happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago

“This case shocks the conscience,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

The banality of evil

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Read the ICE document for yourself that Karoline Leavitt refused to answer questions about. It says exactly what @AndrewFeinberg said; all it takes is "8 points" on a made-up rubric, and that can be just a tattoo (4 points) and displaying "logos" or "symbols" (4 points).

I was interviewed about whether being undocumented is a crime. Short answer, it is not.

www.postbulletin.com/news/local/c...

Ramping up its messaging about "self-deportation," today the Department of Homeland Security announced an "alien registration requirement" that establishes "a new form and process" for undocumented immigrants to register with the government.

When a prison exec calls this time “one of the most exciting periods in my career,” that’s all the proof you need — corporations and the ultra-rich profit from tearing families and communities apart ⬇️

theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

“There should have been a greater degree of planning before the execution. Now execution has begun, and everyone is trying to back into planning.”

What an absolute comedy of errors. But don't forget the cruelty and inhumanity of this disaster.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

There is currently no way to apply for asylum at the US-Mexico border.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Adamantly opposing measles vaccinations but also claiming immigrants cause the disease.

We’ve seen this movie before. Now in HD.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

Countries have engaged in extraterritorial processing of asylum but deporting asylum seekers to a detention camp and completely barring them from the asylum process is a flagrant violation of international law (also furthering the trend of wrongly criminalizing asylum.)
apnews.com/article/pana...

"His sister [ ] said he presented himself at the U.S. border on Jan. 19 in an attempt to claim asylum, and he was detained and then sent to Guantánamo." Sounds like a violation of nonrefoulement despite the claim that everyone already had a final order of removal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

“We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel. "What constitutes a human right in one state is a capital crime in another."
www.jezebel.com/louisiana-te...

As others have pointed out, this is pure detention theater meant to give the illusion that the U.S. government's immigration policies are making America safer and that immigrants are generally dangerous. This story is a great example that both of those propositions are pure BS.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

“Sending anyone from the United States to Guantanamo raises a host of legal, moral, and policy questions,” write Jonathan Hafetz and @becingber.bsky.social.

They analyze some of the most salient questions in light of news that 10 people were sent to Guantanamo.
www.justsecurity.org/107405/what-...

"It costs $28,500 an hour to fly a C-17, compared with $8,500 an hour for a standard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight, according to government figures. The flights to Guantanamo take roughly five hours." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...