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#venezuelan

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Juggling With Eggs

‘#Trump says he is 'entitled' to deport people without trials

Following an emergency order from the supreme court on Saturday blocking his administration from deporting suspected #Venezuelan gang members without affording them due process, Donald Trump just told reporters that it is not possible to have trials for all of the people he wants to deport.’

Guardian Live

I guess when your boss is Putin, how do you snow you’re making progress in your ‘dictatorship studies’?

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DoomsdaysCW

#WeThePeople - #AntiTrump Protesters Mobilize for Hundreds of Events via #50501Movement

#Activists joined forces on a wide variety of issues on Saturday

by Naomi LaChance, April 19, 2025

Excerpt: "Protesters gathered near the White House to demand that #KilmarAbregoGarcia be brought back to the U.S. The Maryland man was illegally deported to El Salvador and remains there despite a Supreme Court order to bring him back.

"A search for affiliated events yields more than 750 results. #50501Michigan is planning a “#MarchForMotherNature” where attendees hold #CleanUps in local areas. In #LafayetteLouisiana, organizers are holding a '#GoodTrouble March.' In #TampaFlorida, activists gathered to protest the deportation of two #Venezuelan #immigrants to a #MegaPrison in #ElSalvador.

"In #NewYorkCity, people organized in front of the New York Public Library. Someone had drawn 'WE THE PEOPLE' in chalk in the street.

"Other areas are holding #NoKings protests to mark the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution. In #Concord,Massachusetts, Conan Walter held a sign that said, 'Stop #fascism now.' "

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
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Demostrators rally during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump's policies and executive actions, near the White House in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2025. The group behind the April 19 demonstration, known as 50501 short for "50 protests, 50 states, one day" is the same organization that led the global "Hands Off" protests on April 5. Demonstrations are expected to spread throughout the United States, reaching international cities as well. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · Anti-Trump Protesters Mobilize for Hundreds of Events via 50501 MovementBy Naomi LaChance
#April19th#ResistFascism#ResistICE
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Nonilex

#SCOTUS’ unsigned, one-paragraph order came after a fast-moving legal battle late Friday. The #ACLU had rushed to several lower courts, then to the Supreme Court, claiming that the #Trump admin was planning to deport more #Venezuelan migrants, presumably to #ElSalvador, with little to no #DueProcess under the wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.

The Supreme Court’s decision ordered a pause on the #deportations of the detainees while it considers the emergency application.

Alito dissent p4
Alito dissent p5
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Nonilex

But then on Friday, other #Venezuelan immigrants at the detention center were informed that they were facing imminent #deportation, court papers say. One of them, known as F.G.M., was instructed to sign a removal waiver in English, even though he speaks only Spanish.

When he refused to sign, #immigration officers told him the waiver was “coming from the president,” according to court papers, “and that he will be deported even if he did not sign it.”

#law#Trump#AlienEnemiesAct
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Nonilex

This latest iteration of the fight over the use of the #AlienEnemiesAct began on Wednesday when the #ACLU filed suit in Abilene on behalf of 2 #Venezuelan immigrants being held at the Bluebonnet facility, asking Judge Hendrix to shield them against #deportation. But the judge denied the request, largely because lawyers for the #DOJ told him that the men — known only by their initials, A.A.R.P. & W.M.M. — had not yet been scheduled for removal from the country.

#law#Trump#immigration
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Nonilex

Drew C. Ensign, a lawyer for the #DOJ, gave his word that no flights were scheduled to depart from the Bluebonnet center on Friday night or Saturday morning, adding that the immigrants there would be given at least 24 hrs’ notice before they were deported.

But Judge #Boasberg was skeptical of Ensign’s assertion, pointing out that the notice forms the #Trump admin had given to the #Venezuelan men did not contain an explicit statement that they were able to challenge their #deportations.

#law
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Nonilex

When Judge Hendrix did not grant their request quickly — & later rejected it entirely — the #ACLU lawyers filed a similar request to the US Court of Appeals for the #FifthCircuit in New Orleans.

The lawyers then filed an emergency petition to #SCOTUS, asking the justices to step in & issue an immediate pause on any #deportations because many of the #Venezuelan men had “already been loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport.”

#law#Trump#immigration
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Nonilex

#ACLU attys started w/an emergency filing in Federal Dist Court in Abilene, #Texas, in which they claimed that officers at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson had started distributing notices to #Venezuelan immigrants informing them that they could face #deportation as soon as Fri night.
They asked Judge Hendrix, who is overseeing the case, to issue an immediate order protecting all immigrants in the Northern District of TX who might face deportation under the #AlienEnemiesAct.

#law#Trump
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Nonilex

#SCOTUS temporarily blocked the #Trump admin early Saturday from deporting another group of #Venezuelan immigrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.

“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025 24A1007 ORDER IN PENDING CASE A.A.R.P., ET AL. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a) . Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissent from the Court's order. Statement from Justice Alito to follow.
#immigration
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Nonilex

A federal appeals court in Washington put off for the moment a plan by Judge #Boasberg to open #contempt proceedings to determine whether the #Trump admin violated an order he issued last month stopping flights of #Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to #ElSalvador. The United States Court of Appeals for DC said it was entering what is known as an administrative stay to have more time to consider the validity of Judge Boasberg’s proposal.

#law#judiciary#SeparationOfPowers
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Nonilex

#SCOTUS, for Now, Blocks #Deportations of #Venezuelan Immigrants

Justices #ClarenceThomas & Samuel #Alito dissented.

Lawyers for the #ACLU, saying that a new group of Venezuelan men had been “loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport,” filed an emergency petition to SCOTUS, asking the justices to step in & issue an immediate pause on any deportations under a wartime powers #law the #Trump admin has been using to try to expel them.

#AlienEnemiesAct#immigration#judiciary
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DoomsdaysCW

Michigan native #ErikPrince proposes #deportation plan to #ElSalvador, report says

By Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025

"Erik Prince, the former CEO of #Blackwater USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting #immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported.

"The pitch would attempt to avoid #legal challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as #AmericanTerritory, the report stated.

" 'It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago,' the Politico report stated. 'But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.'

"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host #NayibBukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14.

"Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 #Venezuelan immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so.

"Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration.

"Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir #Putin in the #Seychelles, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide #StephenBannon.

"Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed #Iraqi #civilians in Baghdad’s #NisourSquare during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas.

"In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."

mlive.com/politics/2025/04/mic

#ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #TripleCanopy #PrivateArmy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas #Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism
#Authoritarianism

mlive · Michigan native Erik Prince proposes deportation plan to El Salvador, report saysBy Justin Engel | jengel@mlive.com
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Nonilex

“Petitioners have learned that officers at Bluebonnet have distributed notices under the #AlienEnemiesAct, in #English only, that designate #Venezuelan men for removal under the #AEA, & have told the men that the removals are imminent & will happen tonight or tomorrow,” #ACLU atty Lee Gelernt wrote in the filing.

The filing does not say how many people are facing #deportation, but that "dozens of Venezuelan men" have been brought to the #ICE facility in #Texas in the last few days.

#law#Trump
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Nonilex

#Trump is preparing to deport a 2nd group of #Venezuelan #immigrants under a rarely used #wartime authority that has for weeks put the admin in a tense showdown w/the #judiciary, acc/to an emergency legal filing.
The men in the govt’s custody have been transferred from across the country to the Bluebonnet Detention Center in #Texas, in the past 2 days & were told they are at imminent risk of being deported using the #AlienEnemiesAct, per the #ACLU & written declarations by the men’s attys.

#law
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Nonilex

#Trump Admin #Illegally Prepares to #Deport More #Immigrants Under Wartime #Law

Govt notified #Venezuelan men in #custody that they are at imminent risk of #deportation, illegally stepping up use of #AlienEnemiesAct

Firsthand accounts, along w/ court documents & flight tracking data, reveal the admin’s calculated race to send alleged *gang members* to #ElSalvador before a court can halt their plans.

#law #immigration #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
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