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  • I agree with this.

    I absolutely voted for Trump with the greatest of hopes that he would end the war ASAP. Of course, this has not happened quickly, and I am a little disappointed, but I understand now that Zelenskyy is truly dead set against the peace. He is trapped by his own propaganda on the war, and so are many of the NATOcrats who support this.

    I am no fan of totalitarian governments, but when you look at this war, it seems clear that the West wanted it, and that Zelenskyy fully signed on to it.

    And war is always a catastrophe for both sides - my heart goes out to all the young men and women and their families who are being conscripted against their will and dying needlessly because of geopolitical games that the Western oligarchs want to play.






















  • So, let’s try to find some information about this:

    In March 2019, Prince George’s County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia and three other men in a Home Depot parking lot, where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][19] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a “gang member,” but The Atlantic reported that, according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[19] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]

    Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because “he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie” and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived.[16] ICE relied on information from a form that was filled out by a local police officer who was suspended not long after for “giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker”, and thus was unavailable when Abrego Garcia’s lawyer sought more information.[21] Roger Parloff of Lawfare notes that since neither the officer nor the informant were cross-examined, the accusation went through two layers of hearsay to reach the immigration court. An immigration judge determined that the informant’s claim[22] was sufficient evidence for the purpose of denying Abrego Garcia’s bond request; another judge upheld that ruling on appeal, saying the claim was not clearly wrong.[18] However, no court has ever made a “full adjudication” of this issue.[18] David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, notes that the standards of evidence are lower in an immigration bond hearing than in a trial; in a bond hearing, the government’s statement is assumed true and the burden of proof is on the defendant.[23] Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.[24]

    Wikipeida

    Here is what the DHS is saying:

    “This was just one of those examples of an individual that is a MS-13 gang member, multiple charges and encounters with the individuals here, trafficking in his background, was found with other MS-13 gang members—very dangerous person, and what the liberal left and fake news are doing to turn him into a media darling is sickening,” said Secretary Noem.

    DHS.gov

    Now, what is the evidence that he has multiple charges and encounters, and that he was found with MS-13 gangsters…?

    I did not find it, but it does not mean that it is not necessarily true. His lawyers are shopping for an audience with the meida, I think, and they will selectivley present information, just as how the government is guilty of such.

    Something else I found interesting:

    White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that (Abrego Garcia) was no longer eligible, under federal law … for any form of immigration relief in the United States.”

    It’s inaccurate that the U.S. government’s February designation of MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization automatically revoked Abrego Garcia’s protection from removal, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said.

    People who are proven members of a terrorist organization are ineligible for protection from removal. But in Abrego Garcia’s case, to revoke his protections, the U.S. government “would have been required under law to reopen his immigration court proceedings and prove to the judge that he was a member of MS-13 and therefore no longer eligible for withholding.”

    Politifact

    This declaration of those guys being terrorists is truly impactful.




  • There is no question, though, that convicted illegal immigrants are deportable, and that people unlawfully residing in the US are deportable.

    It has already been established before that rights reserved for US citizens do not exist in the same way for aliens. This doesn’t just apply to things like voting and gun ownership, but even things like privacy - there isn’t any requirement for digitally spying on foreign citizens, for instance. You need a judge to sign off on digitally snooping an American citizens’ computer, but not for an alien.

    Or do you think it’s fine to keep breaking the law for potentially months, until the Supreme Court can confirm what even the lowest courts were able to determine was illegal?

    They should identify the potential conflict and, based on that, potentially hold what’s going on.

    Just as such, if there was some fatal flaw or conflict of interest discovered with how a judge or detective conducted himself, it would not justify releasing all the connected criminals immediately. Rather, it would justify reviewing all these cases and then releasing people whom it was determined to have impacted.




  • They still have a jurisdiction to make a ruling, but not one that pauses the entire federal act when it is clear it will be appealed up to SCOTUS.

    So the idea would be that a court with jurisdiction in California can make a ruling which applies to stopping a single Californian in unique circumstances from being deported under the specific law, but this cannot completely destroy the totality of the law.

    And, just as we’ve seen, some of these rulings that would have crippled the government’s ability to remove violent criminals from society do go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS sides with the law.

    They’re working out the kinks in the system.