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fuggled

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  1. Who is that? What is this interview?
  2. Bonafide news and interview programs have always been exempt. Late night shows and talk shows like The View have always fallen into the exempt category. This admin is threatening to change the interpretation.
  3. Owner of North Texas warehouse says it won't sell or lease to feds for ICE facility
  4. fuggled replied to ousuxndallas's topic in Cloak Room
    You should let him know that in 2024 Utah automatically sent mail-in ballots to every single registered voter and they didn't require any ID (just signature match) when submitting those ballots.
  5. Not to excuse anything here, but I think Van Hollen has the story wrong. From what I can tell, the girl with cancer joined hearings remotely last year asking for her father to be released. Looks like he was detained Oct 18 and then release on bond about 2 weeks later. His daughter passed yesterday. Just a few days before his daughter died, he was granted "cancellation of removal" and may have a path to citizenship. It's hard to tell from the reporting, but it sounds like he was out of detention when his daughter died. AP NewsTeen daughter of a Chicago man detained in an immigration...A Chicago teen who spoke out for her father’s release after he was detained last fall by immigration officials has died after battling a rare form of cancer.AP NewsChicago father of child fighting cancer released on bond...A Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer will be released on bond and return home, an immigration judge ruled Thursday.
  6. I know it's difficult to keep up with every single headline, but PBS did a nice job going back to recap stories of citizens impacted by ICE/CBP.
  7. Just a couple thoughts here... First, the "sanctuary city resistance" thing isn't really a thing. For the most part, this is a right-wing media bogeyman like death panels, MS-13 and robots eating your medicine. There have been some minor new actions taken by cities, like Minneapolis telling ICE not to use city property for staging their activities. But the vast majority of claims that cities (specifically city/state governments) are resisting ICE, is made up. If you hear people claiming that "sanctuary city resistance" is a problem, you should really read up on what sanctuary cities are. They really come down to 2 points. #1 - We shouldn't be forced to use our local tax dollars to fund enforcement of federal law. If the feds need help, they should send us funding. Our local dollars are going to local needs. We're not going to hide immigrants, but we're not doing ICE's job for them. #2 - If we initiate immigration checks every time residents interact with city and state services (police, fire fighters, EMS, hospitals, schools, health inspectors, building inspectors, animal control, whatever) this will make us less safe. Immigrants will avoid reporting crimes, they won't help with public health initiatives and they'll keep their kids out of school. This will make it more likely that immigrants will become both victims and perpetrators of crimes. Second, your question about why deportation numbers aren't higher is tricky. From what I can tell, the Trump admin is not reporting things the way past administrations did, so it's tough to get an apples to apples comparison. A couple factors that could be at play: I saw a claim that Obama reported people turned away at the border as deportations/removals, so his numbers might have been overinflated (haven't verified that myself). Trump also claims something like 1.7 million people have self-deported. Not sure that claim has been proven, but if true would suggest a much larger impact. Under Trump it seems border crossings and encounters are way down. We can debate whether the means are ethical or efficient, but they seem to be having an impact at the border. I would imagine this translates into fewer people being apprehended and removed close to the border.
  8. Related to the discussion from yesterday, a Minneapolis judge yesterday put out a ruling addressing the detention conditions in that city and also putting some restrictions in place that should help with the habeas concerns I described.
  9. I feel you on this question because I've wrestled with how to explain things to family members who are not plugged into the news. There is so much going on it really is hard to wrap your head around it. But this is absolutely not something you can wave away as "we simply changed as a country." These issues are intertwined in a lot of ways, so it's tough to parse them out. I'm still going to give it a try and this may be the longest post of my life. If I break it down, there are probably at least 10 different issues that raise complaints about what ICE/CBP/DHS are doing that are different from what happened under Obama. Aggressive "show of force" tactics / Abuses of observers & protesters Warrantless entry of homes/businesses Racial profiling Lies and fabrication in the media and in court Defiance of courts Habeas fuckery Detention policy Detention facilities & conditions Punitive deportation De-documenting people / stripping legal status I'm going to dig into each of these... Aggressive "show of force" tactics / Abuses of observers & protesters This administration has been aggressive in making sure the presence of ICE and CBP is seen, heard and felt. You saw this early on when they stormed a park in LA and had cameras ready to capture the whole thing. Officers are geared up with faces covered like their assaulting Fallujah. You see it social media posts like the one below comparing immigration enforcement to dropping napalm on Chicago. This was followed by the wild assault on a Chicago apartment building involving a Blackhawk helicopter. You see it in agents using smoke, gas, pepper balls and other weapons on protesters. And you absolutely saw it in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. You are right that people weren't complaining about this stuff under Obama, and that's because these agencies weren't trying to instill fear in communities by creating a violent spectacle. Warrantless entry of homes/businesses This is related to aggressive tactics. Under the 4th amendment, the government generally cannot forcibly enter your home or business without warrant signed by a neutral judge. DHS issued a policy change saying that agents are allowed to enter homes using administrative warrants. These administrative warrants aren't signed by a federal judge, and may not even be signed by an immigration judge. ICE agents can fill these out themselves, so you basically have officers signing warrants for themselves. As a result, ICE is kicking in doors and sometimes grabbing the wrong person and dragging them from their home, as was the case with Scott Thao. Racial profiling This isn't totally new. "Driving while black/hispanic" has been a problem for generations. What's changed is that input from Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court has emboldened ICE/CBP to grab anyone brown or with an accent and demand proof of citizenship in what have become known as "Kavanaugh stops." There are lots of stories about agents not even allowing people to offer proof of citizenship or ignoring documentation. There's a sense agents are grabbing people and locking them up first, and then looking at documentation second. As a result, you have dozens, if not hundreds, of citizens have been handcuffed and held in detention for hours or days. Great article on this here. This second article also gives a good overview of these issues. Lies and fabrication in the media and in court I think this is a big one and it seems completely crazy. When government officials speak to reports, post on social media or issue press releases they are lying or completely fabricating narratives with startling regularity. It is really important for casual observers to understand that this is not typical PR spin we're talking about. This is straight up lying to our faces. Look at the story I mentioned above about Scott Thao, the citizen arrested by mistake. DHS put out a statement saying he lived with 2 sex offenders, which was completely false. After Renee Good was shot, Kristi Noem and JD Vance called her a terrorist. After Alex Pretti was killed, Kristi Noem called him a terrorist, Stephen Miller said he was an assassin and Gregory Bovino said he was trying to massacre agents. Last year a Border Patrol Agent shot a woman in Chicago 5 times and claimed she rammed their vehicle and tried to run him over. Just yesterday, evidence was released completely contradicting that narrative. In addition to the wild claims in the media, judges are also calling out the lies. Last year a judge explicitly concluded that Gregory Bovino lied. Numerous other judges have made comments that they can't take government claims at face value. All of this has created a climate where people realize that this administration won't hesitate for a second to make things up, even if they know they won't get away with us. You can understand why people feel the need to observe and document everything these agents are doing in their communities. Defiance of courts If the lying in court wasn't bad enough, DHS is also ignoring court orders. Numerous judges are calling them out for this behavior. While a lot of this is intentional, it's also a result of DHS being completely overwhelmed by the volume of cases. They've taken the approach of locking up as many people as they can, even if they don't have capacity to defend these actions in court. Habeas fuckery Related to the defiance mentioned above, DHS is going out of their way to make it difficult for anyone to challenge their detention. Part of it is just not having enough lawyers and judges to handle the load. But it goes further. One just called it out as "With the evidence currently before the Court, it can only conclude that Respondents are attempting to “undermin[e] the regulatory and statutory authority of the immigration courts to coerce perpetual, infinite detention.” But there's more here. One thing DHS is doing is rapidly shuffling people between detention facilities and across state lines. First, this makes it hard for families/lawyers to locate people and to submit habeas corpus claims in the right jurisdiction. Second, DHS is shipping people down to Texas and other locations where they have friendly judges that will be less inclined to release people. Look at the case of Rümeysa Öztürk and the hoops she had to jump through to get out of detention. You can also look at the cases of people in Minnesota who have already been screened and admitted to the US as refugees (they have active refugee status), who were being rounded up and shipped off to Texas. Just a couple days ago this article came out showing how habeas claims have exploded under Trump over the past year. It's clear DHS is locking people up and forcing them to seek relief in court. Detention policy This one is very closely related to the habeas issues. This is really a big deal, but not getting as much attention as the enforcement actions in Minneapolis or other cities. Basically, immigration law for decades has said people "seeking admission" to the country who are inadmissible are subject to mandatory detention and expedited removal. Basically, if you show up at the border without the required paperwork we're going to send you right back home, and we'll detain you long enough to make that happen. For decades, "seeking admission" was understood to apply to people showing up at the border/ports (or in close proximity). People already in the country fell into a different category and process. Now, the Trump administration is trying to change the interpretation to say that "seeking admission" applies to anyone who was never lawfully admitted to the US and that it is mandatory to detain these people. This means even people who have been here for decades without committing crimes, or people who once had TPS status, or people who have asylum applications pending are subject to mandatory detention. And, under mandatory detention, there is no opportunity to request release on bond. This is why people have huge concerns that this violates due process. There also concerns that this is just a tactic to treat people shitty so they choose to leave on their own. But wait, there's more...what's extra fucky is that DHS is using this to target people who already have removal proceedings against them. These are people in the country while their cases wind their way through the immigration courts. DHS is going to court and asking to dismiss these cases. "Never mind, we're not trying to remove Jesus." Once the case is dismissed, DHS says the person is now "seeking admission" and they put them in mandatory detention. And they start putting them through the expedited removal process. But wait, there's more...this interpretation has been challenged in more than 3000 court cases and literally hundreds of judges (including dozens of Trump appointees) have said this is BS. This flood of cases is part of why courts/lawyers are overwhelmed. A handful of judges in a hundred or so cases have accepted this new interpretation. Despite losing thousand of cases, the Trump admin was not appealing the cases so that the issue would get resolved. They were just forcing each individual to go through the legal hurdles one by one. The Trump admin was waiting for a case in a friendly circuit, and they finally got that decision from the 5th circuit last week. Steve Vladeck has written a couple good articles explaining all of this. Detention facilities & conditions All of the mess with detention policy leads to tons of people being locked up for extended periods. And they are being locked up in facilities that are often not intended to house people long term. They are living in horrible conditions, often with no beds, poor medical care and limited access to legal counsel. Elected representatives have been fighting to get access to monitor the conditions of these facilities, but it's been a battle at every turn. Tons of money is flowing to prison contractors with very little oversight. And, again, this seems to be intended to treat people shitty so they leave on their own. Punitive deportation Deportation is not punishment. If you commit a crime, we punish you with a prison sentence or a fine. We deport you if did not enter the country legally and don't have a right to be here. However, DHS seems to be using deportation as a coercive threat. Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an example. The government tried to offer him deportation to Costa Rica if he pled guilty in a criminal case and threatened to deport him to Uganda if he did not. The whole notion that we will go out of our way to send you someplace shitty if you are undocumented is offensive to Americans. De-documenting people / stripping legal status Lastly, you hear a lot of talk about how people should seek entry to the US the "right way" and follow legal processes. At the same time, the Trump admin is making every effort to strip status away from people who entered legally. Nearly a million people who entered legally through the CBP One App have had their status revoked. 500K people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on humanitarian parole have had their status revoked. Nearly a million more from various countries have had their temporary protected status revoked. Just this month a judge halted the removal of TPS status for thousands of Haitians because it was illegal. The common thread is that the Trump admin is taking people who have legal status and making them illegal. This is why people say it's not about whether someone is doing things the "right way." We are going out of our way to make immigrants of color feel unsafe and to chase them out of the country.
  10. fuggled replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
  11. Yeah, it's largely symbolic but it's a step in the right direction for a couple reason. One, it's good to see Congress start to do it's job and at least have a debate on whether these tariffs should exist. Second, it rightfully puts the burden on Republican lawmakers in the midterms to explain to voters why they voted to keep tariffs in place.
  12. fuggled replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
  13. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/texas-muslims-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.UlF3.HcrmLRxqJS8B
  14. My wife already made me rewatch the show. Missed it the first time, but pretty sure Pedro Pascal was dancing on the porch of the house.
  15. Uhh, Lady Gaga?
  16. Uhh, Biden believes abortion is a sin and that people shouldn't do it. Isn't that in line with your view?
  17. Penalizing students more harshly for a protest walkout than you would for any other unexcused absence seems like a good reason for a civil rights lawsuit.
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