United States of Mass Deportation

[SouprMatt]

Another American citizen illegally detained by ICE:

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/u-s-citizen-detained-in-hollywood-immigration-raid-speaks-out/

Around 7:45 a.m., witnesses said several unmarked SUVs arrived and agents quickly moved in on around a dozen people gathered outside the store. A man said he saw agents tackle a person to the ground without warning, pressing his face into the dirt before taking him into custody.

One person swept up in the raids was Job Garcia, a 37-year-old doctorate student at Claremont Graduate University. Garcia, who is a U.S. citizen, works as a Home Depot deliveryman on the weekends to earn extra money for school.

Oh, and they knew he was a citizen and held him for 24 hours anyway…

Garcia said he was among 30 detainees who were brought to Dodger Stadium where federal agents eventually verified his American citizenship. He said the stadium is reportedly being used as a hub for detainees.

He was then transported to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. where he was held for 24 hours before being released.

He isn’t going to let this slide…

Garcia said he’s still recovering from several injuries incurred during the ordeal and said he plans to file a lawsuit over the violent detainment.

They’ve illegally detained so many people that maybe people can file a class action against ICE.

 

[SouprMatt]

Do NOT marry a MAGA voter.

ICE detains wife of Trump-supporting US Marine corps veteran

"I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign, earning an inaugural invite," David Prine told Newsweek.

www.newsweek.com

A man who supports President Donald Trump has told Newsweek that he still backs the Republicanleader even after federal agents detained his wife.

“Tough luck honey, enjoy ICE detention! … Oh wait, I have to take care of her kid now? 45, help me!!!”

A decorated Marine Corps veteran with a history of public service, Prine says he still stands by Trump, but now he's asking the president to stand by him.

"I still support him today and hope he would show compassion and recognize that this family deserves dignity and closure," he said.

And to be very clear, she is a LEGAL immigrant.

enifer Correa Ganan, 35, entered the U.S. legally under the CBP One parole program in January 2024, fleeing violence in Colombia with her daughter Ana Maria, according to David. She worked at UPS and later at Virginia Tech.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Oh, F this guy. 😡 I don't care if he's a Marine Corps veteran...he's still standing by Trump after Trump took almost all his earnings and his wife?

I think Trump may have found the biggest sucker ever. And that's saying a lot.

 

[SouprMatt]

Pro-life is the OPPOSITE of this administration’s policies.

Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner

ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.

nashvillebanner.com

On Mother’s Day this year, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus found herself alone in Guatemala, a country she hadn’t called home in more than a decade. At 38, the once-vibrant, curly-haired woman seemed withered and shaken.

After she was arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, she ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, where she experienced the unimaginable. After pleading for medical help for days, she lost her mid-term pregnancy.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said.

 

[SouprMatt]

The ICE Gestapo is totally out of control.

Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home

Video appears to show an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with her two young children.

www.nbclosangeles.com

Is that 2 dozen agents and a SWAT truck? To go after somebody whose car bumped into an unmarked ICE vehicle? The guy they wanted wasn’t even home so they used this level of violence against a mom and her 2 kids, aged 1 and 6.

 

[SouprMatt]

Immediately after the Supreme Court REFUSED to rule on the merits of whether the President could unilaterally remove the 14th Amendment of the constitution, we get:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship.

Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving district attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online. The move is aimed at U.S. citizens who were not born in the country; according to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants were naturalized citizens.

45 will now decide who is or is not a citizen. And unless you have money to sue, you can’t do anything about it. Oh, and just to be clear: if you are targeted in this way, you are NOT entitled to a lawyer. And no, I’m not lying.

The DOJ memo says that the federal government will pursue denaturalization cases via civil litigation — an especially concerning move, said Cassandra Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.

In civil proceedings, any individual subject to denaturalization is not entitled to an attorney, Robertson said; there is also a lower burden of proof for the government to reach, and it is far easier and faster to reach a conclusion in these cases.

Tell me, is there any coming back from this through elections and continuing with our existing constitution?

 

[SouprMatt]

Away from all the protests and showy mass arrests, we have unknown numbers of people quietly suffering from the Mass Deportation policies.

‘Adiós, Milwaukee’: A family uprooted, a hole left behind

Yessenia Ruano's long fight against deportation, fueled by her Milwaukee community, ended last month under orders from ICE.

19thnews.org

Ruano and her daughters, Eli and Paola, 10, boarded a United Airlines flight scheduled to leave Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport on June 17 at 11:35 a.m. local time. The girls’ first time on an airplane was with a one-way ticket out of their first and only home.

Ruano, who by the time of her departure had captured the attention of many people in Milwaukee and elsewhere in the country, spoke to news cameras and a group of supporters in the hall of the airport. She pleaded for a fix to the nation’s immigration system for herself and millions of immigrants in a similar situation.

“For the good of the United States, given this ongoing chaos, our political parties need to have serious conversations about our immigration system — and stop treating it like political soccer,” Ruano said.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Immediately after the Supreme Court REFUSED to rule on the merits of whether the President could unilaterally remove the 14th Amendment of the constitution, we get:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

45 will now decide who is or is not a citizen. And unless you have money to sue, you can’t do anything about it. Oh, and just to be clear: if you are targeted in this way, you are NOT entitled to a lawyer. And no, I’m not lying.



Tell me, is there any coming back from this through elections and continuing with our existing constitution?

Well, you already know my answer. I don't think so. I have absolutely no delusions about how difficult a secession would be––politically, militarily, economically, socially––but for the life of me I can't see any other way out of this juggernaut of tyranny.

(It's not like we haven't done this before.)

And I live in a red state. I've never wanted to uproot and move to another state, but if this ever came to pass, I would.

As far as SCOTUS and Trump's new interpretation of 14A...under that, even my wife––a naturalized citizen––could get deported under the right conditions. Someone wrongly accuses her of a crime? Does she even get a hearing? 😡

Away from all the protests and showy mass arrests, we have unknown numbers of people quietly suffering from the Mass Deportation policies.

‘Adiós, Milwaukee’: A family uprooted, a hole left behind

Yessenia Ruano's long fight against deportation, fueled by her Milwaukee community, ended last month under orders from ICE.

19thnews.org

Scandalous. And now they're doing their performative shtick in that Alligator Alcatraz. It's sick. Mentally sick.

Edit: I suppose short of secession, there is the possibility of a whole-country civil war. But what does that look like? And would the US military refuse to participate against its own citizens?

 

[SouprMatt]

Well, you already know my answer. I don't think so. I have absolutely no delusions about how difficult a secession would be––politically, militarily, economically, socially––but for the life of me I can't see any other way out of this juggernaut of tyranny.

(It's not like we haven't done this before.)

And I live in a red state. I've never wanted to uproot and move to another state, but if this ever came to pass, I would.

As far as SCOTUS and Trump's new interpretation of 14A...under that, even my wife––a naturalized citizen––could get deported under the right conditions. Someone wrongly accuses her of a crime? Does she even get a hearing? 😡



Scandalous. And now they're doing their performative shtick in that Alligator Alcatraz. It's sick. Mentally sick.

Edit: I suppose short of secession, there is the possibility of a whole-country civil war. But what does that look like? And would the US military refuse to participate against its own citizens?

The makeup of the military isn’t good news for 45 if he wants to assert his will using it.

The full-time military members change stations (PCS) every 3-4 years. So in any unit, you are going to have people from all over the country. So you won’t have local loyalties like during the Civil War. Now, National Guard and Reserves ARE local, so there could be some advantage for MAGA there. But they won’t be thrilled about being “called up” to fight their fellow Americans.

But there is another factor: The percentage of minorities in the military is higher than in the overall population of America. This is not a group of people who will likely support a white-power government.

 

[P___X]

The makeup of the military isn’t good news for 45 if he wants to assert his will using it.

The full-time military members change stations (PCS) every 3-4 years. So in any unit, you are going to have people from all over the country. So you won’t have local loyalties like during the Civil War. Now, National Guard and Reserves ARE local, so there could be some advantage for MAGA there. But they won’t be thrilled about being “called up” to fight their fellow Americans.

But there is another factor: The percentage of minorities in the military is higher than in the overall population of America. This is not a group of people who will likely support a white-power government.

Unless they start racially/ethnically segregating units and then move them along these lines.

They will try it, mark my words.

 

[SouprMatt]

Husband of the year contest gets another entry:

MAGA Mom Was Taken by ICE, but Her Husband Refuses to Stop Flying Trump Flag: 'We Understand What He's Doing'

Trump supporter Arpineh Masihi was detained by ICE on June 30. Still, her husband, Arthu Sahakyan, intends to keep their MAGA flag flying outside their home to show his continued commitment to the president

people.com

A California family is standing firmly behind Donald Trump even after Immigration and Customs Enforcement came knocking on their own front door.

Arpineh Masihi and her husband, Arthu Sahakyan, are proud fans of the president: they sided with him in the last election, wave his flag outside their home and even gave MAGA hats to their children.

But the couple's open support of Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement didn't stop ICE from taking Masihi, an Iranian immigrant, from her home amid the administration's mass deportation efforts, reports Fox 11.

While Sahakyan said he doesn't wish the experience of a family member being detained on anyone else, he still has trust in Trump's end goal. And as his wife sits in ICE detention, he intends to keep their Trump flag flying and pro-Trump signs on display.

"I'm still supporting [Trump]," he said. "Even though my friends say, 'Take the flag down, you're going through a lot,' I'm like, 'No, the flag stands.' "

For the stupid among us, the admittance of being wrong is the one thing that can never happen. 45 is the ultimate example, and his followers are cut from the same cloth.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Now that is being brainwashed.

And why I have a hard time having any hope for this country.

 

[splifingate]

"I have a hard time having any hope for this country."

I appreciate your sentiment, Thomas.

What give me hope is that there are those among (and including us) that feel--and act--differently.

This extancy is the cusp we can all rely-upon 🙂

 

[SouprMatt]

"I have a hard time having any hope for this country."

I appreciate your sentiment, Thomas.

What give me hope is that there are those among (and including us) that feel--and act--differently.

This extancy is the cusp we can all rely-upon 🙂

Thank you, I feel a bit more hopeful now too.

Unarmed people are standing up to militarized ICE agents, to protect immigrants. Those people give me hope too.

 

[SouprMatt]

Say what?



“Reasonable suspicion” based on physical appearance. And they openly admit this. We need to be looking at jail sentences for people in this cabinet. And remand them all to custody pending trial. Because you know their corruption is deep enough that they could get out of the country before trial.

 

[SouprMatt]

White delivery drivers in New Mexico don’t like spanish-speaking delivery drivers competing with them for business. Did they improve their service? Try a new app? Working harder? That is the American capitalist way, right? You know they didn’t. They called ICE on the other delivery drivers. They even invented a new racist term for them.

When SOME white folks realized what ICE was doing, their first impulse was to turn in their neighbors. These are 45’s “very fine people.”

https://sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/resentment-against-albuquerque-deliveristas-may-have-sparked-viral-walmart-ice-arrest/

On Monday, a Walmart customer captured video of federal immigration enforcement agents cornering a man inside a Walmart at Coors and Interstate 40. In the video, he screams for help as three agents, two of whom are masked, subdue him with a Taser. He falls to the ground and appears to hit his head.

Watch the video here. Warning: The video contains violent content.
While the federal agents stand over him, a Walmart official enters the video frame shouting at one person to “get back to work” and approaches the person filming. He orders her to leave the store, saying she’s on “private property.” The 20-second video ends as private security officers begin to escort the woman out of the store.

Molina-Pena and his friends and family who spoke to Source on Thursday all come from Venezuela and are seeking asylum here while working as delivery drivers, including for Spark, Walmart’s grocery delivery service.

Molina-Pena met Useche and their fellow roommate Jose Vergel while driving for the app. His cousin, Daisy Diaz, worked as a Spark driver until becoming pregnant about six months ago, she said. Her husband, Segundo Torres, supports his growing family driving for the service now, he said.

The group describes app-based work like being a Spark driver as a flexible way to earn a living, and one that also helps them maximize wages by simply working for as many apps at a time as possible.

But since President Donald Trump took office in January, the group told Source New Mexico, being a “deliverista” has become increasingly dangerous, with long-simmering resentment coming from American-born Spark drivers who accuse them of stealing their turf and gaming the system.

“The thing is that after the new president took office, racism increased,” Torres said. “Racist people — they already have it in for you.”

If you have a friend or family member who loves MAGA, they are the ones who will turn in Anne Frank. It’s pretty scary that we need to start sizing up our friends and neighbors to see who would actively turn people in.

 

[Thomas Veil]

It's all about the dangerous criminals, right? Like marijuana users and folks driving on a suspended license?

A New Hampshire man is not being allowed to return home after taking a family trip to Canada.

Chris Landry is a legal U.S. resident and has lived in the Granite State since he was 3 years old. He has a partner, five children and a job in manufacturing.

He was stopped Sunday at the border in Houlton, Maine, while returning from a family vacation.

“They pulled me aside and started questioning me about my past convictions in New Hampshire,” Landry told NBC10 Boston.

Three hours later, the 46-year-old was told he couldn’t come home, despite having a green card and being a legal U.S. resident.

“They denied me re-entry and said, ‘Don’t come back or we will detain you,’ and the only way for me to get back in was to see an immigration judge,” he told NBC10 Boston from New Brunswick.

In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, but he says he’s had no criminal record since then.

He was given a suspended sentence and paid his fines.

“I never thought that that would threaten my status as a resident of the United States,” he said.

And even though he is a Canadian citizen and can't vote, he's been a Donald Trump supporter.

Landry says he goes to Canada at least once a year and has never had a problem until now.

As a Canadian citizen, he couldn’t vote for president, but he supported Donald Trump.

He blames the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrationfor his plight.

“I was definitely all for ‘Make America Great Again,’ and having a strong, unified country, and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently,” he said. “I’ve been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.”

At least you can't blame this guy for voting for Trump––he couldn't––but I still count it as a case of FAFO.

N.H. green card holder denied re-entry to U.S. after visiting native Canada

The man, who supported President Donald Trump though he can't vote, says he "feels differently" now and blames the administration for his immigration plight.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[SouprMatt]

I was unaware of this moment in history. “Crops rotting in the fields” when Mexican laborers were told to leave the US. Sounds familiar…





original source:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers

 

[Thomas Veil]

Well, here’s another fine mess he’s gotten us into. Now nursing homes are experiencing even larger than usual staffing shortages. (And they’re usually not great to begin with.)

Nursing homes struggle with Trump's immigration crackdown

Nursing homes around the U.S. say they're feeling the effects of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

apnews.com

So we’re having trouble picking our crops, building our homes, and now taking care of our seniors.

Exactly when are we supposed to get great again?