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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?

 
The United States has said it will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts, as Donald Trump’s administration wages a new battle over free expression.

Marco Rubio – the secretary of state who has controversially rescinded visas for activists who criticize Israel and ramped up screening of foreign students’ social media – said on Wednesday he was acting against “flagrant censorship actions” overseas against US tech firms.

He did not publicly name any official who would be denied a visa under the new policy. But last week he suggested to lawmakers that he was planning sanctions against a Brazilian supreme court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, who has battled X owner and Trump ally Elon Musk over alleged disinformation.


The administration of Trump – himself a prolific and often confrontational social media user – has also sharply criticized Germany and Britain for restricting what the US allies’ governments term hate and abusive speech.

Rubio said the US will begin to restrict visas to foreign nationals who are responsible for “censorship of protected expression in the United States”.

“It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on US citizens or US residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on US soil,” Rubio said in a statement.

“It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States,” he said.

“We will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech.”…….

www.theguardian.com

US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts

Marco Rubio says he is acting against ‘flagrant censorship actions’ overseas against US tech firms
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
President Donald Trump's immigration enforcers have reportedly arrested the daughter of a U.S. veteran.

Alma Bowman, 58, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March during a scheduled check-in at its Atlanta field office, according to Atlanta News First. She has been living in the country since she was 10 years old.

"She is an American citizen, and to lock her up in immigration detention is deeply offensive to her humanity, to the Constitution, and is just plain wrong," family attorney Samantha Hamilton, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told Newsweek.

Newsweek has contacted ICE via email outside office hours for comment...........

The day she was taken into custody, Alma Bowman was transferred to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, which is operated by the private contractor CoreCivic, as ICE began deportation proceedings.

Her father, Lawrence Bowman, a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. Alma Bowman was born in the Philippines in 1966, and her family relocated to the United States a decade later. She has lived in Macon, Georgia, for almost 50 years.

Certain legal provisions allow for the extension of citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.

The federal government revoked Alma Bowman's permanent residency following a criminal conviction almost 20 years ago related to writing checks totaling $1,200, a debt that has since been repaid.

Until March, she had been checking in with ICE about once a year while pursuing a claim for U.S. citizenship, which she began in 2020. According to Hamilton, ICE did not provide a reason for the recent change in her case status...............

www.newsweek.com

Veteran's daughter living in US 48 years locked up by ICE

Certain legal provisions allow for extending citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.
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Optimus Prime said:
President Donald Trump's immigration enforcers have reportedly arrested the daughter of a U.S. veteran.

Alma Bowman, 58, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March during a scheduled check-in at its Atlanta field office, according to Atlanta News First. She has been living in the country since she was 10 years old.

"She is an American citizen, and to lock her up in immigration detention is deeply offensive to her humanity, to the Constitution, and is just plain wrong," family attorney Samantha Hamilton, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told Newsweek.

Newsweek has contacted ICE via email outside office hours for comment...........

The day she was taken into custody, Alma Bowman was transferred to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, which is operated by the private contractor CoreCivic, as ICE began deportation proceedings.

Her father, Lawrence Bowman, a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. Alma Bowman was born in the Philippines in 1966, and her family relocated to the United States a decade later. She has lived in Macon, Georgia, for almost 50 years.

Certain legal provisions allow for the extension of citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.

The federal government revoked Alma Bowman's permanent residency following a criminal conviction almost 20 years ago related to writing checks totaling $1,200, a debt that has since been repaid.

Until March, she had been checking in with ICE about once a year while pursuing a claim for U.S. citizenship, which she began in 2020. According to Hamilton, ICE did not provide a reason for the recent change in her case status...............

www.newsweek.com

Veteran's daughter living in US 48 years locked up by ICE

Certain legal provisions allow for extending citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
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Trump has cheated various people out of millions upon millions of dollars over his life. I want him to be deported. Let the lady who made a mistake 20 years ago and paid for it and been fine since stay. She’s a much better American than he is.
 
The Trump administration’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist, is likely unconstitutional, a US judge has said.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote that the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil – that his beliefs may pose a threat to US foreign policy – could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

Still, Farbiarz stopped short of ordering Khalil released from a Louisiana jail, finding his attorneys had not sufficiently responded to another charge brought by the government: that Khalil did not properly disclose certain personal details in his permanent residency application.


The judge said he planned to issue an order shortly outlining next steps in the case.

Khalil, a legal US resident, was detained by federal immigration agents on 8 March in the lobby of his university-owned apartment, the first arrest under Donald Trump’s widening crackdown on students who joined campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

He has been held for nearly 12 weeks at an immigration detention center in Jena, Louisiana, missing the birth of his first child and his recent graduation from Columbia University.

Attorneys for Khalil argue his detention is part of a broader attempt by the Trump administration to suppress constitutionally protected free speech.

In letters sent from the jail, Khalil has maintained that his arrest was “a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza”.

The federal government has not accused Khalil of breaking any laws. Instead, they have submitted a memo signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arguing that Khalil’s presence in the US may pose a threat to US foreign policy interests.


The government has offered the same justification to detain other pro-Palestinian activists, including another student at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi; a Tufts University student, Rümeysa Öztürk; and a Georgetown University scholar, Badar Khan Suri. All three have won their custody in recent weeks as they continue to fight their cases.……..

www.theguardian.com

Judge says Trump’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unconstitutional

Michael Farbiarz stops short of ordering Khalil released from jail, saying lawyers must first address another charge
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Optimus Prime said:
Federal immigration agents arrested a high school student from Venezuela last week as he pursued his asylum case before a New York City judge, the latest sign of the Trump administration’s increasing strategy of apprehending migrants at courthouses and routine immigration appointments.

The 20-year-old, whose family only gave his name as Dylan, entered the U.S. under a Biden-era humanitarian parole program in 2024, his family told local media, allowing him to remain in the country legally while seeking asylum.

The Venezuelan, who attends Ellis Prep Academy, a public school serving older students learning English, appeared at a Manhattan immigration courthouse as part of the asylum process.


Thinking it would be a routine check-in, he was not accompanied by a lawyer.

In the courthouse, according to Dylan’s family and lawyers, government attorneys asked for his case to be dismissed and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents soon arrested him in the lobby, putting the Venezuelan on a path for a fast-track deportation without further hearings.…..

www.independent.co.uk

ICE arrests NYC high schooler in immigration courthouse who was seeking asylum

Trump administration has rolled back guidance limiting arrests at ‘sensitive locations’
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Any immigrant should have an attorney with them if they're going to appear anywhere near a courthouse. Not sure how much that will help, but at least a good attorney will know to advise the individual to avoid appearing if he thinks agents will kidnap him.

And yeah, I said kidnap because that's effectively what's happening.
 
They’re trying to get legitimate, lawful asylum cases dismissed. Masked secret police are standing by in the courthouses to immediately arrest these people and whisk them away to prison. They’re evil, every last one of them.

 
In the music video, a Venezuelan man is pinned to the ground under mock arrest by immigration officers. In Spanish, one of the singers pleads: “Donald Trump, don’t deport me … I just want a chance to stay.”

The song “Donaltron” — a riff on how the president’s name is pronounced in Spanish — became a viral hit amid the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown, drawing millions of listeners on TikTok and streaming platforms.

About two months after the song’s release, one of the Venezuelan artists behind the track says that he lived a scene similar to the one depicted in the video. Claudio David Balcane González, known as Davicito59, says immigration agents shoved him to the ground outside a friend’s apartment in Chicago and took him into custody. The 26-year-old is accused of having ties to a Venezuela-based gang, which he denies. He could now face deportation.

Balcane, now held in Dodge Detention Facility in Wisconsin, hopes to make the same case in immigration court that he made in the song: that he deserves a shot at the American Dream.

“I’ve never been involved in anything bad,” said Balcane, who arrived in the United States legally in 2024 and filed an asylum claim this year, court records show. “Since I was a kid, everything I’ve done has been cultural — skateboarding, graffiti — until I found music. And once I did, I was completely hooked.”

A senior DHS official said in a statement to The Washington Post that Balcane was detained because he is an “illegal alien and public safety threat with ties to Tren de Aragua” — a reason the Department of Homeland Security has increasingly cited while detaining and deporting Venezuelans. A search by The Post did not find any federal, state or local criminal charges filed against Balcane.

As Balcane’s detention raises fears among his fans — and a growing movement of Venezuelan artists — about whether he was targeted because of his music, the official said that “any assertions that Claudio David Balcane Gonzalez was targeted because of a Tik Tok video, a song, or any attempted clickbait are false.”

Balcane has his doubts. On April 8, he was in the back seat of a car, minutes after posting on Instagram that he was heading to the studio to record music. He had been staying at a friend’s apartment in Chicago — an address, he says, that wasn’t listed on any of his immigration or personal documents. But as the car began to pull away around noon, a black van swerved in front of them, cutting them off, he said.

About eight plainclothes agents surrounded their vehicle with guns drawn, Balcane said. He was pulled from the car and thrown to the ground before officers handcuffed him with a knee on his neck, Balcane said. The agents asked him about his tattoos and took photos of them, Balcane said. He said they didn’t initially answer when he asked why he was being detained.

“I tried telling them I was a singer,” Balcane recalled. “They told me they knew exactly who I was — and that’s why they were there.” Three witnesses — all Venezuelan nationals with varying immigration statuses, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear being targeted for deportation — confirmed Balcane’s account of the detention and interactions.

While the officers drove him to a detention center, Balcane said they played the music video and mocked him.

The DHS official declined to provide evidence linking Balcane to the gang, saying the agency was “confident in our law enforcement’s intelligence” and that its officers “followed their training to use the minimum amount of force necessary.” They did not respond to a question about whether they played the “Donaltron” video or taunted Balcane................

He begged Trump not to deport him in a viral song. ICE detained him.​



 
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of people allowed to live in the United States temporarily.

The decision is another legal setback for President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation, but it may prove temporary and its immediate impact was unclear.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston sided with people who were already admitted to the United States but were unable to renew their short-term permits. They cover parole policies that benefited Afghans, Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and children from Central American countries trying to join their parents in the U.S., among others.

Talwani, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, said two orders by Department of Homeland Security officials to suspend renewals pending further review were unlikely to survive a legal challenge. One of the orders “gives no reasoned explanation” for the actions, she wrote.

“The ‘pause’ has now been in place for three months; the pause is, in effect, an indefinite suspension,” she wrote.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment..............

apnews.com

Judge rules that Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of people allowed to live in the United States temporarily.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
Propublica did an analysis of that original lot of boys and men sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador. Imagine if they hadn’t been stopped then. Such evil.

 
A Danish green card holder and father of four was denied bail after being detained by ICE during what was supposed to be his final citizenship interview in Tennessee.

Kasper Eriksen, 32, came to the U.S. in 2009 as a student and later married his high school sweetheart, Savannah, with whom he settled in rural Mississippi, according to the Daily Beast.

After receiving his green card in 2013, he began the naturalization process, but unknowingly missed a key immigration filing deadline in 2015—around the same time the couple suffered the stillbirth of their first child.

On April 15, 2025, Eriksen was detained in Memphis, Tennessee, without warning by ICE agents during his scheduled naturalization interview. He was later transferred to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena.

"Kasper was detained for a paperwork miscommunication from 2015, and I was sent home with no explanation and no idea where my husband had been transported," Kasper's wife said. "I was 22 weeks pregnant at the time, and as I drove the 3-hour journey back to Sturgis, Mississippi, to say I couldn't control my emotions would be an understatement."

ICE claims his failure to submit Form I-751 to remove conditions on his green card a decade ago voided his path to citizenship. At a court hearing on May 28, an immigration judge agreed to reopen Eriksen's case but denied him bond, meaning he must remain in detention.

Meanwhile, his wife, currently pregnant with their fifth child, has been raising awareness and funds through a GoFundMe campaign. Kasper has been a vocal Trump supporter on social media, often pushing debunked election fraud theories and calling to impeach Joe Biden.

No timeline has been set for Eriksen's next court appearance, leaving his future uncertain................

www.latintimes.com

MAGA Green Card Holder Detained by ICE at Final Citizenship Interview Denied Bail

ICE detained a Danish MAGA supporter at his citizenship interview over a paperwork error, and a judge has now denied him bail despite no criminal record and four U.S.-born children.
www.latintimes.com www.latintimes.com
 

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