Will “mass deportation” actually happen (3 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]

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Marco Rubio – the secretary of state who has controversially rescinded visas for activists who criticize Israel and ramped up screening of foreign students’ social media – said on Wednesday he was acting against “flagrant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

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

 

[Optimus Prime]

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...............

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

 

[MT15]

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...............

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

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.

 

[MT15]

So now they go after Chinese students.

U.S. to begin revoking visas for Chinese students — Axios

The U.S. will begin revoking visas for Chinese students, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday.

apple.news

 

[Optimus Prime]

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.……..

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

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveXA]

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.…..

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

Trump administration has rolled back guidance limiting arrests at ‘sensitive locations’

www.independent.co.uk

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.