Will “mass deportation” actually happen (8 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]

Their good deed for the day
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The Trump administration has reversed its decision to revoke the legal status of a four-year-old girl, receiving ocontinuing life-saving treatment in the US, and her family after a national outcry.

Deysi Vargas, her husband and their daughter – whom lawyers identified by the pseudonym Sofia – had come to the US in 2023 to seek medical care for their daughter who has a rare condition that requires specialized treatment.

But in April, the federal government ended their humanitarian parole, a temporary status granted to people on urgent humanitarian grounds, and ordered them to “self-deport”.

Sofia’s doctors warned that she would likely die “within days” if forced to return to Mexico and her family and attorneys fought the deportation order, describing it as unlawful and “a cruel betrayal of our nation’s values”.

Her case, which an attorney for the family said highlighted “the recklessness of this administration’s deportation policies”, sparked outrage and a significant response from Democratic lawmakers. Dozens of representatives and both of California’s senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed a letter urging the Department of Homeland Security to extend the family’s legal status.


“We believe this family’s situation clearly meets the need for humanitarian aid and urge you and this Administration to reconsider its decision. It is our duty to protect the sick, vulnerable, and defenseless. Without action, S.G.V. will die,” the lawmakers wrote.

The Los Angeles Times first reported on Tuesday that the administration had restored legal status for the family, sending a letter on Monday that stated: “This is to advise you that effective June 2, 2025, you have been granted Humanitarian Parole for a period of one year.”………

White House restores legal status of child with life-threatening illness

After national outcry, Trump officials reverses decision to end humanitarian parole for four-year-old and family

www.theguardian.com

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

I cannot stand the way ICE dresses like they are in Fallujah when they are going to arrest mothers and fathers in neighborhoods. America doesn’t have secret police, and in America the armed forces don’t operate in civilian areas. This particular neighborhood called their bluff and they retreated.

 

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Parents and teachers in southern California are urgently asking for help to find a fourth grader who is being “held captive” by immigration authorities in Texas.

Torrance Elementary School student Martir Garcia Lara attended an immigration court appointment with his father in Houston on May 29 “when suddenly they were detained and separated from each other,” according to a message from the school’s Parent Teacher Association.

The boy and his father are reportedly in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

“He’s alone and he’s not able to return home,” PTA president Jasmin King told KTLA.

“We have not received any information on why they were detained,” she said. “All we know is that Martir is just a fourth grader who’s by himself, without his dad, without a parent, and just in a place that he probably doesn’t know, so we can only imagine what he might be feeling.”

The Independent has requested comment from ICE and school officials.

Federal authorities have taken roughly 500 children into government custody since President Donald Trump took office, according to CNN.

Those children were either in homes considered to be unsafe or because the government arrested their family members or placed them in removal proceedings.

The boy’s alleged arrest follows a wave of immigration enforcement actions inside courthouses across the country in recent weeks, with masked officers from as many as 20 different law enforcement agencies patrolling entrances, lobbies and hallways to arrest immigrants moments after their scheduled hearings and appointments............

Outrage after California fourth grader is detained by ICE during immigration hearing

Martir Garcia Lara was ordered into custody in Houston as federal agents target courthouses nationwide

www.the-independent.com

 

[MT15]

This should be interesting. Judge rules that Trump must allow men and boys sent to El Salvador to challenge their exile to a concentration camp.

Migrants Sent to El Salvador Prison Can Challenge Deportations, Judge Rules — The Wall Street Journal

Decision sets up another showdown between the Trump administration and courts over the use of a wartime law to remove hundreds of people

apple.news

 

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The Trump administration and Democrats are locked in a fierce argument over whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agentsshould be allowed to continue wearing masks while conducting operations.

National and local Democratic leaders, as well as immigrant advocates, have criticized the practice, comparing the masked immigration agents to figures from repressive fascist and communist regimes of the past.

“This is America. This is not the Soviet Union,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Tuesday during a press briefing. “We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”

The comments, which the White House condemned as “sick,” came after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents last week to “secret police.”………

Democrats want ICE agents to lose the mask and release their names. DHS says no way

Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, wants to make it a crime to ‘doxx’ law enforcement

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

They brought one of the illegally deported folks back. I always knew they could do it. They’re just flouting the courts on the others.

Trump administration returns migrant hastily deported to Mexico back to the US — CNN

A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, his legal team told CNN, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.

apple.news

 

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The Donald Trump administration has billed itself as taking unprecedented steps to crack down on illegal immigration. While the total number of deportations has yet to surge, it may happen soon.

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, supports suspending habeas corpus to speed up deportations, and the border czar, Tom Homan, has suggested blatantly ignoring court orders. Private companies are also lining up to cash in on mass deportations.

Nonetheless, Trump’s approach so far to immigration deemed illegal has not differed much from what Barack Obama and Joe Biden did. So why does everything feel different?

The answer is that Trump has launched an unprecedented crusade against legal immigrants. And the tactics have been jarringly lawless and cruel.

For example, Trump’s administration has almost completely banned refugeeresettlement, sought to revoke temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands who have immigrated to flee extreme conditions, eliminated the legal status of thousands of international students, arrested legal asylum seekers at their immigration check-ins, jailed other legal asylum seekers in a maximum security prison in El Salvador, declared an end to birthright citizenship and revoked the legal status of nearly a million humanitarian parolees who had applied for legal entry using the CBP One app.


While the Obama and Biden administrations likewise took aggressive measures to regulate undocumented immigration – thus earning well-founded criticisms from immigration activists who took to calling Obama the “deporter-in-chief” – both presidents also worked to expand the pathways for legal immigration.

Some of their initiatives were blocked by Congress or the courts, but the result was a net expansion of legal immigration under both administrations.

On the other hand, Trump has consistently worked to block as many pathways to legal migration as possible. In Trump’s first term, certain aspects of his immigration agenda were similarly constrained by Congress or the courts, but the result was still a major decrease in legal immigration.……..

Trump’s crusade against all immigrants – even legal ones – is unprecedented | Daniel Mendiola

The administration has touted its efforts against illegal immigration. But what sets his actions apart is his crusade against those in the US legally

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian.

Officers were also urged to increase apprehensions and think up tactics to “push the envelope” one email said, with staff encouraged to come up with new ways of increasing arrests and suggesting them to superiors.

“If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing,” another message said.

The instructions not only mark a further harshening of attitude and language by the Trump administration in its efforts to fulfill election promises of “mass deportation” but also indicate another escalation in efforts, by being on the lookout for undocumented people whom officials may happen to encounter – here termed “collaterals” – while serving arrest warrants for others.………

US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants

Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

I hope these people are caught, but not likely
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A woman told Newsweek that she was deceived by scammers posing as officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Shreya Bedi, a UI Designer and international student from India, came to the United States on an F-1 visa in 2022 to pursue a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University Bloomington.

The impostors convinced her that she was violating immigration laws and pressured her into purchasing $5,000 worth of gift cards as "bond" payments to avoid arrest and deportation.

"I was absolutely terrified and crying the entire time," Bedi said.

Under President Donald Trump's administration, ICE has ramped up arrests across the country. Amid increased enforcement action under Trump's administration, there has also been a rise in reports of individuals impersonating ICE agents.

Bedi aspires to work at a product company as a UX designer. But her path was upended after a single phone call on May 29, which disrupted her life and sent her spiraling deeper into a scam operation.

The scammer told her she hadn't reported her administration number and was violating immigration laws.

"He gave me his name and badge number and told me to verify his office details by going to ice.gov and looking up the office in Maryland. I could confirm it was the same phone number he was calling from," Bedi said.

The scammer warned Bedi not to hang up and not to contact anyone, saying that her phone was being monitored. To appear more credible, a second scammer called from a spoofed number, claiming to be from the Olympia Police Department, and said that there was a warrant for her arrest unless ICE confirmed her case was under investigation.............

Student visa holder tricked by fake ICE agent scam, loses thousands

The impostors pressured her into purchasing $5,000 worth of gift cards to avoid deportation.

www.newsweek.com

 

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10-year-old girl showed up for a routine check-in about her immigration case – and agents cuffed and detained her mother on the spot.

A 14-year-old boy was shaken out of bed at 6am when plainclothes officers showed up, unannounced, at his door for what the agents claimed was a “wellness check”.

A 17-year-old girl has been detained for months with her newborn baby due to new restrictions on who can sponsor unaccompanied minor immigrants.

Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children have arrived at the US southern border in recent years, seeking refuge. The Trump administration is now targeting them – and their caregivers – for deportation.

In the past few months, the administration has enacted a series of punitive policies to expedite the removal of unaccompanied minors and strip them of legal representation.

It has attempted to tear down the basic rights and protections for children under the government’s care, while simultaneously issuing new restrictions on who can take custody of them – leaving children to languish in detention.

In several troubling cases across the US, advocates say the children are being used as “bait” to arrest and deport the adults around them.

Taken together, advocates and lawyers say the changes represent a terrifying new strategy in the government’s crackdown on immigrants, designed to instill fear and chaos in families.

“The level and intensity of the attacks on children that we’re seeing currently is unprecedented in my legal career, which has spanned over 10 years,” said Marion Donovan-Kaloust, director of legal services at the Immigrant Defenders law center (ImmDef).

“It’s not just one thing – it’s a concentrated attack on children from so many different angles. And it’s really shocking to the conscience.”

Children who come to the US without their parents – classified as “unaccompanied minors” by the government – have always been among the most vulnerable people navigating the US immigration system.

Some, fleeing poverty, war, gangs, violence or environmental catastrophes in their home countries, have made the journey alone. Others become separated from their parents or guardians along the way.…….

Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone’

Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for them

www.theguardian.com

 

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Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been brought back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.

More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.

A two-count indictment, which was filed under seal in federal court in Tennessee last month and unsealed Friday, alleges Abrego Garcia, 29, participated in a yearslong conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country.

The alleged conspiracy spanned nearly a decade and involved the domestic transport of thousands of noncitizens from Mexico and Central America, including some children, in exchange for thousands of dollars, according to the indictment.

Abrego-Garcia is alleged to have participated in more than 100 such trips, according to the indictment. Among those allegedly transported were members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, sources familiar with the investigation said.

Abrego-Garcia is the only member of the alleged conspiracy charged in the indictment.

His return to the U.S. comes after the Trump administration repeatedly said that they were unable to bring him back despite his mistaken deportation.........

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, newly returned to US, appears in court on charges of trafficking migrants

Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

abcnews.go.com

 

[RobF]

Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been brought back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.

More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.

A two-count indictment, which was filed under seal in federal court in Tennessee last month and unsealed Friday, alleges Abrego Garcia, 29, participated in a yearslong conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country.

The alleged conspiracy spanned nearly a decade and involved the domestic transport of thousands of noncitizens from Mexico and Central America, including some children, in exchange for thousands of dollars, according to the indictment.

Abrego-Garcia is alleged to have participated in more than 100 such trips, according to the indictment. Among those allegedly transported were members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, sources familiar with the investigation said.

Abrego-Garcia is the only member of the alleged conspiracy charged in the indictment.

His return to the U.S. comes after the Trump administration repeatedly said that they were unable to bring him back despite his mistaken deportation.........

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, newly returned to US, appears in court on charges of trafficking migrants

Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

abcnews.go.com

So they started investigating him after deporting him? Sounds legit.

Skimming the article, there's this:

The criminal investigation that led to the charges was launched in April as federal authorities began scrutinizing the circumstances of a 2022 traffic stop of Abrego Garcia by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, according to the sources. Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and told police they had been working construction in Missouri.​

According to body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop, the Tennessee troopers -- after questioning Abrego Garcia -- discussed among themselves their suspicions that Abrego Garcia might be transporting people for money because nine people were traveling without luggage, but Abrego Garcia was not ticketed or charged.​

I'm not entirely clear on why people being transported for money wouldn't have luggage but construction workers would, but they "allowed Abrego Garcia to drive on with just a warning about an expired driver's license" at the time anyway. So yes, seems pretty obvious what's going on there.

 

[MT15]

So they started investigating him after deporting him? Sounds legit.

Skimming the article, there's this:

The criminal investigation that led to the charges was launched in April as federal authorities began scrutinizing the circumstances of a 2022 traffic stop of Abrego Garcia by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, according to the sources. Abrego Garcia was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and told police they had been working construction in Missouri.​

According to body camera footage of the 2022 traffic stop, the Tennessee troopers -- after questioning Abrego Garcia -- discussed among themselves their suspicions that Abrego Garcia might be transporting people for money because nine people were traveling without luggage, but Abrego Garcia was not ticketed or charged.​

I'm not entirely clear on why people being transported for money wouldn't have luggage but construction workers would, but they "allowed Abrego Garcia to drive on with just a warning about an expired driver's license" at the time anyway. So yes, seems pretty obvious what's going on there.

This administration has earned every bit of skepticism. It’s all warranted. They lie like other people breathe.

 

[MT15]

Found this.

 

[Sendai]

“Two people familiar with the investigation said it made a significant leap forward when an imprisoned man recently came forward offering information about Mr. Abrego Garcia, but there was concern and disagreement among prosecutors about how to proceed. In recent weeks, a supervisor in the federal prosecutor’s office in Nashville resigned over how the case was handled, these people said.”

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According to the indictment, the case against Mr. Abrego Garcia dated to Nov. 30, 2022, when he was stopped for speeding by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Interstate 40 East, in Putnam County. Officers determined that the Chevrolet Suburban he was driving had been altered with “an aftermarket third row of seats designed to carry additional passengers,” the indictment said.

It also noted that there were “nine Hispanic males packed into the S.U.V.”

Mr. Abrego Garcia told the officers that he and his passengers had been in St. Louis for the past two weeks doing construction work, according to the indictment. But a subsequent investigation, prosecutors said, revealed that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s cellphone and license plate reader data showed that he had been in Texas that morning and nowhere near St. Louis for the past weeks.

Moreover, the indictment said, none of the people in the vehicle “had luggage or even tools consistent with construction work.”

Prosecutors said that the traffic stop in Tennessee was not the first time that Mr. Abrego Garcia had engaged in alleged immigrant smuggling, which they said was his “primary source of income.” They added that he had transported about “50 undocumented aliens” a month across the country for several years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-us-criminal-charges.html

Should be interesting to see what they can prove.

 

[DaveXA]

“Two people familiar with the investigation said it made a significant leap forward when an imprisoned man recently came forward offering information about Mr. Abrego Garcia, but there was concern and disagreement among prosecutors about how to proceed. In recent weeks, a supervisor in the federal prosecutor’s office in Nashville resigned over how the case was handled, these people said.”

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According to the indictment, the case against Mr. Abrego Garcia dated to Nov. 30, 2022, when he was stopped for speeding by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Interstate 40 East, in Putnam County. Officers determined that the Chevrolet Suburban he was driving had been altered with “an aftermarket third row of seats designed to carry additional passengers,” the indictment said.

It also noted that there were “nine Hispanic males packed into the S.U.V.”

Mr. Abrego Garcia told the officers that he and his passengers had been in St. Louis for the past two weeks doing construction work, according to the indictment. But a subsequent investigation, prosecutors said, revealed that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s cellphone and license plate reader data showed that he had been in Texas that morning and nowhere near St. Louis for the past weeks.

Moreover, the indictment said, none of the people in the vehicle “had luggage or even tools consistent with construction work.”

Prosecutors said that the traffic stop in Tennessee was not the first time that Mr. Abrego Garcia had engaged in alleged immigrant smuggling, which they said was his “primary source of income.” They added that he had transported about “50 undocumented aliens” a month across the country for several years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-us-criminal-charges.html

Should be interesting to see what they can prove.

When you have a federal prosecutor resigning over how the case is being handled...that should speak volumes. And indictments don't really mean all that much in terms of guilt/innocence, so we'll see. I suspect in a few months when it's no longer in the news cycle, they'll quietly drop the case.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

When you have a federal prosecutor resigning over how the case is being handled...that should speak volumes. And indictments don't really mean all that much in terms of guilt/innocence, so we'll see. I suspect in a few months when it's no longer in the news cycle, they'll quietly drop the case.

Indeed. There's not a single person within this administration even pretending to uphold their Oath of Office. ZERO INTEGRITY.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Mass deportations enabled by the Trump administration’s Big, Beautiful Bill spending and tax package could cost the U.S. over $1 trillion in the coming years, as the administration is already reportedly struggling to fund its rapidly expanding immigration crackdown.

The package, which the House of Representatives passed last month, directs $168 billion towards immigration and border law enforcement agencies.

That spending, combined with the economic impact of removing scores of immigrants and more granular changes, like a potential decline in revenues thanks to the possible deterrent effect of new fees on migrants, could cost the U.S. over $1.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis from the libertarian Cato Institute.


David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Institute, argued on X on Friday that the bill is an “absolute explosion of cash unparalleled in American history,” spending that could be better used on other public safety investments.

“The fiscal cost of mass deportation will equal the cost of all federal law enforcement spending over the next decade,” Bier wrote. “Imagine how many rapes, murders, thefts, etc. could be solved with this money. We could have a much, much safer society spending this money on ANYTHING ELSE.”………

Mass deportations from Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill could cost U.S. over $1.4 trillion

White House has been fending off attacks from Elon Musk that bill adds too much to deficit

www.independent.co.uk