ICE is Trash

[carmenjonze]

I saw a photo of someone in a WRAP device. It didn't look like it was torture to me.

Of course it didn't look like torture to you. It's not your illegal, border crossing relatives being subjected to WRAPs. Yet, ladder-pullers such as yourself and Stephen Miller don't ever have any problem with your illegal, border-disregardng relatives coming into this country the way they did.

Wonder why that is.

Now, go back and review the John Tanton anti-immigrant Sierra Club proposal from like 1998 for more talking points, and send today's suffering people some more kleenex and more toilet paper.

After all, you got yours.

‘Torture and Cruel’: Federal Complaint Alleges ICE Officers Bounded African Immigrants for Hours Ahead of Deportation Flights - Yahoo News

Nyam Daniel
October 20, 2021·4 min read
A group of Black immigrant advocates has filed a civil rights complaint to the Department of Homeland Security alleging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents placed African asylum seekers in a medical constraint to torture them.

According to the complaint, ICE agents used a full-body restraint called the WRAP on five Cameroonian immigrants during mass deportations back to the African country in 2020.

The group of advocates claims it led to a medical complication for one of the deportees after the men remained bound for several hours.

The complaint was filed by African Communities Together, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the Cameroon Advocacy Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, the UndocuBlack Network, Texas A&M University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic and Witness at the Border.

[carmenjonze]

I saw a photo of someone in a WRAP device.

porn, for guys like you

[sam lefthand]

After all, you got yours.

What did I get?



According to you what I got is pretty awful, you're all the time bitching something awful about the horrors of it. Nothing worth a damn, no goodness here at all.

[carmenjonze]

What did I get?

Come ask me that when your border-ignoring, illegal ancestors ever had to endure these conditions so you could sit around this website and pop off rightwing, anti-immigrant, John Tanton Sierra Club 1998 propaganda.

I really hope they didn't. They should have been allowed to come here regardless of their circumstances, and even if they did so illegally, I'm glad they were able to make it here and thrive. So-called "illegals," may they have been.

But hey, if you want a shortcut, go ask Stephen Miller for pointers on doing the same thing, since that's what that ladder-puller spent 4 years doing for the Trump administration.

Record number of immigrants funneled into alternative detention programs - The Hill

The number of migrants being monitored under a surveillance program launched as an alternative to traditional detention facilities has grown astronomically during the Biden administration.

A record 136,026 immigrants are now being monitored under Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), up from 86,000 at the beginning of the year.

That growth has alarmed critics who say the program causes mental and physical harm to immigrants while doing little to divert them away from ICE's brick-and-mortar facilities.

Ladder-pulling is a heinous act. Ladder-pulling is trash. Don't be a ladder-puller.

[sam lefthand]

Come ask me that when your border-ignoring, illegal ancestors ever had to endure these conditions so you could sit around this website and pop off rightwing, anti-immigrant, John Tanton Sierra Club 1998 propaganda.

Enduring a several month long voyage in a wooden sailing ship during the early 1600's was probably more of an inconvenience, more of a peril, than wearing a WRAP restraint device for a few hours during a 6 hour transatlantic flight.



I think you got your nose jammed too far up my asshole. Will you please withdraw it.

[carmenjonze]

Enduring a several month long voyage in a wooden sailing ship during the early 1600's was probably more of an inconvenience, more of a peril, than wearing a WRAP restraint device for a few hours during a 6 hour transatlantic flight.

Done so in chains to be bought, sold, mated, and raped as property of God's Favorite Superiors?

Didn't think so.

Try throwing a different card than the early 1600s before dismissing and downplaying what this administration is doing to migrants, asylum-seekers, and other immigrants.

I think you got your nose jammed too far up my asshole. Will you please withdraw it.

^weird, misogynoir conservative white male fantasy.

Remember: passive aggression is really just aggression.

[carmenjonze]

New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
@NICE4Workers

Action Alert: A path to #citizenship was removed from the #BuildBackBetter bill!

Call your member of congress to pressure @SpeakerPelosi to add it back NOW! We don’t have much time!

The U.S. House Switchboard can connect you: (202) 224-3121

#FamiliesBelongTogether #WeAreHome



https://twitter.com/NICE4Workers/status ... 9411042322

[carmenjonze]

National Immigration Law Center
@NILC

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https://twitter.com/NILC/status/1462099669157388300

[carmenjonze]

ICE's Detention Inspection Program Is Systemically Flawed and Has Not Improved - ACLU white paper

Flawed inspections have allowed a gross failure in ICE’s oversight of the immigration detention system. ICE should terminate its contract with Nakamoto. But ending this contract alone is insufficient to ensure robust and effective oversight of the detention system. There are three additional steps that are critical to meaningful reform of ICE’s detention oversight system: (1) ICE must ensure frequent and rigorous inspections conducted by independent actors, on the basis of objective criteria, with clear procedures for evaluating detention conditions; (2) ICE must establish and enforce specific consequences for failed inspections, including probation and termination of facility contracts within 60 days upon repeat findings of non-compliance; and (3) ICE must provide transparency into ICE’s inspection system, making all findings of non-compliance and information regarding all enforcement actions against non-compliant detention facilities publicly available.

[carmenjonze]

Congressman Chuy García
@RepChuyGarcia

The Biden administration is wrong for reinstating the #RemainInMexico policy. @POTUS said he’d end it and he should. We must address the root causes of migration with real solutions instead of deterrence policies that don’t work. #WelcomeWithDignity

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The View
@TheView

COURT REINSTATES TRUMP’S ‘REMAIN IN MEXICO’ POLICY: A court ordered Trump's controversial Migrant Protection Protocol to restart, forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while being processed, although the Biden admin attempted to end it — the co-hosts and @AmericaFerrera react.

[VIDEO]

https://twitter.com/RepChuyGarcia/statu ... 3017923588

[carmenjonze]

Mijente
@ConMijente

We’ve never seen a more visceral video showing how disgusting the ‘smart wall’ is.

A Peter Thiel-backed startup founder attached a taser to a drone & uses it to tase an actor playing a Latino.

This dehumanizing policing hardware should never be used.

[LINK: STARTUP PITCHED TASING MIGRANTS FROM DRONES, VIDEO REVEALS - Intercept]

https://twitter.com/ConMijente/status/1 ... 4299432961

[Libertas]

Mijente
@ConMijente

We’ve never seen a more visceral video showing how disgusting the ‘smart wall’ is.

A Peter Thiel-backed startup founder attached a taser to a drone & uses it to tase an actor playing a Latino.

This dehumanizing policing hardware should never be used.

[LINK: STARTUP PITCHED TASING MIGRANTS FROM DRONES, VIDEO REVEALS - Intercept]

https://twitter.com/ConMijente/status/1 ... 4299432961

Like I just said on twitter "Is there no low?"

[carmenjonze]

Like I just said on twitter "Is there no low?"

There is no low.

[carmenjonze]

Biden administration exits talks over compensation for families separated at border - NBC News

NBC News previously reported that the administration had been in talks to offer separated migrant parents and children hundreds of thousands.



The Biden administration has pulled out of negotiations with lawyers representing families separated at the border that would have provided them with financial compensation, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday.

“There’s no explanation for not settling these cases other than the Biden administration is unwilling to use literally any political capital to help the young children deliberately abused by our government,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director for the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Gelernt said that the Biden administration “will now be in court not just defending the United States but also the individual federal officials responsible for family separation.” These families had been separated at the border by the Trump administration.

The White House directed requests for comment to the Department of Justice, citing active litigation. The DOJ did not immediately return a request for comment.

Under former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy in 2018, and a similar pilot program in 2017, more than 5,600 children were separated from their parents simply because their parents crossed the border illegally with them. The Biden administration ended the "zero tolerance" program earlier this year.

This policy is trash.

[Libertas]

Biden administration exits talks over compensation for families separated at border - NBC News



This policy is trash.

They know if they do this proper and humanitarian thing that the right wing and all right wing media will viciously attack 24 hours a day seven days a week until the next election and they don’t want to take that risk, is the only thing I can think of.

But yes they are wrong they should do it anyway because the right wing is going to attack anything decent anyone decent no matter what they do or don’t do.

[carmenjonze]

They know if they do this proper and humanitarian thing that the right wing and all right wing media will viciously attack 24 hours a day seven days a week until the next election and they don’t want to take that risk, is the only thing I can think of.

But yes they are wrong they should do it anyway because the right wing is going to attack anything decent anyone decent no matter what they do or don’t do.

Yeah, anticipating what anti-immigrant racists might or could do is not a good rationalization for this policy. It's the same game the Obama administration played, trying to placate those people with harsh deportation measures.

Pro tip: supremacists of any kind can never be placated, particularly not ladder-pulling, anti-immigrant supremacists.

Trying to appease racist bigots is a losing game, starting with for the migrant families and their little kids.

[carmenjonze]

Putting this here because a lot of migrants hamstrung by our sh#tty immigration/asylum policies are Cameroonian.

Baldwin Condemns Reported Civil Rights Abuses in Cameroon and Calls for #CameroonTPS - baldwin.senate.gov

Today, conditions in Cameroon are increasingly dire, as five armed conflicts have overtaken 8 of the 10 regions. Civilians are facing:

1. A humanitarian crisis due to political turmoil following the 2018 presidential election and 2020 local elections, as well as government repression of political opposition and gender and sexual minorities.

2. Ongoing violence stemming from the 2016 Anglophone Crisis.

3. The invasion of Boko Haram in the North of Cameroon.

4. Seleka and Anti-Balaka militias in the East of Cameroon.

5. An exacerbation of longstanding tensions between farmers and nomadic herders over natural resources, resulting in violence and increased civilian casualties in the Northwest and Northern regions of Cameroon

Of the 3.9 million Cameroonians in need of humanitarian assistance, an astounding 40,000 people are seeking refuge in the United States. Migrants are entitled to seek refuge from rampant human rights violations under international law. Civilians fleeing Cameroon as a result of torture, arbitrary imprisonment, and targeted violence undoubtedly qualify as refugees or asylees under both U.S. and international law. Still, 38.4% of Cameroonian asylum claims were denied in FY 2020.

[carmenjonze]

Why Biden Refused to Pay Restitution to Families Separated at the Border - New Yorker

White House officials ultimately decided that a settlement had become a greater political liability than any potential fallout from a broken promise.

ate last week, after ten months of negotiations, the Biden Administration withdrew from settlement talks aimed at providing financial compensation to families who’d been separated at the border by the government of Donald Trump. The move was a shock even to current and former Administration officials. Previously, the President had left little room to doubt what he thought of the Trump Administration’s decision to deliberately take some four thousand children from their parents in order to intimidate future asylum seekers. It was “criminal,” “abhorrent,” and “violates every notion of who we are as a nation,” Biden has said. Last month, he said of the parents, “You deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what.”

What changed the President’s mind? One answer is his growing skittishness about appearing too lax at the border. Another is Fox News. In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that advocates were asking the government to consider giving four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to each family member that had been separated under Trump’s zero-tolerance policy. This number, according to sources with knowledge of the talks, wasn’t final; the D.O.J. hadn’t agreed to it, and the government’s opening bid in the negotiations, which remains undisclosed, was substantially lower. But Republicans wasted no time using the figure to attack Biden. “While American families are struggling,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “the President now wants to make millionaires out of people who crossed the border illegally.” Together with three other Republican senators, McConnell went on to introduce a bill to block any payments; they called it the “Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from Illegal Immigration Act.”

Can't blame F'ed Snooze or McConnell or those people for these broken promises, sorry. The worst of the Biden-Harris administration border/immigration policies are carryovers from the Trump admin and in part from the Obama admin.

[Libertas]

Why Biden Refused to Pay Restitution to Families Separated at the Border - New Yorker



Can't blame F'ed Snooze or McConnell or those people for these broken promises, sorry. The worst of the Biden-Harris administration border/immigration policies are carryovers from the Trump admin and in part from the Obama admin.

Agree, and unlike cons when we are wrong we admit it. It is rare, almost never happens, but when we are we admit it.

[carmenjonze]

Agree, and unlike cons when we are wrong we admit it. It is rare, almost never happens, but when we are we admit it.

Usually, but neither Biden-Harris nor Obama have admitted being wrong on their crap immigration policies. I don't expect them to, either. Immigration is low-hanging fruit for everyone. Immigrant-bashing is second nature to this so-called country of immigrants.

[Libertas]

Usually, but neither Biden-Harris nor Obama have admitted being wrong on their crap immigration policies. I don't expect them to, either. Immigration is low-hanging fruit for everyone. Immigrant-bashing is second nature to this so-called country of immigrants.

Yes, correct.

I do believe they would do the right thing if they were not so afraid of righty's reaction. Righty, including all of them here, hate immigrants so much that they would make it hell if the govt did the right thing, but that is still no excuse.

[carmenjonze]

Yes, correct.

I do believe they would do the right thing if they were not so afraid of righty's reaction.

I think so, too. I think that's why Obama did it and why Biden-Harris do it.

Thing is, Biden could set up three thousand nuke-tipped drones on the border with Mexico tomorrow morning, and Rightie would have the same reaction. So f. them.

Righty, including all of them here, hate immigrants so much that they would make it hell if the govt did the right thing, but that is still no excuse.

Buncha ladder-pullers, of immigrant background themselves. :problem:

[carmenjonze]

It’s past time for America to do right by Haiti - Boston Globe, op ed

The Biden administration needs a new policy toward migrants fleeing violence and poverty and to get behind grassroots democratic reform.

For the last three months, the US government has repatriated more than 10,000 Haitians, according to data from the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration. Advocates tracking US Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight data put the figure closer to 12,000. These quick border expulsions — 44 percent of whom are women and children, including infants — are happening because current US policy is to turn back almost every asylum seeker who shows up at our borders.

But the country — the poorest in the Western hemisphere — is in no condition to safely welcome back these returnees, making the expelling of these families under a persistent Trump-era rule morally unconscionable.

[carmenjonze]

Senate Parliamentarian Worked in Two Immigrant Detention Centers, Records Show - Latino Rebels

MacDonough’s employment records obtained by Latino Rebels from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management show that after graduating from Vermont Law School, MacDonough worked at not one but two immigrant detention centers for Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), the agency that once managed the federal deportation workload now tasked to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

According to the records, MacDonough worked for INS from March 1998 until June 1999, when she left to join the Office of the Senate Parliamentarian, where she has worked ever since. The late former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who was the majority leader at the time, promoted MacDonough to Chief Parliamentarian in 2012.

While working for INS, MacDonough was paid $26,075 per quarter for “legal and clerical assistance” at the Chittenden County immigrant detention facility in Vermont, before being promoted to law clerk at the Elizabeth, New Jersey detention facility in late 1998, which nearly doubled her adjusted base salary to $46,182 per quarter.

“Prosecutors are the most important person in the courtroom,” said Sophia Gurulé, an immigration attorney who has worked in the detention facilities where MacDonough once prosecuted immigrants.

“They have the most power to dictate what happens to a person placed in removal proceedings,” said Gurulé.

[Libertas]

sigh

How do we replace her?