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06/05/2025

SHAME - SHAME - SHAME Street people push back FULLY ARMED ICE agents as they try to invade a SANDWICH SHOP with Flack Vest, Armoured Vehicles, Full Combat Gear.........FIGHT!!! FIGHT!!!! FIGHT!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR9bPRmdpwQ

06/05/2025

FIGHT ON!!1

05/21/2025

It's OFFICIAL because it's in AI

04/08/2025

Are we ALL current on filing a Habeas Corpus petition? Briefings in DC area??

The court's decision requires detainees to have notice and a chance to make their case to a judge before deportation, and they must challenge their deportation through a habeas corpus case filed in the jurisdiction where they are being held.

Summary by Bloomberg AI

04/08/2025

Supreme Court Lets Trump Seek Deportations Under Wartime Law
By Greg Stohr
April 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM CDT
Updated on April 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM CDT
Sotomayor’s Dissent
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, sharply criticizing the majority’s ruling and the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

She said the court’s decision to rule now “is as inexplicable as it is dangerous.” She said that on March 15, “the government was engaged in a covert operation to deport dozens of immigrants without notice or an opportunity for hearings.”

In another dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the president “invoked a centuries-old wartime statute to whisk people away to a notoriously brutal, foreign-run prison. For lovers of liberty, this should be quite concerning.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices in dissent, though she didn’t endorse all of their reasoning

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh formed the majority.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward representing the Venezuelans had no immediate comment.

Trump has made unprecedented use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a law previously invoked only in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. The measure lets the president bypass federal immigration law to deport “alien enemies” when the US is involved in a declared war or a foreign nation has started or threatened an “invasion or predatory incursion.”

The high court said it wasn’t deciding whether the administration’s interpretation of the law was correct, though the effect of the decision will be to let the government resume invoking it.

04/03/2025

No Due Process
Judges Defied
Stock Market Crashes
and then there is this!

04/03/2025

No surprise here!

An ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says
By BEN FINLEY
Updated 4:39 PM CDT, April 1, 2025

President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison last month, but is arguing against returning him to the United States because of his alleged gang ties and the U.S. government’s lack of power over the Central American nation.

Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, maintain he is not affiliated with MS-13 or any other street gang and argue the U.S. government “has never produced an iota of evidence” that he does.

Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on March 12 after working a shift as a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore and picking up his 5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother’s house, his lawyers’ complaint stated.

President Donald Trump's administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.

03/27/2025

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03/26/2025

‘I was paralyzed with fear’ — Ashton Heights residents respond to ICE raid
By Katie Taranto
Published March 26, 2025 at 3:45PM
An immigration operation at a cluster of Ashton Heights apartments last week left many residents on edge and concerned for themselves and their neighbors.

On Thursday morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted to enter several apartment buildings as part of an investigation. An ARLnow reporter witnessed agents loudly banging on doors in one building before leaving the building to interview several passersby.

It’s unclear whether the operation resulted in any arrests.

Part of a trend of ICE action that advocates have seen in immigrant-dense communities, the operation sent shockwaves through the neighborhood and left some witnesses fearful that they or their loved ones might be detained.

“They woke me up when they kept ringing the intercom,” one resident, who identified herself by her first initial, D., told ARLnow in Spanish via a translation app. “When I heard it, I froze. I did nothing. I didn’t open the door; I didn’t answer anything. I locked myself in a room with the baby and our documents, and I was paralyzed with fear.”

Another witness said that the operation made him think of his undocumented neighbors and the fears he has seen in Latin American communities since President Donald Trump’s election.

Overall, Scott Sklar, president of the Ashton Heights Civic Association, described heightened worry and confusion throughout the neighborhood as a result of ICE’s presence recently.

“We tend to be a very tolerant area, so it’s not like there’s a lot of backlash to have immigrants here,” Sklar told ARLnow. “It’s not a shocker — it’s just a sad turn of events that it can’t be done respectfully and open, in the light of day.”

‘I was paralyzed’
ARLnow observed ICE agents entering an apartment building on N. Piedmont Street just after 8:30 a.m. on Thursday. At least two agents climbed a flight of stairs and proceeded to pound on the doors of four units for several minutes.

D. was still sleeping when they arrived.

“They told me, ‘Ma’am, we want to ask you some questions and for you to identify some people,'” said the woman, who came to Arlington from Venezuela about two years ago. “I was paralyzed.”

Immigration enforcement left the building a few minutes later and began talking to custodial staff on the sidewalk outside. A maintenance worker who identified himself by his first name, José, said that the agents brought a photograph and were asking his co-workers if they knew the man in the picture.

By 8:45 a.m., ICE had left N. Piedmont Street. The timeline coincides with a flurry of confused and concerned messages on an Ashton Heights emailing list and Nextdoor, Sklar said.

Residents reported seeing a large police presence nearby on N. Nelson Street.

“People were starting to email, what’s all these police cars doing?” he said. “Some neighbors had stopped by and saw it … It was an unusual cluster of activity, let’s put it that way.”

No one ARL now spoke to said they saw anyone arrested. ICE did not respond to a request for more information.

03/19/2025

Undocumented mother of four and Time Magazine honoree latest high-profile figure of Trump’s immigration crackdown
By Hanna Park, Gloria Pazmino, Andi Babineau, Holly Yan and Caroll Alvarado, CNN
5 minute read
Updated 7:41 AM EDT, Wed March 19, 2025
An undocumented mother of four who works at Target and was honored by Time Magazine has become the latest symbol of the fear and turmoil spreading under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Jeanette Vizguerra, 53, became a symbol of resistance during the first Trump administration when she sought sanctuary in the basement of a Colorado church to avoid deportation, and stayed there for three years.

Her story and her activism were recognized by Time Magazine in 2017, which put her on its list of the World’s 100 Most Influential people, alongside John Lewis, Colin Kaepernick, Jeff Bezos, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

DENVER, CO - JANUARY 26 : Jeanette Vizguerra, immigrant rights activist, poses for a portrait at First Unitarian Society of Denver in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday. January 26, 2021. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mom once named to Time’s 100 Most Influential list, has been detained by ICE in Colorado

On Monday, as she took a break from her shift at the Denver-area Target store where she worked, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took her into custody, her daughter Luna Baez told CNN.

“From there she was put in a truck,” Baez said. “The whole time she told me they were laughing at her.”

She is now being held at a detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, her attorney Laura Lichter told CNN.

Her arrest was greeted with glee by those supporting Trump’s harsh crackdown.