“This was an administrative error,” James Percival, a #DHS official appointed by #Trump, wrote to his colleagues on March 30. “(Not that we should say publicly.)”
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS propagandist, said in a statement that #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s #deportation was part of “a highly sensitive counterterrorism operation with national security implications.” [that’s some hardcore lying.]
In the days before the govt’s error became public, #DHS ofcls discussed trying to portray #KilmarAbregoGarcia as a “leader” of the violent street gang #MS13, even though they could find NO EVIDENCE to support the claim. They considered ways to nullify the original order that barred his #deportation to #ElSalvador. They sought to downplay the danger he might face in one of that country’s most notorious prisons.
A mistake had been made. That much was clear.
But when the news reached the #DHS, it set off a dayslong scramble & clashes among ofcls in 3 different agencies over how to deal w/what everyone knew had been an error. As it became clear that keeping it quiet was not an option, DHS ofcls floated a series of ideas to *control the story* that raised alarms among #DOJ lawyers on the case.
This is the idiocy the #UnitedStates is currently dealing with.
The Secretary of #DHS literally does not know the definition of #HabeasCorpus.
That’s not just stupid, it’s dangerous.
Senator #MaggieHassan: What is habeas corpus?
Dog killer #KristiNoem: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country. [
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Hassan: That is incorrect.
The 8 men were from #Cuba, #Laos, #Mexico, #Myanmar, #Vietnam & #SouthSudan, #DHS ofcls said at a press conference, & were convicted of murder, armed robbery & other serious crimes.
"We conducted a #deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States," Homeland Security propagandist Tricia McLaughlin told reporters. "These are the monsters that the district judge is trying to protect,” McLaughlin lied.
#law #immigration #judiciary
A #DHS ofcl said on Wed that the #US is seeking to #deport 8 #immigrants convicted of serious crimes, but declined to confirm an allegation raised in federal court that they were bound for #SouthSudan.
US Dist Judge Brian Murphy on Tues ordered the #Trump admin to not let a group of immigrants being flown to South Sudan to leave the custody of #US #immigration authorities, after saying they appeared to have been deported in violation of a #CourtOrder.
#law #judiciary
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-says-us-seeking-deport-eight-serious-criminals-declines-confirm-2025-05-21/
A #CBP spox repeated a past stmnt noting that it had disabled #TeleMessage & was investigating.
Federal contracting data shows that #State & #DHS have had contracts w/TeleMessage in recent years, as has the #CDC. A CDC spox told Reuters in an email that the agency piloted the software in 2024 to assess its potential for records management requirements "but found it did not fit our needs." The status of the other contracts wasn't clear.
Link to #DHS press conference on Migrant Flight to South Sudan.
"This is not true. Imm Def client Andry Hernandez Romero’s asylum case is ongoing in the US, we've a hearing next week, so there is no final deportation order. & he has absolutely no criminal history in the US or VE. He entered the US through CBP One and broke no laws."
-L Toczylowski
The propaganda emanating out of the WH, DHS... is rivaling Russia & North Korea's.
Amplify their atrocities
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BREAKING: #KristiNoem, the head of #DHS, has no f-cking clue what #HabeasCorpus means.
We are living in the dumbest of times.
#Noem: “Habeas corpus is a #constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country”.
Yeah. Wondered how much Noem's vanity propaganda campaign was costing us.
$200M.
Hate it.
Besides the fact we're paying $200M for her to spread lies, Noem clearly thinks she's hot sh*t, wants her publicity-seeking camera hogging to go beyond stills into movies.
Play-acting at #DHS.
Just what the country's #NationalSecurity needs leading it - a silver screen wannabe who'd rather be play acting.
“Fed judge Brian Murphy orders the Trump admin to
”maintain custody & control” of the migrants reportedly being sent to South Sudan, to ensure they can return to the US if he finds their deportation to be unlawful.”
-C Montoya-Galvez
“Immigration lawyers told a fed judge on Tues that they received information indicating the US govt may have put migrants from countries like Myanmar & Vietnam on a deportation flight to South Sudan.”
#Deportations #Disappeared #DHS #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-deported-asian-migrants-south-sudan-lawyers-say/
When I first saw headlines about this story, I genuinely thought the media was just taking the bait while yet another Trump regime official "played stupid" under questioning, but seeing is believing; as this short Majority Report segment demonstrations, DHS Secretary (and former Governor of South Dakota) absolutely does not know what the Writ of Habeas Corpus is and what, or even whose rights it protects. Facing down questions during a Senate oversight committee hearing, the DHS Secretary responded to the simple question of "what is habeas corpus" with "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to" before being cut off by Senator (D-NH) Maggie Hassan, who provided the correct answer. The entire exchange, as well as Noem's responses to further questioning by Senator (D-NJ) Andy Kim have a bizarro-world quality to them that exposes Noem as a deeply unserious and untrustworthy person who absolutely should not be serving in the US government in any capacity whatsoever; I wouldn't trust this lady to run the Easter Egg Roll.
I would however like to note that the things Noem did say, or at least clearly had absorbed by repetition for propaganda purposes, were just as revealing as the things she didn't know and couldn't recite. Analyzing Noem's answers, it's very clear that she was making a propaganda argument to manufacture consent for suspending habeas corpus, and Donald Trump's presumed power to do so; even going so far as to push back against the clearly better informed and more legally knowledgeable Senators questioning her. Listening to the DHS Secretary, it's pretty easy to sketch a rough outline of Stephen Miller's plan to declare Trump can suspend habeas corpus without Congressional approval, under the presumption that said approval will be given retroactively because Abe Lincoln did so one time during the literal Civil War.
Of course none of the regime's arguments for this fascist bullshit are legally valid or make any sense at all. As we've discussed many times already there America is absolutely not being invaded, by narco-terrorist gangs or otherwise, and I think "we saw too many Mexican-looking people in our neighborhoods" doesn't represent an equivalent public safety "crisis" to that time Lincoln had to stop Confederate soldiers from pillaging Union territories when the South formally seceded and declared war on the US government. Despite this however, the Trump regime is currently working hard to make that argument and win the court of public opinion on this alarming subject for a reason; Kristi Noem might be an ignorant fool, but someone certainly fed her the talking points the administration wants to use to justify suspending habeas corpus, and that should concern us all
The Majority Report: Trump Team's Stunning Ignorance On Full Display During Noem's 'Habeas Corpus' Flop
In a story that as far as I can tell represents a petulant fascist temper tantrum as a result of fallout over the clown-show authoritarian arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, noted sycophant Trump minion Alina Habba has announced criminal charges against US Congresswoman (D-NJ) LaMonica McIver. The regime is accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting two ICE agents during the lawful oversight visit she conducted on a sketchy, privately-run, recently reopened migrant detention facility called Delaney Hall; the very same visit that resulted in Trump's Gestapo arresting Baraka as part of the regime's attempts to intimidate opposition to their unlawful mass deportation campaign.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lamonica-mciver-charges
'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat
"In a statement, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced the charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), claiming the lawmaker "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded GEO Group a billion-dollar contract earlier this year to detain migrants there, even as the facility faced legal challenges and accusations of abuse.
McIver rejected the charges against her as "purely political," saying that "they mischaracterize and distort my actions" in an attempt to "criminalize and deter legislative oversight."
"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," said McIver. "Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor [Ras] Baraka."
Habba said Monday that her office has agreed to drop the trespassing charge against Baraka, who welcomed the decision while expressing solidarity with McIver."
Okay so I don't know if you remember the post I made about Baraka's arrest, but there are literally a bunch of links to video footage of the confrontation Habba is talking about and needless to say it doesn't show the Congresswoman assaulting anyone, let alone "body-slamming" anyone as at least one DHS official previously claimed. Even the government's own out of context video clip just shows some shoving in a crowd of people trying to protect the Mayor of Newark. In other words the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is straight up lying about something we can all watch on video. This would of course be more shocking if the world hadn't gotten to know Habba during her time as a defense attorney for Downmarket Mussolini, in which is she routinely spat out easily disprovable lies in court. As an activist I can say from personal experience that this feels an awful lot like the standard bullshit charge cops who just roughed up some protesters press to keep the heat off long enough for the story to go away, and then quietly drop later. You can see that same pattern at work in the "trespass" charges laid against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which were ultimately dropped because the regime knows they don't have a leg to stand on when they're under oath.
With all that established however, I think it's important to understand that even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, as they did with Baraka, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to target and intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department's chances in a court of law, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful, openly fascist "whitening" of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. This when combined with the regime's threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary to do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime's program, even legal opposition, carries an impossible to properly calculate degree of personal risk to the critic. Whatever your opinion of the Democratic Party happens to be, I think we can all admit that putting their own asses on the line to protect dissidents and critics hasn't exactly been their forte since at least October 7th, 2023; although obviously Baraka, McIver, and Robert Menendez deserve full marks for doing so now.
Finally; I can't prove it, but for a fun thought experiment google up some pictures of Baraka, McIver, and Menendez and tell me if you can think of any obvious reasons a white nationalist government might charge only the two people they did. Yeah, looked about white to me too.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #LaMonica McIver #ICE #DoJ #PamBondi #AlinaHabba #DHS #RasBaraka #DelaneyHall #RobertMenendez #Intimidation #DemocraticParty #USCongress #Newark #NewJersey #USPol #MassDeportation #Racism #WhiteNationalism
"The context here is that on May 5, CBP quietlyrolled back policies put in place in response to the 2019 border crisis designed toreduce the health impact of detention on pregnant & nursing women -policies mandating heightened med care & the provision of necessities."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Trump 2 is 100X more horrific as Trump 1.0. Immigrants are being intentionally imperiled, needlessly. Republicans are silent, they're complicit in #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
#DHS #USPol
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/
"Do you know why this matters? Because the right to suspend habeas corpus is in ARTICLE I, the part of the #Constitution which provides powers to CONGRESS.
That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus (& retroactively got Congress to agree) doesn't mean it's a core presidential power."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
#RuleOfLaw #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #KristiNoem #DHS #Deportations #Immigrants #USPol
…In #MahmoudKhalil’s case, the admin moved w/…speed, both in initially detaining him & in rationalizing his arrest.
A spox for #DHS quickly claimed he had led activities “aligned to Hamas.” And Karoline Leavitt, the White House propagandist, accused him of “siding with terrorists,” & of participating in #protests in which “pro-Hamas” fliers were handed out.
But in the weeks since, those allegations have not been substantiated.
In one video, Reps McIver & Watson Coleman walk a few paces away before McIver stops & turns to face the officers & says, You can’t talk to a congresswoman like that. You will pay.”
Watson Coleman said earlier this month, “The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd.”
“#DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line,” she said.
After Baraka’s arrest, the lawmakers entered Delaney Hall & took the tour they had been waiting for.
One of the ways I repeatedly rat myself out as a product of the Reaganite 80's in the Pig Empire is my insistence on comparing modern fascist America to Gen Xer hit films like Robocop, or Starship Troopers. This is of course basic bitch behavior, but I can't help myself and one of the frequent film references I've made to contextualize fascism in the Trump era(s) has been the Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie "The Running Man." It's a delightfully subversive, albeit not particularly intellectually challenging film, and the important detail to our discussion here is that involves forcing a framed military officer to compete for his life in a rigged Gladiator-style gameshow that's the biggest TV hit in a dystopian, near future America. The film has all kinds of messages about class warfare, covert fascism, and collusion between the government and the private sector to suppress the poor and extract wealth from the marginalized; so it's basically confirmed prophecy today. Okay, I kid, but the gamified aspect of the fascist propaganda the regime deployed in the film has been remarkably prescient in our modern, algorithmically-driven fascist society. I'm a big fan of this movie.
And apparently so is Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, America's own "fascist Barbie." Or at least I assume she would be if she ever saw the film after reports have leaked out that DHS is considering, I shit you not, teaming up with a reality TV show producer to create a televised gameshow in which contestants would compete for U.S. citizenship. You must know by now that I couldn't make unhinged nazi shit like this up if I tried; DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin recently confirmed to Huffpost that the show was at least in "the “very beginning stages” of the department’s vetting process and has not been approved or denied."
“The Department of Homeland Security receives hundreds of television show pitches a year,” read a statement from DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, noting that many of the pitches are for documentaries.
Notably, McLaughlin’s statement doesn’t say the pitch has been denied yet, and she has said that she personally thinks the show is “a good idea.”
Citing its own sources, The Daily Mail reported that it “has confirmed that Noem supports the project and wants to proceed” with it.
Several users on social media have described the proposal as being similar to the competition in the “Hunger Games,” the dystopian young adult novel where oppressed children compete in a battle royale to the death for the chance at income for life and special status within society."
Frankly, I've never seen the Hunger Games but there is literally so much horrifying shit about this proposal that is morally, ethically, and I should hope legally wrong that I don't even know where to start. DHS has denied that Noem is even aware of the project, but the Daily Mail contradicts that with their own sources and given that the DHS Secretary has already spent several months turning her own role at the department into a kind of nazi reality TV experiment, I'm inclined to believe the Mail here. Trump is the reality TV president, his administration is stuffed to the gills will television "stars" and right wing extremist "influencers" and transforming the regime's war on migrants into an "entertaining" game show would undoubtedly be an effective, if disgusting and surreal, bit of white nationalist propaganda. I think they're serious about this dystopian racist bullshit, but the regime isn't sure whether or not they can actually get away with such a crass fascist display yet, so they're proceeding with caution.
Of course it goes without saying that it says a lot about your positions on the humanity of migrants and asylum seekers, if you're willing to even consider transforming their struggles with an American immigration system that was white nationalist in nature long before Trump became president, into entertainment and propaganda for the presumably cracker reactionary masses. It also objectively undermines the Trump regime's stated arguments that American citizenship is a precious commodity that must be protected from "undesirables" having access; but this is a government already importing white South African nazis it claims are refugees, and selling off $5M "gold card" visas to any rich prick who wants to pony up the cheddar, so that's basically par for the course at this point. Finally of course, the fact that the Trump regime and its DHS Secretary are actively exploring this deeply unserious, but objectively fascist bullshit, speaks directly to the fact that these nazi assclowns have no fucking business serving in the US government and this regime has repurposed (in so much as it was even required) the American state to promote Christian Nationalism at any and all costs.
BAIT & SWITCH:
“Benefits” offered: $1K *most in the US for >15 yrs *to give up on the American dream. Nearly all undoc #immigrants have jobs. Millions have US-citizen children, spouses... deep roots in the US/comms.
If they leave use “CBP Home” app *deprioritized for arrest, #DHS: buys their tkt home +$1,000.Don’t: threatens to arrest/detn/deport +prosecution, fines, & civil forfeiture of personal property.
#Deportations /policies
fear. #Sadism #FamilySeparation #USPol https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-pay-undocumented-immigrants-self-deportations-deal-rcna207736
