we don't hand him over there's going to be problems. 

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33 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

I think their response is proof the US cannot send prisoners there, if it wasnt already clearly in violation of several constitutional rights

Oh, this is spot on.  You think our SCOTUS will ever issue a ruling that "shipping people detained in the US to foreign prisons that are out of our control, resulting in the US losing the ability to provide the requisite due process, is in and of itself a due process violation?"

Good.  Fucking.  Luck.

The Regime can do as it wishes.  There are no guardrails, there are no restraints.  The only way to guarantee yourself any "due process" anymore is to enforce your right with the barrel of a gun.  That's the rule: when society opts out of the Rule of Law, it necessarily opts into Rule of the Gun.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/us/jewish-groups-synagogues-ice-student-detentions.html

They are a group of progressive Jewish organizations and congregations, and they are coming to the defense of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Muslim graduate student at Tufts, who faces deportation after she helped write an essay critical of Israel.

The coalition includes synagogues in places like West Newton, Mass., San Francisco and the Upper West Side of New York, along with J-Street, a pro-Israel advocacy group. On Thursday, they filed a brief in federal court in Burlington, Vt., objecting to the tactics the government was using against Ms. Ozturk in the name of combating antisemitism.

In the brief, the groups argued she should be released from the Louisiana immigration detention center where she has been held for over two weeks, after masked immigration agents surrounded and arrested her on a street near her home in Somerville, Mass.

“Jewish people came to America to escape generations of similar predations,” the brief says. “Yet the images of Ozturk’s arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics employed by the authoritarian regimes that many ancestors of amici’s members left behind in Odessa, Kishinev, and Warsaw.”

There have been reports of almost 1,000 international students and scholars at universities across the country who have lost their legal status since mid-March, according to the Association of International Educators.

Anecdotally, the visas have typically been revoked with little or no notice and without telling the students what they might have done wrong. In some cases, students have committed legal infractions, like speeding or driving while drunk, according to universities and lawyers that are monitoring the revocations. But some have not. If the students do not leave voluntarily, they face deportation.

The Trump administration has defended the campaign, saying it is revoking the visas of students who have broken the law, who have engaged in antisemitic harassment and violence, who pose a threat to the foreign policy interests of the United States, or who are terrorist sympathizers. A few Jewish activists have applauded the effort, echoing the Trump administration’s mantra that “a visa is a privilege, not a right.”

But mainstream Jewish groups have expressed qualms about the crackdown, even while approving of the Trump administration’s focus on antisemitism.

As the number of students the Trump administration is targeting has grown, Jewish groups have said that while they may not like the views of pro-Palestinian students, they cannot condone students’ being swept up for vague reasons, without formal charges against them.

Ms. Ozturk’s detention followed the arrest two weeks earlier of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who was a spokesman for pro-Palestinian protesters.

An immigration judge in Louisiana found on Friday that the Trump administration could deport Mr. Khalil. But he is still challenging the case in a separate court. In response to his case, the Boston chapter of Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff wrote an open letter, titled “Not in Our Name,” that has been signed by nearly 3,000 faculty and staff members and students at universities across the United States.

“We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name — and cynical claims of antisemitism — to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities,” the letter reads.

Sara Coodin, the director of academic affairs for the American Jewish Committee, said some federal interventions, including congressional investigations of antisemitism on campus, had been “transformative” in forcing universities to confront problems on their campuses.

But she said Ms. Ozturk’s case appeared to be “a clear disregard on the part of the federal government for the rights of people on U.S. soil to speak their minds.”

The only evidence that has surfaced against her is an opinion essay she co-wrote that was critical of Israel.

“The idea that someone can be pulled off the street for something they wrote, something they think, really affects as all, and we all need to fight back against that,” said Elaine Landes, a member of Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, a Reconstructionist synagogue in West Newton, Mass., that is one of the parties to the court brief.

“The whole push to fight antisemitism, to me, feels like we’re being used for another agenda, and that is not going to keep our community safe,” she said. “We need to look out for others.”

Ryan Bauer, senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, another signatory, said he supported Ms. Ozturk even though he disagreed with her essay. In it, she pushed for Tufts to end financial ties with Israel and to recognize Israeli conduct in Gaza as a genocide.

“I don’t like her statements — I think they’re wrong,” Rabbi Bauer said. But, he added, he believes in free speech, and “the beauty of America is that we don’t all agree with each other.”

He said he felt so strongly that Ms. Ozturk’s detention violated Jewish values that he talked about it in a recent sermon.

“When you see the floor fall out from under her, it’s naïve to think that those cracks won’t eventually reach our feet,” he said.

A federal judge in Vermont, where Ms. Ozturk spent a night in custody before being sent to Louisiana, is scheduled to hear her habeas corpus petition for release from detention on Monday.

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They're refusing to return Abrego Garcia. And they're planning to start blackbagging natural-born citizen using the exact same method.

And yet the president bent over backwards to get Andrew Fuckin Tate back into the USA.

 

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On 4/9/2025 at 10:15 AM, Captainant said:

90% of deported people had no criminal record.

Where'd you go @ChickenSandwich and @futureman and @52-80? I thought yall were enjoying lack of due process. How bout you @DaggerHorns? You've disappeared now that there's more hard evidence of the shit you denied was happening 

Maybe they were black bagged and deported to a foreign prison? We can only hope. 

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

our country is literally selling people into fucking slavery

@ChickenSandwich care to come comment? You've disappeared from the thread now that you're getting what you wanted

oh you, dont be silly 😋 lol...people are waaay too occupied fighting internally with their amygdalas to respond to this or anything else that's happened/happening. there's a reason ain't nobody saying shit about shit 🤣

 

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@Rex Kramer here's one for you - a student from Palestine on a refugee visa since 2015 got arrested by ICE while he was waiting for his citizenship appointment. His lawyers don't know where he is - very probably on his way to the El Salvador concentration camps

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-palestine-protest-trump-deportation-columbia-fca7e73fe2cbd616c1eacf3bdececdbe

 

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Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I find it amusing that the worst of our right wing posters are no where to be found right now. Fucking cowards. 

A whole lot of this.

Also, the ones I do see showing up in various places are just repeating the lies promulgated in right wing media: all of these guys sent down there are violent criminal gang members! Kilmar Garcia was a member of MS-13! (Ignoring that 1) there has never been any such adjudication, and 2) even the Trump admin, in a fucking official court filing, admitted that he was nabbed and deported not because it was merited, but because of an "administrative error") etc. etc.

They can't help but lie.  The entire philosophy and approach is a mountain of lies, built on a foundation of hate, resulting in a sacred temple of fascist bullshit.  And they LIKE IT that way.  Every.  Single.  Right-winger here.  LIKES extrajudicial black-bagging of people, disappearing them into foreign prisons, without any due process.  

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Oh, and if anyone is upset at my characterization of the El Salvador concentration camp as a "concentration camp" - I'm simply applying the standard given by the US Holocaust museum

Generically defined, a concentration camp is a site for the detention of civilians whom a regime perceives to be a security risk of some sort. What distinguishes it from a prison (in the modern sense) is that incarceration in a concentration camp is independent of any judicial sentence or even indictment, and is not subject to judicial review.

 

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