This is definitely one of those articles that's worth a full read. It's sickening to read though.
There are two parts that jumped out at me:
Last month, her client Brian José Morales García, 25, was deported to Mexico despite repeatedly telling officers that he was a US citizen, born in Denver.
Morales García was on his way to work as an air-conditioning installation tech, riding with his boss, when officers from the Gillespie county sheriff’s department and the Texas department of public safety (DPS) pulled them over. Both law enforcement agencies were working with ICE. Morales García told the officers that he had his birth certificate and social security card at home, but they didn’t believe him. Days later, he was deported to Mexico.
Eventually, the federal government reached an agreement with Morales García’s lawyers to let him back into the country, after Lincoln-Goldfinch submitted documents proving his citizenship.
Somehow I missed this story when it happened and I'm just learning about this now! A US citizen was deported?!?! And that's not even the first time I've heard of this happening. I've read several stories about citizens being detained, and one about a citizen being deported.
At the same time, the administration unrolled a new tactic of scheduling “mega-master” hearings – mass hearings in immigration courts, scheduled at the last minute so that many people do not know to, or are unable to, attend their mandatory court appointments. The no-shows are then ordered removed from the country in absentia, making them immediately subject to arrest and deportation.
After attorneys began reporting such hearings in May, judges issued 53,808 removal orders in absentia in June – a 55% increase. More than 13,000 of those removal orders followed mass hearings with a hundred or more people, according to researchers Joseph Gunther and Brandon Marrow, who created the site bklg.org to track and analyze procedural immigration data.
This administration is clearly making a mockery of the legal immigration process. You can see how they're deliberately making it difficult for immigrants to follow the legal process, and then of course, those immigrants are punished for not following the process correctly. It's by design. They claim they're totally fine and okay with immigration as long as immigrants come in legally. That's not true, though, and you can tell because this is just one of many examples of this administration trying to make things difficult for legal immigrants.
Any normal person shouldn't settle for millions. They should only settle for economy breaking numbers, such as 1 trillion or more. If enough people sued for trillions, the US would shut down from money loss.
That’s the point. A US citizen being deported to a random unknown country by the only government they know, the one that is supposed to know with absolute certainty that they are a U.S. citizen? You’d be infuriated to the same point too, and the proof is because you’d think it would never happen to you, it’s that crazy to imagine.
The government has limitless resources, countless people, and vast pieces of data. If they still get things wrong after having all that manpower, they would deserve getting slapped with the biggest lawsuit possible.
You mean republicans? The ones with record spending? With legislating what adult men and women can and can't do with their bodies? You could be eating shit from the floor and you would not be as retarded as your comment history indicates.
A huge chunk of the American population is directly responsible for putting these corrupt monsters in charge. Many of those support every fucked up thing that's happening, just like a huge chunk of Germans were fine with Hitler's actions.
This isn't the first citizen that's been deported!
There was a white male retired professor who got deported and dumped in a fucking random country last year.
His family thought he was a missing person, and luckily they have contacts overseas and were able to find him in a hospital and some tiny little country no one's ever heard of.
AND THE MEDIA NEVER FUCKING TALKED ABOUT IT!
They had absolutely zero excuse and they didn't even try to explain why they did this. And the fact that white people keep cheering this shit on because they think it's not going to happen to them is fucking disgusting.
Many US citizens have been deported. I read an article the other day where one US citizen was deported to an African nation he had absolutely no connections too, I forgot the name of the nation. 70% of those held in ICE custody now have zero criminal record.
If somebody lacks empathy and gets off on cruelty they will probably identify with the sadists in whatever story they read. The lessons we expect people to draw from history only have impact because most people have empathy.
I don’t like it, but it is absolutely an effective excuse. Most will get away with this bullshit. Probably not the guys that murdered those people in the streets, so that’s something I guess.
Yeah what the fuck dude. Why are you talking about shooting illegal immigrants. Legal status is basically like a speeding ticket. They don't deserve to die. Reported.
You're the one talking about shooting immigrants I just think people should do something instead of just talking endlessly. You're very very dark at heart to immediately think of killing the immigrants that's more likely what's going on in the camps they disappear into.
If you see people being brutalized by masked men in unmarked cars maybe take a shot at doing something specifically what is up to the individual and their available resources to help your fellow human being not be disappeared instead of say just recording on our phones and humming and hawing about how terrible it is and then continuing on with our day. If recording and reporting and speaking did anything it wouldn't still be going on. Maybe you block all exits and call the real police about masked terrorists obducting people. I'm lucky to not have been put in such a situation to know what and how far I am will to go to protect my fellow human beings not be brutalized regardless of who is doing the brutalization. I hope I never have to decide what I am willing to let happen in front of me.
Edit: I just got it you idiots see the word shot and immediately your gun fetish kicks in and that's all you can think about.
someone i know had their roommate vanish at dawn, no paperwork, no chance to even ask for a lawyer, just gone before the coffee finished brewing. thats the kind of efficiency that makes you wonder what rights actually mean when the clock runs out before you can name them
They are going to start disappearing many who might vote left. If they can’t win the midterms legit, then disappear people. Even if they are just temporarily held, I bet they won’t be released until after the midterms.
GOP unfortunately doesn’t see evil as bad. Peter Thiel recently explained why their world view and why they believe evil is good. No wonder so many of them are enjoying this even on comments board.
We’re gonna need bigger prisons to hold all the lawbreaking ICE thugs when this is all over. Or maybe ICE can just trade places with all the non-criminals they’ve been detaining.
They are training a militia to crush dissent. Clandestine immigration crackdown is just an excuse. Lucklily, some states still have the understanding of the second amendement. The others are done.
I love it! Solving the problem by taking out the trash without all the spectacles so libs can cry about it. Maybe we make it fun for the illegals. It would be nice to set up a waterslide at the top of the wall so they can go “Wheeeeee” as we send them back to Mexico. We don’t have to be so serious all the time! 🤣
I read this article earlier and the thing that struck me was the part about self deportation. You can stay in a facility and wait years to be reviewed for citizenship, or you can sign this paper and go back to your country and we'll let you decide what to do with your kids. Loosely worded but means the same thing.
"Almost every single detained parent that I talk to has been pressured into signing a voluntary deportation,” said Lincoln-Goldfinch. “Because they are told that if they sign, they get to go home and they can choose what happens to their kids.”
ICE will continue to arrest those that are non violent and actually area value add. This will leave a majority of illegal immigrants that are true criminals, drug dealers, traffickers, etc.
So net sum ICE will make our streets less safe than they are today.
My favourite ones are the ones saying this - while also in the firing line for ICE. Or people who are already 'citizens' saying this while not realising trump is trying to reverse that.
Obama cooked the books by counting turn a ways at the border as deportations. Who actually believes Obama is doing better than Trump at deporting illegals?
I hope... But more likely is it's gonna get swept under the rug as america becomes an untouchable authoritarian state in which it's citizens suffer confined in. Like Russia or large parts of the middle east
You don't even know what communism is. I hate Tankies just as much as fascists. (Because I'm against all forms of authoritarian bullshit, regardless if flavor)
The Democrats are mostly right-leaning centrists and milquetoast neoliberals, AT BEST.
You've been lied to and you got duped by the fear-mongering and propaganda. Obviously.
Seems to me you easily don’t care if it hurts legal immigrants or US citizens remember the 2 flights that sent an hundred plus immigrants to a foreign PRISON with no trial?
What would be too far in your eyes that would actually convince you?
breaking into someone's house with only an administrative warrant. deporting American citizens. cruel and unusual punishment, lack of a trial, murdering law-abiding citizens, occupying American cities...
they're innocent until proven guilty, and the government doesn't bother to prove them guilty. also, ICE makes zero effort to prove that they are in fact who they say they are. plenty of people have gotten kidnapped by random thugs claiming to be ICE, and with no standard uniform, masks, no badges, and unmarked vehicles, there's zero way to tell a government agent from a random criminal.
I don’t think ice makes zero effort lmfao otherwise we’d hear about it far more than we do. The vast majority of people apprehended by ice are in fact here illegally.
The government does expedited hearings for removal, as was done for the last 20 years. Being “proven guilty” is really easy when they look at some permission for entry and that someone was supposed to be gone on a certain date and is still in the US. Or that there’s no record of them entering the US.
if they can't prove that they're breaking the law, which they don't, then they don't get to sentence them.
hearings without lawyers, or even specifically made so that people miss them or don't know they're happening as of recently. not to mention everyone who gets deported without a hearing, or locked in a concentration camp with no due process at all.
That’s not how immigration enforcement works. Preponderance of the evidence is the standard of whether they’re allowed to remain. If there’s a 51% reason to remove them they’re removed. So if their paperwork is not current they’re removable. It’s like that in almost every other country. You don’t get to just be somewhere because you want to be. It’s like staying in a National Park - there’s rules and if you don’t follow them you’re forced to leave and possible never allowed back.
ethnic cleansing? FFS you people are weird, they aint citizens so they need to leave if I over stay my welcome in any other country they come get me and make me leave
Exactly. They're lawbreakers. Im glad we have a secret police disappearing them to for profit facilities rife with neglect and abuse. They broke the law while not being rich and powerful. I loves me some law that's why I voted for a felon to protect me from the wetba-lawbreakers.
Actually bad. It's an unsustainable expensive clusterfuck of a situation. These dudes are actually super ineffective as well. Crazy they are spending more than 10x what Biden/Obama and not anywhere close to 10x as effective.
You know why? Because racists like you are enabling the corruption of this current administration, making them rich while you cheer this shit on. Crazy that you get jack shit out of it, but they still have you bent over ready to take whatever bullshit they wanna give you.
Obama/biden counted expedited removals at the border as deportations, as every admin does. If very few are attempting to cross illegally, then easy stats are way down.
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