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"The four U.S.-born children — 9-year-old triplets and a 7-year-old son — of an apparently undocumented woman have remained in federal detention in Washington state for more than two weeks."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #AlligatorAlcatraz #deportations #ConcentrationCamps #ICE
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morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.

Morning Memo · It’s Dangerous When Pam Bondi Is Under Pressure To Be More MAGABy David Kurtz

$75B for #ICE: Trump/Miller/Homan🚨will use it to fund an army to round up 4M ppl in the next 3 years➡️ #detention ➡️ #deportations.

If these cruel men planned to go after criminals *need a fraction of that💰.

The grandma *here for 30 yrs paying taxes/Dreamer college student/sm bus owner w a traffic ticket—3K/day will be ripped from their families, sent to a prison & shipped to a C... may face🪦💔.

ICE will spend $Bs on meeting Homan’s quotas.
#PoliceState #Immigrants #USPol washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/

Washington Monthly · America Is Now a Police StateBy Jonathan Alter
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"Undocumented farm workers across the U.S. say they feel “hunted like animals” amid a surge in ICE raids ordered by the Trump administration, which has raised daily arrest quotas and encouraged farmers to oversee immigration enforcement themselves; workers report extreme fear, lost income, and even deaths during raids, like the one in California last week."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #AlligatorAlcatraz #deportations #ConcentrationCamps #ICE
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"According to the Miami Herald, only around a third of the people being held in 'Alligator Alcatraz' — a cute name, but it’s a concentration camp, pure and simple — have any kind of criminal conviction.

Why aren’t they rounding up more undocumented criminals? Because that would be hard work, and anyway there aren’t that many of them."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #AlligatorAlcatraz #deportations #ConcentrationCamps #ICE
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/mak

Paul Krugman · Making Immigration Great AgainBy Paul Krugman

ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths

Jaime Alanis’s death shows the horrific consequences of a secret police force behaving with utter impunity

from #TheIntercept
Natasha Lennard
July 12 2025, 7:12 p.m.

"#ICE agents detained over 200 people in militarized raids on two large farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, including a number of #US citizen workers and protesters who gathered outside the facilities in response to the raids. As of Saturday morning, at least two of the abducted citizens were still reported missing by loved ones and colleagues.

“Many workers-including U.S. citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more,” the #UnitedFarmWorkers union said in a statement. “US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.”"

theintercept.com/2025/07/12/ic

#StopTheDeportations
#immigration #immigrants #deportations #ICE
#USA #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press

The Intercept · ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More DeathsBy Natasha Lennard

The lack of info about detainees sent to SS & SLV has drawn charges from indep experts appt by the UN that🚨the US may be engaging in “enforced disappearance,” st-sponsored abductions that're banned under INTL law.

An INTL law expert: US officials had “not been cooperative” in response to their Qs, adding that as recently as a year ago, the US was “very responsive.”

A #DHS SPOX declined to comment.

In Sept, UN experts: formal update on US: #deportations.
#Torture #USPol
nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/sout

Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The New York Times · Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant CountriesBy Mattathias Schwartz
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Among those who could be targeted are thousands of #immigrants with final removal orders who have not been deported to their native countries because a #judge found that they might face #danger there. Others are those with deportation orders to countries such as #China or #Cuba that do not always cooperate with #deportations because of their frosty relationship to the #US.

#Trump #law #SCOTUS #rendition #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower

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That is the expansive plan #Trump’s top #immigration ofcls intend to enact after months of struggling to overcome staffing shortages & logistical hurdles that have stymied his pledge to record the most #deportations in US history.

After weeks of pressuring members of #Congress into supporting his domestic policy #legislation, #Trump has secured an extraordinary injection of funding for his immigration agenda—$170 billion, the vast majority of which will go to #DHS over 4yrs.

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"The speed with which the Trump administration has discarded norms, breaking and smashing the fragile immigration system, has 'stunned the journalism class,' [Daniel] Hernandez said.

'There’s been a lot of both-sidesing' in press coverage, he said. But 'it’s really hard to both-sides fascism, it does not look good. You still have to elevate your game and meet the moment.'”

Trump #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #ICE #immigrants #violence #kidnapping #deportations
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The Bulwark · Why Were Trump’s Agents Casing a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?By Adrian Carrasquillo
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Steve Chapman notes the "ominous parallels" between what Trump-ICE are doing and what was long normative in the Jim Crow South: "the contempt for the rule of law, the pardoning of violent insurrectionists, the attacks on civil rights protections, the celebration of cruelty and, of course, the relentless effort to scare people into submission."

#Trump #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #ICE #immigrants #violence #kidnapping #deportations
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The UnPopulist · The Administration’s Contempt for the Rule of Law Has Roots in the Pre-Civil Rights EraBy Steve Chapman
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"The Department of Homeland Security posted an explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video on Facebook Reels captioned 'Here I am, send me' about how Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol are delivering the Lord’s justice."

~ Josh Marshall

Video's included in the linked article.

#Trump #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #ICE #immigrants #violence #kidnapping #deportations
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TPM - Talking Points Memo · Lord’s VengeanceBy Josh Marshall
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"Let me be very clear: these people are not just participating in racist systems. They are racists. This is a conscious ideology. It’s not inherited bias from upbringing—it is active, deliberate, and indefensible."

~ Mary L. Trump

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“The raids in this District follow a common, systematic pattern. Individuals with brown skin are approached or pulled aside by unidentified federal agents, suddenly and with a show of force, and made to answer questions about who they are and where they are from."

~ ACLU quoted by David Pepper

#Trump #StephenMiller #MaskedThugs #ICE #immigrants #violence #kidnapping #deportations
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Pepperspectives · The Shocking Details of the L.A. ICE RaidsBy David Pepper