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#deportation

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, a key humanitarian aid hub, suffers hellish night and morning of Russian strikes — Russia is weaponizing deportation — Ukraine proposes peace talks with Russia next week — [vlog/video blog] 24 hours inside Pokrovsk as Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city … and more

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Criminal behavior carried out by the U.S. Government — "Relatives of 82-year-old Allentown [PA] resident Luis Leon are headed to a Guatemalan hospital... in hopes of reuniting with the man they say disappeared without a trace into the American immigration system a month ago — and who, for a time, they thought was dead..."

Can happen to you or your loved ones, too.
mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon
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#ICE #deportation #senior #Pennsylvania

The Morning Call · Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they sayBy Daniel Patrick Sheehan

The "... immigration crackdown is beginning to strain the long-term care work force, raising concerns about how the effects could ripple across the nation’s senior population.
...
Providers say the reduction in staff could threaten the quality of services they are able to offer to the nation’s senior population... "
nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/poli
#ICE #deportation #seniors #dystopia

Staff members serving food to residents of Sinai Residences, a retirement community in Boca Raton, Fla.
The New York Times · Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work ForceBy Madeleine Ngo
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Grenell told #Trump he had persuaded #Maduro to resume suspended
#deportation flights to Caracas in return for release of the Americans. The #State Dept eventually resumed talks leading to the final deal.

For the returned #Venezuelans, the agreement ended 4 months of confinement in what both Salvadoran & US #HumanRights groups have called one of the most brutal facilities in the hemisphere, deprived of access to lawyers or their families.

Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:

“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”

“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”

A month later, he was gone.
propublica.org/article/venezue

ProPublicaHe Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
More from ProPublica

Congress gave the Trump administration more than $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security. The windfall, meant to fund the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, comes with logistical challenges for federal agencies. #immigration #ICE #border #deportation

csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/202

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The Christian Science Monitor · Trump’s deportation push is now flush with cash. Here’s how it might be spent.By Sarah Matusek
click.actionnetwork.orgNo American Gulags. Demand Congress investigate, expose, and stop ICE’s human trafficking and indefinite detention of immigrants in foreign prisons now. When people in masks jump out of unmarked vehicles with no visible identification, handcuff someone, and take them to an undisclosed location to detain them indefinitely, that’s not law enforcement. It’s kidnapping. That’s what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are doing on the streets of American cities. When the U.S. government then sends the people they’ve kidnapped to a foreign country, the practice escalates to human trafficking. From El Salvador and South Sudan to Angola, Uzbekistan, and at least 16 other countries, ICE is creating a global pipeline of American-sponsored gulags in countries often notorious for violence and human rights violations. And those sent to these overseas prisons have no idea how long they may remain incarcerated in a country that is not their home. The U.S. Constitution is clear: Not only is every person entitled to due process in a court of law, but even those convicted of crimes must not endure cruel and unusual punishment. Documents show that more than 71 percent of current ICE detainees have no criminal conviction, yet that didn’t stop ICE from trafficking detainees to CECOT, the infamous Salvadoran torture prison where it’s been said “the only way out is in a coffin.” There should be no such thing as an American gulag. Congressional pressure has already resulted in the release of one person from CECOT: Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, was returned to the United States after Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., flew to El Salvador to meet with him. But that’s not enough: Congress must use every tool at its disposal to put an end to the administration’s illegal deportation — and not stop until every deported person wrongly imprisoned in a foreign country is brought home. Add your name to demand Congress immediately investigate ICE’s human trafficking and indefinite detention of immigrants in foreign prisons, hold public hearings, release the findings, and do everything in its power to put an end to American-sponsored gulags now.

Inside ICE’s Supercharged #FacialRecognition App of 200 Million Images

#ICE officers are able to point their smartphone’s camera at a person & near instantaneously run their face against a bank of 200 million images, then pull up their name, date of birth, nationality, unique identifiers such as their “alien” number, & whether an #immigration judge has determined they should be #deported from the country, according to ICE material …
#dhs #deport #deportation #privacy

404media.co/inside-ices-superc

404 Media · Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.
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This looks like a clear sign to show how difficult it is for #Trump to deport people to 'Third Countries'.

That they need to bribe, the terms of the agreement are classified, the king of a tiny country like Eswatini (former Swaziland) with just 1.2 million inhabitants, to take 5 deportees.

Yet, arranging #camps in other countries was also Hitler's solution to prevent #oversight. That part of history, they know.

archive.ph/voPQn

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
#Deportation

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The #IRS is building a #ComputerProgram that would give #deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential #tax #data.

ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing #ICE to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.

Last month, in a previously undisclosed dispute, the acting general counsel at the IRS, Andrew De Mello, refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3M #taxpayers sought by ICE.