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15 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

More guitars!  Less questions!

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Ever notice how the ports went empty as soon as I quit buying guitars?  Everyone is trying to placate Trump, they should be placating me.

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7 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Ever notice how the ports went empty as soon as I quit buying guitars?  Everyone is trying to placate Trump, they should be placating me.

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22 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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The problem is that the poem is really long in real life.  99% of the people supporting this are confident they will never be deported. And they’re right. That’s the problem.  Celebrating others pain is a human failing here. 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=url-share
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The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.

The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.

The planning for the flight to Libya has been tightly held, and could still be derailed by logistical, legal or diplomatic obstacles.

The White House declined to comment. The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The potential use of Libya as a destination comes after the administration set off an earlier furor by deporting a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are being held in a maximum-security prison designed for terrorists.

President Trump and his aides labeled those men violent gang members and cited a rarely used wartime law in their expulsions, a move that has been challenged in the courts.

The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. A United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli rules western Libya, and another in Benghazi, led by the warlord Khalifa Haftar, controls the east.

The United States has formal relations only with the Tripoli government. But Mr. Haftar’s son, Saddam, was in Washington last week, and met with several Trump administration officials. Mr. Trump had friendly dealings in his first term with Mr. Haftar, who controls most of Libya’s lucrative oil fields.

A major transit point for Europe-bound migrants, Libya operates numerous detention facilities for refugees and migrants. Amnesty International branded those sites “horrific” and “a hellscape” in a 2021 report, which found evidence of “sexual violence, against men, women and children.” The Global Detention Project says detained migrants in Libya endure “physical mistreatment and torture,” forced labor and even slavery.

In its annual report on human rights practices last year, the State Department cited “harsh and life-threatening” conditions in Libya’s detention centers and found that migrants in those facilities, including children, had “no access to immigration courts or due process.”

Human rights groups say that European governments have been complicit in such treatment by working with Libya to intercept migrants bound for the continent and send them to the detention centers.

“I have been in those migrant prisons and it’s no place for migrants,” said Frederic Wehrey, a Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s just a horrific place to dump any vulnerable person.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported several hundred people to Panama from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran and China. The migrants, who said they did not know where they were going, were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle. Some of the migrants were later released from Panamanian custody.

Around the same time, U.S. officials also deported a group of around 200 migrants to Costa Rica from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran. A lawsuit filed against the country argued that the deportations and subsequent detention in Costa Rica “could cause irreparable harm” for a group of children sent to the country.

After the United States struck a deal with El Salvador to take Venezuelan migrants and imprison them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was working to secure similar agreements with additional nations.

“I intend to continue to try and identify other countries willing to accept and jail as many gang members as we can send them,” Mr. Rubio told The New York Times.

The planned use of a military plane for the flight to Libya comes after the Defense Department has assisted in transporting migrants to locations such as India, Guatemala and Ecuador.

In late March, Defense Department officials flew a group of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without any staff from the Department of Homeland Security on the plane, according to court records. The flight took off from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to El Salvador and included four Venezuelans. A government filing indicated that the Department of Homeland Security did not “direct” the plane to take off for El Salvador.

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12 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

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46 minutes ago, bolverk said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=url-share
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The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.

The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.

The planning for the flight to Libya has been tightly held, and could still be derailed by logistical, legal or diplomatic obstacles.

The White House declined to comment. The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The potential use of Libya as a destination comes after the administration set off an earlier furor by deporting a group of Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are being held in a maximum-security prison designed for terrorists.

President Trump and his aides labeled those men violent gang members and cited a rarely used wartime law in their expulsions, a move that has been challenged in the courts.

The State Department warns against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. A United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli rules western Libya, and another in Benghazi, led by the warlord Khalifa Haftar, controls the east.

The United States has formal relations only with the Tripoli government. But Mr. Haftar’s son, Saddam, was in Washington last week, and met with several Trump administration officials. Mr. Trump had friendly dealings in his first term with Mr. Haftar, who controls most of Libya’s lucrative oil fields.

A major transit point for Europe-bound migrants, Libya operates numerous detention facilities for refugees and migrants. Amnesty International branded those sites “horrific” and “a hellscape” in a 2021 report, which found evidence of “sexual violence, against men, women and children.” The Global Detention Project says detained migrants in Libya endure “physical mistreatment and torture,” forced labor and even slavery.

In its annual report on human rights practices last year, the State Department cited “harsh and life-threatening” conditions in Libya’s detention centers and found that migrants in those facilities, including children, had “no access to immigration courts or due process.”

Human rights groups say that European governments have been complicit in such treatment by working with Libya to intercept migrants bound for the continent and send them to the detention centers.

“I have been in those migrant prisons and it’s no place for migrants,” said Frederic Wehrey, a Libya expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s just a horrific place to dump any vulnerable person.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported several hundred people to Panama from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran and China. The migrants, who said they did not know where they were going, were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle. Some of the migrants were later released from Panamanian custody.

Around the same time, U.S. officials also deported a group of around 200 migrants to Costa Rica from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including Iran. A lawsuit filed against the country argued that the deportations and subsequent detention in Costa Rica “could cause irreparable harm” for a group of children sent to the country.

After the United States struck a deal with El Salvador to take Venezuelan migrants and imprison them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was working to secure similar agreements with additional nations.

“I intend to continue to try and identify other countries willing to accept and jail as many gang members as we can send them,” Mr. Rubio told The New York Times.

The planned use of a military plane for the flight to Libya comes after the Defense Department has assisted in transporting migrants to locations such as India, Guatemala and Ecuador.

In late March, Defense Department officials flew a group of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without any staff from the Department of Homeland Security on the plane, according to court records. The flight took off from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to El Salvador and included four Venezuelans. A government filing indicated that the Department of Homeland Security did not “direct” the plane to take off for El Salvador.

You know, putting the abject cruelty and stupidity of this aside, the logic of it is what kills me.  No one coming to the US says to themselves, "Hey, I might wind up in Libya because of this."  People willing to cross the Durian Gap or any of a series of hazards to get to the US are only thinking "Anything is better than where I am, and America is top on the list."  Once again, those are the people we WANT here.  They're going to succeed, even if their measure for success is just getting here and becoming a productive citizen.  And here's the rub - so long as the US is the greatest economic engine in the world, that will continue to be true no matter how cruel these Nazis are to the immigrants they can catch.  

What they're really doing, is making sure that we are no longer the kind of economic engine that people aspire to emigrate to.  Which is the greatest idiocy of all.  

Anyhoo, morning rant over.  Back to my coffee while I can still afford it. 

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Rumeysa Ozturk case was in NY yesterday on appeal by the government. It was promising for people who believe in the rule of law.

 

https://www.wcvb.com/article/hearing-tufts-graduate-student-vermont/64684929

 

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In one exchange, a judge summarized the circumstances of Ozturk's apprehension with apparent skepticism about the government's arguments.

"Does the government contest that the speech in both cases was protected speech?" Judge Barrington Parker asked.

"Your honor, we have not taken a position on that," said Drew Ensign, who represented the Department of Justice at the hearing.

"Help my thinking along. Take a position," the judge said.

"Your honor, I don't have authority to take a position on that right now," Ensign said.

Friday Ozturk has a bail hearing in Vermont, her lawyers would like a ruling before then if possible.

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3 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

It's exchanges like these that have the Judiciary giving a healthy side eye to DOJ attorneys.  Which is a big deal in the legal field.  The speed with which this admin has enshittened the DOJ and is running off anyone of quality who is working there, has been breathtaking.  

Yeah, I have been kind of tracking the government lawyers in a lot of these cases.  It seems that the political hacks are avoiding ethical jackpots by being studiously ignorant of actual administration positions, like the above.

Ensign seems to be the hack du jour on immigration-related cases.  Richard Lawson more on the general civil side, defending EOs and such.

The good news for us is that by doing this, they're virtually guaranteeing losses in the district court, and hopefully "building a record" (or lack thereof) that won't favor them on appeal.

I have seen a couple of others worked by what appear to be actual civil servants and things seem messy for them.  Notably that gal from Texas that had to defend contempt by claiming DoD deported people and wasn't a party to the case.

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The appeals court orders that Ozturk be returned to Vermont

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/nation/trump-presidency-live-updates/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

 

Federal appeals court orders Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont. 

A federal appeals court ordered that Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont from Louisiana, where she has been held since being taken into custody by ICE agents in March.

“The District of Vermont is likely the proper venue to adjudicate Öztürk’s habeas petition because, at the time she filed, she was physically in Vermont and her immediate custodian was unknown,” the court ruled.

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26 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

The appeals court orders that Ozturk be returned to Vermont

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/nation/trump-presidency-live-updates/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

 

Federal appeals court orders Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont. 

A federal appeals court ordered that Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont from Louisiana, where she has been held since being taken into custody by ICE agents in March.

“The District of Vermont is likely the proper venue to adjudicate Öztürk’s habeas petition because, at the time she filed, she was physically in Vermont and her immediate custodian was unknown,” the court ruled.

nice thorough pre-made opinion where they just add in the excoriation of the oral argument and hit print.

ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/cd184457-25de-4158-8178-e16298a614d4/1/doc/25-1019_opn.pdf

 

At oral argument before this Court, the government first stated that it does not know who Öztürk’s immediate custodian was while she was in transit at approximately 10:01pm and then took the novel position that Öztürk’s immediate custodian at that time was the warden of the Vermont facility to which she had not yet arrived.  The government cited no authority for this contention, and it is at odds with the straightforward rule set out in Padilla that the proper respondent to a habeas petition is “’the person with the ability to produce the prisoner’s body before the habeas court.”  542 U.S. at 435 (quotation marks omitted).  As the Supreme Court instructed in Padilla, “the default rule is that the proper respondent is the warden of the facility where the prisoner is being held,” id. (emphasis added), not the person who will at some unspecified future time have the ability to produce the prisoner’s body or the warden of a facility where the prisoner is not yet being held.

 

 

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Man, what a dangerous criminal.  I hope Johnny Sack, chicken sandwich, et al will be able to sleep better tonight knowing she's been detained. 

(That girl, and the professor)

My god, America is such a better place now! 

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2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

One of the court reporters gave his breakdown of her case online. It's a few replies, but a good read, this is the first, links to the rest. 

 

 

Just saw that she was actually released.  Color me quite shocked.

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29 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Good guys win this round

Until they just start rogue drone striking people and SCOTUS says that’s fine 

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Trump has violated another court order and deported a dozen people to Africa with zero due process.

https://apnews.com/article/deportation-immigration-south-sudan-department-of-homeland-security-300e8c704402e2cb3c920d251b7fa876

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling after an emergency hearing, after attorneys for immigrants said the Trump administration appears to have begun deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan — despite a court order restricting removals to other countries.

Murphy said the government must “maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country, to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful.”

While Murphy left the details to the government’s discretion, he said he expects the migrants “will be treated humanely.”

Attorneys for the migrants told the judge that immigration authorities may have sent up to a dozen people from several countries to Africa, which they argue violates a court order saying people must get a “meaningful opportunity” to argue that sending them to a country outside their homeland would threaten their safety.

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6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

While Murphy left the details to the government’s discretion, he said he expects the migrants “will be treated humanely.”

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So, now we're shutting down legal pathways for highly educated non-citizens to work here.  Is it an attack on immigrants?  Is it an attack on higher education?  whynotboth.gif

 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, fuggled said:

This one seems especially vile.

You'd like to think it's ESPECIALLY vile.

It's not.  

What's another dead Mexican?  A victory, that's what it is.

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29 minutes ago, fuggled said:

This one seems especially vile.

 

They already ran that same play on a little girl that was getting cancer treatment in Houston. They deported the entire family.

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ICE stormtroopers are dressing as public utility workers to gain entry, and then illegally arresting those inside

https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_e949f7c5-d339-4546-804c-cbb3c970af38.html

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“They’re lying! They’re not in uniform,” Cariño says in the video, which she shared with the Star and which KGUN 9 first reported. “Don’t let them in; they don’t have a warrant.”

Immigration agents can’t enter a private space such as a home without consent, unless they have a judicial warrant signed by a judge. ICE agents usually have only an administrative warrant, which doesn’t carry the same authority, or no warrant, advocates say.

Speaking outside the undocumented man’s front door, the suspected agents then said the man had missed an immigration court date, which the man denied, saying he attends all of his scheduled court dates, Cariño said.

An ICE spokeswoman declined to comment on the allegations of agents impersonating TEP workers, saying, “It’s an ongoing investigation,” in an email response to the Star’s questions.

The spokeswoman, Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe, told the Star twice via email that if she were in the reporter’s position, “I’d be very careful with the TEP storyline.” She declined to elaborate

This is straight up evil cruelty. Someone is gonna have to buy a shitload of Haitian orphanages to pay off this stain on their soul

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https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/06/03/523004/former-afghan-soldier-arrested-at-houston-area-home-by-ice-stripped-of-asylum-protections/

A former Afghan National Army soldier in the process of applying for asylum in the U.S. was arrested last month by federal immigration agents at his Houston-area home, according to his attorney, who said the man and most of his family are being threatened with deportation.

"He has eight kids. Two of those kids were born in the U.S. during the last four years," said immigration attorney Ali Zakaria, who declined to provide his client's name, citing safety concerns. "He was brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces in 2021 when (the) Taliban took over Afghanistan. He had previously been employed as part of what’s called Kandahar Strike Force, which I believe is a part of the Afghan armed forces. And his job was to basically guard a base where Americans and Afghan soldiers worked."

Zakaria said his client's application for asylum should have protected him, but added that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents disregarded it.

"He does not have a criminal record. He has not been charged with any crimes, and he has never been arrested in the U.S. before," Zakaria said. "He was just seized and taken away. He tried to explain that he had proper parole status when he entered the U.S. and that that parole is still valid ’til the end of the year, or almost to the end of the year, but the ICE officer said, ‘We have canceled everything, and you’re out of status.' And the charging document that has been filed with the court simply says that he’s in the United States without any status."

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