#deportation policies

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The Controversy Over Undocumented Immigrants in the USA

The Growing Debate Over Undocumented Immigrants in the USA 6 minutes The United States faces a significant problem with undocumented immigrants. According to recent estimates, around 11 million unauthorized individuals live in the country today. Many come from Latin American countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. They seek better lives, jobs, and safety from violence. However, this…

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Humane Immigration Enforcement: A Border Drawn with Human Hands

A border traced by mortal hands,

A law inscribed on shifting sands.

A sovereign right to guard the gate,

Yet burdened by a heavy weight.

To cast away, to bid farewell,

A duty served—but must it quell

The dignity that each one bears,

The pain, the hope, the silent prayers?

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I have genuinely never encountered such stupidity until after Trump won the election. Trumpies and MAGA-extremists(nazis) are literally trying to justify the things he’s said by making up some bullshit excuse.

So, here’s a list of things Trump has said, on video, that should never be justified:

"She does have a very nice figure ... if [she] weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

Trump talking about creeping on women in a pageant dressing room [1:35-2:02]

Trump saying he cant wait to date a random 10-year old girl in ten years. [0:32-0:40]

When asked if he would stay with Melania if she got disfigured in a car accident, he replied with “How do the breasts look?” [1:03-1:16]

3-Minute long video of trump using crude language to refer to women.(grab em by the pussy)

Trump doubling down on sexual assault

But, if this seems like “feminist propaganda” to you, here’s more concerning things he’s said and done:

Defending the Charlottesville Violence. “Robert E Lee, one of the greatest generals”.

Footage of Trump and Epstein partying together.

Trump signing to withdraw us from the HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

I URGE you to watch this film of Trump’s Propaganda if you believe that he isnt a fascist.

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"Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S.

With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday.

Ten days earlier, dozens of Venezuelan detainees at the center were given notices by immigration officials that alleged they were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and subject to deportation under a wartime law, according to documents shown to Reuters, recorded video calls and court proceedings."

Reuters

7News

EL PAÍS

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I.C.E. can kiss my ass

📷 Brooklyn, NY

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The Boston Globe: Rümeysa Öztürk: What to know about the Tufts student arrested by immigration officials

Rümeysa Öztürk is a 30 year old Turkish national. She had a valid student visa and until recently was pursuing her third year of doctoral studies at the Tufts University Elliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development program.

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Late on March 25, 2025, while on her her way to end her daily Ramadan fast with friends, Rümeysa was arrested by DHS agents (some in masks), and taken across state lines, without advance notification, despite a Massachusetts court order (although the DOJ claims she was moved before the court order).

If you haven't heard this slightly built woman cry out in fear, go watch this video. It is heartbreaking.

Rümeysa is currently being detained for possible deportation at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile.

South Louisiana ICE Processing Center

Rümeysa's only "crime" seems to have been being one of four authors of a year-old op-ed in a university newspaper (The Tufts Daily) expressing dismay that the Tuft administration was being "dismissive of" some student senate resolutions calling upon Tufts "to divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel."

Yet, the Trump administration, in its haste (and incompetence) to deport immigrants, appears to have incorrectly prejudged Rümeysa to be one of the "bad people" that Trump's administration claims they are rounding up to protect Americans.

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TRUMP: We're getting rid of a lot of bad people…. They’re being taken out. And we hope this court system that's become so active all of a sudden in trying to protect some very, very bad uh… people of crime. Uh, they have to stop.

We already know that the incompetent and cruel Trump administration, has sent innocent people to El Slavador's horrible CECOT prison, like Andrys, a gay, Venezuelan make-up artist who was mistaken to be a member of the Tren de Aragua gang because of his tattoos.

And yet, the Trump administration, as always, denies making mistakes and Trump rails against the judges who are trying to stop innocent people like Rümeysa and Andrys from the cruel excesses of the administration's (often incompetent) deportation practices.

According to CNN, Secretary of State Marco "Rubio suggested without evidence [that Rümeysa] was involved in disruptive student protests over Israel’s military operations in Gaza." Yet, her brother Asim, claimed that aside from cowriting the op-ed, Rümeysa did NOT engage "in any provocative or aggressive action regarding the Palestine issue." And, according to The Boston Globe, people at Tufts who knew Rümeysa said "that she wasn't necessarily a leader of campus activism at Tufts, though she did support Palestinian human rights."

According to a lovely tribute to Rümeysa written by her department at Tufts, she is studying child and adolescent development, and appears to be a caring individual who is highly valued by the Tuft's community. As such, she did not deserve to be spirited away to an ICE detention facility and potentially have her life and graduate studies derailed by an unfair deportation.

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And to think that many of Trump's MAGA followers cheer on this cruel behavior of ICE towards law abiding legal immigrants like Rümeysa whose only "crimes" are that they have chosen in the recent past to express opinions against the needless suffering and deaths of tens of thousands of civilian women, children, and men in Gaza.

STOP THE SIMPLISTIC BLACK-AND-WHITE THINKING: Just because people don't agree with the slaughter of the Gazan people does NOT mean they are pro-Hamas, or support the horrific Oct. 7th terrorist attack against Israel. It is this simplistic black-and-white thinking that Trump's administration and Marco Rubio's State Department are using as a justification for terrorizing innocent graduate students like Rümeysa.

Under Trump, America is being led down a dark path of hate and scapegoating that is limiting the rights of due process of many people in marginalized groups. Trump loves to talk about how his deportation policies are "getting rid of a lot of bad people." But if we as a nation do not ensure due process so that innocents are not swept up and unduly punished in Trump's efforts to control immigration, then we collectively are allowing our nation to become no better than autocracies like Russia and China.

[Below the cut are transcripts of The Boston Globe "Rümeysa Öztürk" video and of the captions in the above gifs made from the The New York Times Video of "Surveillance Footage Shows ICE Arrest of Tufts Student." Below the cut is also an excerpt from a beautiful tribute to Rümeysa from her department at Tufts.]

Above is a link to a truly beautiful tribute to Rümeysa from the people in her department at Tufts. Here is an excerpt from that tribute:

Rumeysa’s presence on campus has been missed, as her genuineness and care for others have been felt deeply here at Tufts. Her fellow students put it best: “Rumeysa is usually the first to arrive on campus: she boils water in the kettle and is ready with a warm greeting. Today, she is still everywhere with us. She is in the Turkish tea that we brewed this morning; she is at the top of our inboxes, planning the pastries she would bring to our iftar tomorrow evening; she is on the wall with her byline in an article about refugee representation in children's television and in a colorful Istanbul postcard; she is in the red swivel chair that she always sits in. Even in a department focused on human development, Rumeysa stands out as someone who reminds us daily of the importance of protecting children, cultivating joy, and connecting to our own deeper humanity. We are not the same without her steady, gentle presence”.

The Boston Globe "Rümeysa Öztürk" Video Transcript

GIULIA MCDONNELL NIETO DEL RIO (NARRATOR): On Tuesday, federal immigration authorities detained Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is a Turkish national here on a valid visa, according to her attorney, and took her into ICE custody. Video obtained by the Globe shows plainclothes immigration agents approaching Öztürk as she's walking on the sidewalk in Somerville. Öztürk’s attorney has filed a habeas petition in Boston Federal Court asking her client to be released from ICE custody. Öztürk’s arrest comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigrants here on green cards or visas, who have participated in some way or another in pro-Palestinian activism on campuses. However, those who know Öztürk told the Globe that she wasn't necessarily a leader of campus activism at Tufts, though she did support Palestinian human rights. Advocates and professors who knew Öztürk said they were absolutely shocked by the apprehension of her by federal immigration authorities. Questions remain about why Öztürk was apprehended as she was here legally on a student visa. Her attorneys and community advocates are pushing to get answers.

Transcript of Captions in Gifs Made From The New York Times Video of "Surveillance Footage Shows ICE Arrest of Tufts Student"

FIRST GIF CAPTIONS: A security camera captured the moment a Tufts University student was arrested by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid student visa, according to a statement from her lawyer. SECOND GIF CAPTIONS: Ozturk, who is Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends when she was detained. The university’s president said administrators were told that Ozturk’s visa had been terminated. The university is trying to verify whether that information is true. THIRD GIF CAPTIONS: Ozturk was listed as a co-author for an opinion essay that criticized university leaders for their stance on the war in Gaza. FOURTH GIF CAPTIONS: A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to questions about the case on Wednesday.

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Unbiased: Not ALL undocumented immigrants are "criminals"

Disclaimer: I am neither Republican nor Democrat; everything is purely factual and unbiased.

Before jumping to conclusions about immigration, I ask that you set aside any personal biases and simply hear me out. My goal isn’t to persuade you to take a particular stance on immigration policy but rather to provide accurate, fact-based information.

A common misconception in the U.S. is that all undocumented immigrants are criminals simply because they are in the country unlawfully. However, that’s not entirely true.

Entering the U.S. without legal authorization—such as crossing the border unlawfully—is a federal crime. Anyone who enters the country this way has committed a criminal offense and is a criminal.

However, not all undocumented immigrants entered illegally. Some originally came to the U.S. through legal means, such as on a visa, but later overstayed. While overstaying a visa is a violation of immigration law, it is considered a civil offense, not a criminal one—similar to receiving a speeding ticket. Breaking the law in this way does not make someone a criminal in the legal sense.

In summary, many undocumented immigrants lawfully entered the U.S. but became undocumented after their visa expired, meaning they never committed a crime. On the other hand, those who entered the country without authorization did break the law in a criminal sense.

So no, not all undocumented immigrants are criminals.

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deep state? nah, here we got the deep freeze

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Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland secured a meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador on Thursday, fulfilling the promise he made to the Maryland man’s family after he was abducted by the Trump administration. “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance,” Van Hollen wrote. “I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love.”

The breakthrough occurred days after U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed that nothing could be done after Ábrego García was wrongly sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,” Bukele claimed in the Oval Office meeting, seated beside Trump. Ábrego García’s return has been ordered by U.S. courts, including the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, which found he was wrongly deported and denied due process.

Asked on Thursday about the situation his administration created, Trump said, “I’m not involved in it. I’m going to respond to that by saying you’ll have to speak to the lawyers, the DOJ. I’ve heard many things about him. We’ll have to find out what the truth is.” But the insinuation of Ábrego García’s wrongdoing is a lie. The Maryland father of two was targeted because of Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry, and his illegal deportation occurred because Trump’s departments of Justice and State have chosen to sweep up people on specious grounds.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met in El Salvador with Kilmar Ábrego García in a bid to free him from CECOT and bring him back to the USA.

See Also:

AP, via The Guardian: Maryland senator Van Hollen meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador amid battle over US return