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Austin Flack
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TV Producer. Washingtonian in exile.
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The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
J.I.B.C. is 19-years-old and has pending applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile status and asylum. (J.I.B.C. Decl. ¶ 1.) On January 13, 2026, he was leaving TMobile when another car struck his own. (Id. ¶¶ 3–4.) Agents surrounded him, opened the car doors, and wrenched him out. (Id. ¶ 4.) J.I.B.C. offered to show the agents his immigration documents, but the agents said they did not need to see them. (Id. ¶ 6.) When he pulled out his cell phone, the agents threw him to the ground. (Id. ¶ 5.) The immigration documents were left inside his car. (Id. ¶ 6.) Several hours after arriving at Whipple, J.I.B.C. was allowed one phone call. (Id. ¶¶ 8, 12.) There was no privacy—it was a shared phone, located in a hallway between cells with agents nearby. (Id. ¶ 12.) J.I.B.C. told his girlfriend he had been detained; she said she would find a lawyer. (Id. ¶ 13.) Agents told J.I.B.C. to tell her that he was going to El Paso, Texas. (Id.) That day, J.I.B.C. was transferred to Texas. (Id. ¶ 15.) During his weeklong detention, he was allowed only two calls. (Id. ¶ 22.) Officers pressured people to sign voluntary self-deportation papers; many did. (Id. ¶ 23.) Agents told J.I.B.C. that he would be detained longer if he fought his case. (Id.)
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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The irony, of course, is that the noblest legacy of Western Civilization is the pluralist liberalism that the pseudointellectuals yanking their marionette strings are so keen on destroying. Rawls and Hayek are heirs to that tradition; Patrick Deneen and Curtis Yarvin want to raze it.
February 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM