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And now the next phase of military occupation is set. Yes, Texas has agreed to mobilize the NG in our cities.

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National Guard troops in at least seven states will begin a federally funded mission within the next couple weeks to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement manage its swelling population of detained migrants. The Defense Department in late July called upon 20 states to provide up to 1,700 Guard troops collectively to work within that state on case management, logistic support and clerical work to help with ICE’s growing detention operations. The troops would remain under the command of the governor. The mission was initially intended for Marines and Reserve personnel but the Pentagon pulled back on that effort because the work involved close contact with detained migrants. The law allows Guard members to have that contact if they are on a state-run mission. Close contact could include personal data collection, fingerprinting, DNA swabbing, photographing people in ICE custody, and adding biographical and detention data into government systems, according to the Pentagon. The Department of Homeland Security requested military support as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on people in the United States without authorization to be in the country. It has led to an increase in arrests and people being held in detention facilities. More than 59,000 are now held in detention by ICE — a record number, according to Trac Reports, which compiles statistics from Homeland Security. While the Trump administration has said it is targeting people with criminal records, Trac Reports found about 70% of detainees do not have past convictions. As of Friday, many of the selected states, all of which have a Republican governor, were in various stages of implementing orders while others had not received a request from ICE to use troops. Of those who responded to questions, most states are providing less than 100 troops for less than three months.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-08-22/national-guard-immigration-ice-detention-18845767.html

This is the Stars and Stripes media outlet.

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5 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I need clarification from @DaggerHorns as to whether these last two qualify as "in school" or not.

Hey little buddy! Good to see you’re still thinking about me and value my opinion. This is from April so try to keep up with “current” events.

This will also be helpful for you:

The agents were denied entry after school staff refused to allow access without a warrant.”

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15 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:

Hey little buddy! Good to see you’re still thinking about me and value my opinion. This is from April so try to keep up with “current” events.

This will also be helpful for you:

The agents were denied entry after school staff refused to allow access without a warrant.”

I can’t tell from your reply if the attempt by ICE agents disturbs you or not. Also,<Homer “so far” meme.>

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1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

I can’t tell from your reply if the attempt by ICE agents disturbs you or not. Also,<Homer “so far” meme.>

It does disturb me. I’ve never once exhibited support of ICE. I’ve only broken down facts but people here want so badly for others to support ICE so they can argue maybe? Weird but hey, this is the internet…

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The glacial pace of the courts is rage inducing.

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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in California to fight crime.

San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued the order for the U.S. District Court California Northern District, according to a court filing.

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-trump-administrations-use-troops-la-2025-09-02/

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Militarizing the courts. Fuck you traitors to democratic rule.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.

The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military and civilians — to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable,” and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the Aug. 27 memo.

The effort comes as the Trump administration more regularly turns to the military as it cracks down on illegal immigration through ramped-up arrests and deportations. Its growing role in the push includes troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border, National Guard members being sent into U.S. cities to support immigration enforcement efforts, housing people awaiting deportation on military bases and using military aircraft to carry out deportations.

 

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-immigration-judges-trump-pete-hegseth-b07950833591270b926ad86ede8b961f

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What could go wrong?

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Stephen Miller has a powerful new tool to help fulfill his goal of carrying out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history: his very own police force.

Miller, senior adviser to Donald Trump and the architect of many of the president’s most hardline immigration proposals, has been handed his very own law enforcement team with the establishment of a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) police force.


The Wall Street Journal reported that USCIS, which processes applications for citizenship, visas, and green cards, will train hundreds of armed federal agents to spot fraud in immigration applications and arrest both the applicants and the lawyers who helped them prepare their petitions.

“USCIS law enforcement authorities and newly minted USCIS 1811 classified officers (commonly known as special agents) are now empowered to investigate, arrest, and present for prosecution those who violate America’s immigration laws,” said the DHS in a statement on Thursday.

Until now, USCIS operated separately from law enforcement so that immigrants would feel safe submitting to the application process. If there was a suspected case of fraud, USCIS would flag it and pass it on to ICE.

In July, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” granted ICE a budget of $30 billion as part of Trump and Miller’s plan to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants each year.


Joseph Edlow, a lawyer and USCIS’ newly appointed director, told the Journal that the move to create a police force is necessary because, historically, ICE has been unable to track down every lead given to them by USCIS.

Edlow also downplayed concerns that arming USCIS would “chill” immigration to the United States in an interview with the Journal.

 
“I’m not expecting this to have a chilling effect on applications,” Edlow said. “I’m expecting this to have a chilling effect on fraudulent applications, and that’s what I want.”

Immigrant advocates disagree. Doug Rand, a USCIS senior advisor during the Biden administration, described the police force as “totally unnecessary,” telling the Journal, “It’s a solution in search of a problem.”

Nicole Melaku, executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, told NBC News, “This shift in allowing armed agents and having a whole new enforcement apparatus connected to USCIS is deeply alarming.”

“The desire here is to intimidate people away from accessing the process and instilling fear and mistrust in an agency that has been traditionally tasked with being seen as a public good,” she added.

 

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 “I’m expecting this to have a chilling effect on fraudulent applications, and that’s what I want.”

Maybe they can start by investigating the fraudulent applications for a certain South African billionaire and a certain Czech hooker golddigger fashion model.

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Raiding a Hyundai plant and arresting 450 lawfully employed foreign engineers and specialists, simply because FOUR of their employees had "Hispanic sounding" last names. That's REALLY gonna help American manufacturing! What a fucking idiotic expression of fascistic power

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610

A sea of agents from HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies showed up Thursday to the site in the town of Ellabell where Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, a battery company based in Seoul, are jointly building a plant next to the manufacturing facility for electric vehicles.

LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from “equipment partner companies,” most of them Korean, were also being held, it added.

The raid came just 11 days after a summit between Trump and Lee at the White House, where South Korean firms pledged $150 billion in U.S. investments. In July, Seoul pledged another $350 billion in U.S. projects in an effort to reduce Trump’s threatened tariffs, which he later set at 15%.

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On 9/7/2025 at 8:37 AM, Captainant said:

Raiding a Hyundai plant and arresting 450 lawfully employed foreign engineers and specialists, simply because FOUR of their employees had "Hispanic sounding" last names. That's REALLY gonna help American manufacturing! What a fucking idiotic expression of fascistic power

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610

A sea of agents from HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies showed up Thursday to the site in the town of Ellabell where Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, a battery company based in Seoul, are jointly building a plant next to the manufacturing facility for electric vehicles.

LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from “equipment partner companies,” most of them Korean, were also being held, it added.

The raid came just 11 days after a summit between Trump and Lee at the White House, where South Korean firms pledged $150 billion in U.S. investments. In July, Seoul pledged another $350 billion in U.S. projects in an effort to reduce Trump’s threatened tariffs, which he later set at 15%.

Oh and an update to the Hyundai plant story - people HAD their papers and were abducted nonetheless

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa

The document says that immigration agents from Atlanta “determined that [redacted] entered into the United States in [redacted], with a valid B1/B2 visa and [redacted] was employed at HL-GA Battery Company LLC as a contractor from the South Korean company SFA. From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandated [redacted] be presented as a Voluntary Departure. [Redacted] has accepted voluntary departure despite not violating his B1/B2 visa requirements.”

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17 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Really burning bridges on the international stage, wow

 

 


The silence of Trump supporters is deafening. I imagine them either ignoring this ongoing event, or, worse, laughing at it. After all, this is what burning it all down looks like.

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2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:


The silence of Trump supporters is deafening. I imagine them either ignoring this ongoing event, or, worse, laughing at it. After all, this is what burning it all down looks like.

We should round them all up, line them up, and let someone illegally detained by ICE kick the shit out of them. 

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3 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

How can anyone watch that video and say, "yep, that's the America that I want."

Have you met many Americans?

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7 minutes ago, Foosters said:

Have you met many Americans?

I'm sorry, am I supposed to stop being perplexed as to why American citizens want the United States of America to be run by a Dictator with government agencies treating American citizens as criminals with the firm fist the likes of Russia, North Korea or China?

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9 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

I'm sorry, am I supposed to stop being perplexed as to why American citizens want the United States of America to be run by a Dictator with government agencies treating American citizens as criminals with the firm fist the likes of Russia, North Korea or China?

Our new peer group!

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1 hour ago, gernblansten said:

I'm sorry, am I supposed to stop being perplexed as to why American citizens want the United States of America to be run by a Dictator with government agencies treating American citizens as criminals with the firm fist the likes of Russia, North Korea or China?

77 million of them voted for it. Hell, a large contingent of the posters on this board voted for it and still enthusiastically support it. 

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10 minutes ago, royiv said:

77 million of them voted for it. Hell, a large contingent of the posters on this board voted for it and still enthusiastically support it. 

And the ones who tacitly support it by not voting (or voting third party because MUH PRINCIPLES)

You had your fucking chance to stop it and did nothing.  I hope your principles are worth it when you have a big giant boot on your neck in American Auschwitz. 

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A Trump-appointed judge ruled the regime lied and tried to illegally deport minors, aka child trafficking.

A judge blocks the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan children.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily prevented the Trump administration from hastily deporting hundreds of Guatemalan children, faulting the government for relying on false pretexts that “crumbled like a house of cards” when presented in court.

In a striking opinion, Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had misleadingly presented its actions as a “reunification” effort, bringing children back to their parents in Guatemala who it said had requested their return.

But he noted that a series of revelations since the children had been “roused from their beds in the middle of the night and driven to an airport” during the Labor Day weekend had cast doubt on the government’s representations, suggesting a rushed attempt to remove as many as 327 minors before their lawyers could mount a response. The children came to the United States as unaccompanied minors and have been housed under the supervision of the government in shelters or with families in foster care.

“There is no evidence before the court that the parents of these children sought their return,” he wrote.

In a previous directive, Judge Kelly paused the government’s ability to deport the children until Thursday. The new order extends that block for the foreseeable future while the lawsuit over their fate continues. He also extended the prohibition to all minors from Guatemala who entered the United States alone and have not exhausted their immigration appeals.

As the case has evolved since the holiday weekend, Judge Kelly has challenged a number of the government’s claims.

During a hearing last week, Judge Kelly grew frustrated after lawyers representing the children presented a report by the Guatemalan attorney general’s office showing that when the Guatemalan government had sought to contact the families of the children, some could not be located but none of the others had sought their children’s return.

According to the report, many believed their children were secure in the United States. Some expressed fear for their children’s safety if they were forced to return to conditions in Guatemala.

In the opinion, Judge Kelly noted that additional questions had emerged this week, after a report submitted to Congress by anonymous whistle-blowers asserted that the office that monitors the children in the Department of Health and Human Services had ignored its own data showing that at least 30 had signs of having suffered child abuse and neglect in Guatemala.

The whistle-blower report claimed the Office of Refugee Resettlement had raced to clear the children to be loaded onto planes in what Judge Kelly described as a “midnight operation,” in spite of the data.

“Defendants do not claim to have asked the children whether they want to go back to Guatemala, whether they were abused or neglected, or whether they want to return to their parents or legal guardians,” he wrote.

The Trump administration claimed it had followed a strict procedure for vetting the children before selecting them to be flown back, based on a checklist that included factors such as whether they might face danger.

After the government went as far as loading the children onto planes to be flown out over the Labor Day weekend, the judge on holiday duty, Sparkle L. Sooknanan, halted the flights and blocked the government from preparing to send more.

At the time, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, attacked Judge Sooknanan and pressed claims made by the Justice Department in court that the Trump administration was returning stranded children who wanted to leave.

“The Biden judge is effectively kidnapping these migrant children and refusing to let them return home to their parents in their home country,” he wrote on social media.

But Judge Kelly, who has since inherited the case, dismissed the notion that the government was acting responsibly or exercising a narrow authority allowed under the law to repatriate unaccompanied children from abroad.

He wrote that the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act allows children to be sent back to their home country only after a strenuous determination that it is in their best interest. He added that the law was designed to prevent child trafficking, and the rushed attempted removal of the children appeared to stretch the law’s intended use.

“While defendants plunged ahead in the middle of the night with their ‘reunification’ plan and then represented to a judge that a parent or guardian had requested each child’s return, that turned out not to be true,” he wrote.

He said the process outlined in the law was designed to avoid “rushed, seemingly error-laden operation to send unaccompanied alien children back to their home countries.” Lawyers from the National Immigration Law Center who represented the children had asked Judge Kelly to block the deportation of a larger group of children, roughly 2,000 of whom are living in shelters. They nonetheless celebrated the decision, saying it had prevented an attempt to remove the children without any legal resistance.

“The court saw through the government’s repeated misrepresentations of critical facts to try to justify the indefensible targeting of vulnerable children who would have faced danger if sent to other countries,” Efrén C. Olivares, a vice president at the National Immigration Law Center, said in a statement.

While he limited the ruling on Thursday to Guatemalan children, Judge Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by Mr. Trump in 2017, warned the government not to interpret the opinion as an invitation to expand its operations.

“Of course, the court does not foreclose expanding the class later if developments warrant that adjustment,” he wrote. “Defendants should not construe this decision as an invitation to take similar action with respect to these other unaccompanied alien children.”

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