Immigration

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Try this.

Jackboots with assault rifles.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLA6mxVTxkZ/

A little hard to tell exactly what was going on. It's good to have the Spanish translation of basic rights, thanks.

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Jackboots.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/ice-age ... -123020897

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Jackboots.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/ice-age ... -123020897

https://x.com/Dodgers/status/1935777782870819056

LA Dodgers = Antifa Heroes

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LA caps aren't usually held in high regard around here. I'm guessing we may be seeing a lot more of them.
Maybe if the jackboots try to attack Petco, they'll get the same greeting.

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LA caps aren't usually held in high regard around here. I'm guessing we may be seeing a lot more of them.
Maybe if the jackboots try to attack Petco, they'll get the same greeting.

Maybe not so many Dodgers caps.

The Dodgers had been silent as Trump’s immigration crackdown roiled LA. Then federal agents arrived outside their parking lot

Defending their turf, while laudable, may have been too little too late.

I am impressed by the immigrant solidarity rapid response network. I rarely tried to organize popup demos. They're hard.

Was Petco built on an evicted Latino 'hood like Dodger Stadium? Have the Padres taken a stand on the crackdown? Maybe they should.

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Jackboots vs rapid response car wash defense:

Immigration raid at car wash sparks tense scene, hours of protests in Bell

... The protest in Bell, a city with a large Latino and Lebanese community, comes as the federal government continues its campaign in Los Angeles to find and capture undocumented immigrants. The actions have spurred backlash from local and state officials and have forced some residents into hiding.

"We're not sure who these armed men are. They show up without uniforms. They show up completely masked. They refuse to give ID. They're driving regular cars with tinted windows and in some cases, out-of-state license plates. Who are these people?" Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said at a briefing Friday night....

Cudahy Mayor Elizabeth Alcantar Loza was in Bell as the crowds gathered, and said the mood on Atlantic Avenue shifted when suddenly an unmarked silver SUV drove toward her and other people standing near her, angering the crowd. Some began to hit and throw objects at the SUV. A second unmarked vehicle attempted to do the same thing moments later, she said.

"It felt like there was a point being made to incite violence," Alcantar Loza said. "People were peacefully protesting, and it became something completely different because of the vehicle that was trying to drive into the crowd."

"We've seen it across the board, folks show up to an immigration activity and then violence is enacted upon them. Then they respond and we're shown as violent protesters — when in reality folks were calm, they were chanting, they were protesting. And they tried to run people over," she said....

GoMayorsGo, represent the people, not DonOLD and his Jackboots.

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Trump Regains Control Of Troops In L.A. From Newsom Thanks To Appeals Court; Governor Was To Take Command Of National Guard On Friday – Updated

Also, Thursday LA Mayor Karen Bass gave much more heated remarks than is usual for the circumspect politician in talking about the continued ICE rounding up of residents and the 4,000 Guard troops and 700 Marines on the streets in and around federal buildings and more. “No matter what happens out of the White House,” the much Trump attacked Bass said today, as DTLA went under another night of dusk-to-dawn curfew. “We will always uphold and reflect what Los Angeles and the United States are truly about: freedom, tolerance and, for God’s sake, our Constitution.”

Almost as fast on the social media draw as Trump, Newsom went online soon after the order landed on the federal court docket. “The court just confirmed what we all know — the military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets,” the Governor posted with a copy of the order. “This win is not just for California, but the nation,” he said in his post.

A US appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles, despite objections from city leaders and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

"The Judges obviously realized that Gavin Newscum is incompetent and ill prepared, but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e07nd7x17o

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Justice Department says it intends to try Kilmar Abrego Garcia on smuggling charges

The Justice Department said Thursday that it intends to try Kilmar Abrego Garcia on federal smuggling charges in Tennessee before it moves to deport him to a country that is not his native El Salvador....

This poor guy just wanted to work and support his family. Now, they'll never rest until he's in prison or deported, all because TACO DonOLD embarrassed himself. It's all very Kafkaesque.

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Classic

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How we can help at risk immigrants:

Trump’s Immigration Arrests Are Seeing A Wave Of Resistance
The mass deportation agenda relies upon some key choke points.

... Participating In On-The-Ground Direct Action

Mass protests.
Accompaniment at immigration hearings - faith leaders and active duty military have been especially effective at making ICE disappear.
Documenting arrests.
Providing informal legal information.

There are lots of these kinds of interventions, whether it’s taking shifts at a local rapid response network, donating to bail funds, visiting people in immigration detention, helping with translation, contributing child care, delivering food and other supplies to people afraid to go to work, or simply attending a protest.

... people protesting outside of ICE agents’ hotels, physically manifesting their disagreement (as O Really told us about). “There’s lots of different ways to do these bystander interventions. It doesn’t require that you be standing there while ICE tries to arrest someone standing next to you.”

... Importantly, because America’s militarized deportation machine has been decades in the making, activists have also mobilized against it for decades. As a result, communities around the United States ― and not just big cities ― are filled with an extensive network of immigrants’ rights organizations, from grassroots community groups to mutual aid networks to national organizations, largely led by immigrants and their loved ones. These groups are deeply sensitive to the needs of people facing arrest and deportation, and they’ve done the work even when the national media hasn’t taken notice. Now, they’re serving as key nodes of resistance against Trump’s stepped-up enforcement actions.

Getting Everyone Legal Representation

The data is clear. Legal representation is associated with better outcomes in immigration court.

That’s because the deck is stacked against people in the immigration legal system. Unlike in criminal court, people in the immigration process are not guaranteed free legal representation if they can’t afford it, even if they’re detained behind bars....

Opposing Local Cooperation With The Feds

Even though immigration enforcement is a federal job, local cooperation is a crucial part of the operation.

Jail space that local governments rent out to ICE is the most common type of immigration detention, one 2020 analysis found. Localities also frequently coordinate law enforcement operations with immigration authorities, including, crucially, the hand-off of undocumented people who are being released from local jails....

... Sanctuary policies “reduce deportations by one-third,” while having no measurable effect on crime, the legal scholar David K. Hausman found in 2020.

... “Go to your county commission hearings, go to your city council,” Shah said, noting that community activism has led to major changes, like a 2022 law in Illinois entirely outlawing immigration detention in the state. “There’s people doing this work across the country at the local level, and there’s a lot of possibility to protect immigrants.”

Fighting Trump’s Massive DHS Budget Increase

... In a Fox Business interview Wednesday, Homan hammered home a similar argument, calling the proposed massive budget increases “imperative” to procure more agents, detention beds, transportation streams, and resources to “target” people for arrest.

“Get it done,” he told members of Congress. “We need the funds to get this done.”

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ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App
Not even ICE can remember its bogus data.

Trump LAW, lying and whining, again.

MAGA is illegal, again:

Stephen Miller Spirals After Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Asylum Ban
A federal judge has ruled that Trump exceeded his authority when he claimed there was an “invasion” and instituted an asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled unlawful Trump’s day-one proclamation shutting down the right to claim asylum at the southern border on the dubious grounds that an “invasion” is occurring there.

In response, Miller claimed that Moss, an Obama appointee, is a “marxist judge” attempting to “circumvent the Supreme Court.” Quote-tweeting that post, Miller added, “The West will not survive if our sovereignty is not restored.”

In his 128-page ruling, Moss said that Trump’s proclamation asserted “sweeping authority” that far exceeds the powers he legally possesses under the Constitution and the Immigration and Nationality Act. And the Trump administration’s “appeal to necessity cannot fill that void.”

Contrary to Trump’s arguments, Moss wrote, the president does not have “the unilateral authority to limit the rights of aliens present in the United States to apply for asylum,” nor does he have the “authority to adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted and the regulations that the responsible agencies have promulgated.”

Deborah Pearlstein of Princeton University noted that Moss’s ruling exemplifies how courts may still rein in Trump’s unlawful actions, even after the Supreme Court recently impeded their ability to do so in a ruling restricting lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide freezes on Trump’s anti-constitutional executive orders.

Moss mentioned that Supreme Court case in his ruling, but cited the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that directs courts to “set aside” federal actions found to be “not in accordance with law.”

As has been shown here on BRD, MAGAts only care about "illegals" if they are Brown or Black.

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

In a notification sent to Congress over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that a 75-year-old Cuban national named Isidro Perez died while in ICE custody on June 26. The death, which appears to have been caused by a heart attack, is “still under investigation,” according to the notification, which was sent our way by a congressional aide.

Obviously, the man’s age immediately makes it look odd that he was in ICE detention in the first place. But here’s something else that’s striking about this case: According to the ICE note, the man was first paroled into the United States in 1966.

Yes, you read that right. The man has been here for almost 60 years—and he appears to have been around 16 years old when he first arrived from Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

Whatever is learned about the death, those details are going to raise serious questions about the deployment of law enforcement resources under Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s dragnet. Miller has been ordering ICE officials to drive up the deportation numbers to the highest possible levels, and detaining a 75-year-old man who has been here for longer than a half-century is apparently what this has come to entail.

... Perez was also convicted of possession of a controlled substance twice, in 1981 and 1984. While it’s hard to know what that means absent more details, the upshot of this is that the drug charges appear minor, he likely served whatever his sentences were, and both occurred more than 40 years ago.

Perez appears to be the twelfth person to die in ICE custody this fiscal year, an increase over previous years. According to the notification, he was in detention at the Krome detention center in Miami, which is already coming under scrutiny, after two deaths there this year. Krome is where migrants recently lined up to spell out “S.O.S.” in the yard, highlighting growing concerns about detention conditions.

Perez reported chest pains, leading to the summoning of paramedics, who attempted to resuscitate him, after which he died at a Florida hospital, the notification says. While there’s no reason to assume as of now that Perez’s death was directly due to mishandling by ICE, its notification says he’d been diagnosed upon getting booked into Krome and then transferred temporarily to that hospital during his detention, so ICE knew he faced serious health risks.

... But again, these happened more than four decades ago. And whatever is subsequently learned about Perez, questions will surely be raised about why someone of this age—who had been paroled into the U.S. as a teenager before Americans set foot on the moon—was detained in the first place.

“Not only is it unjust and unnecessary to execute a deportation order from two generations in the past, but when the target is an elderly person with health issues, detention is particularly dangerous,” Reichlin-Melnick told me.

“As part of their deportation drive, are they going to start reconsidering more people paroled into this country 50 years ago?” asked Yael Schacher, an advocate with Refugees International, adding that in no sense was Perez any kind of “flight risk.”

MAGA is killing gramps.

This will also raise new questions about the major story unfolding in the background: the deeply questionable use of law enforcement resources to pump up deportation numbers. As it is, Miller is already allocating massive numbers of law enforcement agents into his removals in ways that are shifting them away from the pursuit of other more serious crimes.

Miller recently berated ICE officials for lagging deportation numbers, demanding that they round up more migrants in Home Depot parking lots, which by definition targets people who are merely here to work....

In that regard, the death of Perez also highlights another deeply unsettling fact: If Trump gets his new budget bill passed, it will allocate tens of billions of additional dollars for detentions and deportations. That will lead to dramatically ramped-up detentions under worsening conditions—and probably more deaths. In this, Perez is a harbinger of much, much worse to come.

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Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia detail ‘torture and mistreatment’ in El Salvador’s mega prison

Thanks, MAGA.

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A building in Roubaix, France:

They should come take the real one back. We don’t deserve her anymore.

US Rep R-TN2, neoplacebo adjacent:

Give it a rest, whiny moron. It was in America's interest to join the war. It was never a gift to France.

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... Recently, France unveiled a mural called "The Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest," designed to illustrate the "shame" surrounding the recent immigration policies of the Trump administration. The now-viral painting, seen by over 16 million people, features Lady Liberty covering her face with her hands, with her torch lying on her chest.

Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw reportedly took six days to complete the mural, which was painted on a building in Roubaix, France.

This location was intentional due to Roubaix's "large migrant population" who live in "extremely difficult circumstances," De Leeuw said to Storyful. "The values that the statue once stood for — freedom, hope, the right to be yourself — have been lost for many," she continued....

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Sure, a image of leftists crying.

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Well, at least there's that.

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.

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Well, at least there's that.

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.

... Some ICE employees believe that the shift in priorities is driven by a political preoccupation with deportation numbers rather than keeping communities safe. At ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division, which has long focused on cartels and major drug-trafficking operations, supervisors have waved agents off new cases so they have more time to make immigration-enforcement arrests, a veteran agent told me. “No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation,” the agent said. “It’s infuriating.” The longtime ICE employee is thinking about quitting rather than having to continue “arresting gardeners.”

... Several career officials have been pushed out of leadership roles. Other employees have decided to quit. Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told me he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. “It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,” Boyd said. He told me that he saw frustration among ICE attorneys whose cases were dismissed just so officer teams could grab their clients in the hallways for fast-track deportations that pad the stats. Some detainees had complex claims that attorneys have to screen before their initial hearings, to ensure due process. Others with strong asylum cases were likely to end up back in court later anyway. The hallway arrests sent the message that the immigration courts were just a convenient place to handcuff people. Some ICE attorneys “are only waiting until their student loans are forgiven, and then they’re leaving,” he said.

...The amount of money for ICE in the bill is staggering: A $170 billion package for Trump’s border-and-immigration crackdown, which includes $45 billion for new detention facilities, more than doubling the number of available beds, and $30 billion for ICE operations, including hiring thousands more officers and agents. To put those sums in perspective, ICE’s entire annual budget is about $9 billion.

This is what fascism looks like.

... One former ICE official told me that the Biden administration treated the agency’s workers with more basic decency and appreciation, even as their caseload grew.

“Giving people leave, recognizing them for small stuff, that kind of thing. It went a long way,” the official said. “Now I think you have an issue where the administration has come in very aggressive and people are really not happy, because of the perception that the administration doesn’t give a shit about them.”

It's reality, not just a perception

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Todd M. Lyons - "The men and women of ICE are nervous but they're brave, morale's never been higher."

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Judge Pauses Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
The order, which followed an hour-long hearing, included a seven-day stay to allow for appeal.

A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a ruling Thursday prohibiting President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship from taking effect anywhere in the U.S.

Judge Joseph LaPlante issued a preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s order and certified a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected. The order, which followed an hour-long hearing, included a seven-day stay to allow for appeal.

Judge Joseph Normand Laplante was appointed by George W. Bush.

... “This is going to protect every single child around the country from this lawless, unconstitutional and cruel executive order,” said Cody Wofsy, an attorney for the plaintiffs....

At issue is the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” ...

MAGA despises the Constitution.

LaPlante, who had issued a narrow injunction in a similar case, said while he didn’t consider the government’s arguments frivolous, he found them unpersuasive. He said his decision to issue an injunction was “not a close call” and that deprivation of U.S. citizenship clearly amounted to irreparable harm.

... The New Hampshire plaintiffs, referred to only by pseudonyms, include a woman from Honduras who has a pending asylum application and is due to give birth to her fourth child in October. She told the court the family came to the U.S. after being targeted by gangs.

“I do not want my child to live in fear and hiding. I do not want my child to be a target for immigration enforcement,” she wrote. “I fear our family could be at risk of separation.” ...

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Bizarro world.