Damn immigrants, sneaking in here to take our jerbs! Our dangerous, low-paid, understaffed jerbs!
I hope Washington will sue over this. It’s reckless endangerment. Does anyone know if California sued when Trump released all that water during the Palisades fire? That was also pointless and stupid.
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Florida taxpayers lose, connected insiders that got the money win
More deportation shenanigans today by the US. This Politico reporter is sharing details as they develop
Politico article that seems to have the story presented somewhat cohesively: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/31/judge-blocks-deportation-guatemalan-children-00538395
Sounds suspiciously likey they ignored the order and deported the children anyways.
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And, the why they missed the deadline seems obvious - “We don’t want to. What are you going to do about it?” is probably about right.
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That’s tough, because on the one hand, remigration is typically used specifically to refer to non-white people, but on the other hand it also aims to send all Africans back to Africa.
I thought that, when mentioned in the context of US social developments, “remigration” usually connotes “undoing/avoiding ‘the Great Replacement’”.
I don’t think you can necessarily accuse someone of bigotry for invoking the term and encouraging it…but when uttered by someone in America, I’d definitely suspect they were at least a xenophobe.
For a fair-skinned individual from South Africa, who has expressed certain opinions about post-apartheid South Africa, discussing the subject from America with a Brit…I’d probably substitute “racist” for “xenophobe”.
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How about certainly not thinking about himself?
Go to an ICE Protest, look dark-skinned, and have a funny name? Get arrested for conspiracy!
“Federal conspiracy charges are a wondrous thing,” said Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania. “It is a vast net which you can use to catch a bunch of people.”
Under this law, prosecutors won’t have to prove that Mavalwalla blocked the bus or attacked agents, Antkowiak said. “The major issue in a conspiracy case is intent,” he said. “You have to prove an agreement. You don’t have to prove that people sat down together and made a pledge. You don’t even have to write up an agreement they have verbally, but you have to prove that these people agreed to act in concert,” he said.
Because of the law’s sweeping power, prosecutors typically use discretion, experts said.
“It seems like what we have here is an issue of selective prosecution,” Robert Chang, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that will lead to a “chilling effect on free speech under the first amendment”.
Antkowiak said he expected the justice department to bring conspiracy charges more frequently in the months ahead, given the Trump administration’s desire for Ice agents to pursue an agenda of rapid deportations unhindered.Jennifer Chacón, a Stanford University law professor who studies the intersection of immigration and criminal law, said she would not be surprised if Ice increased monitoring social media to bring more cases like the one against Mavalwalla.
“You could view this as an attempt to send a message to everyone who feels a sense of justice and moral outrage over Ice raids – you could face prosecution, too,” she said.
Probably belongs in a couple of threads now.
It’s neat that this was in the Fifth Circuit.
But, it was a three judge panel with a 2-1 decision. Trump is sure to ask for an en banc review.
The two are Bush and Biden nominees. The one is a Trump nominee. His dissent ran 131 pages.
Edit: I had to look. The Fifth has 17 active judges. Nominating presidents are: Reagan/Bush 6; Clinton/Obama/Biden 5; Trump 6. The three judge panel was fairly representative from that perspective.
Surprise surprise, they just rounded up anyone who wasn’t white
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