Looks like the start to a music video
Great. Now my brain is stuck on thinking up new lyrics to Pink Floyd.
“We don’t need no immigration…”
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I think you meant Weird Al
Thank you. “Another One Rides the Bus” is now stuck in my head.
Legal Eagle looks at Khalil’s detention:
Spoiler: A ruling made by Trump’s sister is cited in support of Khalil’s case.
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From the ACLU filing in the deportation to El Salvador case:
Because these individuals were removed in secret without any process, Plaintiffs do not have names or information about most of them. But all five of the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are members of the TdA. J.G.G. Decl. ¶ 3, ECF No. 3-3; Exh. J ¶ 3; Exh, H ¶ 4; Lauterback Decl. ¶ 8, ECF No. 3-7; J.A.V. Decl. ¶ 5, ECF No. 3-8.
For example, Plaintiff G.F.F. was accused of gang membership apparently as a result of attending a party with a friend, where he knew no one else, based on the government’s claim that TdA members had been present. See G.F.F. Decl. ¶¶ 5–6, ECF No. 3-4. Plaintiff J.G.G., a tattoo artist, was questioned about his tattoos as the apparent basis for TdA membership: those tattoos are from a Google image search that turned up an eyeball design that he thought “looked cool.” See J.G.G. Decl. ¶ 4, ECF No. 3-3. He also has other common tattoo designs. See id. (rose and a skull to cover up a monkey tattoo he no longer liked); Exh. K ¶ 9. Reports from counsel for other individuals are the same. One person is reportedly a soccer player with a calf tattoo of a soccer ball and a crown, chosen to resemble the logo of his favorite team, Real Madrid. Tobin Decl. ¶ 7.
Even if one doesn’t fully accept these claims at face value, do they not merit a hearing as to whether or not these individuals should be deported?
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This is an example of how much better Republicans are at messaging than Democrats. A Bush appointed judge who ruled against Clinton in the email case and for Trump in cases involving disclosure of his taxes and the Mueller report subsequently ruled against Trump in an immigration case. The administration chose to ignore his court orders, has said that they do not feel required to follow the court rulings, and instead of that being the story, the question is who should be leading the charge to impeach him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5205053-white-house-judge-impeachment-fight-johnson/
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Legal Eagle on the rendition flights in violation of court orders:
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It’s getting harder to watch LegalEagle lately, as he invariable points out stuff that makes you realize things are even worse than you thought.
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It doesn’t help that a fair portion of the country thinks along the lines of this political cartoonist:
“The proclamation was signed and people were put on planes immediately without knowing the basis, let alone an opportunity to file a suit,” she said. “Am I wrong about anything I just said?”
The administration loaded people into planes without any avenue to challenge what was happening to them, she said.
“Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act … and they had a hearing first before people were removed,” she said. “[Venezuelans] weren’t told where they were going … They had no opportunity to file habeas or any type of petition … What’s factually wrong about what I said?”
“Well, your honor, we certainly dispute the Nazi analogy,” Ensign replied.
Note he isn’t disputing the treatment of Venezuelans, just the question of whether or not Nazis received hearings before being deported.
Nitpick: I don’t think the administration is actually disputing that Nazis were given hearings. I think they’re frustrated that they’ve been criticized as being Nazis and are simply reacting to the reference.
(And in fairness, the term Nazi has been thrown around a bit too much recently. They’re fascists more than they’re Nazis. When their civilian body count is a few orders of magnitude larger, then perhaps the Nazi label would be more clearly appropriate.)
Godwin’s Law in the media strikes again.
Apparently “collateral arrest” is now a term that ICE uses. As in, Tom Homan is saying that a number of people arrested in Boston were collateral arrests, not criminals.
Some context for people who might be wondering:
I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually there’s a federal appellate and then SCOTUS ruling that nerf the settlement mentioned in the article.
Still, it fits with the premise that the Dear Leader has no respect for the rule of law.
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This is a big story in Boston because footage of the arrest has been released and it consists of half a dozen non-uniformed, masked individuals grabbing her, briefly talking to her, and then putting her in a van. And again, the violation of judicial orders plus in this case lack of justification is disturbing. She signed an op-ed encouraging Tufts to divest from Israel and call what is happening in Gaza genocide, didn’t really do much else protest wise, and is now being dramatically removed rom campus because a private organization had her on their list.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an order giving the government until Friday to answer why Ozturk was being detained. Talwani also ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside the District of Massachusetts without 48 hours advance notice.
But as of Wednesday evening, the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s online detainee locater system listed her as being held at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.
“DHS and (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege, not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security,” the spokesperson told the AP.
Ozturk was one of four students last March who co-authored an op-ed piece in The Tufts Daily criticizing the university’s response to its community union Senate passing resolutions that demanded Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
Friends said Ozturk was not otherwise closely involved in protests against Israel. But after the op-ed was published, her name, photograph and work history were featured by Canary Mission, a website that says it documents people who “promote hatred of the U.S.A., Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.” The op-ed was the only cited example of “anti-Israel activism” by Ozturk.
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They also identified themselves as “police” rather than ICE.
Their actions identify them as Gestapo.
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