Thank you, Liz, for all your outstanding efforts to support and secure the liberty of Americans (and lawful immigrants) acting lawfully!
Thank you for highlighting highly relevant assertions in the ICE declaration purporting to support rushing to send people to a prison in El Salvador. It is worth noting additional information in ICE's declaration. Trump's Proclamation (that America was at that moment being subjected to an “invasion” or “predatory incursion”) was posted at about 4:00 p.m. Saturday.
So ICE (not any part of our Armed Forces) is defending the U.S. against the proclaimed invasion or predatory incursion. How is ICE doing so? Within about 3 1/2 hours after Trump’s proclamation was published, ICE immediately hustled an unspecified number of people onto three airplanes to be flown out of U.S. jurisdiction. The ICE declaration did not reveal the number, but it reportedly was about 140 people.
The ICE declaration also implied that the first two planes were loaded with people who were deported “solely on the basis of” Trump’s “Proclamation.” ICE declared that “all individuals on [the] third plane had Title 8 final removal orders and thus were not removed solely on the basis of [Trump's mere] Proclamation.”
ICE declared that approximately 250 additional people were potential deportees. In the DOJ notice accompanying the ICE declaration, the Trump administration refused to publicly disclose any other “estimates as to the number of individuals” comprising the “invasion” or “predatory incursion” force that was the subject to the Proclamation. The Trump administration argued that providing such information would “disclose sensitive information bearing on national security and foreign relations.”
Nothing in ICE's declaration supports Trump’s proclamation that the U.S. is being attacked in an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” that could justify the lack of process and lack of transparency on Saturday. Trump invoked broad war powers for use regarding mere routine immigration and criminal matters.
Speaking of abuses of power and abuses of people, it is important to consider the financial incentives Trump's Proclamation provided to wrongly detain and remove people (without due process).
Already, America has experience with abuses of the innocuous-sounding concept of “civil asset forfeiture.” That practice converts (mentally and physically) law enforcement personnel into something a lot like privateers (or even pirates). Trump’s proclamation expressly had the same purpose, and it necessarily will have the same effect: “All property in the possession of, or traceable to, an Alien Enemy, which is used, intended to be used, or is commonly used to perpetrate the hostile activity and irregular warfare of TdA, along with evidence of such hostile activity and irregular warfare, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture.” Under the circumstances at issue in Trump's Proclamation (narco trafficking), it's clear Trump means money. A lot of it.
We need to view this issue in the context of what Trump and Musk already were doing to actual federal employees--Americans. In their mad dash to find ways to quickly cut costs--or expressly or implicitly to retaliate against people for exercising their freedom of association and freedom of expression (regarding political issues)--Trump and Musk are firing or laying off massive numbers of employees and eliminating offices and programs. They are wrecking--and trying to wreck--the lives of many Americans. Speaking of predatory incursions, that is what the so-called Trump administration already looks too much like.
Every fucking Republican in the country needs an express ticket to the Hague.
Thank you, Liz, for all your outstanding efforts to support and secure the liberty of Americans (and lawful immigrants) acting lawfully!
Thank you for highlighting highly relevant assertions in the ICE declaration purporting to support rushing to send people to a prison in El Salvador. It is worth noting additional information in ICE's declaration. Trump's Proclamation (that America was at that moment being subjected to an “invasion” or “predatory incursion”) was posted at about 4:00 p.m. Saturday.
So ICE (not any part of our Armed Forces) is defending the U.S. against the proclaimed invasion or predatory incursion. How is ICE doing so? Within about 3 1/2 hours after Trump’s proclamation was published, ICE immediately hustled an unspecified number of people onto three airplanes to be flown out of U.S. jurisdiction. The ICE declaration did not reveal the number, but it reportedly was about 140 people.
The ICE declaration also implied that the first two planes were loaded with people who were deported “solely on the basis of” Trump’s “Proclamation.” ICE declared that “all individuals on [the] third plane had Title 8 final removal orders and thus were not removed solely on the basis of [Trump's mere] Proclamation.”
ICE declared that approximately 250 additional people were potential deportees. In the DOJ notice accompanying the ICE declaration, the Trump administration refused to publicly disclose any other “estimates as to the number of individuals” comprising the “invasion” or “predatory incursion” force that was the subject to the Proclamation. The Trump administration argued that providing such information would “disclose sensitive information bearing on national security and foreign relations.”
Nothing in ICE's declaration supports Trump’s proclamation that the U.S. is being attacked in an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” that could justify the lack of process and lack of transparency on Saturday. Trump invoked broad war powers for use regarding mere routine immigration and criminal matters.
Somehow they can continue to shock with their depravity and their sick sadistic cruelty.
Speaking of abuses of power and abuses of people, it is important to consider the financial incentives Trump's Proclamation provided to wrongly detain and remove people (without due process).
Already, America has experience with abuses of the innocuous-sounding concept of “civil asset forfeiture.” That practice converts (mentally and physically) law enforcement personnel into something a lot like privateers (or even pirates). Trump’s proclamation expressly had the same purpose, and it necessarily will have the same effect: “All property in the possession of, or traceable to, an Alien Enemy, which is used, intended to be used, or is commonly used to perpetrate the hostile activity and irregular warfare of TdA, along with evidence of such hostile activity and irregular warfare, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture.” Under the circumstances at issue in Trump's Proclamation (narco trafficking), it's clear Trump means money. A lot of it.
We need to view this issue in the context of what Trump and Musk already were doing to actual federal employees--Americans. In their mad dash to find ways to quickly cut costs--or expressly or implicitly to retaliate against people for exercising their freedom of association and freedom of expression (regarding political issues)--Trump and Musk are firing or laying off massive numbers of employees and eliminating offices and programs. They are wrecking--and trying to wreck--the lives of many Americans. Speaking of predatory incursions, that is what the so-called Trump administration already looks too much like.