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Police in Maine say officer arrested by ICE was cleared by federal government to work

ICE accused the police department in Old Orchard Beach of “knowingly” hiring an immigrant who is in the country illegally, which the police chief denied.
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ICE said that Evans is a Jamaican citizen who lawfully entered the U.S. on a visa on Sept. 24, 2023, and that he was supposed to depart on Oct. 1, 2023, but never boarded his flight, overstaying his visa. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

The Old Orchard Beach Police Department said in a statement on Monday that as part of its standard hiring process, Evans completed an I-9 federal immigration and work authorization form to verify that he was legally able to work in the U.S.

Police Chief Elise Chard said in the statement that the town reviewed multiple forms of identification and submitted the forms for Evans to the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify Program. The system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to let employers know if a prospective employee has legal authorization to work in the U.S.


“The Department of Homeland Security then verified that Evans was authorized to work in the U.S.,” Chard said. “The form was submitted and approved by DHS on May 12, 2025.”

“Evans would not have been permitted to begin work as a reserve officer until and unless Homeland Security verified his status,” she said.
 
"We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz. "The only way out is really deportation."

According to a class action lawsuit, that turned out to be literally true. Hundreds of people are being held at the facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court.

The plaintiffs in the case filed an emergency motion last Friday to protect their clients' rights. Under the Fifth Amendment, "No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration detention is a federal matter and, therefore, the exclusive jurisdiction of federal courts. But in affidavits submitted with Friday's filing, attorneys representing the detainees state they are being locked out of the legal system.

When attorneys representing clients being held at the Everglades detention center attempt to contest their confinement in federal court, they are told that the federal court lacks jurisdiction because the facility is being run by the state government. Attorney Z. Zareefa Khan submitted this account of his efforts to seek the release of his clients, G.T.C. and R.T.F., on bond:

On July 24, 2025, I appeared virtually on behalf of G.T.C. at the [federal] Krome Immigration Court. When I logged into the hearing, [Immigration Judge] Lerner said, “what is going on?” and told me that no hearing for G.T.C. was included on the docket. I then had an off-the-record conversation with IJ Lerner and the government’s counsel. The government counsel stated that my clients had been detained at Alligator Alcatraz since July 3, and that the immigration court had no jurisdiction over their cases… because G.T.C. was in state, not federal custody. IJ Lerner then went back on the record, and stated that the immigration court did not have jurisdiction over their cases. G.T.C. was not brought to the hearing in person or virtually.
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Khan added that when he later checked a federal online portal to review the status of his clients' cases, it stated that "their bond motions had been withdrawn on July 21, 2025, although I had not withdrawn either of their motions."
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At a hearing on these issues this week, a federal judge demanded more clarity on "who is running the show" at the Everglades detention camp. He described the current situation as "a bit of a black hole" regarding "the interplay between the federal and state authorities and… jurisdictional concerns."

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Pubs have been mad for years when Dems have pointed out that Trump NEVER wanted to bring our Afghan allies to the US and had NO plans to do so had the won in 2020. That's part (not all, but part) of the reason it was such a shitshow when the Biden team took over the planning. And now, we have Trump revoking TPS for Afghan asylees and starting to arrest and deport them at routine immigration proceedings.

THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN!!!! Trump is and always has been more than happy to turn his back on the Afghans who put their lives on the line to help the US military in Afghanistan. There's no possible way to rank the morally disgraceful things Trump and his GOP enablers have done over the years, but this has to be very, very high on the list.
 
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lawtig02 said:
There's no possible way to rank the morally disgraceful Trump and his GOP enablers have done over the years, but this has to be very, very high on the list.
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It's telling that something can be very, very high on that list. A list of 3 just has a top middle and bottom. A list of 10 has a top and a couple of ones that are high and then it's medium and low.

But a list of 1000 indeed supports a distinction between top 100 (high) and top 20 (very high), to throw out a couple of numbers.
 
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A 20-year-old Purdue University student has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and taken to a holding facility in Louisiana.

Yeonsoo Go is South Korean but has been enrolled at Purdue University at the College of Pharmacy.

According to CNN, Go's family says her visa does not expire until December, and her hearing in Manhattan was to extend it. Her mother, Rev. Kyrie Kim, is an Episcopal priest in New York. …”
 
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A 20-year-old Purdue University student has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and taken to a holding facility in Louisiana.

Yeonsoo Go is South Korean but has been enrolled at Purdue University at the College of Pharmacy.

According to CNN, Go's family says her visa does not expire until December, and her hearing in Manhattan was to extend it. Her mother, Rev. Kyrie Kim, is an Episcopal priest in New York. …”
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Trying to scare all immigrants into leaving. Waiting for them to arrest some international player on the court/ field, so it gets mass coverage that "none of you are safe or welcome here."
 
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