Something I haven't seen spoken about, but is really important re: #immigrant status in the US
Activities that the government decide go against the "good moral character" aspect of naturalization (e.g., support for groups the government deem terrorist organizations) that occur within 5 years of naturalization (re: after naturalization) can be cause to have your citizenship revoked.
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"A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on Mar 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to #CECOT that day & no one spotted him among those men.
He's just... gone."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Ricardo Prada Vásquez doesn't appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, & his family & friends
have no idea of his whereabouts.
"It's now been >5 weeks since Andry & the other Venezuelans were imprisoned in SLV w/o ever getting a trial or even a day in ct.
We haven't had even a single word from them; they've been held entirely incommunicado.
It's now been>1 mo since Trump sent innocent man A Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons bc of "Mom" & "Dad" tattoos. Like the others,he's being imprisoned w no contact with the outside world."
Don't let him be forgotten."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
"The autocrats have a simple plan: tear everything down and give them control. Let them use technology and artificial intelligence to optimize our lives, realizing efficiencies through the consolidation of power. They decide who's a terrorist and who goes to globally centralized prisons and concentration camps. Indeed, are we not already here?"
~ Dave Troy
#Trump #immigrants #DueProcess #dictatorship #autocracy #authoritarianism
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https://america2.news/convergence-is-here-and-were-not-prepared/
"When the Supreme Court convenes 'literally in the middle of the night' to stop the government from spiriting away Venezuelans in apparent contradiction of their instruction to give every individual a meaningful opportunity to oppose their deportation, the 'constitutional crisis' has arrived."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #immigrants #SupremeCourt #DueProcess #dictatorship #autocracy #authoritarianism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/stop-waiting-for-a-formal-declaration
"The Trump Administration just argued before the Supreme Court that they have the right to arrest ANY PERSON, US CITIZEN OR NOT, FOR ANY REASON, AND SEND THEM TO A FOREIGN PRISON ANYWHERE, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, AND AMERICA'S COURTS HAVE NO JURISDICTION TO STOP THEM."
-- Talbert Swan
“Border Patrol arrested a US citizen from Albuquerque walking on the street near BP Headquarters in Tucson. The agent who arrested him seems to have lied & said he was picked up in Nogales (an hour south of Tucson) and admitted entering illegally.
He was detained for 10 days.”
-A Reichlin-Melnick
“CBO says Biden-era immigration surge was 8.7 million people & there presence reduces the budget deficit by about $900 billion, something to think about beyond the direct fiscal costs of trying to deport them all.
Illegal (undocumented) #immigrants are
️MORE FISCALLY BENEFICIAL THAN MANY CATEGORIES OF LEGAL ONES, which is a dumb feature of the system & we should be adjusting legal immigration to be more fiscally beneficial.”
-M Yglesias
#Deportations #DueProcess #USPol
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60569
Deeply disturbing report about the actions of the CEO of the Jewish Federation of North America to stop Jewish organizations from speaking out in support of the college students who are being kidnapped in the USA for speaking critically about the state of Israel.
I personally plan to contact my local Jewish Federation, to urge them to make it possible for members to donate and the money stay only in the local community, because I don't want a dime of my money going to support the JFNA when it is attacking due process, human rights and the rule of law.
#SCOTUS’ unsigned, one-paragraph order came after a fast-moving legal battle late Friday. The #ACLU had rushed to several lower courts, then to the Supreme Court, claiming that the #Trump admin was planning to deport more #Venezuelan migrants, presumably to #ElSalvador, with little to no #DueProcess under the wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The Supreme Court’s decision ordered a pause on the #deportations of the detainees while it considers the emergency application.
I expanded a rant I recently wrote here into a larger essay for my blog. It's about the issue of due process and the weaponization of speed itself as a tool to deny it.
Speed Kills
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/speed-kills.html
“Trump’s #immigration policies poll really well. Is your focus on Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of synch with voters?” they ask.
Y’all just do not get it. If there’s no #dueprocess , there’s no citizenship. If there’s no citizenship, there are no voters. It literally could not matter less what people *whose standing to opine on a matter depends on the matter itself* think about the matter.
NOTE TO #FoxnewsSunday and host Shannon Breem:
IF YOU ARE ON U.S. SOIL, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO #DueProcess!
You DO NOT have to be a "citizen"... or even a "legal resident"... to be entitled to Due Process. It's A BASIC TENANT of our Founder's beliefs that everyone has a right to DP.
THE ENTIRE REASON "#Gitmo" (a U.S. prison in Cuba) exists is to deny Due Process from people captured on the battlefield. #TooStupidForPolitics
A portion of the crowd of peaceful democracy protectors in Austin, TX today listening to speakers and music as part of #HandsOff.
Next action is May 1st at the State Capitol from 5 pm to 8 pm. Come join the movement against #Trump and #fascists.
#ATX #Austin #AustinTX #Texas #Musk #ElonMusk #DOGE #DueProcess #50501 #FreeSpeech #USConstitution #CivilLiberties
@wdlindsy
RE
It's not clear what the brakes would be
Yea, the train going off the tracks on the 250th anniversary of #paulreveresride
The #Trump sickness of the 
#doubledown
1. Top Secret docs in #maralago, found out and resisted
2. Paying for #Kilmar in #elsalvdor no #dueprocess, found out, resisted, cause #ConstitutionalCrisis
3. Send (work in progress) demand letter to #Harvard found out, resisted, double down, add tax demand
That guy, Longenecker has a thing about a #JohnLennon song being sung at #JimmyCarter funeral, but...Longenecker did quote #MartinLuther, take Lucifer lightly...jeer and flout him and #ThomasMore, devil…cannot endure to be mocked
We can point out that #Trump and #StephenMiller and #trumpadministration is refusing to return #Kilmar, creating a #constitutionalcrisis over a _simple_ remedy (see image text)
Yea, #MAGA, we see his hands, so what? #dueprocess
If Trump isn’t stopped now, what’s to prevent him from having any US citizen snatched up by ICE or his masked, non-uniform wearing Nazis, put on a plane to El Salvador, & never be heard from again? No lawyers, no rights, no phone.
El Salvador could put you in a helicopter, fly over the ocean, shoot you, dump your body in the ocean & you’d never be seen again. Is that possible? We’d never know.
If gang membership gets a 1-way ticket to CECOT, put the Proud Boys on the next jet!
The regular #jokers dissented. #Fundamental #rights and due process mean nothing to them.
#OpposeFascism #fascism #SCOTUS #government #resist #USPolitics #activism #felon #felonPresident #ACLU #dueprocess
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-claims-administration-restarting-deportations-185042020.html
