#dhs
The family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was forced to move to a safe house after DHS (Kristi Noem) posted a legal document on social media revealing their home address.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194289/abrego-garcia-wife-hiding-dhs-address
#DHS #KritiNoem #Trump
"With hurricane season just weeks away, about 20% of FEMA’s permanent full-time staff – roughly 1,000 workers – are expected to take a voluntary buyout as part of the latest staff reduction effort from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to several sources briefed on the looming departures."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/fema-staff-cuts-hurricane-season/index.html
Trump's #DHS doxed the home address of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family on social media, forcing them to flee.
Only 4 ways to look at this:
DHS leadership's incompetent
OR
DHS leadership is malicious
OR
it's criminal
OR
all of the above.
All of the above.
The US had the Department of Defense (previously known as Department of War) do deportations because a court said DHS could not.
I really did not want the NOAA planes that fly into hurricanes axed.
But given where we are, such a move might save lives.
#SouthernCALIFORNIA: #DHS raid on day workers, 10 arrested, outside a #HomeDepot in #Pomona on Tuesday morning.
Also, activists are raising the alarm that #SouthEastAsianImmigants are being targeted in #LosAngeles and #OrangeCounty
(SOURCE: #DemocracyNow headlines 24 April 2025)
WTF! #AbregoGarcia Family Flees to Safe House After #Trump #DHS Posts Home Address on Social Media | Common Dreams
While the abduction and attempts to deport every foreign student who participated in anti-genocide protests on American campuses are all important stories, I'm genuinely surprised Trump's targeting of Rumeysa Ozturk hasn't become a flashpoint in this larger story, the way the Abrego Garcia abduction has in the trafficking migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador scandal.
Frankly, demonizing anti-genocide protestors is a bipartisan sport in the American establishment, but the Ozturk abduction is unique in that she never participated in a protest; the regime is detaining and attempting to deport Ozturk because she wrote an op-ed calling for Tufts University to divest from Israel while it conducts a genocide, and the wrong people noticed. Specifically Canary Mission, a doxing group that specializes in harassing anti-genocide protestors in multiple Pig Empire nations. Soon after the group accused Ozturk of antisemitic activities; again, for writing an op-ed calling on Tufts to divest from Israel, she was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents in a video half the country watched and shared online.
This transcript of a recent interview with one of Ozturk's lawyers touched on the subject of the Trump regime obtaining target lists from an anonymous doxing group with unclear funding, and provides an update on Ozturk's legal fight; which appears to be going about as well as can be expected because all of this is fascist Calvinball bullshit designed to silence dissent and protect a genocide being conducted by an American client state.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/rumeysa_ozturk_vermont_ice_tufts
“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk
"JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And could you talk about the role of Canary Mission and others like it in, essentially, identifying for the government people that they should be deporting?
MUDASSAR TOPPA: Yeah, and, you know, I think at this point there’s been a clear connection that we can draw — right? — from the doxxing organizations, the pro-Israeli doxxing organizations. And there is a clear doxxing-to-deportation pipeline that’s taking place.
And in Ms. Öztürk’s case, it’s even more apparent, because Ms. Öztürk was not a known organizer or advocate for any cause, really. And Ms. Öztürk’s sole sort of publicly identifiable association to the movement against the genocide and the movement for Palestinian human rights was this co-authored op-ed in her school newspaper that was really just asking the university to respect the wishes and the vote of the student Senate. And, you know, all of the sudden, in February of 2025, almost a year after she’s written — she’s co-written this op-ed, Canary Mission publishes a page on her, doxxing her and alleging that she’s engaged in antisemitic behavior because of this co-authored op-ed. And less than a month later, she’s abducted by ICE.
And so, it’s very chilling that the government seems to be taking their marching orders from these private doxxing organizations with mysterious funding and backing. And I think it underscores why the government’s actions are simply unconscionable."
The #Trump admin sent more *alleged* gang members to #ElSalvador despite a Massachusetts court order barring #deportations to 3rd-party countries.
They say the order only applied to the #DHS & so they had #DoD carry out the deportations.
Dishonest as hell.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.72.0.pdf
![DHS did not direct the Department of Defense to remove [fill in the blank for name] The Department of Defense is not a defendant in this action.](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/393/342/144/982/432/original/040fefe24579c822.png)
A fed judge in MD: ordered the Trump admin to facilitate the return of a 20-yr-old VE man deported to SLV, whose removal violated a previous ct stlmt.
US Dist Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a TRUMP APPOINTEE -ordered the govtNOT TO REMOVE OTHER INDIVs covered by the stlmt.
"The Trump admin sent alleged gang members to SLV despite a ct’s order barring deportations to 3rd-party Cs.
The orderonly applied to the #DHS. #DoD carried out the #deportations."
-K Cheney
#USPol
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-return-2nd-migrant-deported-el-salvador/story?id=121110233
#DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from #DHS , #SSA, and #IRS that could create #surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
Scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive #biometric data, has never been done before, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous #privacy violations for citizens, certified foreign workers, and immigrants.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/?_sp=e9adc494-f8c7-4f7a-829f-a372923ac483.1745016079807
https://archive.ph/M18Ta
In an act of profound petulance and cruelty that is very reminiscent of the Bush regime's attempts to silence critics of the War on Terror, Trump's Gestapo has literally doxed Abrego Garcia's family for their father's crime of uh, being wrongfully trafficked to a torture prison in El Salvador by mistake, apparently.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-salvador-prison-trump
Abrego Garcia Family Flees to Safe House After Trump DHS Posts Home Address on Social Media
"The Trump administration has not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran megaprison due to an "administrative error" and so far refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the United States, but also shared on social media the home address of his family in Maryland, forcing them to relocate.
The news that Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, and her children were "moved to a safe house by supporters" after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X a 2021 order of protection petition that Vasquez Sura filed but soon abandoned was reported early Tuesday by The Washington Post.
"I don't feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions," said Vasquez Sura. "So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I'm scared for my kids."
At this point we've all heard "the cruelty is the point" enough times that it's become a catchphrase, but I am consistently stunned by the Trump regime's ability to find new and more appalling ways to lower the bar for pettiness and a lack of human decency. There is absolutely no way you're ever going to convince me DHS and the White House didn't just expose Garcia's wife and children to the ire of Trump's white nationalist base on purpose, and I think the lack of comment from the regime makes it clear that I'm right about that.
As I've mentioned before, the problem with nearly every Trump administration authoritarian operation is that they're all a Russian nesting doll of fascist fuckery that start out wrong on the merits, and just get more outrageous and disconnected from reality as the situation evolves. The regime had no legal authority to traffic any of the men it sent to CECOT to a foreign torture prison for what appear to be mostly the civil violation of being in America without documentation; full stop. It doesn't matter if they're in a gang, even though most of them apparently weren't. It doesn't matter if they're guilty of a criminal offense, even though most of them apparently weren't. And it doesn't matter if they were husband of the year, even though every family member that has come forward have all demanded the return of their loved ones. Deportation is a legal process that requires the government to prove they have a valid reason to remove a person from the country, and the defendant gets a chance to argue against that evidence. Whatever happened here, kidnapping brown men with tattoos to then traffic them to a torture prison in El Salvador, they weren't deportations and they weren't legal.
The kidnapping, trafficking and continued detention of Abrego Garcia however is even more outrageous and appalling because the government has already admitted multiple times in court that it was a mistake that never should have happened, even by the twisted fascist logic the regime is using to justify the rest of the "deportations." Now after getting waxed multiple times in court, including a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court that sits three Trump-appointed judges, and a grotesque attempt to provoke a constitutional crisis over the matter, the regime is petulantly refusing to return Garcia to the United States and seeking retribution for the indignity of being told they can't do this fascist bullshit, by terrorizing Garcia's wife and children.
I'm a prison abolitionist myself, but if we're going to have prisons whether I like them or not, then let me be the first to say Stephen Miller, Karoline Leavitt, and literally all the mutherfuckers in Trump's DHS, should be in fucking prison right now. This is outrageous and the word Nixonian doesn't do the fascist fuckery on display here enough justice.
US DHS spent over $500k on 30+ YouTube ads targeting migrants with deportation threats, focused on states like CA & TX. The campaign promotes self-deportation using the CBP One app. #DHS #AdTech #Immigration
Hermosillo should file a lawsuit against Homeland Security for wrongful detention. Trump and those in his administration will keep depriving citizens of their civil rights unless people fight back.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-wrongly-detained-ice-patrol-governments-account-false/ #Immigration #DHS #CivilRights #WrongfulDetention #Racism #Politics
A US citizen w/ a learning disability suffering a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside an ER. He ends up detained 10 days in an icebox w/ the DHS assistant secretary lying about him to the public. #ICE #DHS #AmericanCitizen https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border
#Resist! Four Maine college presidents sign national letter decrying Trump education 'overreach'
Riley Board, Portland Press Herald, Maine
Tue, April 22, 2025
"Four Maine higher education leaders have signed on to a letter accusing the Trump administration of 'unprecedented government overreach and political interference.'
"Safa Zaki of #BowdoinCollege, Garry Jenkins of #BatesCollege, David Greene of #ColbyCollege and James Herbert of the #UniversityOfNewEngland all added their names to the letter, published Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. More than 230 presidents of colleges, universities and scholarly societies throughout the country have signed so far.
" 'We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight,' the letter reads. 'However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work on our campuses. We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding.'
"Though the letter primarily represents private institutions, leaders from a handful of state colleges and universities signed on, including University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes and Eastern Connecticut State University President Karim Ismaili. A spokesperson for the University of Maine system declined to comment.
"In recent months, the Trump administration has pulled or threatened to pull federal funding from higher education institutions that don't comply with his agenda on #StudentProtesters, admissions practices and #TransgenderAthlete policies.
"The administration has also revoked the visas of hundreds of international students. On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security [#DHS] and other agencies behind the visa revocations, asking that a judge restore the visas of any New England students who have had them wrongfully removed, and protecting future students from the same actions."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-maine-college-presidents-sign-224700038.html
DHS doxxes victim: Wife of the man illegally transported to El Salvador is now in hiding after the federal government shared her home address on X
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html
#immigration #civilrights #government #politics #dhs
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said foreign “propaganda” would be banned after US anti-migrant ads ran on national TV.
The commercials showed US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem warning that anyone crossing the US-Mexico border illegally would be prosecuted and deported.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/22/2025/sheinbaum-bans-us-propaganda
Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online
Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media…
