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“… He was on his way to wash a car when he glanced up and saw co-workers sprinting off. A woman frantically motioned for him to flee. His heart raced as he tried to find the source of their alarm.

Confused and frightened, Javier Diaz Santana jumped over the wall behind the car wash in the San Gabriel Valley.

… Breathless, Diaz stopped. One of the vehicles pulled over, blocking his way. Masked, armed men exited, yelling. He tried to understand. He couldn’t see a badge. One had a vest with the letters “HSI” — Homeland Security Investigations, an arm within ICE.

One seemed to be demanding something. Diaz gestured at his ears.

He could not hear. And he couldn’t speak.

Diaz, 32, is deaf and mute.

He thought that presenting his Real ID driver’s license would keep him safe. He has legal permission to be here. He came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was about 5 years old and had been granted permission to work more than a decade ago under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He has no criminal history.

He took his wallet from his pocket. An agent grabbed it and wouldn’t give it back.

Diaz took out his phone so he could type a message about his disability. They took that too. Then they cuffed his hands and shoved him into the SUV. He had no way to communicate.…”
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And so began a surreal near month Diaz never could have imagined taking place in the United States. He was sent to an immigration detention center in El Paso, where he spent weeks unable to communicate with his attorney or his family. At times, Diaz received paperwork in Spanish — a language he cannot read.

His experience raises serious questions, beyond whether people who are in this country with legal protection should be seized and detained by immigration agents. If ICE is going to apprehend people with disabilities, shouldn’t agents follow federal law and make the required accommodations available?

In a statement, an unidentified senior Department of Homeland Security official said medical staff provided Diaz “with a communications board and an American Sign Language interpreter.”

The statement ignored the fact that Diaz has DACA protection provided by the government. After the Times followed up again about that protection, a senior DHS official said in an email, “Deferred action does not confer any form of legal status in this country.”

“The facts are this individual is an illegal alien. This Administration is not going to ignore the rule of law,” the original statement read….”
 

2000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say​



“… It’s unclear when the troops will be mobilized, though the US official said the move, which is still under deliberation, could come as soon as this week. Both sources said the troops will be placed on Title 32 status, which puts them under the command of their governors and not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.

… The US official said the mobilization is expected to call up National Guard troops from as many as 20 states who will be tasked with some hands-on roles including conducting finger printing and mouth swabbing of detainees. National Guard forces have largely been used to provide administrative assistance to ICE thus far, though the US official said ICE has communicated the need for assistance in other areas….”
 
nycfan said:

2000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say​



“… It’s unclear when the troops will be mobilized, though the US official said the move, which is still under deliberation, could come as soon as this week. Both sources said the troops will be placed on Title 32 status, which puts them under the command of their governors and not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.

… The US official said the mobilization is expected to call up National Guard troops from as many as 20 states who will be tasked with some hands-on roles including conducting finger printing and mouth swabbing of detainees. National Guard forces have largely been used to provide administrative assistance to ICE thus far, though the US official said ICE has communicated the need for assistance in other areas….”
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This makes me glad that I'm not in the NG anymore. I'd have to tell them to get fucked. I didn't sign up for that shit.
 
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Swiftly Deporting Abrego Garcia Again​

El Salvador native mistakenly sent to his home country this year will for now remain in custody in Tennessee, where he faces criminal charges​


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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the government must give the 29-year-old Salvadoran native 72 hours notice before attempting to deport him to another country. She also ordered that he be sent to Maryland, where she has jurisdiction, if he is released from jail.

“The Court shares Plaintiffs’ ongoing concern that, absent meaningful safeguards, Defendants may once again remove Abrego Garcia from the United States without having restored him to the status quo ante and without due process,” Xinis said.

The ruling was a win for Abrego Garcia, guaranteeing him an opportunity to challenge any effort to deport him to a third country, and potentially allowing him to return to the state where his family lives.…”
 


“… Though he entered the United States legally at the San Diego border, appeared for an appointment the U.S. government gave him, and passed an initial credible fear interview, federal agents cited his tattoos—crowns reading “mom” and “dad”—as alleged proof of membership in the Tren de Aragua gang, something his lawyers continue to deny. He had no criminal record.

… In a televised interview aired on Venezuelan state media Monday, Hernández Romero alleged sexual abuse by guards. “In my particular case, I was sexually abused by the same Salvadoran authorities who guarded us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” he said in Spanish. He added, “We believed we would never see our families again."

Hernández Romero elaborated on the treatment in a video interview produced by the Nicolás Maduro-aligned program Con Maduro +. “I poured some water on myself, and they caught me,” Hernández Romero said. “They took me to solitary confinement and abused me. I was forced to perform oral sex on an officer. Three officers grabbed the batons and passed them over my private parts. And for me, that was just too devastating. It was my integrity as a human being, as a person of the [LGBTQ+] community, that [brought me to my lowest point.]"

…. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the abuse claims Tuesday, calling the deported men “criminal, illegal gang members,” according to the news agency.

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Lindsay Toczylowski, ImmDef’s cofounder and CEO, told The Advocate in a separate interview Monday that Hernández Romero’s case illustrated “a really dark foreshadowing of where we’re going as a country if this is allowed to stand.”

“These are people who were sent with no due process to be tortured, only to then be used as political pawns in a prisoner release that none of us were privy to before it happened, that none of them consented to being a part of,” she said.…”
 
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