The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to […]
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In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights […]
Pennsylvania recently revoked a license for the secure #JuvenileDetentionCenter where the admin sends some #immigrant children, even some with NO pending criminal charges.
#Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #StateSponsoredAbduction #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights […]
Judge #Boasberg to resume #criminal #contempt inquiry into #Trump ofcls involved in #AlienEnemiesAct #deportation flights
A federal judge said Wed that he plans to “promptly” move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump admin ofcls were responsible for flouting his orders in a high-stakes […]
As MJ & other outlets have reported extensively, most of the men had NO serious criminal history in the #US or elsewhere in the world. What they often had instead were #tattoos that bore NO relation to the gang.
The new report offers even more evidence of the #inhumane treatment the #Venezuelan […]
#Beatings. #SexualAssault. #PsychologicalAbuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the >250 men the #UnitedStates sent to #ElSalvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, acc/to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by #HRW & #Cristosal, a #HumanRights group focused on […]
#Trump Sent Men to #Torture in #ElSalvador, Report Confirms
Human Rights Watch (#HRW) found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the #UnitedStates were beaten almost every day.
#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess […]
The #Trump admin is drawing up plans for a shake-up at #ICE, with officials looking to replace several senior leaders in field offices across the country, according to 3 people familiar with the plans.
The proposal stems from frustration in the White House & the #DHS over the pace of […]
#Informant agreements are based on assurances the cooperators will be #protected by the #UnitedStates. Reneging on promises made in exchange for information will hinder the ability of US #LawEnforcement to develop relationships with potential cooperators in the future.
“Who would ever trust the […]
“The deal is a deep betrayal of US law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a US contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate & help dismantle the #MS13 gang.
Nixing the agreements also threatens to damage the […]
While the outlines of the quid pro quo have been public for months, the #Trump admin’s willingness to renege on secret arrangements made with #informants who had aided #US investigations has not been previously reported.
…The deal would give #Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to […]
JFC!
#MarcoRubio promised to betray #US #informants to get #Trump the #ElSalvador prison #CECOT for #deportations
To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.
#law #rendition […]
“#Chicago’s been doing just fine, & then these guys showed up,” Vasquez said of federal #immigration officers. “There is big concern about what these unidentified, #masked men are doing in this city without accountability. Chicagoans are just trying to live their life. We’re not going to […]
“This incident is not isolated & reflects a growing & dangerous trend of illegal *aliens* violently resisting arrest & *agitators & criminals* ramming cars into our law enforcement officers,” #DHS [lied] in a statement. The statement [lied] that federal agents used “crowd control measures” after […]
#ICE Is Cracking Down on #Chicago.
Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal #immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.
#Trump #law #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction […]
The AP identified multiple examples of #ICE using the black-&-yellow full-body restraint device, the WRAP, in #deportations. Its use was described to the AP by 5 people who said they were restrained in the device, sometimes for hours, on ICE deportation flights dating to 2020. And witnesses & […]
“It was just like a #kidnapping,” the Nigerian man, who’s part of a federal lawsuit, told The AP in an interview from the detainment camp in which he & other deportees were being held in Ghana. Like others placed in the restraints interviewed by the AP, he spoke on the condition of anonymity for […]
When they asked to speak to their #attorney, he said, the officers refused & straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded them onto a plane for the 16-hour-flight to West Africa.
Referred to as “the burrito” or “the bag,” the WRAP has become […]
ICE’s use of full-body restraints during #deportations raises concerns over #inhumane treatment
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. #ICE officers clasped shackles on their hands & feet, he said, & told them they were being sent […]
He said agents refused to #identify themselves or say if they had a #warrant, shoving him & at one point putting his arms behind his back; he wasn’t able to get the name of the man being detained.
“I ran out & tried to do the lawyer thing,” Gheewala said. “They completely stonewalled, just […]
Each time they arrived, the vehicles were already gone.
They said at least one person had been taken by federal agents at the intersection of Wilson & Sawyer, but another had gotten away during the response.
“This is part of the chaos they like to bring to our communities. That person was […]
3 African nations rebuff #US effort to deport #KilmarAbregoGarcía
#Eswatini, #Uganda & #Ghana have declined to accept Abrego, an immigrant from #ElSalvador whom the #Trump administration illegally deported to his native country.
#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction […]
If this is a war as #Trump pretends, then these are #WarCrimes
#ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in #Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in #Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
#immigration #law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #HumanRights […]
#Trump administration sends another third-country #deportation flight to #Eswatini
Trump's administration sent another third-country deportation flight to the small African nation of Eswatini on Monday, officials from both countries said, the second in recent months despite objections from […]
The president of #Ghana, John Mahama, confirmed last week that a group of 14 West Africans had arrived as part of Trump’s “third country” #deportation [#rendition] policy, including the 5 plaintiffs.
#Trump #law #DueProcess #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #HumanRights
Chutkan’s ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed Friday by the #CivilRights group Asian Americans Advancing Justice that alleged that the #Trump admin sought to circumvent #immigration #law by sending to #Ghana the 5 men, who had been granted certain #deportation protections because they had […]
One of the men was flown from #Ghana to his home country of #Gambia, despite saying he risked persecution because of his sexuality, & a #US court ruling that he should not be deported to Gambia, Chutkan wrote, adding that the man is now living in hiding. One other deportee is a citizen of Gambia […]
However, Chutkan ruled that she could not stop the #deportation of these immigrants to their home countries because they are now in the custody of the Ghanian government & “this court cannot order the U.S. government to order a foreign government to take any action,” adding that the court’s […]
US District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wrote in a ruling that she was “alarmed & dismayed” by these removals, stating that they “appear to be part of a pattern & widespread effort to evade the government’s legal obligations by doing indirectly what it cannot do directly.” […]
A federal judge on Monday criticized what she described as the #Trump admin’s “disregard” of #DueProcess in sending to #Ghana five immigrants who had been granted certain #immigration protections, but she ruled that the court lacked the jurisdiction to halt their transfer to their countries of […]
