Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>One day inside the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> machine at a federal immigration court in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a></strong></p><p><em>The Guardian observed a spate of detentions at a Manhattan courthouse on 16 July 2025, despite the fact that some of those detained had been granted follow-up hearings</em> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a> <br>Photographs and text by Julius Constantine Motal<br>Fri 25 Jul 2025 1200 EDT</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>A brother is torn from his sister. A father arrives for his <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> hearing with his family, only to find that they will be leaving without him. A woman, seemingly relieved after emerging from her hearing, finds that her life is about to change when she is apprehended by federal officials waiting just outside the door.</p><p>These are just some of the moments that happened on a single day in the Jacob K Javits federal building ... in NYC, the largest federal <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> courthouse in Manhattan.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/new-york-immigration-courts-photo-essay/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/25/new-york-immigration-courts-photo-essay/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as ”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlligatorAlcatraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlligatorAlcatraz</span></a>″ began in the past few days, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> Gov <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> said Friday. </p><p>The flights operated by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> have transferred about 100 detainees from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> center to other countries, said DeSantis, who expects that number to increase soon. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rendition</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanitarianLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</span></a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-desantis-immigration-264b9d3cf49be876ed6bcb32c07e23bb?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-25-Immigration" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/alligator-a</span><span class="invisible">lcatraz-desantis-immigration-264b9d3cf49be876ed6bcb32c07e23bb?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-25-Immigration</span></a></p>
The Christian Science Monitor<p>Volunteer-led efforts to support immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are similar to those happening around the United States. For many of the people stepping up, it’s a way to help fellow community members have some control over their lives. <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0723/immigration-springfield-ohio-haitians-deportation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025</span><span class="invisible">/0723/immigration-springfield-ohio-haitians-deportation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub </span></a></p><p>Posted into Crossing borders - immigration stories <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/crossing-borders-immigration-stories-njmhsul6z" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>crossing-borders-immigration-stories-csmonitor</span></a></span></p>
Dejan<p><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=87281&post_id=169193395&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2w54d0&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzQ5MTg5OTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2OTE5MzM5NSwiaWF0IjoxNzUzNDU0MjM2LCJleHAiOjE3NTYwNDYyMzYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04NzI4MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.jk9OWBWHW9nDMAvqAmjcfeN8bjwQ-RKexYDrvkZJazQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/app-link/post?pub</span><span class="invisible">lication_id=87281&post_id=169193395&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2w54d0&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzQ5MTg5OTYsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2OTE5MzM5NSwiaWF0IjoxNzUzNDU0MjM2LCJleHAiOjE3NTYwNDYyMzYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04NzI4MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.jk9OWBWHW9nDMAvqAmjcfeN8bjwQ-RKexYDrvkZJazQ</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iceagents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iceagents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>administration</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>Shalise Manza Young: We will have to save ourselves. People—without weapons, without face coverings—are showing up to protect their fellow human beings who are deserving of respect, whether they have a document or not.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a><br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/we-will-have-to-save-ourselves" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/we-w</span><span class="invisible">ill-have-to-save-ourselves</span></a></p>
Ashwin Dixit<p>Mass Deportations NOW!</p><p><a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deport</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrant</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/EqualRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EqualRights</span></a> <a href="https://kinkycats.org/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Administration Sues <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a> Over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SanctuaryCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanctuaryCity</span></a> Laws</p><p>Mayor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EricAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EricAdams</span></a>, who was spared from a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> investigation so he could help with the administration’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> program, is among the defendants.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/nyregion/trump-new-york-sanctuary-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/24/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/trump-new-york-sanctuary-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AnkleMonitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnkleMonitors</span></a></p><p>US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> & Customs Enforcement has directed personnel to sharply increase the number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> they shackle with GPS-enabled ankle monitors, as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin widens <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> of people it is targeting for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a>, according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/24/ice-check-in-ankle-monitor-immigrants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/immigration</span><span class="invisible">/2025/07/24/ice-check-in-ankle-monitor-immigrants/</span></a></p>
Anomalous Human<p>"You don’t have any rights here. You are a ‘Migo,’ brother,” said the officer, who hurried him into a van. </p><p><a href="https://eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2025/07/22/ice-raids-florida-citizen-lived-immigrants-nightmare-of-being-arrested/84504993007/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/new</span><span class="invisible">s/local/2025/07/22/ice-raids-florida-citizen-lived-immigrants-nightmare-of-being-arrested/84504993007/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/07/22/ice-crackdown-florida-u-s-citizens-cellphone-recorded-his-arrest/85322591007/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">palmbeachpost.com/picture-gall</span><span class="invisible">ery/news/local/2025/07/22/ice-crackdown-florida-u-s-citizens-cellphone-recorded-his-arrest/85322591007/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/PalmBeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmBeach</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The federal government is trying to use Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. So EFF and our friends at EPIC and the Protect Democracy Project have filed an amicus brief asking a judge to block this dangerous violation of federal data privacy laws.</p><p>Last month, the AP reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had disclosed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a vast trove of sensitive data obtained from states about people who obtain government-assisted health care. Medicaid is a federal program that funds health insurance for low-income people; it is partially funded and primarily managed by states. Some states, using their own funds, allow enrollment by non-citizens. HHS reportedly disclosed to DHS the Medicaid enrollee data from several of these states, including enrollee names, addresses, immigration status, and claims for health coverage.</p><p>In response, California and 19 other states sued HHS and DHS. The states allege, among other things, that these federal agencies violated (1) the data disclosure limits in the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and HIPAA, and (2) the notice-and-comment requirements for rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)."</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-court-protect-our-health-data-dhs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-</span><span class="invisible">court-protect-our-health-data-dhs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a></p>
Milo Dide<p>🧊<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Detention</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a>, and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/detention-deportation-and-resistance?r=1x9kto&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsletter.peoplepowerunited.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/p/detention-deportation-and-resistance?r=1x9kto&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.</p><p>Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.</p><p>These are their stories.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/venezu</span><span class="invisible">elan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>
Sky Dancing<p><strong>Wednesday Reads: The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal and Immigration Horrors</strong></p><p><strong>Good Morning!!</strong></p> <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/trump-and-epstein-watch-young-women-at-a-mar-a-lago-party/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p><p class="">Trump and Epstein ogle young women at a Mar-a-Lago party.</p> <p>The Epstein story is still leading the news as Trump continues to panic and try desperately to distract from the scandal.</p><p>Yesterday, in a bizarre and incoherent oval office rant, he actually accused former president Barack Obama of committing treason by ordering an investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.</p><p>Trump doesn’t understand the concept of treason, which is <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-3/section-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">defined in the Constitution</a> as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.</p></blockquote><p>But for malignant narcissist Trump, treason means any fantasized attack on him personally. ABC <span class="">News: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-says-doj-should-target-obama-for-allegations-about-the-2016-election-243632709791" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump accuses Obama of ‘treason’ in the Oval Office</a>.</span></p><blockquote><p class="">Days after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated fake video showing former President Barack Obama’s arrest on his social media platform, the current president pushed conspiracy theories about Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday, accusing him of treason without providing evidence regarding the 2016 presidential election.</p><p class="">“They tried to rig the election, and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday.</p><p>Trump’s comments come after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice threatening the Obama administration.</p></blockquote><p>NBC News: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/obama-pushes-back-trumps-outrageous-bizarre-treason-claim-rcna220393" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Obama pushes back on Trump’s ‘outrageous’ and ‘bizarre’ treason claim.</a></p><blockquote><p class="">Former President Barack Obama’s office issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the president accused his predecessor of having committed “treason” and rigging the 2016 and 2020 elections.</p><p class="">“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/jeffrey-epstein-fallout-trump-administration-maga-greatest-hits-rcna220038" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a weak attempt at distraction.”</a></p><p class="">When reporters on Tuesday asked Trump about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he pivoted to what he called Obama’s “criminality.”</p><p class="">“After what they did to me — and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people. Obama’s been caught directly,” Trump told reporters. “What they did in 2016 and 2020 is very criminal. It’s criminal at the highest level. So that’s really the things you should be talking about.”</p><p>“Look, he’s guilty. It’s not a question,” Trump added. “This was treason. This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election.”</p></blockquote><p>Imagine if any other president had said something like this. But Trump gets away with it.</p><blockquote><p class="">Trump was referring to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trumps-intelligence-chiefs-try-rewrite-history-2016-election-rcna220103" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">claims made</a> by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in social media posts and television appearances that they had found Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence and conspired to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.</p><p class="">Gabbard <a href="https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946293600976785453" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">posted on social media </a>on Friday that she was making a criminal referral to the Justice Department.</p><p class="">At an event with congressional Republicans later Tuesday, Trump praised Gabbard and again accused Obama of being part of an effort to rig the elections. “These are vicious, horrible people,” he said of the former president and others.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/5d4575ed6c7104666295037c776d98bb/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p><p class="">Trump sits next to Epstein with two Don Jr. and Ivanka</p> <p>Of course the Supreme Court claims the Constitution makes presidents immune from prosecution for official acts. But Trump is obviously freaking out about what releasing the Epstein files would reveal about him and desperately lashing out at his political enemies.</p><p>This is analysis by Stephen Collinson at CNN: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/trump-epstein-maxwell-justice-department-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s latest bid to end Epstein storm: Weaponizing the federal government.</a></p><blockquote><p class="">Donald Trump’s bid to smother the uproar over accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein shows that he’s already achieved one goal his critics most feared from his second presidency.</p><p class="">The Justice Department and the head of the US intelligence community are now openly operating as fully weaponized tools to pursue the president’s personal political needs in a degradation of a governing system meant to be an antidote to king-like patronage.</p><p class="">This new dynamic underpinned a wild Oval Office press appearance by Trump on Tuesday, his latest attempt to put out the Epstein fire that had only <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/concessions-epstein-files-trump-pressure" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the now-familiar effect</a> of feeding the flames.</p><p class="">The extent of the president’s capture of two key agencies that are vital to keeping Americans safe was revealed when a reporter asked a question about his administration’s refusal to open all files related to the Epstein case.</p><p class="">The president pivoted to a tirade against Barack Obama, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/trump-obama-treason-accusation-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">accusing the former president of staging a treasonous coup</a> against him — basing his assault on a convenient and misleading memo about Russia’s 2016 election meddling that was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/how-tulsi-gabbard-is-trying-to-rewrite-history-of-the-russia-investigation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">released last week</a> by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.</p><p class="">The Justice Department has also been activated, yet again, to give Trump cover.</p><p class=""><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/doj-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday</a> that he will take the highly unusual move of meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell — who was sentenced to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/us/ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">20 years in federal prison</a> for carrying out a yearslong scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls — to ask what she knows but hasn’t so far told. Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.</p><p class="">“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday.</p><p class="">This seems a stretch, since Blanche is Trump’s former personal lawyer and plans to speak with a prisoner who has a clear incentive to offer testimony that could help a president who has the power to let her out of prison.</p></blockquote><p>Read the rest at CNN.</p><p>Meanwhile, Trump sycophant House speaker Mike Johnson took action by cancelling the rest of the House session. Paul Waldman at MSNBC: <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/epstein-files-trump-house-mike-johnson-rcna220266" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Epstein fallout literally shut down the House early for the summer</a>.</p><blockquote><p class="">It’s been a week and a half since <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114842356238631061" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">President Donald Trump complained</a> on Truth Social that his many, many accomplishments were being overshadowed, “all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.” There is a kind of truth in Trump’s lament: Six years after his death in a Manhattan jail cell, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-they-are-scared-s-less-gop-flees-dc-and-trump-tries-to-blame-obama-as-epstein-bomb-goes-off-243662405572" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Epstein lives on</a> — and he has Republicans in something approaching panic. It’s gotten so bad that <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-reverses-course-epstein-transparency-realigns-trump-rcna220197" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">House Republicans apparently decided to shut the chamber down early</a> before leaving town.</p><p class="">Things fell apart for the GOP in the House Rules Committee, which determines which legislation reaches the House floor. Knowing how much GOP leaders would like this issue to just go away, Democrats attempted to force the House to vote on releasing all <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-maxwell-trump-motions-judges-rcna220298" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the information the government has on Epstein</a>. “To avoid embarrassing votes on Epstein,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-cancels-votes-fight-jeffrey-epstein-files-rcna220238" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NBC News reported</a>, “Republicans decided to recess the committee and not attempt to pass a rule for bills this week. Without a rule, Republicans would be left with nothing to vote on after Wednesday.” Instead, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., began the chamber’s five-week summer recess early, apparently in hopes that by the time the members return in the fall, the affair will all have blown over.</p><p class="">The whole episode recalls the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5jscR7Vz30" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">famous line</a> from “All the President’s Men”: “The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of control.”</p></blockquote> <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/jeffrey-epstein-at-trumps-wedding-to-marla-maples-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p><p class="">Jeffrey Epstein at Trump’s and Marla Maples’ wedding.</p> <p>Waldman notes that most Republicans don’t buy all the conspiracy theories cooked up by their base, but the Epstein conspiracy theories are base in reality.</p><blockquote><p>…[U]nfortunately for the president and his party, the public interest and the political debate around Epstein concerns real life, including his relationship with Trump. Epstein really was a fabulously wealthy and well-connected pedophile and sex trafficker. He really did die in jail, awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Both <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-trump-wall-street-journal-letter-rcna219501" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump and Vice President JD Vance really did encourage speculation</a> that Epstein did not commit suicide. There really are a huge number of documents from the government’s investigation of Epstein that have not been made public.</p><p class="">And before the pair had a <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-trump-wall-street-journal-letter-rcna219501" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“falling-out” (in the president’s words)</a> in the mid-2000s, Epstein really was good friends with Donald Trump. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-epstein-terrific-guy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">said in 2002</a>. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”</p><p class="">After reiterating that Epstein’s death was a suicide and the case was closed, the administration faced a revolt from right-wing influencers who had been telling their audiences for years that the new Trump administration would blow the lid off everything Epstein was involved in. Then <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467151/trump-epstein-files-doj-fbi-maga" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump begged people to talk about something, anything else,</a> though his pleadings are falling on deaf ears. And on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that — at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request — <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ghislaine-maxwell-blanche-meeting-doj-epstein-trump-rcna220219" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">he intends to talk to Ghislaine Maxwell</a>, currently serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to aid Epstein in sex trafficking. The idea that Bondi and Blanche — both Trump loyalists who previously <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/03/trump-todd-blanche-indictment-attorney-00090157" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">served among the president’s personal lawyers</a> — are suddenly interested in Maxwell for solely apolitical reasons strains credulity, to say the least.</p></blockquote><p>Waldman writes that Republicans are faced with an uprising from the base and Trump’s desire to prevent any further Epstein revelations, and so they decided to get out of town instead of taking a vote on the release of the Epstein files.</p><p><strong>New Epstein Revelations</strong></p><p>CNN’s <span class="">Andrew Kaczynski</span> and <span class="">Em Steck: </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/kfile-trump-epstein-photos-footage" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.</a></p><blockquote><p class="">Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-epstein-unesco-07-22-25" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">relationship with Jeffrey Epstein</a>.</p><p class="">Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now.</p><p class="">In addition, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event. CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed.</p><p class="">The new footage and photos, which have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s known legal issues, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trump’s past relationship with Epstein. The Justice Department’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/politics/bondi-epstein-files-client-list-suicide-memo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">recent decision</a> not to release long-promised files related to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trump’s MAGA movement, where people developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.</p><p class="">In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up.</p><p class="">In a statement to CNN, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said, “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.</p><p class="">“The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”</p></blockquote><p>Read the rest at watch videos at CNN.</p><p>Greg Sargent at The New Republic: <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb</a>.</p><blockquote><p>A few days ago, as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal gripped Washington, Senator Ron Wyden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/epstein-banks-wyden-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">offered a striking revelation in an interview</a> with <i>The New York Times</i>. The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.</p> <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/trump-with-jeffrey-epstein/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p><p class="">Trump with Jeffrey Epstein at Victoria’s Secret event in 1999.</p> <p>The revelation—which emerged via Wyden’s work as ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee—ratified widespread suspicions that there is still much we don’t know about Epstein’s relations with some of the most powerful and wealthy elites in the world in the lead-up to his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges.</p><p>Now Wyden is ratcheting things up once again. Wyden’s office just sent a new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi—which <i>The New Republic</i> obtained—suggesting seven potent lines of inquiry that the Justice Department could follow, right now, to dig more deeply into Epstein’s web of financial relations with global elites.</p><p>“I am convinced that the DOJ ignored evidence found in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Epstein file, a binder that contains extensive details on the mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen that Epstein used to finance his criminal network,” Wyden writes in the letter.</p><p>The Treasury Department has this information because that’s where banks file suspicious activity reports, or SARS. Wyden’s letter says his staff has documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”</p><p>Wyden’s letter seeks to demonstrate what the Trump administration is <i>not</i> doing to examine Epstein’s financial relations with the rich and powerful….</p><p>Wyden’s move here is in some ways a trolling exercise, since DOJ won’t act on it. But such trolling by lawmakers can be constructive if it communicates new information to the public or highlights the failure of others in power to exercise oversight and impose accountability. Wyden’s letter does both.</p></blockquote><p>Read more at TNR.</p><p><strong>Immigration News</strong></p><blockquote><p>I want to recommend a powerful article by Stephen W. Thrasher that was published at Literary Hub: What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America. The piece is very long, so I can’t really summarize it with a few quoted paragraphs. I hope you’ll go read the whole thing.</p><p>“Mom is gone. They took her away.”</p><p>These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers this past week, one of whom is a friend of mine.</p><p>Maria’s mother was disappeared by ICE, the worst fear for many families in Ventura County, which emerged on the world stage recently <a class="" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-12/ice-agents-raid-farm-mans-death" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">as an ICE raid</a> on the Glass House cannabis farm in Camarillo resulted in the death of farmer Jaime Alanís, the kidnapping of California State University Channel Island professor Jonathan Caravello, and the disappearance and presumed deportation of at least 200 farmers.</p><p>Fortunately for Maria, her two <i>tias</i> picked her up the day her mom was kidnapped, and “they took me to Toppers, and I got to eat the ice cream cookie!” Her teacher—I’ll call her Miss Garvin—told me how Maria had never had the ice cream cookie at Toppers before, and that she was trying to hold onto this treat. It seemed as if the adults in Maria’s life were letting her have anything special to distract her—because they did not know when, or even if, she was going to see her mother again.</p><p>Miss Garvin told me that “it was a shitshow of a day” as she kept Maria in her line of vision throughout the breakfast and lunch periods.</p><p>“It broke my heart,” she told me, to see this normally vivacious girl sitting shell shocked and mute around her friends.</p><p>Like Maria, I hail from Ventura County, and am a product of its Title 1 schools. From six to nine years old, I was bused through Oxnard’s bountiful agricultural fields and (literally) across the railroad tracks to the <i>La Colonia</i> neighborhood, where Ramona School educated students like me pretty well despite how economically neglected we were. (I still remember how few streetlights there were when we were bused before dawn, and that there were chickens running through the pot-holed streets just outside our school’s windows).</p></blockquote><p>A bit more:</p><blockquote><p>Like Maria, my biological mother disappeared when I was about her age, though not because she was kidnapped. (She just disappeared for three years while no one, including the private detective my dad and stepmother hired, could find any trace of her beyond an abandoned car.) Like Maria, my survival depended on the care of an Oxnard teacher like Miss Garvin.</p><p>Like Maria, I am also a product of Ventura County’s fields, which gave me a place to play, taught me about labor politics, employed the vast majority of my classmates’ parents, and fed me.</p><p>But you, wherever you are reading this, <i>you</i> are likely a product of Ventura County’s fields, too—especially if you’ve ever eaten a strawberry. Strawberries are harvested with backbreaking work usually done by undocumented migrant farmers. Oxnard is the largest producer of strawberries in California and is <a class="" href="https://businessforward.venturacounty.gov/oxnard/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">known as</a> the “strawberry capital of the world.” Our <a class="" href="https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2025/06/27/heres-what-to-know-about-ventura-countys-crops-farmland/84294346007/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">93,000 acres</a> of farmland provides California, the United States, and even other countries not just various berries but avocados, mushrooms, corn, citrus, and even marijuana.</p><p>And you are also a product of Ventura County because the Oxnard plain is a hot bed of radical politics. Historically, Ventura County has played a pivotal role in the evolution of labor organizing, as <a class="" href="https://ufw.org/research/history/story-cesar-chavez/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cesar Chavez</a> lived there for a time and had a strong base of operations during the rise of United Farm Workers.</p><p>Just as importantly, Ventura County is playing a crucial role in the attempt to stop fascism right <i>now</i>, for the good people of Ventura, Camarillo, and Oxnard are <i>not</i> taking ICE raids without a fight. Since Trump came back into office, groups like <a class="" href="https://vcdefensa.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">VC Defensa</a> and the <a class="" href="https://sites.google.com/causenow.org/ccirc/home" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">805 Immigration Coalition</a> have been training volunteers to patrol for ICE agents. And when they’re spotted, a call goes out for community members to show up—and people from all walks of life (students, citizens, senior citizens) do.</p><p>That’s what happened on July 11: a scout patrol spotted ICE agents and tipped off hundreds of people who showed up at the Glass House Farm to bear witness to the ICE raid.</p></blockquote> <a href="https://skydancingblog.com/scene-from-glass-house-raid-in-ventural-country-ca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p><p class="">Scene from Glass House raid in Ventural Country, CA</p> <p>During that raid, a man was chased off a rooftop to his by masked ICE agents. An activist professor from Cal State Jonathan Caravello was also arrested and jailed after he tried to help a man escape from a tear gas cannister under his wheelchair. Thrasher describes the state of terror that immigrants face in Ventura county. He writes:</p><blockquote><p>If Ventura County falls, we are all going to fall. And the way people there have been treated as threats for interfering with the duties of police—a criminal charge I briefly faced as a professor under similar circumstances as the CSUCI professor—reveal the terror hundreds of millions could face if ICE does, in fact, get a six-fold increase in funding and becomes a <a class="" href="https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bill-trump-2093456" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">bigger</a> internal force than most countries’ militaries….</p><p>Even without the threat of ICE, farming has long been identified as one of the <a class="" href="https://extension.missouri.edu/news/farming-the-most-dangerous-job-in-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">most dangerous jobs in America</a>. Given that “more people die while farming than while serving as police officers, firefighters or other emergency responders,” the idea that ICE officers fear for their lives while approaching farmers is absurd.</p><p>But the terror of ICE has pushed immigrant families in Ventura County to their deaths in ways fast and slow.</p></blockquote><p>Immigration expert Jeff Crisp at The New York Times (gift link): <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.ZA5X.nJ9DCn0pZqp_&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People</a>.</p> <blockquote><p class="">In May, the United States flew a group of eight migrants to Djibouti, a small state in the Horn of Africa. For weeks, the men — who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — were detained in a converted shipping container on a U.S. military base. More than a month later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the men, who had all been convicted of serious crimes, could be transferred to their final destination: South Sudan, a country on the brink of famine and civil war. Tom Homan, the border czar, acknowledged that he didn’t know what happened to them once they were released from U.S. custody. “As far as we’re concerned,” he said, “they’re free.”</p><p class="">Deporting foreign nationals to countries other than their homeland has quickly become a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Thousands of people have been sent to countries in the Western Hemisphere, <a class="" href="https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/heres-where-trumps-deportations-are-sending-migrants" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">including</a> Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama. At a recent summit of West African leaders, President Trump pressed them to admit deportees from the United States, <a class="" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-pushes-more-african-countries-to-accept-deported-migrants-b6f330c5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAiFUZC48pOV8qgATvFfzeTKO3PC1Ses_IvvgcLROcvS3Nsqj2F0ma6NulXnezI%3D&gaa_ts=687e5849&gaa_sig=X_FcLEr1kN7PUCY9UW13sYitgQAH62DHoYnVZ1Mhp3AQb9LJCW1VkcqLOnwpck8QZpWK_ydg0uTG41815uVU6g%3D%3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reportedly</a> emphasizing that assisting in migration was essential to improving commercial ties with the United States. All told, administration officials have reached out to <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/trump-immigrants-deportations.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dozens of states</a> to try to strike deals to accept deportees. The administration is making progress: Last week, it sent five men to the tiny, landlocked country of <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world/africa/eswatini-trump-migrants-deportation.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Eswatini</a> in southern Africa after their home countries allegedly “refused to take them back,” according to an assistant homeland security secretary, Tricia McLaughlin. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.</p><p class="">In some ways, this is nothing new. It has become increasingly common for the world’s most prosperous countries to relocate immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees to places with which they have little or no prior connection. Previous U.S. administrations from both parties have sought third-country detentions as easy fixes. In the 1990s, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both sent thousands of Haitian refugees to detention camps in Guantánamo Bay before forcibly repatriating most of them to Haiti.</p><p class="">What is new about the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, unlike previous European or even past U.S. attempts, is their breadth and scale, effectively transforming migrant expulsions into a tool for international leverage. By deporting foreign nationals to often unstable third countries, the Trump administration is not only creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin, but also explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making.</p><p>This strategy marks a significant evolution in a practice that has been gaining traction throughout the developed world. In the early 2000s, Australia devised the so-called Pacific Solution, an arrangement that diverted asylum seekers arriving by boat or intercepted at sea to holding centers in the island states of Nauru and Papua New Guinea in exchange for benefits, including development aid and financial support. In 2016, amid what was then the <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/europe/european-union-turkey-migrants.html?ti" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">largest displacement of people</a> in Europe since World War II, the European Union struck a deal that allowed it to send migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey through irregular means back to Turkey — to the tune of six billion euros.</p></blockquote><p>Use the gift link to read the rest if you’re interested.</p><p>The Washington Post (gift link): <a href="https://wapo.st/3GZuXCW" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie.’</a></p><blockquote><p>Julio González Jr. had agreed to be deported to Venezuela. When the 36-year-old office cleaner and house painter boarded the flight in Texas in March, he assumed it would take him back to his home country.</p> <p class="">Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador.</p> <p class="">“The horror movie started there,” González said Tuesday.</p><p class="">When the shackled men refused to get off the plane, González and two other detainees told The Washington Post that they were yanked by their feet, beaten and shoved off board as the plane’s crew began to cry. Dozens of migrants were forced onto a bus and driven to a massive gray complex. They were ordered to kneel there with their foreheads pressed against the ground as guards pointed guns directly at them.</p><p>“Welcome to El Salvador, you sons of b—–s,”a hooded figure told them, González recalled. They had arrived at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT. The United States has paid the Salvadoran government of President Nayib <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/04/trump-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-venezuelans/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bukele $6 million to hold hundreds of migrants</a> rounded up in <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/21/bukele-salvador-prisons-peru-ecuador/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">President Donald Trump’s mass removals</a> — many without ties to El Salvador, many without criminal charges — at the world’s largest prison.</p><p>In the four months they spent there, the detainees said, they were beaten repeatedly with wooden bats. González was robbed of thousands of dollars, he said, and denied access to lawyers or a chance to call his family. Joen Suárez, 23, was taken several times to a dark room known as La Isla — or “the island” — and beaten, kicked and insulted. Angel Blanco Marin, 22, said he was hit so hard he lost half of a molar. He asked for painkillers and medical attention but was given none for more than a month.</p><p>The three men returned to their family’s homes in Venezuela this week, among the 252 Venezuelans released from CECOT and taken to the South American country in <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/18/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-cecot-prison/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a deal between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments</a>. They arrived on two flights in exchange for the release of 10 American citizens and permanent U.S. residents imprisoned in Venezuela.</p> </blockquote> <p>Again, use the gift link if you want to read the rest.</p><p>I’ll end there, and post a few more stories in the comment thread. What else is happening? Please feel free to share.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/deportation/" target="_blank">#Deportation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/ghislaine-maxwell/" target="_blank">#GhislaineMaxwell</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/glass-house-raid/" target="_blank">#GlassHouseRaid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/house-speaker-mike-johnson/" target="_blank">#HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/ice/" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/immigration/" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/jeffrey-epstein/" target="_blank">#JeffreyEpstein</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/president-barack-obama/" target="_blank">#PresidentBarackObama</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/sen-ron-wyden/" target="_blank">#SenRonWyden</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/tulsi-gabbard/" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://skydancingblog.com/tag/ventura-county-ca/" target="_blank">#VenturaCountyCA</a></p>
ProPublica<p>We've spent months reporting on the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now that they’ve been returned to Venezuela, we’re continuing to report on who the men are and what they went through.</p><p>To help us investigate, fill out this form or contact us via Signal at 917-512-0201 or WhatsApp at 917-327-4868.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-venezuelans-deported-cecot?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/getinvolved/hel</span><span class="invisible">p-propublica-report-venezuelans-deported-cecot?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a></p>
🔻Stones of David🔻<p>JULY 18, 2025<br>‘ <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Operates Within a Broader Apparatus Around Criminalization and the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> Machine’: <br>CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on mass deportation</p><p><a href="https://fair.org/home/ice-operates-within-a-broader-apparatus-around-criminalization-and-the-deportation-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fair.org/home/ice-operates-wit</span><span class="invisible">hin-a-broader-apparatus-around-criminalization-and-the-deportation-machine/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@immigrantsrights" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>immigrantsrights</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@law" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>law</span></a></span> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktok</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a> asserted his "5th, 6th and 14th Amendment Rights" when asked if he and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PedoDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PedoDon</span></a> "socialized" with "underaged girls".</p><p>Most of us know about "taking the 5th", how many of us know/knew off the top of our heads the 6th & 14th? 🤔 </p><p>Because of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> sweeps, we have only recently become familiar with the 6th (Right to counsel) & 14th (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a>.) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PedoInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PedoInChief</span></a></p>
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America</p><p>As Trump’s <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. That comes w/its own dangers.<br><a href="https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-22-no-safe-place-for-legal-immigrants-trumps-america/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20makes%20his%20move%20at%20the%20NLRB&utm_campaign=20250722%20Meyerson%20on%20TAP" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prospect.org/justice/2025-07-2</span><span class="invisible">2-no-safe-place-for-legal-immigrants-trumps-america/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20makes%20his%20move%20at%20the%20NLRB&utm_campaign=20250722%20Meyerson%20on%20TAP</span></a></p><p>The evil Trump/MAGA/#GOP reign continues unabated.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a></p>
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>From <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NYIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYIC</span></a>/New York Immigration Coalition on 🦋 3hrs ago: </p><p>🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.<br>___</p><p>Video: <br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/thenyic.bsky.social/post/3lukwit44422g" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/thenyic.bsky.</span><span class="invisible">social/post/3lukwit44422g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"Health care providers told The Associated Press that everything, especially the fear of being arrested or deported, is having a chilling effect on people seeking care. And states may have to spend more money down the road because immigrants will avoid preventive health care and end up needing to go to safety-net hospitals."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-immigrants-california-illinois-minnesota-ice-f43d5681a6e9d45d274790c2eae716ee" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/medicaid-im</span><span class="invisible">migrants-california-illinois-minnesota-ice-f43d5681a6e9d45d274790c2eae716ee</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurance</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hospitals</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illinois</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minnesota</span></a></p>
nightdream<p>“If you want to influence society, you want to influence young men." </p><p>Chris Rosebrough, pastor of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minn., called Mahler “one of the most dangerous people on the planet.”</p><p>“He somehow has this amazing ability to make white supremacy, fascism and the racial ideology of the Nazis look like it is virtuous,” Rosebrough said during an episode of his Fighting for the Faith podcast.</p><p>“That’s the real threat that he poses.”</p><p>'I don't have a problem with genocide'</p><p><a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/meet-the-hitler-loving-podcaster-whos-teaching-young-christian-men-to-hate-in-the-name-of-god" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newschannel5.com/news/newschan</span><span class="invisible">nel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/meet-the-hitler-loving-podcaster-whos-teaching-young-christian-men-to-hate-in-the-name-of-god</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tennessee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tennessee</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
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