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Jessica Moats's avatar

Her cosplaying some law and order in front of El Salvador prisoners asked to take their shirts off and show tattoos is supposed to make us think the supposed Venezuelan gang members with hummingbird tattoos are these same people? And everyone says locking up all those suspected gangsters in El Salvador was worth it “even if some innocents might have been locked up as well” because crime is down. And supposedly worth it because they are mostly “monsters” and don’t deserve due process or access to lawyers. I get that victims of gangs have every right to want justice but how does this not sound like gestapo shit and look like concentration camps (or the road to that)? Maybe she knowingly wore the Rolex since that is all MSM is focused on.

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Elizabeth McIlvaine's avatar

Noem is an evil and appalling person. Crime is not down because they sent people to El Salavador because everyone who was sent there was already incarcerated. How are we supposed to know if they are monsters if there is no due process? What is to stop them from sending you or me? I want to listen to the next hearing in the case. The ACLU lawyer said he has gathered evidence of the innocence of several people. I am so ashamed of our government and hope the courts can get these people back.

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Elizabeth's avatar

For the record, poor white folks like me don't feel safe either. A body could forget their wallet going down town and next thing we know we're in El Salvador. This is not my America.

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Sean McLaughlin's avatar

I carry a passport ID card now in addition to everything else. One of our brothers [US Armed Forces veterans] was held by ICE for a couple days. They did not care about his State ID nor would recognize his veteran status.

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qps's avatar

Pretty sure that was the point of this piece in the first place, that no one should feel safe because it is only a matter of time. As of right now, the overwhelming majority of innocents being deported are not white. But they can and will do whatever they please with any of us as long as this is allowed to go on. As far as I could tell, that was the entire point of this piece.

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Carolea Hassard's avatar

The regime is trying to rid itself of "enemies." These early abductions are a softening of the ground by Project 2025 to teach people that that's how government works.

Project 2025 has already taught Republicans that immigrants are bad people. So this is a logical next step. Get the foreign nationals. Then it will be brown US citizens - born here - and then white ones. No criminal act needed. Just your speech.

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Margaret Gacki's avatar

Thank goodness for lawyers like Maria Kari. Who else would stand up for these targeted people AND represent them pro bono. ✊🏼🙏🏼

"ICE Gestapo" indeed!

As always, thanks Waj for these guest interviews and introducing us to these "Superheroes for the people". 🙂💙

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Carl Selfe's avatar

The Tufts University PhD candidate Rumeysa Ozturk was snatched off the streets by 6 ICE agents. She was moved from Massachusetts to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, a deeply Red state. There are growing questions about how she was taken into custody and the timeline of sending her out of state. One major issue is whether federal authorities defied the court order to keep Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts, as it was issued just hours after her arrest Tuesday night. Assuming that 6 agents were needed to apprehend and detain this female student, it would seem this was a detailed choreographed plan. https://bit.ly/3QQxe4X

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Elizabeth's avatar

6 agents? What did they think she was going to do? Write an article on the spot?

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James Rankin's avatar

"6 agents were needed to apprehend and detain this female student" Oh, she was that dangerous?

And as I understand all the agents wore masks (although they're prohibiting students in certain universities from wearing masks), & plain clothes, so they couldn't be identified & couldn't even be verified as being ICE or any other kind of government official.

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Vivian Phillips's avatar

International students bring in >$330 BILLION. They can bring that money elsewhere. Same for tourists.

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James Rankin's avatar

And they will. Go to Canada. UK. Australia. France. Japan. Even China is safer.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

The lawlessness of the Trump Administration deprives us all of our civil rights. Big law sues the Administration to right the ship. Espionage Act laws were broken. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/conspiracy-against-us?r=3m1bs

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Suzanne Kause's avatar

Please stop referring to the drumpf government as an administration. Let's call it what it IS: REGIME / AUTOCRACY/ OLIGARCHY / Bro_LIGARCHY /FASCISM... pick one or all

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James Rankin's avatar

How about junta or cabal? Kleptocracy?

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hw's avatar

The US will be a banana republic within a year, if our current trajectory remains unchanged.

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Wanda's avatar

You reap what you sow! ALL this picking on people groups students the orange felon will get his just desserts in due time!!!

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James Rankin's avatar

Thanks for this coverage, Waj!

I have a personal question to Waj, who seems to be an expert on this subject, but if anybody else knows, please chime in... I love chai, & up until last week, all the ones I ever had had been at least mildly sweet (sometimes a bit too sweet). Last week I received a chai that wasn't sweet at all. I still liked it, although not as much as usual, but it was actually kind of nice that for once what I got was too little (or in this case no) sugar or sweetener instead of too much. My question to you is... is that the way authentic chais are supposed to be -- unsweetened -- or are the mildly sweet chais we generally are served in the US the right way to prepare chais, or perhaps something else?

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Renata Weir's avatar

Consider dark enlightenment

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/dark-enlightenment-rising-the-billionaire-071?r=amsga&utm_medium=ios

It appears to explain last 8 weeks and the end goal of demolishing govt, and democracy.

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Sean McLaughlin's avatar

Since we're talking about law firms and proper organizations, it's not "bending the knee" but rather *osculum infame.* While not red, our orange devil will have to do.

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Matt Smelley's avatar

among her many many other issues I had a Casio G-SHOCK ( $59.00) AND that watch lasted 5 years

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