Mass Deportation and Immigration Catch-All | Trump “Gold Card” path to citizenship for $5 million

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ole howard1 said:
Not sure if this is best to include on this thread, but thought I’d share.

My girlfriend works at a private school and recruits international students and coordinates short- and long-term visits. She has a group of 8 or 9 Brazilian teenagers in town, and they visited Charleston late last week and weekend (snow on the ground).

They were in a pizza joint having lunch. She had to go to the ATM and was away a few minutes. She said when she got back, the waitress was all apologizing and upset. Some man, on his way out, started berating the kids about they needed to speak English, and they didn’t belong here, and that’s why we had to have Trump.

She put something on Facebook about it, and was told to take it down. Could be the school understandably wants to keep kids out of contentious discussions. Also: a good many Trumpy types associated with that school.

In any case, it’s not surprising that bigots are feeling emboldened. I’m sorry those kids had to go through that. They mostly seem very nice.
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ole howard1 said:
Not sure if this is best to include on this thread, but thought I’d share.

My girlfriend works at a private school and recruits international students and coordinates short- and long-term visits. She has a group of 8 or 9 Brazilian teenagers in town, and they visited Charleston late last week and weekend (snow on the ground).

They were in a pizza joint having lunch. She had to go to the ATM and was away a few minutes. She said when she got back, the waitress was all apologizing and upset. Some man, on his way out, started berating the kids about they needed to speak English, and they didn’t belong here, and that’s why we had to have Trump.

She put something on Facebook about it, and was told to take it down. Could be the school understandably wants to keep kids out of contentious discussions. Also: a good many Trumpy types associated with that school.

In any case, it’s not surprising that bigots are feeling emboldened. I’m sorry those kids had to go through that. They mostly seem very nice.
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Something like this is going to get me locked up again. No telling what I would have said to that redneck and what would have transpired if I did.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
The rate of these questionable orders is so high that SCOTUS wouldn't be able to take them all up even if they wanted to. That might turn out to be a good thing.
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True. So far, though, they have been so obviously illegal that it doesn't really matter whether SCOTUS addresses them or not. I can't see the birthright citizenship order getting more than Alito and Thomas' votes, and it could be unanimous. This teacher talk order also constitutes not only content-discrimination but viewpoint discrimination, and would be subject to a strict scrutiny that it could not withstand, not even close.

One thing to remember is that we get to control the venues now. The right-wingers took their bullshit lawsuits to the Fifth because that was the only place they would be given the time of day (well, the 8th has become pretty fucking bad as well). When liberals challenge orders, they will go to the 9th, the 2nd or DC.
 


A reminder that a major goal of the immigrant bluster by Homan and Trump and others is to induce “self-deportation”.
 


"A longtime immigration enforcement official has been tapped to run the agency responsible for managing unaccompanied migrant children, in a move that has alarmed experts and advocates who are concerned that information about children and their families will be shared for arrests and deportations.

For the past two decades, an office within the Department of Health and Human Services has supervised children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian. The government handed this duty to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, not its immigration enforcement agency, underscoring that the process shouldn’t be punitive but instead is meant to help safely place children with sponsors living in the United States.

That wall eroded during President Donald Trump’s first administration, when the ORR began to share identifying information about unaccompanied children and their potential sponsors with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, presaging a wave of arrests. Congress put limits on this sharing and President Joe Biden stopped the practice — but a new hire in Trump’s second administration has advocates and experts worried the separation between the agencies is once again breaking down.

Mellissa Harper, a veteran immigration enforcement officer at ICE, has been tapped to lead the ORR, according to three current and former government officials, and oversee the care of unaccompanied migrant children. The officials requested anonymity to discuss government operations. Her position is a federal detail, according to a federal employee directory, which allows career government employees to transfer between agencies for temporary roles.

This appears to be the first time an ICE official has been hired to lead the refugee resettlement office, former administration officials told ProPublica. Harper’s experience mostly comprises immigration enforcement. A former ICE official said Harper has a good reputation inside the agency and expertise dealing with issues involving minors across the government. ..."
 

Trump administration seeking access to database of immigrant minors​

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for caring for unaccompanied minors, has long operated independently of ICE.


“The Trump administration is seeking to grant U.S. immigration officers access to databases that contain the information on hundreds of thousands of immigrant teens and children who crossed into the United States without their parents, White House border czar Tom Homan told The Washington Post in an interview Friday.

… A similar effort during President Donald Trump’s first term drew swift outrage from civil-liberties groups who said it forced children to stay in federal custody longer, and led to the arrests of immigrant adults who had no criminal histories.

Homan said he would not rule out the use of the data for enforcement purposes in the future, but said the main focus of the information sharing is to verify that the children, who had been released from ORR custody in the past few years, were safe.

“This is about finding the kids,” Homan said. “The data won’t be used for enforcement work.”

The Trump administration has installed Mellissa Harper, a career ICE official, to run ORR, according to a former U.S. official with knowledge of the appointment, which was first reported by ProPublica on Friday. …”
 

Pentagon plans to start migrant flights to Guantanamo this weekend​

This would make good on the president’s promise to use the base as a detainment facility.


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The military has flown eight flights so far — including four to Guatemala, three to Honduras and one to Ecuador — all using military aircraft. But this is the first time migrants would head to the base in Cuba, which presents a unique set of legal and logistical challenges.
Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that instructs the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department to use the base for migrants. Defense officials have been scramblingsince to come up with a plan to house up to 30,000 people, far more than the 780 detainees who stayed in a base detention camp during the peak of the war on terror.

This gives the military another costly, short-notice mission as officials also seek to meet a separate Trump order for more troops at the southern border. …”

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"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal"

I guess Nixon didn’t have nearly enough imagination about what that could mean for his own power and resisting the Watergate investigation… but it seems Trump and John Roberts did.
 
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