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"In #LosAngeles, where #ICE has launched a dragnet, the LA Unified School District [#LAUSD] put in place new protective measures. Many families have nevertheless still opted to skip #graduation & #schools are streaming ceremonies for those who feel safer at home."

#Trump #immigration #terrorism #MassDeportations #law #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #NationalGuard #Marines #troops
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#Marines were seen standing guard outside a federal building in #LosAngeles on Friday as they started operations after #protests erupted last week over #immigration raids.

Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, commander of Task Force 51 who is overseeing the 4,700 troops deployed by #Trump, said the Marines finished [2 days of] training on civil disturbance & are starting their operations by replacing #NationalGuard #troops.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #RightToProtest
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We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.


Moments after #KristiNoem made the remarks about, essentially, trying to undermine the authority of local & state elected #Democrats in #California, Sen #AlexPadilla was forcibly removed from the briefing room, forced to lay on the ground face-down & placed in handcuffs. Because he tried to ask a question.

#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #immigration


While he is hiding behind the guise of targeting Democratic-led states & cities that function as #sanctuaries for undocumented #immigrants, #Trump’s barely disguised his bloodlust for using his 2nd term to punish all of his perceived political enemies. Gov #GavinNewsom & #LA Mayor #KarenBass most certainly fall into this category.
#law #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #NationalGuard #troops #Marines #PosseComitatusAct #immigration


Those remarks combined with the liberation speak amount to a pretty pellucid admission of the #Trump admin’s ultimate vision here.…much of the effort to deploy #troops to #LA to clamp down on mostly #peaceful #protesters in the city can be seen through the lens of the president’s months-long effort to punish blue cities & states.
#law #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #NationalGuard #Marines #PosseComitatusAct #immigration


(Apparently, per #Noem, #IRS agents have been there in person working to determine what groups are organizing the #protests in the city! Normal stuff!) She then said that the #NationalGuard & #DHS were working to “make every single community great again & safe again” before lamenting that the people of #LA were “suffering” “under the policies of Governor Newsom & under the policies of Mayor Bass.”

#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #LosAngeles #immigration


The statement said the quiet part out loud: the #military was there to “liberate” a city from its democratically elected governor & mayor.(It was also not entirely clear what “burdensome” actions she was referring to.)

Leading up to this moment in the press briefing, #KristiNoem spent several minutes thanking the #NationalGuard, #FBI, local #LawEnforcement & the #IRS (??) for their efforts on the ground in #LA.

#Trump #law #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #LosAngeles #Marines #immigration


Just before Sen. #AlexPadilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a #DHS *press briefing* [#propaganda session], forced to the ground & then handcuffed for ASKING A QUESTION, DHS Secy [dog killer] #KristiNoem was in the middle of making a bizarre but crucial point.

#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #NationalGuard #troops #Marines #PosseComitatusAct #immigration
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#ICE entered into a $1B contract w/the #GEOGroup to operate the facility, which began housing detainees last month. Democratic ofcls in #NewJersey have opposed its opening, leading to a lawsuit, #protests & a clash outside the facility that led to the arrest of #Newark’s #mayor & assault charges against US #House Rep #LaMonicaMcIver, a NJ #Democrat. McIver, who has maintained her innocence, is scheduled to be arraigned on Mon & has said she will enter a not-guilty plea.

#Trump #law #immigration


#DelaneyHall is run by one of the country’s largest private prison companies, the #GEOGroup, which has a contract w/the #Trump admin to hold as many as 1k #immigrants at a time. A spox for the GEO Group referred questions to #Ice.

The controversy at Delaney Hall comes as Trump has escalated his #immigration crackdown in recent weeks, especially in nearby #NYC. A number of immigrants who have been arrested in immigration #courts & ICE offices in the city have been transferred to Delaney Hall….


Mustafa Cetin, a lawyer who has been representing a Turkish man working toward citizenship, said he got an email from the facility at 7:37 a.m. on Friday notifying him that “all movement,” including meetings with lawyers, had been canceled “until further notice.”

Mr. Cetin’s client had been detained about two weeks ago after a routine court appearance in Newark.

#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #RightToCounsel #HumanRights


…On Friday morning, officials at the #detention facility told #immigration lawyers with clients at #DelaneyHall that phone calls & visits had been suspended, said Karla Ostolaza, the managing director of the immigration practice at Bronx Defenders. The lawyers were told they should check back next week.

“We have no idea what is happening with our clients right now,” Ms. Ostolaza said.

#Trump #law #CivilRights #RightToCounsel #HumanRights


The detainee said that people were trying to break windows & that, at one point, guards seemed to have abandoned their posts….

A law enforcement ofcl familiar w/the details of the escape said that the missing men appeared to have exited through an unhinged piece of exterior siding.

Masked officers carrying plastic handcuffs & pepper spray could be seen entering the facility just after 7PM, & people standing nearby reported smelling a pungent odor.

#Trump #immigration #law #HumanRights


“People were #hungry & got very angry & started to react & started to rebel against what was going on in the #detention center,” said Ellen Whitt, a volunteer who works at #DIRE, an emergency #immigration hotline. A DIRE staff member received a call about 6PM from one detainee, Ms. Whitt said, & “when we were on the phone with him, we could hear screaming & yelling in the background.”

#Trump #law #HumanRights


The detention center, known as #DelaneyHall, went into lockdown after dozens of law enforcement ofcls responded to reports of a disturbance inside the facility on Thurs evening….

A group of #immigrants inside the facility seemed to mount a revolt on Thurs following days of #unrest over the quality & timeliness of meals, the lawyers & relatives who spoke to the detainees over the phone said in interviews.

#Trump #immigration #law #HumanRights


With admittedly no knowledge of who the men are, I’m rooting for the escapees.

4 men escaped from #DelaneyHall, a privately run #immigration #detention center in #Newark, during a disturbance Thurs after days of #unrest over conditions, acc/to #NewJersey law enforcement, a federal spox & other detainees’ attys.

“Additional law enforcement partners have been brought in to find these escapees,” Tricia McLaughlin, #DHS spox, said Fri in a text.

#Trump #immigration #law
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The #TrumpOrganization has consistently made use of temporary #visa programs to hire #ForeignWorkers for #MarALago, 4 #Trump #GolfClubs & his Virginia #winery — filing to bring in at least 1,880 seasonal workers since 2008, including 382 during Trump’s 1st term, acc/to Dept of #Labor data.

The company’s use of short-term, temporary visas has increased steadily in recent years, from requesting 121 in 2021 to asking for a high of 178 in 2024.

#law #immigration #hypocrisy
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#Trump can keep #NationalGuard deployed to #LosAngeles for now, appeals court rules

US appeals court late Thurs allowed Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard #troops in #LA amid #protests over aggressive #immigration enforcement, temporarily pausing a lower court's ruling blocking the mobilization.
The #9thCircuit Court of Appeals' decision does not mean the court will ultimately agree w/Trump, but it means he will maintain command of the guard for now.
#law
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Pope Leo's first appointment for US Bishop, an immigrant himself, is asking priests in his diocese of #SanDiego #California to go with immigrants to #immigration court in an effort to influence public opinion and maybe protect the people from #ICE.


Like today’s #Christian #nationalism, this earlier version was driven by anxiety: fears of #immigration, scientific discovery, urban poverty and losing moral authority.


More proof this is entirely unnecessary & serves #Trump’s interests alone.

• Distract you from his many other #illegal activities, his ineffectuality geopolitically, & his tanking of the #economy.

• Finally achieving his long coveted goal of creating an #authoritarian #MilitaryState in which no one is allowed to criticize him or even say they don’t like him.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #Gestapo #California #NationalGuard #Marines #immigration
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The Trump administration is sending ICE teams to conduct #immigration raids in four Democratic-led sanctuary cities, which limit local cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Although, there's no single legal definition of a "sanctuary city." buff.ly/en59Ew0


Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.

#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says

National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to *#LawEnforcement* [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].

#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
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In response to #California / #GavinNewsom suit, #Trump admin argues it has no obligation to consult with or get consent of the #governor before sending in #NationalGuard #troops or #Marines.

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The Trump admin defends sending ~5,000 troops to LA: "The statute empowers the President to determine what forces 'he considers necessary' to 'suppress' a 'rebellion' or to 'execute' federal 'laws'—not the Governor, & not a federal court."

#law #PosseComitatusAct #immigration


…after the US #military announced that 700 #Marines would join the now 5,000 #NationalGuard #troops in #LosAngeles on Wednesday, escalat[ing] the [admin’s unlawful] military response — an exceedingly rare use of active-duty #troops on #domestic soil — #Trump suggested on Tues that the #LAprotests were petering out, & gave himself credit. “By doing what I did, I stopped the violence in LA.”

#law #immigration #ICE #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest
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I'm baaaaack! Protest #24 went fabulously, solidarity with #LosAngeles. And I am still in one piece for the next one!

Now I'm going to inflict another protest thread on you, but don't worry, there'll be protest dog pictures to make up for all the run on sentences and comma splices. So without further ado...

#protests #trump #ice #immigration #50501movement


A federal appeals court on Tues said the #Trump admin did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give #DueProcess to scores of #Venezuelan #immigrants who were deported to #ElSalvador under a wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.

The ruling, by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, came one day before the admin was supposed to outline for a lower-court judge how to allow nearly 140 deported #Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion.

#immigration
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Muther f⁕⚠︎ers

A 28-yo #pregnant #woman set to give birth as early as next week is speaking out about being detained by #immigration authorities in #California, even after telling agents she was a #UScitizen.

Cary López Alvarado lost her balance as agents "shoved her" during her arrest over the weekend, she tearfully told NBC #LosAngeles from a #hospital bed. “That’s when I kind of leaned forward, trying to protect the stomach.”

#law #PoliceBrutality #Trump #Gestapo
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A lawyer in #LosAngeles who has been providing assistance to some of the people detained in the #immigration sweeps last week said Tues that at least 2 of the people who were detained had ALREADY been deported.

Atty Yliana Johansen Méndez said at a news conference that her firm had been contacted by the families of 2 detainees, & the families said their relatives had been sent to Tijuana, Mexico, within HOURS after they were arrested.

#Trump #law #DueProcess
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…The plan also comes amid intensifying #legal efforts to block the admin from using #Guantanamo Bay to house #immigrant detainees altogether. A federal class-action lawsuit pending in Washington indicates that there are roughly 70 immigrant detainees currently held there & facing “punitive” conditions, such as insufficient food, weekly changes of clothes & rodent infestation.

#Trump #law #immigration #Gitmo #rendition #CivilRights #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #TheCrueltyIsThePoint


Some 800 Europeans — including 1 Austrian, 100 Romanians & 170 Russians — are being considered for the transfers, acc/to one of the documents. That element of the plan has alarmed some US diplomats, who note that most #European countries are American #allies that are cooperative in taking back deportees & that there’s no need to send the people to #Guantanamo.

#Trump #law #immigration #Gitmo #Guantanamo #rendition #CivilRights #HumanRights