Will “mass deportation” actually happen (4 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

It’s so repulsive to see people cheering for what is basically 80% the same thing as the Holocaust - different end result but otherwise very similar.

Economists have said it would tank the economy and cause inflation - notwithstanding the cost.

Is it going to actually happen or is this Build The Wall 2.0?

 

[Optimus Prime]

As Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on undocumented immigrants to the US, advocates are increasingly worried immigration agents will turn to surveillance technology to round up those targeted for deportation, even in so-called “sanctuary cities” that limit the ways local law enforcement can cooperate with immigration officials.

That’s because US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (Ice) in past years has gained accessto troves of data from sanctuary cities that could aid its raids and enforcement actions.

Among that information is data from the vast network of license plate readers active across the US, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.

Local agencies across the country use license plate readers, high-speed cameras that scan and capture images and videos of every vehicle that passes, to collect information on vehicular activity, including the direction a vehicle is moving.

They store those details in databases that are often shared with other local law enforcement agencies as well as federal ones.

The volume of data gathered along with the wide breadth of bureaus that have access to it mean that federal agents in practice can often obtain information on individual immigrants gathered by local authorities those same agents are legally not allowed to work with………

Ice accessed car trackers in sanctuary cities that could help in raids, files show

Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readers

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.

Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents.

The family’s ordeal began last month, when they were rushing from Rio Grande City, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialist doctors are based, for an emergency medical checkup.

The parents had done the trip at least five other times in the past, passing through an immigration checkpoint every time without any issues, according to attorney Danny Woodward from the Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy and litigation organization representing the family.

In previous occasions, the parents showed letters from their doctors and lawyers to the officers at the checkpoint to get through.

But in early February, the letters weren’t enough. When they stopped at the checkpoint, they were arrested after the parents were unable to show legal immigration documentation.

The mother, who spoke exclusively to NBC News, said she tried explaining her daughter’s circumstances to the officers, but “they weren’t interested in hearing that.”

Other than lacking “valid immigration status in the U.S.,” the parents have “no criminal history,” Woodward said.……..

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border

A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.

www.10news.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

ICE is $2 billion in the hole – even as Trump wants to increase deportation efforts

Immigration agency will face further strain if administration invokes wartime law to speed up deportations

www.independent.co.uk

 

[superchuck500]

 

[DaveXA]

So, Trump is effectively a dictator now eh?

 

[bird]

So, Trump is effectively a dictator now eh?

So it appears.

I do not expect the SCOTUS to rule to the contrary.

 

[samiam5211]

Adjustment of Status is a discretionary benefit. The executive branch does have pretty broad authority over granting and revoking green card status.

This case is terrible, but it isn't as blatantly illegal as it seems on it's surface.

 

[MT15]

Adjustment of Status is a discretionary benefit. The executive branch does have pretty broad authority over granting and revoking green card status.

This case is terrible, but it isn't as blatantly illegal as it seems on it's surface.

Thanks. It’s good to have someone around with knowledge of the system.

 

[MT15]

I hadn’t heard about this one.

Edit to add: he is still being detained, without explanation. Over 7 days, with elements of torture - denied food and water until he collapsed.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Trump Admin 2.0 Motto: What if I did it anyway?

 

[Optimus Prime]

How can anyone defend this?!
=======================

A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards.

Ma Yang, 37, a mother of five, said she does not speak the Lao language, has no family or friends in the country and that the military is holding all her documents.

She was born in Thailand, the daughter of Hmong refugees after the Vietnam War, and she was a legal permanent U.S. resident until she pleaded guilty to taking part in a marijuana trafficking operation.

"The United States sent me back to die," she said. "I don't even know where to go. I don't even know what to do."

As President Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos in recent years.

As of November, the U.S. considered Laos an "uncooperative" country that accepted few, if any, deportees. Zero people were deported to Laos in the last fiscal year, according to federal data.

Once she arrived in the Laotian capital of Vientiane on March 6, she said she was questioned by military authorities then sent to a rooming house, where guards did not allow her to leave or contact anyone for five days. She paced in circles around the compound and ate food the guards gave her.

A few days ago, she was taken to buy a cellphone and withdraw cash. She could finally reach out to her partner of 16 years, Michael Bub of South Milwaukee, a U.S. citizen.

The military official in charge of her situation — she does not know his rank or title — then said she could leave if she wanted. But she is scared to venture out.

"How do I rent, or buy, or anything, with no papers?" Yang said. "I'm a nobody right now."

Yang has no insulin for her diabetes and dwindling supplies of high blood pressure medication, she said. She is the only deportee in the house, she said.……….

Yang was among 26 people indicted in a sweeping federal case in 2020. It alleged Yang helped count and package cash that was mailed to marijuana suppliers in California. Prosecutors found bags of cash taped between pages of magazines, according to a complaint.

She took a plea deal and served 2 1/2 years in prison. She said her attorney incorrectly told her the plea deal would not affect her immigration status as a green card holder. But her legal permanent residency was revoked.

Yang would've traded a shorter prison sentence for a longer one if she could have kept her green card, she said. She needs to be home with her kids.

"I made a mistake, and I know that it was wrong," Yang said. "But I served the time for it already."………

Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the language

As Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently.

www.jsonline.com

 

[superchuck500]

Um, that’s now how it works

 

[samiam5211]

How can anyone defend this?!
=======================

A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards.

Ma Yang, 37, a mother of five, said she does not speak the Lao language, has no family or friends in the country and that the military is holding all her documents.

She was born in Thailand, the daughter of Hmong refugees after the Vietnam War, and she was a legal permanent U.S. resident until she pleaded guilty to taking part in a marijuana trafficking operation.

"The United States sent me back to die," she said. "I don't even know where to go. I don't even know what to do."

As President Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos in recent years.

As of November, the U.S. considered Laos an "uncooperative" country that accepted few, if any, deportees. Zero people were deported to Laos in the last fiscal year, according to federal data.

Once she arrived in the Laotian capital of Vientiane on March 6, she said she was questioned by military authorities then sent to a rooming house, where guards did not allow her to leave or contact anyone for five days. She paced in circles around the compound and ate food the guards gave her.

A few days ago, she was taken to buy a cellphone and withdraw cash. She could finally reach out to her partner of 16 years, Michael Bub of South Milwaukee, a U.S. citizen.

The military official in charge of her situation — she does not know his rank or title — then said she could leave if she wanted. But she is scared to venture out.

"How do I rent, or buy, or anything, with no papers?" Yang said. "I'm a nobody right now."

Yang has no insulin for her diabetes and dwindling supplies of high blood pressure medication, she said. She is the only deportee in the house, she said.……….

Yang was among 26 people indicted in a sweeping federal case in 2020. It alleged Yang helped count and package cash that was mailed to marijuana suppliers in California. Prosecutors found bags of cash taped between pages of magazines, according to a complaint.

She took a plea deal and served 2 1/2 years in prison. She said her attorney incorrectly told her the plea deal would not affect her immigration status as a green card holder. But her legal permanent residency was revoked.

Yang would've traded a shorter prison sentence for a longer one if she could have kept her green card, she said. She needs to be home with her kids.

"I made a mistake, and I know that it was wrong," Yang said. "But I served the time for it already."………

Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the language

As Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently.

www.jsonline.com

This woman had probably been ordered removed by an immigration Judge before Trump took office.

If you aren't a US citizen, and you plead guilty to drug trafficking, you will be removed, no matter how old you were when you got here. The law doesn't care how long she's been here.

We have to be careful, this happened last time. Some of the crappy stuff that "Trump" does, is just normal stuff, that no one is paying attention too when a dem is in office.

It is easy to find sympathetic stories, even when the law is being followed. This doesn't really look like a Trump admin transgression.

 

[Optimus Prime]

This woman had probably been ordered removed by an immigration Judge before Trump took office.

If you aren't a US citizen, and you plead guilty to drug trafficking, you will be removed, no matter how old you were when you got here. The law doesn't care how long she's been here.

We have to be careful, this happened last time. Some of the crappy stuff that "Trump" does, is just normal stuff, that no one is paying attention too when a dem is in office.

It is easy to find sympathetic stories, even when the law is being followed. This doesn't really look like a Trump admin transgression.

Terrible is terrible no matter which administration it’s under and this is a terrible story

A country she’s not from, a country she’s never been to, she doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t have access to her medication

May have just taken her out back and put a bullet in her head because the end result will be the same

 

[Optimus Prime]

Silicon Valley has played a sizable part in the early days of Donald Trump’s new administration, but another familiar face in the Maga-verse is beginning to emerge: businessman Erik Prince, often described by his critics as a living “Bond villain”.

Prince is the most famous mercenary of the contemporary era and the founder of the now defunct private military company Blackwater.

For a time, it was a prolific privateer in the “war on terror”, racking up millions in US government contracts by providing soldiers of fortune to the CIA, Pentagon and beyond.

Now he is a central figure among a web of other contractors trying to sell Trump advisers on a $25bn deal to privatize the mass deportations of 12 million migrants.

In an appearance on NewsNation, he immediately tried to temper that his plan had any traction.


“No indications, so far,” said Prince about a federal contract materializing. “Eventually if they’re going to hit those kinds of numbers and scale, they’re going to need additional private sector.”

But the news had people wondering, how is Prince going to factor into the second Trump presidency?

Sean McFate, a professor at Georgetown University who has advised the Pentagon and the CIA, said: “Erik Prince has always been politically connected to Maga, the Maga movement, and that’s going back to 2015.”………

‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations

www.theguardian.com