April 16, 2025 by V Leigh

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding.

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding. https://t.co/i3FzsHFGFd
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025

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From the U.S. Holocaust Museum:

“What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.”

Welp.
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) April 14, 2025

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NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn’t even the target of an ICE operation — but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said “He’s not the one” when arrested! pic.twitter.com/GfiuUFydtP
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025

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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) April 15, 2025

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Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does. https://t.co/oYtQ3x7L0N
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 14, 2025

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President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, made it clear in a joint meeting that the Maryland man who was wrongly deported won’t be returned to the US https://t.co/teirguPSDq
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 14, 2025

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April 14, 2025 by V Leigh

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S. https://t.co/phVkofEeWN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2025

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MAJOR BREAKING: The President of El Salvador says he WON’T release Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“How can I return him to the U.S.? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the U.S.?”

Abrego-Garcia was NOT charged with Terrorism and the Supreme Court ordered Trump to facilitate his return. pic.twitter.com/5QLVDw5eLD
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 14, 2025

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🧵The Administration is indiscriminately sending people — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia — to El Salvador’s brutal prison system. Donald Trump has openly said he wants to, and will, send U.S. citizens to El Salvador next.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) April 14, 2025

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This is obviously a lie—the cruelty is the point. Kilmar must be returned home to the US immediately. Absolutely no one should be sent to Bukele’s torture camp. Trump ignoring a 9-0 Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar home is an unprecedented constitutional crisis. https://t.co/ddCpU18gi8
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) April 14, 2025

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BREAKING: This might be the most vile, lie-soaked, anti-American gaslighting yet:

– The Trump administration and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele are refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an innocent man illegally deported and locked in a foreign prison.

– Marco Rubio… pic.twitter.com/9Se32iPnSz
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025

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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: The Attorney General of the United States blatantly lied—not once, but four times in a matter of seconds.

I’d love for MAGA to explain why they’re perfectly fine with this level of dishonesty:

1) No court has ever ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a… pic.twitter.com/H3abET2i7V
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025

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1) Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally
2) Trump illegally sent him to a prison in El Salvador; the Administration admits this was a mistake
3) The Supreme Court unanimously ordered his return
4) Trump refused
5) Trump wants to do the same thing to U.S. citizens

This is sick. https://t.co/8odNp7CReO
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) April 14, 2025

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The illegal deportation and imprisonment of a person named Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a test.

My thoughts from @Morning_Joe: pic.twitter.com/cY7s99OTQv
— Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) April 14, 2025

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Senator Van Hollen threatening to go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia is good. What’s happening to him is wrong, and we need Dems to draw attention to it: “If Kilmar is not home by midweek–I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and… pic.twitter.com/FjCZCRyfQd
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) April 14, 2025

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April 10, 2025 by V Leigh

If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

Link in thread ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/s9k9TSXvdr
— (((Jacob Bogage))) (@jacobbogage) April 5, 2025

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Nazis obtain list of all suspected Jews in Germany, begin process of “locating” them for “mass deportation.” https://t.co/FgIHSJJBIh
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 5, 2025

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In Baltimore, ICE is arresting people so quickly it can’t transfer them out fast enough, forcing people to stay in squalid cells for days; cells designed only for a short stay under 12 hours. No beds. No bathroom privacy. No showers.

Here’s what one grandmother experienced. https://t.co/MFFSBMafdD pic.twitter.com/gFZ5cTR74Z
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 9, 2025

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Chinese Woman Dies by Suicide While in Border Patrol Custody https://t.co/GkfWvgxSGq
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 7, 2025

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We demand @smartunionworks apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia be returned to his family. Bring him home now. pic.twitter.com/raEXE2Xvb5
— The Building Trades (@NABTU) April 9, 2025

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Jennifer, the @hispaniccaucus stands with you. We demand that the Trump administration correct this wrong and bring Kilmar home ✊🏽 #kilmarabregogarcia pic.twitter.com/AJm7X79Cv5
— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@HispanicCaucus) April 9, 2025

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If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?

No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.

Fascism is here.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 8, 2025

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April 8, 2025 by V Leigh

Trump’s racism knows no bounds. The deportation of a man incorrectly to El Salvador is not reversible…

Trump’s racism knows no bounds. The deportation of a man incorrectly to El Salvador is not reversible… pic.twitter.com/J37vxLo3KZ
— Save Our Citizenships 🔻 (@LetsStopC9) April 3, 2025

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Not only did Trump send an innocent father of a disabled child married to a 🇺🇸 citizen to an El Salvador labor prison— he’s refusing a judge’s order to bring him back… and had AG @PamBondi place the DOJ attorney who admitted it’s wrong on leave.

Cruelty. https://t.co/RAkP3Ujgxm pic.twitter.com/01D3aOdBhz
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 6, 2025

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The Disappeared: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine and the Shadow Prison in El Salvador

A Knock at the Door, Then Nothing

🧵1/10: Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your brother is gone.

Not missing—disappeared.

No phone call. No charges. No lawyer.

And days… pic.twitter.com/NeR8vdhfgO
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) March 30, 2025

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Never forget that they sent a guy to Guantanamo Bay whose only criminal arrest in his life was for riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road.

They said everyone sent there was “the worst of the worst.” https://t.co/7AncggsHce pic.twitter.com/kx51GD4Hpp
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 6, 2025

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ICE is arresting third graders, handcuffing them and putting them in detention with adult criminals. pic.twitter.com/g4E7ua0OoW
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 6, 2025

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— Gritty is the Way (@Gritty20202) April 6, 2025

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Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly.

He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Bring them back! https://t.co/vFxKcJ0iIX pic.twitter.com/peVzx12l5s
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 7, 2025

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Longtime immigrant farmworker and organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino was violently arrested last month and is now in a private ICE jail in Tacoma, Washington. The government claims he had a deportation order from 2018, which he had never been told about.

Juarez Zeferino’s… pic.twitter.com/C9GUUqTu32
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 4, 2025

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60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”

Moral bankruptcyhttps://t.co/4eBW8cmAuV
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) April 7, 2025

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April 4, 2025 by V Leigh

While the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, it maintains he’s a gang member. But his American wife Jennifer told us he is an “amazing father” and “not a criminal.” He’s now at one of the world’s most notorious prisons.

While the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, it maintains he’s a gang member.

But his American wife Jennifer told us he is an “amazing father” and “not a criminal.”

He’s now at one of the world’s most notorious prisons. pic.twitter.com/C26ClmbFQu
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) April 2, 2025

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The Trump administration knowingly deported a Maryland father with legal protection from removal—sending him to El Salvador’s megaprison.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia:

– Came to the U.S. at 16 after fleeing gang death threats
⁰– In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding… pic.twitter.com/kKZBPq7GpU
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 1, 2025

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The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia. pic.twitter.com/JKBJxsh5b5
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) April 1, 2025

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March 28, 2025 by V Leigh

ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

ICE arrested US-born citizen Julio Noriega. He spent most of the night in immigration detention.

But Noriega was lucky – he carried his Social Security card on him. If he didn’t, he could have been there much longer.

Americans carry their papers and still get detained by ICE. pic.twitter.com/S2sjkWBJsa
— The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh) March 21, 2025

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Trump is trying to deport a Columbia Univ. student who has been a permanent resident in the U.S. since she was 7.

Her “crime”?

Attending a protest against the war in Gaza.

No, Mr. President. This is a democracy. You can’t exile political dissidents. Not in the United States.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 25, 2025

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‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts st… https://t.co/48iSqlrgX6 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) March 27, 2025

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“I can’t help but think about what would happen if this was my daughter, if this was my niece?” @VinceWarren reacts to the detention of a Tufts University PhD student by ICE agents. “This is what the face of unfolding authoritarianism looks like.” pic.twitter.com/eIsApXb4F1
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) March 27, 2025

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A Tufts student was taken by federal agents.
No charges. 20+ hours detained.
Still no explanation.

This isn’t just alarming—it’s a test.
🛑 Can the government detain you without cause?
🗣️ Can due process be ignored? pic.twitter.com/GNhOiM0S63
— Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) March 27, 2025

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) March 24, 2025

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If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.

We must speak out now — before there is no one…
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 25, 2025

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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR.

This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name! https://t.co/eHP0UJNUNE pic.twitter.com/oI05WX5oSR
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) March 27, 2025

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NEW: @MiamiHerald reveals that one of the people imprisoned in El Salvador HAD LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the country legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had passed a full background check.

Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador. pic.twitter.com/XqkBlgWvNt
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) March 25, 2025

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ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said.

He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.https://t.co/lkFtAuOVwF
— ProPublica (@propublica) March 26, 2025

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March 21, 2025 by V Leigh

It’s important you understand this. The people in this photo were residents of the USA that were denied due process. They were rounded up and shipped to a prison in El Salvador—without trial, without evidence—simply on suspicion of gang affiliation. This was done in defiance of our American courts that deemed the action illegal. They could be legal residents. They could be innocent bystanders. They could be asylum seekers. For all we know, they could be U.S. citizens. Now, they’re trapped in one of the most violent prisons on Earth, enduring brutality beyond what most of us can imagine. If you don’t find this morally repulsive, then you are morally repulsive.

It’s important you understand this.

The people in this photo were residents of the USA that were denied due process. They were rounded up and shipped to a prison in El Salvador—without trial, without evidence—simply on suspicion of gang affiliation.

This was done in defiance… pic.twitter.com/r4W9PHTeYT
— Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 (@JoshEakle) March 17, 2025

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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego b… https://t.co/KbEMgI8F9E via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) March 19, 2025

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This is FUCKING INSANE

Trump’s ICE goons detained a Canadian actress because of confusion over a work visa for TWO WEEKS – shackled, thrown in a van, sent to AZ, kept awake, not allowed to contact a lawyerhttps://t.co/3DtPrwxwiK
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 20, 2025

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ICE agents in Spokane, Washington breaking into a car with a woman who is allegedly pregnant.

This is America under Trump now. SICK. pic.twitter.com/1h6LPhaAPf
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 18, 2025

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January 31, 2025 by V Leigh

It’s already happened. ICE did a raid in New Jersey and detained BOTH citizens, and non-citizens, without a warrant. They even detained a U.S. military vet. You’re not safe.

It’s already happened.

ICE did a raid in New Jersey and detained BOTH citizens, and non-citizens, without a warrant.

They even detained a U.S. military vet.

You’re not safe. https://t.co/NbvmOofygE
— Pariss Athena | Founder of Black Tech Pipeline (@ParissAthena) January 23, 2025

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— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) January 22, 2025

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BREAKING: Oklahoma’s State Board of Education approved a proposal requiring parents to prove citizenship when enrolling kids in school.

This direct violation of rights is a clear attempt to terrorize families across the state.

We urge the OK legislature & governor to reject it.
— National Immigration Law Center (@NILC) January 28, 2025

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“But they’re only going to round up immigrants committing crimes!”

No. ICE is already rounding up innocent American citizens. ⬇️ https://t.co/d2n4mKhfjT
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 29, 2025

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It only took 10 days to get to concentration camps. https://t.co/Xm7PDXHIfT
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) January 29, 2025

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November 9, 2023 by V Leigh

US-Mexico Border Named the Deadliest Migration Route in the World

US-Mexico Border Named the Deadliest Migration Route in the World @AlexTenorioMD & I share our thoughts on the deadly 30-ft border walls that Biden now is building at Friendship Park.https://t.co/QPRdT1PRqz via @sandiegomag
— Pedro Rios (@Pedroconsafos) September 23, 2023

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8-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM PARENTS

These horrors are happening under a Democratic administration.

It’s time to end the duopoly.https://t.co/MOpRIDKgfV pic.twitter.com/pjnCRw3QfY
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 21, 2023

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August 5, 2023 by V Leigh

What Abbott is doing at the border is barbaric. This is a grave violation of human rights. Migrants deserve to be treated with human dignity.

Really important that this story not get lost today. https://t.co/r94IHE5x9c
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) August 3, 2023

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BREAKING: Feds sue Abbott over drowning devices in Rio Grande.

Let’s keep up the pressure.

We want the buoys & netting removed, the razor wire under the water & on the banks removed and for DPS to respect Border Patrol authority.

Now, before more die. https://t.co/qerH29eXsM
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) July 21, 2023

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Two people found dead in Rio Grand https://t.co/kc7jb2tKQx
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) August 3, 2023

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How long can we allow this to continue? How many more innocent lives must be lost? Immigration policy is set at the federal level, and the federal government must take action.

Join me in demanding that the Biden administration put a stop to these horrific and inhumane practices.… pic.twitter.com/Vgle2HKVzh
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 3, 2023

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What Abbott is doing at the border is barbaric. This is a grave violation of human rights. Migrants deserve to be treated with human dignity.https://t.co/pjrRFhZrsP
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) August 3, 2023

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We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding.

Like this:

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.

Like this:

If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

Like this:

Trump’s racism knows no bounds. The deportation of a man incorrectly to El Salvador is not reversible…

Like this:

While the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, it maintains he’s a gang member. But his American wife Jennifer told us he is an “amazing father” and “not a criminal.” He’s now at one of the world’s most notorious prisons.

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ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

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It’s already happened. ICE did a raid in New Jersey and detained BOTH citizens, and non-citizens, without a warrant. They even detained a U.S. military vet. You’re not safe.

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US-Mexico Border Named the Deadliest Migration Route in the World

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