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got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
execute order 9069

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exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/SAALTweets/status/1217902357129900034

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/kimmythepooh/status/1218291474879729665

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1221117328458469376
https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/1221131926712602625

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

https://mobile.twitter.com/lanesainty/status/1221982126758748160

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
While we're doing Australia, our wonderful government is about to start moving citizens with the coronavirus currently in China to their Christmas Island concentration camp where there are families with children interred.

Victims The sick will also have to pay for the privilege of being thrown into inhuman conditions to suffer.

https://twitter.com/tegangeorge/status/1222382159488417792?s=19

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

:d2a:

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Anti-Trump-themed ‘Immigrant Food’ restaurant owned by lobbyists for right-wing Latin American coup leaders who fueled migration crisis

quote:

Immigrant Food, a new restaurant located just blocks from the White House, has been the recipient of glowing media coverage that celebrates it as a defiantly pro-immigrant statement of resistance against President Donald Trump. Left unmentioned in all the puffery has been the uncomfortable fact that the restaurant’s co-owner, Peter Schechter, earned a fortune as a registered lobbyist for right-wing Latin American politicians including the Honduran junta that is responsible for fueling one of the worst migration crises in modern times.

Schechter’s former lobbying firm is now representing another brutally repressive right-wing junta, this time in Bolivia, where a coup in November 2019 forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, into exile.

His business partner at the restaurant Immigrant Food, Ezequiel Vasquez-Ger, is also a regime-change operative who has dedicated much of his career to undermining socialist movements in Latin America on behalf of multinational corporate clients.

What’s more, Schechter has owned a winery in Israel located directly atop a historically Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by the Israeli army in 1948. The residents of the former village were displaced and turned into refugees.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1223362432409788416

not great

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
ICE and CBP just declared arbitrarily exempt from FOIA

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Bad news (though of course w typical nyt bullshit included) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/archives-document-destruction.html

quote:

In 2017, a normally routine document released by the archives, a records retention schedule, revealed that archivists had agreed that officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement could delete or destroy documents detailing the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants. Tens of thousands of people posted critical comments, and dozens of senators and representatives objected. The National Archives made some changes to the plan, but last month it announced that ICE could go ahead and start destroying records from Mr. Trump’s first year, including detainees’ complaints about civil rights violations and shoddy medical care.

It’s not just ICE. The Department of the Interior and the National Archives have decided to delete files on endangered species, offshore drilling inspections and the safety of drinking water. The department even claimed that papers from a case where it mismanaged Native American land and assets — resulting in a multibillion-dollar legal settlement — would be of no interest to future historians (or anyone else).

Good news https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/reversal-conviction-border-volunteers-gruesome-logic/

quote:

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Tucson, Arizona, reversed the conviction of four humanitarian aid volunteers on religious freedom grounds Monday, ruling that the government had embraced a “gruesome logic” that criminalizes “interfering with a border enforcement strategy of deterrence by death.”

The reversal, written by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez, marked the latest rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on humanitarian aid providers in southern Arizona, and the second time in matter of months that a religious freedom defense has prevailed in a federal case involving the provision of aid to migrants in the borderlands.

The defendants in the case — Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse, and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick — were fined and given probation in March of last year for entering the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge in the summer of 2017 without a permit, driving on a restricted access road and leaving food, water, and other humanitarian aid supplies for migrants passing through in the summer heat. They were the first among a group of volunteers with the faith-based humanitarian group, No More Deaths, to go to trial for their aid work in 2019.

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

ikanreed posted:

ICE and CBP just declared arbitrarily exempt from FOIA

????

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Probably this https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cbp-security-agency/

quote:

Under President Trump, US immigration authorities have pushed for extraordinary privileges and increased secrecy from the public.

On Friday, the Trump administration quietly designated the entire Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, which polices US borders, as a “Security Agency,” according to an internal memo obtained by The Nation. This follows repeated attempts by federal immigration authorities to dramatically expand their reach in recent years.

The memo, which was signed by CBP’s Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan and dated January 31, places CBP under the same designation as highly secretive intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Secret Service. This grants CBP greater secrecy by exempting certain records from disclosure to the public.

The memo states: “I am pleased to announce CBP has been designated as a Security Agency under Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) official Data Release Policy, effective immediately. Previously, only frontline law enforcement, investigative, or intelligence positions held this designation. This policy change now protects all CBP employee names from subsequent responses to Freedom of Information Act requests or other public disclosures for CGP employee data.”

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Willem van Spronsen should be emulated

staticman
Sep 12, 2008

Be gay
Death to America
Suck my dick Israel
Mess with Texas
and remember to lmao
Orwell: Trump...?

Trumo: Yeah George?

Orwell: I don't think this country can get anymore dystopian...

Truep: Nonsense! *pumps racism pump*

Orwell: TRUMP NO!!

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1225246196278624256

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

staticman posted:

Orwell: Trump...?

Trumo: Yeah George?

Orwell: I don't think this country can get anymore dystopian...

Truep: Nonsense! *pumps racism pump*

Orwell: TRUMP NO!!

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1225246196278624256

omfg
this should blow up hyuuuge

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
Yet again, I'm having trouble even putting my thoughts into words over how bad this is.

This sort of punitive action against a state is just so beyond the pale for something a democracy should be doing.

But Trump's been acquitted and probably feels invincible right now.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
You see a bunch of men in street clothes attacking and abducting your mom's boyfriend.

You step up to tell them to stop.

One draws a gun and shoots you in the face, injuring your brother as well.

While you're recovering in the hospital, officers come and drag you out and put you in a camp, because those men were ICE officers so now you've committed the crime of unlawful conduct and are eligible for deportation despite your legal status.


the aristocrats

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Jfc this is literally gestapo

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Colonel Cancer posted:

Jfc this is literally gestapo

I thought the gestapo had badges. Anonymous badges, but they had them

Crypto Cobain
Jun 17, 2018

by Reene
One day (hopefully soon) we will look back on this era as one of tremendous shame.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Fleetwood Crack posted:

One day (hopefully soon) we will look back on this era as one of tremendous shame.

I already do.

Edit: yep still ashamed

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

A mysterious stranger sent me here with a tale for you all.

NY Times posted:

Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities

Agents from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers on the border are being sent to sanctuary cities across the country.

The Trump administration is deploying law enforcement tactical units from the southern border as part of a supercharged arrest operation in sanctuary cities across the country, an escalation in the president’s battle against localities that refuse to participate in immigration enforcement.

The specially trained officers are being sent to cities including Chicago and New York to boost the enforcement power of local ICE officers, according to two officials who are familiar with the secret operation. Additional agents are expected to be sent to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, N.J.

The move reflects President Trump’s persistence in cracking down on sanctuary cities, localities that have refused to cooperate in handing over immigrants targeted for deportation to federal authorities. It comes soon after the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security announced a series of measures that will affect both American citizens and immigrants living in those places.

Lawrence Payne, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, confirmed the agency was deploying 100 officers to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducts arrests in the interior of the country, “in order to enhance the integrity of the immigration system, protect public safety, and strengthen our national security.”

The deployment of the teams will run from February through May, according to an email sent to Customs and Border Protection personnel, which was read to The New York Times by one official familiar with the planning.

Among the agents being deployed to sanctuary cities are members of the elite tactical unit known as BORTAC, which acts essentially as the SWAT team of the Border Patrol. With additional gear such as stun grenades and enhanced Special Forces-type training, including sniper certification, the officers typically conduct high-risk operations targeting individuals who are known to be violent, many of them with extensive criminal records.

The unit’s work often takes place in the most rugged and swelteringly hot areas of the border. It can involve breaking into stash houses maintained by smuggling operations that are known to be filled with drugs and weapons.

In sanctuary cities, the BORTAC agents will be asked to support interior officers in run-of-the-mill immigration arrests, the officials said. Their presence could spark new fear in immigrant communities that have been on high alert under the stepped-up deportation and detention policies adopted after Mr. Trump took office.

In a statement, ICE’s acting director, Matthew T. Albence, said the deployment comes in response to policies adopted by sanctuary cities, which have made it harder for immigration agents to do their jobs.
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“As we have noted for years, in jurisdictions where we are not allowed to assume custody of aliens from jails, our officers are forced to make at-large arrests of criminal aliens who have been released into communities,” he said. “When sanctuary cities release these criminals back to the street, it increases the occurrence of preventable crimes, and more importantly, preventable victims.”

But Gil Kerlikowske, the former commissioner of C.B.P., which oversees tactical units along the border, said sending the officers to conduct immigration enforcement within cities, where they are not trained to work, could escalate situations that are already volatile. He called the move a “significant mistake.”

“If you were a police chief and you were going to make an apprehension for a relatively minor offense, you don’t send the SWAT team. And BORTAC is the SWAT team,” said Mr. Kerlikowske, who is the former chief of police in Seattle. “They’re trained for much more hazardous missions than this.”

The Border Patrol squads will be charged with backing up ICE agents during deportation operations and standing by as a show of force, the officials said.

ICE agents typically seek out people with criminal convictions or multiple immigration violations as their primary targets for deportation, but family members and friends are often swept up in the enforcement net in what are known as “collateral” arrests, and many such people could now be caught up in any enhanced operations.

ICE leadership requested the help in sanctuary jurisdictions because agents there often struggle to track down undocumented immigrants without the help of the police and other state and local agencies. Law enforcement officers in areas that refuse to cooperate with ICE and the Border Patrol — which include both liberal and conservative parts of the country — often argue that doing so pushes undocumented people further into the shadows, ultimately making cities less safe because that segment of the population becomes less likely to report crimes or cooperate with investigations.

The goal of the new joint operation, one of the officials said, was to increase arrests in the sanctuary jurisdictions by at least 35 percent.

The operation reflects an increasingly hawkish approach to immigration enforcement, following the firings and resignations of leaders who have been viewed in the White House as unwilling to take the harsh steps Mr. Trump and his advisers view as necessary to slow illegal immigration.

....

:tif:

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
they should all be killed

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fleetwood Crack posted:

One day (hopefully soon) we will look back on this era as one of tremendous shame.

that’s what we thought about the patriot act, Guantanamo Bay, the DHS and then we elected Obama and now they’re all the norm

Crypto Cobain
Jun 17, 2018

by Reene

Taintrunner posted:

that’s what we thought about the patriot act, Guantanamo Bay, the DHS and then we elected Obama and now they’re all the norm
The cursed one, the false prophet. Him whose name will live in infamy! You dare mention his name in these sacred halls?!

Lord Sanders shall decide your fate.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
secret police invading cities and disappearing people. it's literally like slavecatching militias. but we wont start a civil war over this :thermidor:

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1228116855195414530

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/immigration-therapy-reports-ice/

quote:

Kevin was watching from a remote detention center. On one side of the judge, he could see his lawyers, ready to argue that he should be freed immediately. Across from them was a lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), there to argue that Kevin should be deported. And in front of them all, inside a thick folder, was an old report from a shelter for immigrant children that was the reason the long-running matter of Kevin Euceda existed at all: “Youth reports history of physical abuse, neglect, and gang affiliation in country of origin. Unaccompanied child self-disclosed selling drugs. Unaccompanied child reports being part of witnessing torturing and killing, including dismemberment of body parts,” the report said.

The person who had signed it: A therapist at a government shelter for immigrant children who had assured Kevin that their sessions would be confidential. Instead, the words Kevin spoke had traveled from the shelter to one federal agency and then another, followed him through three detention centers, been cited in multiple ICE filings arguing for his detention and deportation, and now, in the fall of 2019, were about to be used against him once more.

This kind of information sharing was part of a Trump administration strategy that is technically legal but which professional therapy associations say is a profound violation of patient confidentiality. To bolster its policy of stepped up enforcement, the administration is requiring that notes taken during mandatory therapy sessions with immigrant children be passed onto ICE, which can then use those reports against minors in court. Intimate confessions, early traumas, half-remembered nightmares — all have been turned into prosecutorial weapons, often without the consent of the therapists involved, and always without the consent of the minors themselves, in hearings where the stakes can be life and death.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1229135266008440835

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Lol this is some Papers Please poo poo.

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

ikanreed posted:

Lol this is some Papers Please poo poo.

Papers, please always seemed like a game about US immigration and customs to me.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Newsweek: Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution in 'Monumental' Ruling

haha finally sticking it to trump! finally!

quote:

In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities,
oh....

time to quietly bury this story

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Lambert posted:

Papers, please always seemed like a game about US immigration and customs to me.

Cause no trouble.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



https://twitter.com/apseattle/status/1230979300494475264
They allowed this for 3 years before changing their minds so don't clap too hard but at least this is some :unsmith: news for this thread for once.

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
Letting border patrol check your buses in the first place seems like a terrible business decision.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

as a businessman you have to weigh letting the fascists check your bus versus the fascists getting angry at you

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

comedyblissoption posted:

as a businessman you have to weigh letting the fascists check your bus versus the fascists getting angry at you

And the fascists control all the levers of power that determine the your ability to operate.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

Lambert posted:

Letting border patrol check your buses in the first place seems like a terrible business decision.

Even for potential customers who are citizens, and even the ones who are white enough to not get hassled anyway, and even those who aren’t opposed to the sweep as a matter of principle…

even those people don’t want to be delayed.

Horrible business decision.

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Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.
Anybody know of a piece about the hiring and training of ICE and Border Patrol personnel? Even knowing the kind of SS-wannabes that go for a job like that, there's got to be some institutional culture that breaks their brains even further.

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