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[SixToe]

Curious, too, why these folks keep being sent to Louisiana. All the Venezuelan deportees were there, I think, briefly, and now this woman. I believe the Canadian woman who was detained was there.

Is this a federal lockup on a base, or a black site? Something that Sen. Foghorn Kennedy offered?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Back to Rumesya Ozturk for a minute.

She was arrested in broad daylight on a city street by masked people. We don't know that they're officers. We don't know for what agency they work. We don't know who they are at all.

She is apparently in ICE custody in Louisiana. Part of the charge against her is her byline on this op-ed. What has become of the other three people whose bylines are on this op-ed?

I'm not understanding why we aren't George Floyd-level outraged about this.

DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order

Federal judge in Boston issues order giving government until Friday to answer why student has been detained

www.theguardian.com

She's a furriner with a weird name + journalist! + East Coast + March Madness + plus the flood of all the other bullshirt = lack of outrage.

 

[FileNotFound]

Could also be an interesting study about how paywalls suppress information. Looks like the best and most up-to-the-minute coverage of the case is behind the hard paywall at bostonglobe.com

 

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"Border czar" Tom Homan says y'all ain't seen nothin' yet: ICE raids, Tufts student arrest: How Trump's immigration crackdown is playing out in Mass.

 

[franticscribe]

Curious, too, why these folks keep being sent to Louisiana. All the Venezuelan deportees were there, I think, briefly, and now this woman. I believe the Canadian woman who was detained was there.

Is this a federal lockup on a base, or a black site? Something that Sen. Foghorn Kennedy offered?

There are a bunch of ICE detention centers in Louisiana. I doubt they're all being taken to the same one.

It has been part of ICE's playbook to remove detainees from the area they live in order to make the incarceration even more unpleasant and encourage self-deportation. Immigrants from where I live (Durham) are routinely taken for holding at a facility that's 6+ hours away in Georgia.

They're also intentionally moving the high profile ones to Louisiana as part of their legal strategy. If they can get them down there before the immigrant's lawyer files for release, then the lawyer will need to file in Louisiana, which is in the ultra-conservative federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals jurisdiction. They're much more likely to get a friendly ruling there.

If the lawyer can file while the detainee is still in the state where they lived, even if in custody, then jurisdiction stays there.

 

[micropolitan guy]

1. What anti-American ideology is there at a freakin' zoo!?! Do they need to get rid of all animals not native to the USA? Do elephants have green cards?

2. I've been to the NMAAHC - unlike Trump and probably 99.9% of his toadies - and I do not remember it "proclaiming hard work, individualism and the nuclear family are aspects of White culture."

I've ALWAYS been suspicious of those Chinese pandas.

 

[outofplace]

"Border czar" Tom Homan says y'all ain't seen nothin' yet: ICE raids, Tufts student arrest: How Trump's immigration crackdown is playing out in Mass.

He rally is a colossal piece of shirt.

 

[kickoff-time]

Trump warns U.S. carmakers not to take advantage of tariffs by hiking prices on consumers

Trump warns U.S. carmakers not to take advantage of tariffs by hiking prices on consumers

The Trump administration believes auto execs could be tempted to use the tariffs as cover to push through their own hefty price hikes without risking the competitiveness of their U.S. built vehicles.

fortune.com

Hey, dumbass, how about no tariffs in the first place.

 

[garrow]

Donny say, "Oh, no hesitation
Some tears and some hearts breakin'
No remorse"
"Oh, congratulations
This is your MAGA divorce"

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Trump warns U.S. carmakers not to take advantage of tariffs by hiking prices on consumers

Trump warns U.S. carmakers not to take advantage of tariffs by hiking prices on consumers

The Trump administration believes auto execs could be tempted to use the tariffs as cover to push through their own hefty price hikes without risking the competitiveness of their U.S. built vehicles.

fortune.com

Hey, dumbass, how about no tariffs in the first place.

That's exactly what happened when he put tariffs on foreign-made washing machines. American-made washing machines (and dryers!) increased in price as well to match the tariffs.

 

[garrow]

Pathetic

Skadden Cuts Deal With Trump to Avert Punitive Directive (1)

President Donald Trump said he has reached an agreement with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom that will allow the firm to avoid an executive order targeting it.

news.bloomberglaw.com

 

[sgreenwell]

That's exactly what happened when he put tariffs on foreign-made washing machines. American-made washing machines (and dryers!) increased in price as well to match the tariffs.

I mean at this point, there isn't really an "American" washing machine or a "foreign" washing machine. Except in the simplest of shirt, you're relying on transportation or production chains that are multi-national.