Will “mass deportation” actually happen (2 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?

 

[wardorican]

And what happens when they aren't given the opportunity?

 

[MT15]

And what happens when they aren't given the opportunity?

Nothing is my guess. That was a mealy-mouthed, weak statement by the court.

 

[MT15]

Okay, here is a pretty good explainer of the ruling and actually includes the ruling itself as well.

140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.

In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.

www.stevevladeck.com

“But much like last Friday’s ruling in the Department of Education grants case, it’s still a ruling by a Court that seems willing to hide behind less-than-obvious legal artifices to make it harder for federal courts to actually restrain conduct by the current administration that everyone believes to be unlawful. As in that decision, here, a 5-4 majority has made it much harder for litigants to bring systemic challenges to what the Trump administration is doing. And especially in the broader context in which the Alien Enemy Act litigation, specifically, has unfolded, the justices in the majority got there by burying their heads in the sand.”

 

[MT15]

A good comment under the piece above:

“This is a very disturbing decision. In my opinion, the majority employed a hypertechnical legal argument to avoid an undeniable due process violation. The ruling raises serious questions about the Supreme Court as a guardrail against clear constitutional violations by the Trump administration.”

 

[MT15]

Lisa was eating takeout at a friend’s place when the email from her university landed. She clicked into her inbox and skimmed the message:

“ISS [International Student Services] is writing to inform you that your SEVIS record was terminated …”

The wording felt unfamiliar. She read it again, but it still sounded like a scam – absurd and unreal.


Lisa is an international student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, just one month away from graduation. She asked to use a pseudonym due to concerns about retaliation and an ongoing legal case.

Before going to bed, she found someone posted a similar notice on social media. It was through these posts that Lisa understood what the email had actually meant: with her Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record terminated, she was now considered out of status in the US. Staying could mean violating immigration laws.

The Department of Homeland Security maintains the Sevis database that tracks international students and scholars on F, M and J visas. Once a Sevis record is terminated, a student’s legal status becomes immediately invalid. They must either leave the US within the grace period, typically 15 days, or take steps to restore their status. Otherwise, they risk deportation and future visa restrictions.

She dug through comment sections. Joined group chats. Searched for patterns. One emerged: most of the affected students had been fingerprinted. Some had been cited for non-criminal offenses, but the messages they received said they had criminal records.

That’s when she remembered: a year ago, she was driving home when she got two speeding tickets: one for speeding and another for failing to stop. She hadn’t seen the police car behind her until it was too late. To get the charges dismissed, she showed up in court, where she was fingerprinted.

Lisa is one of several students across states who found their legal status revoked by the US government on 4 April, without prior notice or clear explanation. University statements show that at least 39 students have been affected, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, Ohio State, the University of Tennessee, the University of Kentucky, Minnesota State University and the University of Oregon.


An online self-reported data sheet created by affected students suggests the issue may be more widespread. Students from 50 universities reported their visas were canceled around 4 April, with many noting that they had prior records, some limited to citations or non-criminal offenses…….

Deported over a speeding ticket? Dozens of US students’ visas abruptly revoked

Nearly 40 students report canceled visas over minor infractions as Trump intensifies crackdown on universities

www.theguardian.com

This should be getting more attention than it is. It’s insanely immoral.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A mother and three children who were “snatched” from their home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and detained for 11 days were released Monday following an outpouring of community anger — including a protest outside the house of Donald Trump’s border czar.

The unnamed family was taken from their home on March 27 in the village of Sackets Harbor, in upstate New York, where the acting head of ICE, Tom Homan, also lives.

Around 1,000 people marched to Homan’s house on Saturday afternoon in the village, which has a population of 1,300, calling for the family to be returned from the Texas detention facility where they were being held. The protesters reportedly held signs with slogans reading “Bring our Kids Back,” and “Tom Homan Took Our Kids,” and chanted “bring them home” as they gathered outside Homan’s house.

Teachers of the school attended by the detained children — a third-grader, a tenth-grader and an eleventh-grader — had called publicly on Homan to intervene.

“My colleagues and I are relieved and grateful to share that, after eleven days of uncertainty, our students and their mother are returning home,” Jennifer Gaffney, the Superintendent of Sackets Harbor Central School District, said in a statement Monday……..

Mother and kids detained by raid in border czar’s hometown released after protests

Some 1,000 people marched passed Tom Homan’s upstate New York home to call for the release of the family

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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An au pair in the Washington, D.C., area says she was forced into involuntary servitude by her host family — a Saudi couple employed by the World Bank — claiming that the two denied her food, wages, or time off, forbade her from going outside without their permission, and threatened to have her deported if she told anyone about the horrific conditions she was enduring.

World Bank operations officer Samah Badawi and data visualization specialist Mohammed Manar El-Iriqsousi began abusing “Jane Doe,” as she is identified in court filings, the moment she arrived from Indonesia to take care of their two young children, according to a civil rights lawsuit first obtained by The Independent.

Badawi and El-Iriqsousi isolated Doe from the rest of the world, monitored her every move using a network of security cameras set up in their Reston, Virginia, home, and told her they “knew where her family lived” in Indonesia, in an attempt to coerce her into silence, the lawsuit alleges.

For lunch, Doe was “only permitted to eat the family’s leftovers from the day before,” the suit contends. “On one occasion, Badawi accused [Doe] of stealing the family’s bread for her own meals. This intimidation resulted in [Doe] eating very little and losing weight” while working for [Badawi and El-Iriqsousi].”………

Nanny accuses couple working at World Bank of ‘intimidating’ her into forced labor

Exclusive: An au pair from Indonesia claims in a lawsuit obtained by The Independent that the couple refused to let her leave the house without their permission and threatened to have her deported if she told anyone about the mistreatment

www.independent.co.uk

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

They are all lying liars who lie. Because Trump demands it of them.

 

[Optimus Prime]

MAGAworld done with Barrett

 

[DaveXA]

MAGAworld done with Barrett

Man, the MAGAts can fork all the way off.

 

[MT15]

So I would like to hear from those folks who have objected so strenuously to some of us drawing parallels with Nazi Germany as the Press Secretary confirms that Trump wants to send US citizens to a prison in El Salvador.

 

[coldseat]

So I would like to hear from those folks who have objected so strenuously to some of us drawing parallels with Nazi Germany as the Press Secretary confirms that Trump wants to send US citizens to a prison in El Salvador.

MAGA has this notion that just because they "discuss things openly", that makes it okay and "legal". Because they're not "hiding anything".

I just about ran out of quotes because of how ridiculous this notion is, but they only believe that because fellow Republicans never hold them accountable for blatantly illegal actions, including Republican judges. And that's how we get this slippery slide in authoritarianism. Well, I wouldn't call it a slippery slide any more, more like an intentional incline into authoritarianism aided and abetted by all of the "well they talked about it publicly so at least they're transparent" people.

 

[efil4]

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Trump administration has revoked visas from 147 students studying at 48 colleges across the country as the president continues his crackdown on immigration.

As President Donald Trump and his administration carry out mass deportations across the U.S. and investigate schools for engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion practices, nearly 150 students have seen their visas revoked, particularly at regional public universities and small private colleges, according to Inside Higher Ed.……

Nearly 150 students at 48 colleges have had visas revoked under Trump

The actual total of students who have had visas revoked could be much larger, according to the report

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Trump administration is planning a hefty fine for migrants if they refuse to leave the United States after being cleared for deportation, according to a report.

In the latest push in President Donald Trump’s efforts to achieve the “largest deportation operation” in American history, immigrants will be fined up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the U.S., according to documents obtained by Reuters. If they don’t pay the fine, their property could be seized, the potential plans say.

“Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now. If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Independent in a statement. “The safest option for illegal aliens is to self-deport.”

The plans stem from a 1996 federal law that states that any immigrant subject to a “final order of removal” who “willfully fails or refuses” to leave the U.S. can face a civil penalty of “not more than $500” each day.

However, the administration proposed applying the penalties retroactively for up to five years, which could result in fines of more than $1 million, a senior Trump official told the outlet.…….

Trump planning $1,000 fine for migrants who don’t leave after deportation orders

‘The safest option for illegal aliens is to self-deport,’ the administration urged

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to resign, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday, a move that comes after the agency struck a controversial deal to share tax data on undocumented immigrants with federal agents.

Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the tax-collecting agency’s third leader to exit since the start of the year, a chaotic period marked by the firing of thousands of its employees mandated by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Her departure also comes amid the busiest time of the year for the IRS, with the filing deadline for most individual tax returns falling on April 15.

On Monday, the IRS and Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement under which taxpayer data will be provided to federal immigration authorities to help them locate undocumented immigrants.

Officials with the Treasury Department, of which the IRS is a part, had largely bypassed Krause in recent days in seeking to give immigration authorities access to the private taxpayer information, the Washington Post reported.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the data-sharing agreement on Monday, even though IRS attorneys advised that the deal likely violated privacy laws, the Washington Post said.……..

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/irs-acting-head-to-resign-over-deal-to-send-immigrants-tax-data-to-ice.html

 

[Dragon]

The Trump administration is planning a hefty fine for migrants if they refuse to leave the United States after being cleared for deportation, according to a report.

In the latest push in President Donald Trump’s efforts to achieve the “largest deportation operation” in American history, immigrants will be fined up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the U.S., according to documents obtained by Reuters. If they don’t pay the fine, their property could be seized, the potential plans say.

“Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now. If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Independent in a statement. “The safest option for illegal aliens is to self-deport.”

The plans stem from a 1996 federal law that states that any immigrant subject to a “final order of removal” who “willfully fails or refuses” to leave the U.S. can face a civil penalty of “not more than $500” each day.

However, the administration proposed applying the penalties retroactively for up to five years, which could result in fines of more than $1 million, a senior Trump official told the outlet.…….

Trump planning $1,000 fine for migrants who don’t leave after deportation orders

‘The safest option for illegal aliens is to self-deport,’ the administration urged

www.independent.co.uk

This is a way to "steal" the houses and property owned by people who has been in the US for decades. Especially since there seem to be some "issues" with informing people that their status may have been revoked.