
Detained Man Tells IMM Judge ‘I'm Dying Little by Little’"
#DHS
"At our #ICE gov detn centers, detainees are given...
Beds
Warm showers
Tablets
3 meals/day Prof mental & physical HC -often for the 1st time in their lives"
"Judge denies bond for Guatemalan man worried about colon cancer...
He pulled out a jar of blood & set it on the table in front of him. Many of the ppl in the court gasped.
“This is the proof I have -the blood I’ve lost today.”
#Immigrants #USPol
https://www.laprogressive.com/immigration-reform/dying-little-by-little
To me, one of the most obvious tells that the Trump regime and all of its minions are fully aware that the slow motion, ethnic cleansing operating they're currently conducting as part of their "mass deportation" program is both morally unconscionable and flat out illegal, is the insistence on operational secrecy all throughout the horrifying fascist deportation machine. ICE Gestapo thugs hit the streets in pulled-up neck gaiters, fascist governments work to obscure who is getting paid to build concentration camps, and the DHS refuses as many oversite visits by political officials to ICE facilities as they possibly can; even going so far as to arrest two Democrat politicians in New Jersey who got sick of getting the run around and just went to the migrant cages themselves. If this was, as the Trump regime continues to insist, a totally legitimate, strictly constitutional law enforcement or public safety matter, it wouldn't be necessary for ICE goons to be running through our streets dressed up like members of a CIA-funded death squad or obscure the names of contractors to "protect against [expected] reprisals."
To place another piece of evidence on that specific pile then, let's look at this recent Intercept investigation into a couple of very unusual immigration court hearings involving migrants. Why were they unusual? Because in multiple instances the judges running these "courts" agreed to keep the name of the government's immigration attorney, aka "the prosecution," secret.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/15/ice-lawyers-hiding-names-court/
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
"Inside a federal immigration courtroom in New York City last month, a judge took an exceedingly unusual step: declining to state the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney pressing to deport asylum seekers.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. It was the first of two separate instances The Intercept identified in which judges chose to withhold the identities of the attorneys representing the Trump administration’s deportation regime.
As ICE agents across the country wear masks to raid workplaces and detain immigrants, government attorneys need not cover their faces to shield their identities. Legal experts who spoke to The Intercept agreed the practice of concealing the lawyers’ identities was both novel and concerning."
Alright, let's start with the obvious: as the article clearly notes, no, this is not normal. In fact its so abnormal that I don't think anyone knows if it is legal or not because this simply doesn't happen. This is primarily because without a named attorney, it is impossible to identify, investigate, and hold someone accountable for prosecutorial misconduct, and while the Intercept doesn't highlight that as the obvious reason for doing this, I'm more than happy to.
If, as I and others have argued, these mass deportations are clear violations of constitutional and human rights, then ICE lawyers working to ram every brown person they can through via legally dubious methods (like say, declaring that a fake invasion by a Venezuelan gang nobody has ever heard of means you can ship ppl to foreign gulags without due process) would be legally accountable for their role in perpetuating these crimes. If you know what you're doing is illegal, because you're a lawyer, "I was just following orders" has a pretty poor track record as an excuse in court. So you can understand why it might behoove immigration judges, who literally work for Trump's executive branch, not the judiciary, to hide the names of government attorneys doing the legal legwork for a fascist ethnic-cleansing project that probably represents a real as fuck crime against humanity if several international scholars are to be believed, right?
While the Intercept reporting here could have emphasized that point better, I will give them credit for identifying at least one of the ICE lawyers facilitating criminal migrant expulsions, a one Cosette Shachnow - who I sincerely hope becomes as infamous as she clearly deserves to be. Cosette (jfc I hate bougies) aside, I think it's important to understand this is a real problem for Trump, the Gestapo, and Stephen Miller's pet project to re-whiten American demographics for generations to come no matter how many brown lives that costs. Although it's not being reported all that much, DHS and ICE have faced numerous resignations and early retirements in their immigration law divisions because even those ghouls didn't sign up for fascist mass kidnappings and crimes against humanity. The regime needs lawyers to help slap a legalist veneer on all this ethnonationalist bullshit and they're working to make it easier to hire replacements for folks who accidentally grow a conscience along the way - even if they have to build a Star Chamber to do it.
"IMPORTANT CONTEXT for todays' news that the men are being released as part of a US-Venezuela prisoner swap.
We used INNOCENT PEOPLE as pawns. It is a huge black eye on the US, a stain that will take a long time for us to ever wipe away."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Articles on the possible "prisoner exchange" between the US, El Salvador, and Venezuela:
#Immigrants #DueProcess #CECOT #Deportations #DHS #TrumpRegime #ICE #USPol
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/el-salvador-to-send-detained-venezuelans-to-caracas-in-prison-swap-for-americans-sources-say
I hope this guy sues ICE and ICE Barbie and is all over the news with his story. It's so wrong.
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According to Retes, he was in custody for three days without being charged, without access to a phone call, and without legal representation. He said he was never told why he had been arrested and received no medical attention despite being “covered in tear gas and OC spray for days.”
"This is not how any American should be treated — especially not a veteran who served this country with honor,” he said. “I didn’t break any law. I was just trying to go to work.” #ICE #DHS #CivilRights #Veterans #GremlinZoo
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/disabled-veteran-detained-immigration-raid-speaks-out/
"I've been publishing a steady stream of data-driven res over the past 6 months -predicted: rise in ICE
targeting #immigrants w/o criminal histories...
#ICE: irritated: with me for pub facts/public: with ICE/I’m: w news outlets: getting facts wrong.
-A Kocher
Today, there're so many compelling articles & commentary, it's difficult to incl all the #TrumpRegime's atrocities I've found.
Investigative journalists are turning the
up on this illegitimate regime.
#DHS #USPol https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-is-irritated-by-facts-news-struggles
"NEW:A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the Mar15 flight to SLV: MASS DISAPPEARANCES.
It's possible:DOZENS of additional ppl the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in SLV w/o trial *imprisoned there -names: never disclosed."
-A R-Melnick
"Flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flts from TX to SLV contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for pax than a previously pub #DHS list of ppl deported from the US on those flts.
#Deportations #USPol https://www.404media.co/flight-manifests-reveal-dozens-of-previously-unknown-people-on-three-deportation-flights-to-el-salvador/
The information will give #ICE ofcls the ability to find “the location of aliens” across the country, says the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services & #DHS. The agreement has not been announced publicly.
The extraordinary disclosure of millions of such personal #health data to #deportation officials is the latest escalation in the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown….
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three #Deportation Flights to #ElSalvador
The flight manifests for three legally contested deportation flights from #Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security ( #DHS ) list of people #deported from the United States on those flights
Inside ICE’s Supercharged #FacialRecognition App of 200 Million Images
#ICE officers are able to point their smartphone’s camera at a person & near instantaneously run their face against a bank of 200 million images, then pull up their name, date of birth, nationality, unique identifiers such as their “alien” number, & whether an #immigration judge has determined they should be #deported from the country, according to ICE material …
#dhs #deport #deportation #privacy
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/
They're nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers & execs. They’ve fallen in love, bought houses and raised children. They’ve opened companies, paid taxes & contributed to SS, living & working legally in the US since 1999.
Now >50K Hondurans & Nicaraguans stand to abruptly lose their #TPS.
Yet another reason to share the #TrumpRegimes' atrocities & #protest.
#GoodTroubleLivesOn #Immigrants #Fascism #Betrayal #DHS #Racism #Cruelty #Republicans #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/17/trump-tps-honduras-nicaragua-deportations/
Stephen Miller says 1M illegal aliens have already SELF-DEPORTED: “At every turn, illegal aliens have always been treated better than Americans. The difference is, in this admin, they are getting a ticket out of America.”
-Fox News
"This is a completely made up number that no one in their right minds should believe.
Even #DHS’s own previous statements on use of the CBP Home app suggested only ~10K ppl had signed up."
-A R-Melnick
#Gaslighting #Lies #Immigrants #USPol https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-15/stephen-miller-says-americans-will-live-better-lives-without-immigrants-hes-blowing-smoke
How to Tell If Someone Is a Criminal (According to the #Trump #DHS) - The Atlantic
“The total lack of any evidence against them, except that Trump border czar Tom Homan thought they seemed suspicious, is just proof of what good criminals they are.
Evidence, schmevidence!
All you need to do is look at them, listen to them!”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/dhs-criminal-alligator-alcatraz/683572/
#DHS Faces New Pressure Over #DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-and-doj-face-new-pressure-over-collecting-childrens-dna/
It's unlawful to make someone stateless.
But no one will hold them to account.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/g-s1-77553/trump-refugee-deportation-asian-bhutan-nepal
Trump's #DHS isripping all the guardrails off of the IMM system when it comes to #children.
Biden's admin put protections in place.
"Children are once again fair game, more systematically than in his 1st term, Trump’s regime is rolling back protections for undoc children: recent arrivals/lifetime in the US -being picked up on vacations, at traffic stops, worksites... & winding up in #detention.
Rs who sold their souls to Trump, are allowing abuse...
#Immigrants #USPol https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-children/
Phone scammers are switching up tactics. Here's the latest one they just tried to hit me with. It's pretty damn low and scummy. #scams #phonescams #DHS
https://trulyrural.blogspot.com/2025/07/scam-alert-they-are-changing-up-tactics.html
The #IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of #Taxpayers’ #Data With #ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the #Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to #DHS in order to speed up the agency’s #MassDeportation efforts.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #immigration
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations
In the last 4 years, #DHS: collected DNA from 1000s of minors *at least 227 children: 13 & < -*vast maj profiled: >70% -were citizens of MX/VE/CU/HT.
“These children’s DNA in CODIS -profiles will be queried every time a search is done of the database -these children will be treated by LE as suspects for every investig of every future crime -indef."
US govt:steadily positioning noncitizens at the forefront of a massive genetic #surveillance regime...
#Immigrants #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-and-doj-face-new-pressure-over-collecting-childrens-dna/
#DHS Faces New Pressure Over #DNA Taken From #Immigrant Children
The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 #migrant children and teens to a criminal #database , which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”
#privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-and-doj-face-new-pressure-over-collecting-childrens-dna/