Calling from a Texas detention center, JosƩ Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:
āThey detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.ā
āJust in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.ā
A month later, he was gone.
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Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, JosƩ Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.ProPublica
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties āwas one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,ā immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. āNow you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.ā
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The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.ProPublica
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
Whatās exceptional about ĆztĆ¼rkās case is how her detention was caught on camera.
Whatās scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
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āSo horrifying and so heartbreakingā: ĆztĆ¼rkās close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked ā and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.ProPublica
UPDATE: After this story was prepared for publication, ICE awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for this company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss ā its largest contract yet.
It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.
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The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trumpās plan to hold immigrants before deportation.ProPublica
From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trumpās Deportation Plans
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The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it's cashing in again on Trumpās plan to hold immigrants before deportation.
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The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trumpās plan to hold immigrants before deportation.ProPublica
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GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
āThey didnāt tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.ā
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Flight attendants for GlobalX, a private charter airline used in migrant deportations, say life on board wasnāt what they signed up for.ProPublica
They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security #prison in #ElSalvador, without any #DueProcess or any analysis as to whether they feared harm there.
Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a #deportation; it's something else entirely.
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Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US #deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more info as a legal battle plays out.
Advocates have launched a WhatsApp helpline for people searching for family members, while #immigration attorneys have tried to locate their clients after they went dark.
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In a brazen display of defiance, #Trumpās #DOJ filed papers less than two hours before the 5PM hearing, telling Judge James E. #Boasberg that there was no reason for anyone to come to court because the administration was not going to provide any further information about the #deportation flights.
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One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.
The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.
#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.
When the Malay #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.
The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didnāt receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.
Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.
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