GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
This is the whole ballgame…folks.
W/o the “Rule of Law”…
Those cherished rights we brag about…
Just pretty words.
Say their names.
#disappeared #ice
#detention #marcorubio #trump
But #RumeysaOzturk [was]…transferred to the Central Louisiana #ICE Processing Center in Basile, a #DHS spox said Wed.
It’s only been 8 weeks.
I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year.
WBUR: Tufts PhD student taken into federal custody, lawyer and university say
"...A year ago, Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece published in the Tufts student newspaper that criticized the university’s response to student efforts demanding the school disclose and sever its relationships with companies that held ties to Israel.....It's unknown if federal agents chose to detain Ozturk over her activism or any protest activity."
"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."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: El Salvador's Gulag Cryptopelago (new, spicier title)
#ElSalvador's in the news a lot right now because the Trump administration shipped a few hundred people off to that country's incredibly dangerous new mega prison, #CECOT.
What seems to have gone unnoticed in all the reporting, however, is Salvadoran dictator #NayibBukele's outsized role in the world of cryptocurrency and through that his direct connections to the Trump administration via Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick and #Tether.
Retoots appreciated.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-el-salvador
Dear legacy media, especially in the US,
please stop referring to the destination for President Donald Trump's extraordinary rendition of hundreds of individuals rounded up in America by #ICE as "a super-max prison" in El Salvador.
Prisons are places where convicted criminals are incarcerated following due process conducted at a fair and just criminal trial.
Call it what it is - "a Concentration Camp."
#SlavaUkrayini
#Gulag #KZ #KZlager
#POTUS45 #POTUS404
#Kraznov #AgentOrange
#GOP #MAGA
5/5 Read Khalil’s full statement here:
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana
Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention
March 18, 2025
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25592020-letter-from-a-palestinian-political-prisoner-in-louisiana-march-18-2025/ #MahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
#Trump #Fascism #Racism #ICE
‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs.
'Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana immigration detention for first time"
The Trump administration, he said, “is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent”, warning that “visa-holders, green-card carriers and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/mahmoud-khalil-statement-columbia #Trump #ICE #MahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Just a snapshot of what's going with ICE in Chicago. Beyond the headline, one man, a U.S. citizen, was picked up a couple miles from my house, handcuffed, and held for over 10 hours before being released with no way home. No record of his arrest exists. How many stories like these are there nationwide?
#ICE #fucktrump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/17/immigration-arrest-ice-detention-trump-court
#Boasberg then asks how many people are subject to the proclamation & how many people are currently in #ICE custody.
#DOJ says they don't have it. #ACLU also says they don't have it, & points out that the proclamation is vague enough that it's hard for anyone to figure out who is subject.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
Like #russia, the #US is no longer safe for tourists. In just the last two weeks, US authorities have detained two individuals: #Welsh citizen Becky Burke and Fabian Schmidt, a #German national who has been a US permanent resident since 2008.
Burke was held in a "#prison-like" #ICE processing center, while Schmidt was "violently interrogated."
Burke stated, "They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It's hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison."
“'Any planes that are going to take off or are in the air need to be returned to the United States,' Judge Boasberg ordered from the bench.
That did not happen. Instead, planes that were in the air landed in El Salvador, where hundreds of asylum seekers were turned over to President Nayib Bukele, a brutal authoritarian who calls himself the 'world’s coolest dictator.'"
~ Andrew Torrez
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
/7
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-says-court-orders-dont-count
"And ICE is reportedly violating its own policies by detaining people for much longer than 12 hours, and without food for days. BAD, ALL OF THIS IS VERY BAD."
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
/6
"ICE is already detaining green card holders: Not just Mahmoud Khalil, but also German-born New Hampshire resident Fabian Schmidt, who has had a green card since 2008 and was detained at Logan airport in Boston over a decade-old marijuana misdemeanor, then 'violently interrogated' by ICE agents trying to get him to voluntarily give up his green card."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
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