"Though Trump Adm has claimed that any deal between US and El Salvador to house US detainees would be "classified" or covered by "state secrets privilege," 3 law profs argue in Lawfaremedia.org that a 2022 law actually require disclosure its disclosure to Congress."
-R Parloff
"In Abrego Garcia, the govt has appended to its mandamus petition Abrego Garcia's 14 requests for production & 15 interrogatories, propounded yesterday. They're doozies. Hard to imagine Trump Adm responding to most. RFPs here. Interrogs in next frame.
The allegation (MS-13) seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective."
-R Parloff
#Deportations #CECOT #DueProcess #Courts #Immigrants #USPol
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13--what-do-we-know
Palantir: ICE Deportations
https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/
* locate people flagged for deportation
#billionaires #Thiel #capitalism #Palantir #surveillance #PrisonIndustrialComplex #MassSurveillance #Trump #fascism #deportations #Christofascism #transgenocide
#TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
Collaborate/advocate/educate
#unionize #solidarity #socialism
"With the Roberts Court having already blanketed the President with immunity from prosecution and the Justice Department firmly in his pocket, it is difficult to envision a scenario where the judicial branch is able to effectively enforce its orders in face of Trump’s defiance or to impose enforceable consequences for his failure to comply."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #SupremeCourt #immunity
/5
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/were-now-on-the-fast-track-to-a-historic
"Van Hollen has said that other members of Congress are going to visit El Salvador demanding answers. Hopefully, that will include members in leadership. And hopefully others in the Senate and House will take a cue from Van Hollen’s actions, and figure out ways to show up for their constituents in person."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking
/4
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/van-hollen-shows-the-way
"That Salvadoran officials cannot or will not produce him raises concerns about his well-being."
Why will they not let Abrego Garcia be seen?
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking
/3
"In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by 'administrative error' to the terrorist prison CECOT. Abrego Garcia is Van Hollen’s constituent, and the senator promised his family to try to get him released."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking
/2
"This year [as Easter arrives], nothing represents who we have allowed ourselves to become more than the unlawful abduction and disappearance of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the United States government."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #Easter
/1
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/god-hasnt-forgotten-about-you-an
1/2
New documents detail government's case that mistakenly deported man was a gang member
> The Trump administration released documents Wednesday that revealed new details in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man deported to #ElSalvador a month ago in what a government lawyer called an “administrative error.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-documents-government-case-mistakenly-deported-abrego-garcia-gang-rcna201665 #ICE #deportations #immigration
Abrego Garcia — along with many others condemned without due process — are now in prison in El Salvador with little chance of release and no ability to defend themselves against accusations thrown at them in the #USA — a place that (at least at some point) was the ‘land of immigrants.’
/10 
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Note that what the #Trump admin is labeling as Biden’s “open door” policy (which the broadcaster referenced) was partly this—
The humanitarian parole program to let immigrants of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela into the #USA for up to two years. The individuals had to pass background checks and have financial sponsors in the US.
They were to live and WORK (yes, work) LEGALLY in the #US for that time.
#USA #immigration #deportation #deportations #Biden
/5
Here Sebastian Gorka, a #Trump admin counterterrorism official, creates a false dichotomy— a black-and-white “us” vs. “them”— a situation where if one questions deportations without due process, clearly they don’t love America. In fact, they are “aiding and abetting” the “illegal aliens” that the Trump admin has declared to be dangerous gang members and terrorists.
/1
#Grassley has been in the #Senate for 44 years. He must have a boatload of cred from his GOP colleagues. He could make a difference in any one of these issues: #tariffs #deportations #separationofpowers #ruleoflaw.
If he won’t use his accumulated powers in this situation, there is no reason for #Iowa to keep electing him.
Only two federal officials have ever been jailed for contempt of court – and that was back in 1951.
Now a judge is threatening contempt charges against Trump officials for defying an order on #deportations.
Quick explainer: https://theconversation.com/federal-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-administration-in-contempt-a-legal-scholar-explains-what-this-means-254767
"More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again. One never had the smallest clue as to what had happened to them. In some cases, they might not even be dead."
- George Orwell, 1984
#Deportations #Disappeared #MemoryHoled #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusUngood
US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations
Judge also warned he could name independent prosecutor if White House stonewalled contempt proceedings..#Trump..#GOP..#whitenationalism..#deportations
"Yet there is another reason Abrego Garcia is useful as a captive body: his fate speaks to the apparent randomness of authoritarian repression. Autocracies encourage compliance by telegraphing that anyone can be a target. And now 'anyone,' including, theoretically, U.S. citizens born in the United States, could end up in a Salvadoran hellhole from which there is no exit."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/12
"The strongman would be nothing without bodies to control. He needs crowds to acclaim his projects of national greatness on camera, taxpayers and crypto investors to fund his bank accounts, soldiers to fight his wars, and enemy bodies to retain as captives."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/11
https://lucid.substack.com/p/bukeles-bodies-authoritarian-aesthetics
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks out, saying that she hopes "the strength of faith and the resilience within us will keep us standing after all the punches we continue to receive." In featuring this video, the God blog says,
"Jennifer’s voice is the sermon. Let her speak. Let it wreck you. Let it remind you what this country is doing in your name."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct
/10
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/god-has-not-forgotten-you-kilmar
