"Yet there is another reason Abrego Garcia is useful as a captive body: his fate speaks to the apparent randomness of authoritarian repression. Autocracies encourage compliance by telegraphing that anyone can be a target. And now 'anyone,' including, theoretically, U.S. citizens born in the United States, could end up in a Salvadoran hellhole from which there is no exit."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/12
"The strongman would be nothing without bodies to control. He needs crowds to acclaim his projects of national greatness on camera, taxpayers and crypto investors to fund his bank accounts, soldiers to fight his wars, and enemy bodies to retain as captives."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/11
https://lucid.substack.com/p/bukeles-bodies-authoritarian-aesthetics
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks out, saying that she hopes "the strength of faith and the resilience within us will keep us standing after all the punches we continue to receive." In featuring this video, the God blog says,
"Jennifer’s voice is the sermon. Let her speak. Let it wreck you. Let it remind you what this country is doing in your name."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct
/10
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/god-has-not-forgotten-you-kilmar
#ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of MILLIONS for 'Complete target Analysis of Known Populations'
#JosephCox 16 april 2025
Dear Community 
: If you see #fascist and #whitesupremacist #PeterThiel in your club KICK HIM OUT!!!!
Lol, who could have guessed that the puppy shooter and Covid mass murderer would be as incompetent as she is evil?
"Kristi Noem's Publicity Stunt Spoiled Surprise ICE Raid, Sources Say"
YOU could be #domesticspying for a living, kid.
"At the same time, Palantir is running adverts at U.S. colleges [link] which say “a moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built—and why... We did.”
"#ICE Just Paid #Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘#TargetAnalysis of "Known Populations'; database revamp.
https://www.404media.co/ice-just-paid-palantir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/
Use https://archive.ph/RYjOI
There is no "other". That "them" or "they" newscasters point to with horror doesn't exist. "They" are made up to scare you into allowing cruelty. But the truth is, "They" are just like you, your friends, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters. "They" are you. Language and customs may be different, but "They" are still you.
"If this sounds like a fascist regime, that’s because it is. We have entered a dangerous territory, and not enough people are sounding the alarm."
N.B. My apologies: excerpts /4 and /5 are out of order: what's labeled as /5 should be /4 and vice versa.
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg #fascism
/4
"On Wednesday, US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that 'probable cause exists' to hold Trump Administration officials in criminal contempt for violating his court order regarding the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison."
~ Wajahat Ali
N.B. Excerpts /4 and /5 are out of order: what's labeled as /5 should be /4 and vice versa.
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg
/5
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-contempt-of-a-fascist-regime
"It also sets in motion a process that is likely to challenge whether the courts actually retain the ability to constrain the Trump administration — a fundamental question about whether our Constitution’s separation of powers remain functioning.
It is, ultimately, a question about whether the Constitution as we know it remains in effect."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg
/3
"The ruling from the chief judge of the federal district court in D.C. is the most direct decision from a federal court over the past 86 days asserting that the Trump administration has likely violated a court’s order."
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg
/2
"Chief Judge James Boasberg has found 'probable cause' that the Trump administration should be held in contempt because it 'willfully disobeyed' his Saturday, March 15 orders that the administration not deport people under President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation while a case challenging the proclamation could proceed."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg
/1
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-finds-probable-cause-the-trump
Sorry for not being a bundle of joy today, but the news is so incredibly bad, and there are stories that might be flying under the radar. I’ll try to make up for it with photos of flowers, cats, waves, etc.
Two stories just today on how the administration is ramping up its deportation efforts. We’re in scary, horrifying times:
Palantir is actively working on, and making updates to, the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
https://www.404media.co/ice-just-paid-palantir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/
Trump Is Creating a Deportation Army of Local Cops
https://themarkup.org/2025/04/16/trump-is-creating-a-deportation-army-of-local-cops
And relatedly:
Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE
https://themarkup.org/tools/2025/04/16/law-enforcement-ice-cooperation-tracker
@TexasObserver The CEO of #UnitedHealthcare that was shot by #Luigi Mangione will be remembered as Brian Thompson.
But the first #ICE member to die during an illegal #rendition will simply be remembered as an #American #Gestapo. 
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
If you see #ICE in #massachusetts please tell this organization.
“LUCE DEFENSE HOTLINE
THINK YOU SEE ICE IN YOUR AREA?
CALL: 617-370-5023
The hotline operates from 5am - 9pm every day of the week across multiple languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, and more to be added!”
#LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA https://www.lucemass.org/
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador’s vice president in push for prisoner’s release
“Why is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence that he’s committed any crime and they have not been provided any evidence from the United States that he has committed any crime?” Van Hollen told reporters after the meeting. “They should just let him go.”
"St Dept revoked~1200 student visas -means: students would need to reapply if they left the country but could remain in status. Then #ICE terminates the stu records assc, tries to arrests them, but now admits this:"
-Tanvi
"ICE is filing declarations in multiple cases admitting
THEY DON'T HAVE POWER TO TERMINATE STUDENT STATUS, so students whose records (SEVIS) are terminated remain in valid status -means colleges disenrolling students (a maj) are
punishing them for no reason."
-n th n
It's nice to dream of unfeasible, palatable or even ideal solutions to extreme problems.
But the cargo train of reality always runs those over.
If the tRump regime keeps ignoring the courts, the United States is headed, inexorably, to a civil war. If they disregard the Law, then only lethal force will stop them.
https://www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutierrez-ice-wrong-teen-el-salvador-2059783
#ALERT RED ALERT ...Abducting kids
#Newsweek 15 April 2025
#ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'
HOW THE FUCK IS THIS OKAY!!!?
#StopDeportations #StopKidnappings #StopTrafficking #FASCIST_USA #AbolishICE #JAILTomHoman
