FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6

You can easily make this argument the other way around: ICE hindering the courts by intimidating migrant witnesses from testifying by grabbing migrants at the court house.

#Justice #Law #ICE #FBI #CashPatel #Jusge #Arrest #UndocumentedImmigrnts #WitnessIntimidation #DueProcess #CourtIntegrity

"Hernández Romero was classified as a gang member because he has tattoos that say 'mom' and 'dad' with crowns.

[Yassamin] Ansari told me no one had heard from Hernández Romero, who has been documented to have no history of criminal activity, since March 14.

'Everyone is extremely worried about him,' she said from El Salvador. 'We’ve had no proof of life in over a month.'”

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/9

Adrian Carrasquillo reports on the trip of four House Democrats El Salvador seeking information about the detainees the Trump regime has sent to prison there with no due process, 90% of whom have no criminal record.

"The four House Democrats also asked for proof of life of Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay, 31-year-old Venezuelan makeup artist whose detention has also made waves."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/8

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-wants-story-to-die-democratic-members-congress-el-salvador-cecot-kilmar-abrego-garcia-andry-hernandez-romero

"Across the country, stories are piling up of ICE arrests and detentions with no transparency, no due process, and no answers."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/7

https://hartmannreport.com/p/papers-please-the-road-to-tyranny-cc7

"In a twitter rant following the Dobbs decision I predicted 'the people, of all stripes, who got it so badly & utterly predictably wrong . . . will just continue. They'll never admit they were wrong.'

And so it has come to pass. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, & so on, cover our constitutional collapse with a 'who could possibly have foreseen this' sort of tone."

~ Toby Buckle

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/6

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmists-were-right-we-should-say-so/

"Today at Axios, Brittany Gibson writes of ideas being floated around the administration right now of expanding deportations to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens. Convicted of what, you ask? …

Don’t we have laws against this? Of course we do. But thinking that laws will save us suggests you haven’t been paying attention."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/5

"There’s a reason historians have been disproportionately represented in the 'alarmist' camp since day one. We know that this kind of xenophobic rhetoric is a strategy straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Demonize 'the other,' concoct stories of imminant danger, and use those to justify any act of violence and aggression."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
/4

"There’s a reason this administration has started off targeting immigrants. Those in charge are calculating—and have plenty of evidence to back them up on this—that the average American won’t care. Or won’t care enough to do anything. Besides, they’ve been preparing you for this. Go back to some of Trump’s earliest speeches, and you’ll find hateful, xenophobic rhetoric."

~ Kristin Du Mez

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #authoritarianism #violence
/3

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-alarmism

"Issuing an order at 1 AM on Saturday is a pretty clear indication that the justices understood that their ruling was, in fact, a matter of life or death. It’s an indication that they knew that the people being herded onto buses in North Texas were being sent to their doom.

This time, this court, which so often hides behind procedural technicalities, refused to let Trump get away with murder."

~ Oliver Willis

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #SupremeCourt
/2

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/did-the-supreme-court-just-grow-a-spine/

Rümeysa Öztürk’s ordeal is our nation’s disgrace. There is clear evidence of serious wrongdoing in the Tufts student’s case—and it’s all on the part of the government."

~ Bill Lueders

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #RumeysaOzturk
/1

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/rumeysa-ozturk-ordeal-our-nations-disgrace-tufts-deportation-student-visa

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-takes-another-step-toward-enabling-broad-internet-censorship

This bill mandates a notice-and- #takedown system that threatens #freeexpression, #userprivacy, and #dueprocess, without meaningfully addressing the problem it claims to solve. The “takedown” provision applies to a much broader category of content…contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including #satire, #journalism, and #politicalspeech—could be wrongly censored.

Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump

#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_htG1N-1w

/3🧵

The Reagan-appointed judge concluded:

“We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.”

#USA #trump #law #DueProcess #deportation #deportations #AbregoGarcia

Read the ruling here:

https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/Abrego_Garcia_April_17_2025.pdf

/2🧵
(continues)

“‘Facilitation’ does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign detention centers…Allowing (this) would…reduce the rule of law to lawlessness…”

#USA #trump #law #DueProcess

Read the appeal judge’s ruling here:

https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/Abrego_Garcia_April_17_2025.pdf

The #Trump admin lost its appeal of the district court’s finding that the admin must comply w/ orders related to returning the man they illegally deported to the El Salvador prison ( #AbregoGarcia ), or likely be held in contempt.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of #DueProcess that is the foundation of our constitutional order...” — said the Reagan-appointed judge

/1🧵
#USA #law

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-ramps-up-campaign-against-man-it-deported-in-error-819e5c9f

They can’t arrest every single one of us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujrs34xRumY

#CounterTerrorism #DueProcess #Protest #AbuseOfTheLaw #TrumpFaschism #AbregoGarcia
#CECOT #GangViolence #AsylumSeeker #Law #Outlaws #Justice

#DualState #USA

#NoDueProcess
#Process
#DueProcess
#MeaningfulDueProcess
#AbusedDueProcess

#Trumpistan #Law #Justice #Gulag #SCOTUS #Immunity #TerrorState #CECOT #Immigrants

2 sadistic despots: Bukele has assc himself w the key figures in Trump’s orbit to solidify his credibility w him. On X, he interacts with & reposts Musk, R-leaning journalists... He's used SM to revel in helping Trump circumvent orders from US courts.

Bukele publicly floated the idea of taking in US-citizen prisoners: SLV "prepared to help the US “outsource part of its prison system … in exchange for a fee.”

#SCOTUS #DueProcess #ConstitutionalCrisis #Deportations
#USPol https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/trump-bukele-sidestep-court-orders-00290220

NEW NOW

#DOJ says #Trump admin will NOT comply w/ Judge Xinis' order because the deadline is "impracticable."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.59.0_1.pdf

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #lawlessness #AbuseOfPower

NOW

We have just passed the 11:30AM deadline, & #Trump’s #DOJ has not filed a response as ordered – per Kyle Cheney.

The hearing is still set for 1PM.

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #lawlessness #AbuseOfPower

Judge Xinis *grants* the government a partial extension but only until 11:30 AM today. Nice.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.57.0.pdf

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution
#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #judiciary #AbuseOfPower #Trump

NEW

#Trump’s #DOJ is trying to cancel today's #KilmarAbregoGarcia hearing & delay filing a response to the judge's order until next week.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.52.0.pdf

The 9:30 deadline has passed with no information from the Justice Department about Abrego Garcia's location or status, as demanded by the judge. She has not granted an extension, unclear if she will.

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #Trump

This may be consequential for Judge #Boasberg’s contempt proceedings in the #Trump admin’s refusal to abide by his court order to turn around the planes & immediately stop all #AlienEnemiesAct #deportations.

In this decision. #SCOTUS unanimously rejected the argument that a district judge lacks power to order gov to facilitate return once planes leave US jdx. That was the admin’s main rationale for defying the court’s written order.

#law #immigration #DueProcess #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower

#SCOTUS’ decision was unanimous. Additionally it suggests someone held overseas can still be given due process.
Ya think? Especially given that the #Trump admin is paying #ElSalvador to detain the *deportees*

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower

There is going to be a whole lot of arguing about what "facilitate" means / entails.

#SCOTUS writes:

The order properly requires the Government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25894464/24a949-order.pdf

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #Trump

#KilmarAbregoGarcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland & has had a work permit since 2019, was stopped & detained by #ICE officers on March 12 & questioned about his *alleged* gang affiliation. He was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile #deportation flights to #ElSalvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #Trump

🚨🚨🚨 #SCOTUS declined on Thurs to block a judge's order requiring #Trump's #administration to facilitate the return to the UnitedStates a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to #ElSalvador.

US District Judge Paula Xinis on April 4 issued an order that the administration return #KilmarAbregoGarcia, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man & his family challenging the legality of his #deportation.

#immigration #law #DueProcess
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/

Inhaltswarnung: Lawless & Cruel Beyond The Scale ... and ... A Glimmer Of Hope Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Conway Explains: “What They’re Doing is Profoundly Evil and Wrong” | Free part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4rPDMoBi0

#Visa #USA #StudentVisa #SecRubio #Politics #ICE #DueProcess #Law #SecretPolice

*ICE agents kidnap you and throw you into a cell*

You: "You can't do this! I'm a citizen!"

Fascist Thug: "We don't believe you."

You: "I'll prove it!"

Fascist Thug: "Really? To whom? You think your cellmates in El Salvador will care?"

#DueProcess #ICE #FascistTakover #HabeusCorpus #ImmigrantsAreGood #Immigrants #Fascist #Dictator #resistance #USpol #USpolitics #AmericanFascism #HumanRights #Cruelty #Trump #Deportation #Immigration #MassDeportation #ConcentrationCamps #gulag #ElSalvador

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process.

All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Via Timothy Snyder on Bluesky

#CivilRights #trump #deportations #venezuela #ElSalvador #politics #DueProcess

"If criminals fail to follow the law, does that mean the government shouldn’t follow the law either?

The purpose of due process is to make sure the government doesn’t punish innocent people. The way it works is that when the government makes an accusation against someone, that person is then allowed a court process where they can defend themselves. The purpose of this process is to make sure that the government can prove its case against someone before punishing them.
(...)
Of course, there are costs associated with court processes. Former President George W. Bush once acknowledged how liberal democracy can be inefficient: “If this were a dictatorship, this would be a heck of a lot easier. Just so long as I’m the dictator!”

But the cost of the government not being forced to prove its case before punishing people is that you end up punishing innocent people. There’s reporting out there that suggests the administration may be deporting people on the basis that they have football tattoos; the tattoos are alleged to be tied to the Venezuelan gang mentioned above.

Almost all Americans would say we don’t want violent criminals entering and residing in our country illegally. But did people really vote for Trump so that he would deport people based on mere suspicion without having to prove that the people being deported actually are violent criminals?"

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/due-process-matters-because-we-dont

#USA #Trump #DueProcess #Deportations #Justice #RuleofLaw #Authoritarianism

This Is the Land of Wolves Now

Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.

“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture #propaganda for her regime.

“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”

#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HumanRights
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true

#Israel #Palestine #Hamas #ShinBet #Netanyahu #i24News #DueProcess

Fascinating discussion I heard just now on i24News about Bibi seeking to get rid of the head of Shin Bet as Shin Bet is investigating corruption of Bibi. A good reason to fire the guy is the failure to raise the alarm about the imminence of the Oct. 7 massacre, and the counter argument is that they did but was ignored....and to this I'll add that I heard of a member notifying superiors and it was the superiors who ignored her.

Of course Israel's constituents blame Bibi for the failure. Well, an additional issue raised was how Bibi was attempting the removal without following Israel law's prescribed process. I'll bet that sounds familiar.

This is some messed up dystopian stuff

Photos of the #Venezuelans illegally *deported* by #Trump under the #AlienEnemiesAct to the maximum security prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (#CECOT) in Tecoluca, #ElSalvador

Photos, released by the Presidencia El Salvador.

#law #Constitution #immigration #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #CivilRights #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #HumanTrafficking #Slavery

From Southpaw:

The #UnitedStates government under #Trump by all accounts is shipping these people into indefinite involuntary servitude in #ElSalvador without even the pretense of any #judicial process, much less duly convicting them of a #crime. It’s an enslaving operation.

It is #HumanTrafficking.

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

Per Asha Rangappa:

Historical note: When President Lincoln *actually suspended* #HabeasCorpus under the Suspension Act of 1863, he was required to provide lists of all people detained who were not POWs to the circuit court. He complied. While prosecuting an *actual war*.

(Ex parte Milligan - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/71/2%26nbsp)

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security #prison in #ElSalvador, without any #DueProcess or any analysis as to whether they feared harm there.

Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a #deportation; it's something else entirely.

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #Trump

There are still serious concerns about the prior two flights WITH *alleged* [w/o #DueProcess there’s no way to verify & family members & attorneys have said the allegations are false in many cases] #AlienEnemiesAct detainees onboard that continued despite the judge's order.

#law #Constitution #immigration #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

From the Sat night hearing:

#UnitedStates Govt attorney:

"Would this TRO apply to aliens that otherwise have final orders of removal, because from our perspective, that would be an independent basis to effectuate their removal?"
...
Judge #Boasberg: "That's fair. ... Yes, Mr. Ensign, I agree."

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump