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2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

Why is Sofia Vergara pictured here? That’s what I don’t get. 

Duh, she's going to host it

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6 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Duh, she's going to host it

oh man, I would love to hear the "fuck you" that comes out of her purdy mouth when they ask her to do that.

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America's Got Talent;  The Running Man Edition

Maybe in the bonus round they can challenge MAGgots on questions about US History and Government.
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14 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Lots of people need to go to prison over this. It won’t happen though 

Lots of people are going to prison, just the wrong people.

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15 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Lots of people need to go to prison over this. It won’t happen though 

According to Trump’s mushroom licker 65 million people are going to prison 

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

I'll wait for someone to make a compelling case that the appropriate response to ICE trying to take you into custody isn't "shoot your way out" at this point.  If they are going to fucking kidnap you and send you to a hellscape country that you aren't a citizen of and have no ties to, in open defiance of a court order.....yeah, you have literally one option to prevent that from happening.  

When we opt out of the Rule of Law, we necessarily opt into Rule of the Gun.  Fucking stupid.

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https://apnews.com/article/badar-khan-suri-georgetown-immigration-case-65e9a9675c29ebe91b39eb647d1d6f18
 

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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — One of the lowest moments of Badar Khan Suri’s two months in federal custody was being crammed onto an airplane with hundreds of other shackled prisoners.

The Trump administration was trying to deportthe Georgetown University scholar over statements he made against Israel’s war in Gaza. The guards wouldn’t say where they were headed, but the Indian national was convinced it was out of the United States.

Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.

“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” Khan Suri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”

Khan Suri, 41, was released on bond last weekas his lawsuit against the U.S.'s deportation case continues. In an interview with The Associated Press, he spoke Thursday of a cramped cell, crowded with other detainees, where he waited anxiously, fearful about what would happen next. 

He also addressed the Trump administration’s accusations that he spread “Hamas propaganda.” Khan Suri said he only spoke in support of Palestinians, who are going through an “unprecedented, livestreamed genocide.” 

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“I don’t support Hamas,” he said. “I support Palestine. I support Palestinians. And it is so deceiving for some people who just publish canards ... They will just replace Palestine with Hamas.” 

Yet, because of his comments, he said U.S. authorities treated him as if he had committed a high-level crime. Fellow inmates said his red uniform was reserved for the most dangerous offenders.

“I said, ’No, I’m just a university teacher. I did nothing,” Khan Suri recalled.

Still, there were rays of hope. He said more than a hundred people from the Georgetown community wrote letters on his behalf to the federal judge overseeing his case, including some who are Jewish. 

A crowd also greeted him when he arrived back in the Washington, D.C., area. 

“Hindus, Jews, Christians, Muslims — everyone together,” said Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who studies religion, peace and violence. “That is the reality I want to live with. That’s the reality I want to die for. Those people together.” 

In a statement to the AP on Friday afternoon, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin refuted Khan Suri’s allegations of lack of due process and inhumane treatment. 

McLaughlin said Khan Suri was in communication with attorneys “within hours of his arrival at the facility” and did not have to sleep on the floor. She said Immigration and Customs Enforcement “takes its commitment to promoting safe, secure, humane environments for those in our custody very seriously.” 

‘I was not in Russia or North Korea’ 

U.S. Immigration authorities have detained international college students from across the country — many of whom participated in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war — since the early days of Trump’s second administration.

The administration has said it revoked Khan Suri’s visa because he was “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,” while also citing his connections to “a senior advisor to Hamas,” which court records indicate is his wife Mapheze Saleh’s father. 

Saleh is a Palestinian American whose father worked with the Hamas-backed Gazan government in the early 2000s, but before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Khan Suri’s attorneys have said. 

Khan Suri’s attorneys said he barely knew his father-in-law, Ahmed Yousef. His lawyers said he wouldn’t comment on Yousef during Thursday’s interview, which mostly covered his arrest and time in custody. 

Khan Suri said he was arrested just after he taught his weekly class on minority rights and the majority. Masked police in plain clothes pulled up in an unmarked car outside his suburban Washington home. 

They showed no documents, he said. Other than saying his visa was being revoked, they refused to explain the reason for his arrest, which he described it as a “kidnapping.” 

“This is not some authoritarian regime,” Khan Suri said. “I was not in Russia or North Korea. I was in the best place in the world. So, I was shocked.” 

‘How can this be happening?’

As police whisked him away, Khan Suri realized they wanted to deport him. 

The “dehumanizing procedures” came next: A finger scan, a DNA cotton swab and chains binding his wrists, waist and ankles, he said. They also said he could talk to his wife at a detention center in Virginia, but “that never happened.” 

He said he slept on a floor without a blanket and used a toilet monitored by a camera. The next day, he said he and other detainees were placed in a van, which soon rolled up to an airplane.

“I asked them where I am going now? Nobody would reply anything,” Khan Suri said. “They just pushed us in.” 

He said the bathroom situation did not get better at a federal detention center in Louisiana, where Khan Suri was taken next. It lacked a privacy barrier and was also watched by a camera. 

He was finally able to call his wife, but he said she couldn’t hear him. Khan Suri said he was “extremely terrified,” thinking that someone was making his family not reply. 

He was not able to speak to a lawyer, while fellow inmates said everyone there is deported within three days, Khan Suri said. 

“I was crying from inside, ‘How can this be happening?” he said. “A few hours back, I was in Georgetown teaching my students, talking about peace and conflict analysis.” 

Through the abyss 

Khan Suri said his first seven or eight days of captivity were the same: “Same terror. Same fear. Same uncertainty. Same mockery of rule of law. Same mockery of due process.”

“I was going more and more deeper, reaching to my abyss,” he added. “And I was discovering that the abyss also has more and more depth.” 

But he was still praying five times a day, uncertain which direction Mecca was. 

“I was very strong like that, that God will help me. American Constitution will help me. American people will help me,” he said. 

Afterward, Khan Suri was transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he said he slept on the floor of a crowded cell for the first two weeks. Eventually, he got his own cot. 

And, finally, he was allowed to speak to his attorneys, which he said led to a change in treatment. Khan Suri, who is Muslim, soon received a Quran and then a prayer rug. As for the rug, he rolled it up like it was his young son. 

“My eyes would become wet, and I would give that blanket a hug as my son so that this hug should reach him,” Khan Suri said. “And when I came back, he told me the same, that he was hugging a pillow.”

 

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Stories like this are doing wonders for tourism

‘Terrified’: Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031

 

 

 

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Mrs Saroukos and her mother (pictured left) were expecting a three week holiday to Honolulu. Picture: Supplied

 

 

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Mrs Saroukos and her mother arrived to Daniel K Inouye International Airport in Honolulu last Sunday for what was supposed to be a routine three-week holiday when things took a sharp and unexpected turn at the customs desk.

“The officer began to look troubled at his computer to which my mum offered to provide more information,” she explained.

“From there he screamed – ‘Shut up and get to the back of the line, go now’ – at the top of his lungs.

“My fight or flight immediately kicked in. I’d seen horror stories about this stuff. I just bawled on the spot,” Mrs Saroukos recalled.

“We were in such a vulnerable position. We didn’t know their rules well and he was obviously carrying a gun.”

Mrs Saroukos, who lives with with anxiety and PTSD, and her mother were then taken to a holding area for questioning where she offered contact with her husband and to show her marriage certificate – to which they laughed in her face.

She said the pair were told, “Don’t say anything, don’t talk and don’t touch your phones,” by officers before their bags were tossed out and inspected along with their documents. 

“I didn’t hide anything,” she said.

Her mother was free to go after the search but Mrs Saroukos was taken to a second location where she was subjected to further interrogation.

There, she was forced to surrender her phone and passwords, and questioned about her work as a former police officer.

“They questioned me about the demographic of my suburb and what crimes I was exposed to as a police officer,” she said.

“They were asking me about ice and meth and whether I knew how much was being imported from New Zealand.”

She said she had “now idea how to answere the questions.

“I was just dumbfounded,” she said.

“They took a 45-minute sworn statement where they grilled me on my stream of income, my marriage, my phone history.

“They were clutching at straws. They even asked why I had deleted Instagram three days prior, I was completely honest.”

After the statement concluded she was told to wait outside where she was then subjected to a DNA swab – which she was given no explanation for.

She was further forced to sign a document declaring she was not a part of a cartel and had no affiliation with gang members.

She also signed a document stating her husband was her next of kin and that he would be contacted and informed of her whereabouts – something she later learnt never happened. 

After hours of questioning and a sworn statement, a supervisor informed her that her statement was deemed inadmissible and that she would not be entering the United States.

“I’ve never been so terrified in my life. I froze. They said ‘We’ll be sending you to jail.’ I was just shaking, sweating – I couldn’t believe it,” she said.

Mrs Saroukos said she was handcuffed, subjected to an in-depth cavity search and marched through the airport in full view of the public before being placed into a car and driven 10 minutes to a federal detention facility.

“The officers told me I wasn’t under arrest but I was cuffed and searched. My jewellery was taken and not secured. I felt stripped of all my dignity,” she said.

“I told the officer that from my understanding when you place someone in cuffs it’s an indication of arrest and you need to read them their rights.”

To which an officer replied, “It’s for our safety.”

When she asked a female officer whether she’d be safe inside the prison they told her, “I can’t answer that, I’ve never been there. I can assume you’d be safe to a degree.”

Upon arriving at the prison around 3.30pm, she was fingerprinted again, ordered to strip naked, squat and cough, and handed prison issued briefs and green outerwear. 

“When they finished with the search there was a male officer standing outside who looked confused. He asked me why I was here to which I told him what had happened,” she said.

“He told me, ‘Wow. You should not be here right now, you have Trump to thank for that though.’”

When she asked if she would be fed, officers told her she had missed the cut off for dinner time and would not be provided any food today.

She was further forced to sign a waiver where she agreed she would not be making or receiving any phone calls – something her lawyer later informed her was against basic human rights.

Officers also told her that if she needed to take a shower she would not be provided with a towel and was to use a wet paper towel to clean herself.

“The entire time I was just thinking, ‘Shut up and do what they say and you’ll get out of here,’” she said.

Mrs Saroukos says she was taken to a shared cell where her roommate was a Fijian woman who was being held over similar circumstances.

There were prisoners everywhere. I learned that I was being housed with convicted murderers,” she said.

“(Other inmates) told me I looked like a fish out of water and even gave me soap and a towel.

“As a former police officer it was such an irony to be on the other side of things. Those inmates treated me better than anyone else.”

Mrs Saroukos’ husband and mother had been waiting outside the airport for five hours with no information on her whereabouts.

“A Hawaiin Airlines ground manager told them that their ‘best guess is that she is there’ (the detention centre). That was all they had to go off,” she said.

Mrs Saroukos recalls that at 6am after only receiving an hour of sleep, she was woken by prison guards bashing on the metal cell doors.

“I just kept thinking that someone has to come save me and that this surely wasn’t really happening,” she said. 

She was then told by officers that she would be leaving in ten minutes and was to clean her cell and discard any rubbish.

She was changed back into her own clothing before being transported back to the airport, again in handcuffs.

There, she was marched through crowds of people by officers before being taken to another holding room where she was finally given a small bottle of water, a muesli bar and a packet of chips.

“It was just so humiliating and embarrassing,” she said. 

She was then informed she had a call from the Australian Embassy who had been closed over the weekend during the ordeal.

“They told me they couldn’t do anything and that no one had the power to help,” she said.

She asked the embassy to call her mother and let her know that she was being put on a 12.15pm flight back to Sydney.

“I couldn’t fly by myself, I was terrified.”

She was then finally allowed a three-minute phone call with her husband who was “inconsolable”. 

“He was crying so much. When I asked if he had known where I was he told me ‘nobody told us anything’,” she said.

Mrs Saroukos was then escorted to the gate by two officers – one in front and one behind – who then handed her phone and passport to flight attendants.

Once in the air, she requested her phone to which a flight attendant said “You will get it given back when touch down and it will be handed over to Australian authorities.”

Upon landing in Australia, Mrs Saroukos was forced to stay on the plane where she expressed her concerns to an empathetic air hostess.

“She told me didn’t agree with what was happening.”

Once being free to de-board the plane, an Australia Customers Officer was waiting for her where he handed her an envelope with her belongings.

“He told me I was free to leave which I couldn’t believe,” she said.

Mrs Saroukos’ husband is planning to apply for an honourable discharge from the US Army as a result so that he can live and work in Australia.

“We don’t know yet what he’ll do here. We’re just too shaken up to even think about it,” she said.

“I never want to return to the United States.”

Mrs Saroukos and her family have now hired an immigration lawyer in the US to probe what can be done about her ordeal.

US Customs and Border Protection did not comment when contacted by news.com.au.

 

I went to a concert in deep ellum a few weeks ago. Before the show, I was chatting with a guy that had just flown in from mexico city. He had family in denton. He spoke little english.

I couldn’t help but think how he was rolling the dice. I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to ruin his night. But, I wonder if those outside the states have an understanding of what’s going on. 

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11 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Stories like this are doing wonders for tourism

The World Cup next year is going to be an absolute clusterfuck. 

Meanwhile in Dallas,

 

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On 5/16/2025 at 6:39 PM, Ted Lange said:

Instead of a game show, can we have the immigrants vying for citizenship build a high speed train network?   

Yeah, right after Austin gets a loop.

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On 5/20/2025 at 7:03 PM, Brisketexan said:

send you to a hellscape country that you aren't a citizen of

At this point, is there a difference between the US and those hellscape countries?

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24 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

The World Cup next year is going to be an absolute clusterfuck. 

Meanwhile in Dallas,

 

Ol Deacon dickhead is gonna have to up his indulgence payments to his """Hatians""" to make up for his enjoyment of this

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On 5/19/2025 at 8:38 PM, Ted Lange said:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-venezuela-temporary-legal-status-460524

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The deteriorative condition within Venezuela, which presents an ongoing national security threat to the safety and well-being of the American people, warrants the deferral of the removal of Venezuelan nationals who are present in the United States,” Trump said in a memorandum released Tuesday.

Guess he changed his mind in typical cruel fashion..

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I think I've posted this before but it is even more relevant now. I read this book at the end of last year and it's really good. I had a lot of misconceptions that it helped to clear up and a lot of the stories are very harrowing. One thing it showed me was that ICE may just be full of really horrible people who are now free to get away with all the things they wanted to do before but were held back from doing by previous administrations. And that previous administrations were also pretty awful and never tried to fix things either. 

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/

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Trump might not be Hitler, but ICE is exactly analogous to the Gestapo. Arresting citizens without charges and sending them to foreign jails.

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I'll wait for someone to make a compelling case that the appropriate response to ICE trying to take you into custody isn't "shoot your way out" at this point.  If they are going to fucking kidnap you and send you to a hellscape country that you aren't a citizen of and have no ties to, in open defiance of a court order.....yeah, you have literally one option to prevent that from happening.  
When we opt out of the Rule of Law, we necessarily opt into Rule of the Gun.  Fucking stupid.

Trump wants to militarize this. I’m mean, that doesn’t work for the migrant, but that’s why I don’t want bullets flying. But maybe that’s the next stop in our path to bottom.
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Holy fuck what a clusterfuck.
 

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.

Border shelters, which have long provided lodging, meals and transportation to the nearest bus station or airport, were rattled by a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that raised “significant concerns” about potentially illegal activity and demanded detailed information in a wide-ranging investigation. FEMA suggested shelters may have committed felony offenses against bringing people across the border illegally or transporting them within the United States.

“It was pretty scary. I’m not going to lie,” said Rebecca Solloa, executive director of Catholic Charities Diocese of Laredo.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued to ask shelters in Texas and Arizona to house people even after the March 11 letter, putting them in the awkward position of doing something that FEMA appeared to say might be illegal. Both agencies are part of the Department of Homeland Security.




https://apnews.com/article/border-shelters-laredo-phoenix-trump-releases-afc2f4d2ca786161e7bb4b03f54033fa
 

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3 minutes ago, royiv said:

What kind of person zip-ties a kid? 

Insecure bullies wearing masks because they are afraid to be identified and treated the same way they treat others. 

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18 minutes ago, royiv said:

What kind of person zip-ties a kid? 

 

14 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Insecure bullies wearing masks because they are afraid to be identified and treated the same way they treat others. 

The new American Gestapo, that's who.

These are people who ENJOY doing what they are doing.  They aren't reluctant, they aren't "just following orders."

If you told them that the next step was to send these subhuman browns to a gas chamber, their smiles would get BIGGER, not smaller.

Anyone who works for ICE is full-on evil.  They take pleasure inflicting suffering on the weak.  They get a fucking hard-on when they get to punch down.  Seeing the fear and pain in the eyes of their victims?  It causes them immeasurable joy.  That's what we are dealing with.

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Tom Homan's financial ties to private prison locking up immigrants raise questions

New disclosure forms revealed by The Washington Post show Trump's border czar was paid thousands of dollars by a company making money from deportations before he joined the administration.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-border-tom-homan-private-prison-immigrants-rcna209544

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Insecure bullies wearing masks because they are afraid to be identified and treated the same way they treat others. 

My guess is that we will soon see a large dump of hacked data that will include the names and addresses of these ICE seal team 6 types. Which will lead Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go on a manhunt for the person who leaks the info.

Obviously, I wouldn't want anyone to take violent action on ICE employees but I wouldn't lose any sleep if they or their families are publicly shamed. 

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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

but I wouldn't lose any sleep if they or their families are publicly shamed. 

There needs to be a concerted effort on that front.

Don't let nazis live without being constantly shamed.  They chose their path.  

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