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superrific
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by the way, this "oid" crap is some of the most racist shit I've seen on this board.
ZenMode
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I just heard about this today. If this is what it appears to be, I hope he sues that fuck out of the government and takes them for millions.
Duke Mu
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Race doesn't exist genetically. It's not a thing.
More Mexicans are brown because of admixture with indigenous Americans. In the Mexico, Central American, and especially the Caribbean, there is also admixture with those of African decent, since there was initially a significant amount of slavery: Creole. In northern Brazil, people are "multi-racial," although I don't believe the term Creole applies. In southern Brazil a combination of Mediterranean (Italian, Portuguese) and even German with white ot lighter brown skin reside.
Regardless, many white Americans tend to be prejudiced against people with brown skin. I guess we can thank Trump for revealing it about ourselves. We (especially MAGA) are Frankenstein. Trump is Frankenstein's monster. So we should be surprised when the monster spins out of control.
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It wasn't in the fox article. I guess they conveniently forgot to include it. However, what wasn't included in the ABC article is the number of people with criminal records, including child abuse, that were working alongside unaccompanied children. Both sides left out information to attempt to lead people to the opinion they wanted them to have. I'm sure lawtig didn't provide that info either. If he did, my apologies.
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ICE - it's almost as if Trump's masked army were vigilantes with no real experience in lase enforcement or the basic principles of being a professional federal agent.
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Dermal melanin phenotype. Man, I remember how I could change race back in the day by just hanging out in the local pools, skiing in the Pamlico River, Pine Knoll Shores, etc. I mean we were playing more funk music, eating fried chicken and cantaloupe, watermelon from the garden...good times.
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I read that also, but he was a security guard who was just arriving at work. I've heard of business owners being arrested for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, but never security guards.
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Venezuela Releases 10 Americans in Exchange for Prisoners in El Salvador
Salvadoran president said exchange resulted from months of negotiations
—> https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/...b?st=iCTFEb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“El Salvador’s government sent more than 250 Venezuelans it was holding in a maximum-security prison to Caracas in exchange for 10 Americans detained by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government, U.S. and Salvadoran officials said.
… Most of the Americans released from Caracas had been designated “wrongfully detained” by the State Department after being picked up by Venezuelan security forces after crossing the border from Colombia or traveling in the country.
… Many of the Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador had open asylum cases in the U.S., and said they risked persecution if they returned home. Many worked as barbers, construction workers, and delivery drivers and didn’t have criminal histories, according to court filings.
Human rights advocates criticized the swap. “The administration sent these individuals to languish for months incommunicado in one of the most notorious prisons in the world without any due process and now appears with this latest maneuver to be trying to avoid all judicial accountability,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who led the group’s Cecot litigation.…”
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Venezuela Releases 10 Americans in Exchange for Prisoners in El Salvador
Salvadoran president said exchange resulted from months of negotiations
“El Salvador’s government sent more than 250 Venezuelans it was holding in a maximum-security prison to Caracas in exchange for 10 Americans detained by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government, U.S. and Salvadoran officials said.
… Most of the Americans released from Caracas had been designated “wrongfully detained” by the State Department after being picked up by Venezuelan security forces after crossing the border from Colombia or traveling in the country.
… Many of the Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador had open asylum cases in the U.S., and said they risked persecution if they returned home. Many worked as barbers, construction workers, and delivery drivers and didn’t have criminal histories, according to court filings.
Human rights advocates criticized the swap. “The administration sent these individuals to languish for months incommunicado in one of the most notorious prisons in the world without any due process and now appears with this latest maneuver to be trying to avoid all judicial accountability,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who led the group’s Cecot litigation.…”
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Venezuela previously released six Americans to President Trump’s envoy Ric Grenell during a visit to Caracas in January. Four months later it released imprisoned U.S. Air Force veteran Joseph St. Clair.
But in March, Washington reimposed punitive measures against Venezuela’s oil industry by revoking Chevron’slicense to operate in the South American country, citing the Maduro regime’s failure to accept deportation flights fast enough.
Venezuela has continued to take in as many as two deportation flights a week. More than 30 flights have carried more than 4,000 Venezuelans back to their home country from the U.S. since deportations resumed in February. Some eight million Venezuelans have fled that country in the past decade because of hyperinflation and repression under Maduro’s authoritarian rule.…”
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And where did she immigrate from?
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Venezuela Releases 10 Americans in Exchange for Prisoners in El Salvador
Salvadoran president said exchange resulted from months of negotiations
“El Salvador’s government sent more than 250 Venezuelans it was holding in a maximum-security prison to Caracas in exchange for 10 Americans detained by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government, U.S. and Salvadoran officials said.
… Most of the Americans released from Caracas had been designated “wrongfully detained” by the State Department after being picked up by Venezuelan security forces after crossing the border from Colombia or traveling in the country.
… Many of the Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador had open asylum cases in the U.S., and said they risked persecution if they returned home. Many worked as barbers, construction workers, and delivery drivers and didn’t have criminal histories, according to court filings.
Human rights advocates criticized the swap. “The administration sent these individuals to languish for months incommunicado in one of the most notorious prisons in the world without any due process and now appears with this latest maneuver to be trying to avoid all judicial accountability,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who led the group’s Cecot litigation.…”
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"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
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“… Alvarado’s case, which Mother Jones reported on in March, was emblematic of the cruelty of the Trump administration’s decision to send hundreds of Venezuelans to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison.
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
Like many others, Alvarado, who worked as a baker in the Dallas area, appears to have been targeted simply because he was a Venezuelan man with tattoos. It did not matter that his most prominent tattoo was an autism awareness ribbon adorned with the name of his teenage brother.
… Anaurys Orlimar, the sister of one of the men, Julio Zambrano, said that earlier on Friday their mother was contacted with “good news” and told to travel from Maracay to the Caracas area. Her son, Julio, had been seeking asylum in the United States. The father of two was detained in January during a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His then-pregnant wife, Luz, said an officer told her they suspected Zambrano—who has two tattoos of a crown with his name and a rose—was part of a gang, which his relatives dispute.
“We are all happy and eager to see him,” Orlimar, who lives in North Carolina, said. “We didn’t expect this. We didn’t know anything. What we all did was cry with emotion knowing that my brother is going to return, that he’s going to get out of this.” Later, she recognized her brother, wearing a red face mask and a Puma t-shirt, in Telemundo’s live coverage of the flight’s arrival.
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Maria Quevedo, the mother of Eddie Adolfo Hurtado Quevedo, told Mother Jones she was feeling relieved but still scared. “Happy because God gave me the gift of seeing my son free on my birthday,” she said. “Scared because my son is going to Venezuela, where he was threatened by the [paramilitary group] colectivos.”
Dozens of Venezuelans sent to CECOT had pending asylum applications in US immigration courts when they were removed. In some instances, their cases have been dismissed by immigration judges. They could now be vulnerable to potential harm and persecution back in Venezuela. …”