People being detained and "exported" by ICE #2

[SouthAussie]

Do you think any of these migrants are from Mar A Lago?


ICE arrested around 780 migrants, including 275 with final removal orders, in a four-day operation which took place in Florida, according to data cited by multiple publications.

Operation Tidal Wave targeted undocumented migrants with final deportation orders and was the first to take place as part of a formal arrangement with state law enforcement, called 287(g).

The Florida Immigration Coalition ..... "This [operation] is a rush to meet an arbitrary number, but behind those numbers are fathers, mothers, siblings, friends, and neighbors; hardworking members of our communities who pay taxes and contribute to our state."

ICE arrests nearly 800 migrants in "first-of-its-kind" operation

Operation Tidal Wave was the first to take place as part of a formal arrangement with state law enforcement.

www.newsweek.com

 

[SouthAussie]

Trump’s administration revoked the legal status of Christians who face death if forced to return to Taliban-led Afghanistan

"Just before Easter, many Afghan Christians in the U.S. were told they had one week to leave or face deportation.

American evangelicals overwhelmingly agree that we should protect refugees. A January 2025 Lifeway Research survey found:

• 70% believe the U.S. has a moral responsibility to accept refugees fleeing persecution.
• 74% support a law like the Afghan Adjustment Act to let Afghan evacuees apply for permanent legal status.

Some of these Afghans have American spouses or children. Sending them away will not only endanger them but will also rip apart families and churches. This is not who we are as a country and certainly not who we are as Evangelical Christians.

They have filed asylum claims and are following all the rules. They have obeyed our laws and committed no crimes."

We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave.

 

[Lilibet]

To their credit, these Evangelical churchgoers are seeing the results of the administration’s “move fast and break things” motto lifted from Silicon Valley. There is no regard for the Afghans’ lives or the trauma these letters are putting on them. It is cruel.

So my question to the churchgoers is, will you literally hide these people to protect them, or is it just “hide” with quotation marks. I pray that you “make good trouble” by hiding them.

From the article linked: We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave. | Opinion
This is a defining moment. Will we be like those silent churchgoers in the 1930s, or will we be the ones who answer the call to “hide” and protect the vulnerable? We pray that we choose courage and compassion, refusing to abandon our persecuted family in Christ.

 

[SouthAussie]

To their credit, these Evangelical churchgoers are seeing the results of the administration’s “move fast and break things” motto lifted from Silicon Valley. There is no regard for the Afghans’ lives or the trauma these letters are putting on them. It is cruel.

So my question to the churchgoers is, will you literally hide these people to protect them, or is it just “hide” with quotation marks. I pray that you “make good trouble” by hiding them.

From the article linked: We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave. | Opinion
This is a defining moment. Will we be like those silent churchgoers in the 1930s, or will we be the ones who answer the call to “hide” and protect the vulnerable? We pray that we choose courage and compassion, refusing to abandon our persecuted family in Christ.

I remember reading an article from early April that says that 1 in 12 Christians in the US are vulnerable to deportation or live with a family member who could be deported.

Evangelical, Catholic groups: 1 in 12 Christians could be impacted by Trump deportations


In this instance, Raffensperger has apparently asked Trump to halt the deportation of Afghan Christians for at least 90 days.

“I respectfully urge DHS and the Administration to pause this decision for at least 90 days and to consider granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or similar legal relief to these individuals,” Raffensperger said.

Citizens from both Afghanistan and Cameroon have been protected under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) since 2022. It prevents them from being sent back to their home country due to dangerous conditions and instability.

“Deportation, in this context, could constitute a violation of international law and moral responsibility,” Raffensperger wrote.

Raffensperger asks Trump administration to halt deportation of Afghan Christians

 

[sapphire blue]

What a difference for white people facing persecution.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

 

[Lilibet]

What a difference for white people facing persecution.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

Of course. White privilege.

 

[Simply Southern]

Not all are entitled to an appeal and may not be allowed to attend their hearing. once a deportation order is granted. ,any fall into "without proper travel documents" moo

Understand the deportation process | USAGov

Learn what a noncitizen can be deported for, and how the process works. Find out how you might get help if you are facing deportation.

www.usa.gov

Deportation is the process of removing a noncitizen from the U.S. for violating immigration law.

The U.S. may detain and deport noncitizens who:

Participate in criminal acts
Are a threat to public safety
Violate their visa
......
The foreign national may be held in a detention center before trial or deportation. Find out how to locate someone detained by ICE.

After a noncitizen is detained, they may go before a judge in immigration court during the deportation (removal) process. In some cases, a noncitizen is subject to expedited removal without being able to attend a hearing in immigration court. Expedited removal may happen when a noncitizen:

Comes to the U.S. without proper travel documents
Uses forged travel documents
Does not comply with their visa or other entry document requirements
Learn more about deportation under an order of expedited removal.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

"A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

The child, whose redacted U.S. birth certificate was filed in court and showed she was born in New Orleans in 2023, had been with her mother and sister during a regular immigration check-in at the New Orleans office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday. Officials there detained them and queued them up for deportation.

Trump administration lawyers called the judge back Friday afternoon and said a phone call with the mother would not be possible “because she (and presumably VML) had just been released in Honduras,”

As a U.S. citizen, V.M.L. is likely to have the ability to return to the United States, setting her case apart from others that have drawn national attention in recent weeks .... But the Louisiana case is the latest concern by the courts that the Trump administration’s rush to carry out deportations is violating due process rights — in this case, the rights of a U.S. citizen child."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631

The mother wanted to take the child with her.

 

[HmmMysterious]

The mother wanted to take the child with her.

And the only source for that is a handwritten note that the Trump admin alleges was written by her mother. The note hasn't even been verified yet.

 

[Kudzuu]

We’ve made a point about people with brown skin being targeted by saying they “aren’t Irish.” Well, here’s one who’s at least half Irish as I am. Unfortunately, unlike blue eyed fair skinned me, she made the “mistake” of having brown eyes and darker skin. She also has an expunged criminal case from 20 years ago for which she paid the penalty. But she’s had a green card for 30 years, so why is ICE after her now?

Because they can.

Until the courts stop them.

I hope.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

And the only source for that is a handwritten note that the Trump admin alleges was written by her mother. The note hasn't even been verified yet.

I’m not doubting the note. As a mother, I would die before I left my child behind. I really don’t think many mothers would leave their little ones behind. imo

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

I would attempt to refrain from calling them anything, presume them to be a decent, rational human being and try to understand why they see this issue in a way that I don't understand.

Which is a hell of a lot more compassionate than what they're affording their victims. So kudos to you for that.

But much like thoughts and prayers after mass murder, understanding their motivations doesn't make their motives right, anymore than understanding the motivations of any of the perps on WS would excuse why they killed or harmed their victim.

MOO.

 

[Vern]

I’m not doubting the note. As a mother, I would die before I left my child behind. I really don’t think many mothers would leave their little ones behind. imo

What a choice!!

Unreal. Was Mom a criminal? Did she have her 14th Amendment Due Process? Apparently NOT. Perhaps you're able to link me to the laws that give authority to POTUS to:

- Ignore the Constitution;
- Make laws;
- Break Laws;
- Ignore Laws'; and/or
- Ignore that other Governerment Branchs' court rulings (ie: SCOTUS' most recent)??

I've asked a couple of times for someone/anyone to link me to the actual laws and/or Constitutional bits that allow for what is currently happening.

A few people posting that this is allowed by law, but I'm still not seeing any links to the actual source law or facts to back up the assertations. Just "IMOs".

I would think that would be pretty simple for someone to cite. I've looked and searched and cannot find it so I'm looking for help here to 'change my mind' based on some actual facts of law so that I can inform my opinion differently should the actual law allow for that.

IMO.
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[HmmMysterious]

I’m not doubting the note. As a mother, I would die before I left my child behind. I really don’t think many mothers would leave their little ones behind. imo

But the girl's father was petitioning the courts to let his daughter stay in the U.S. He also tried talking to his wife, but ICE wouldn't let him. Their only meeting together lasted one minute and it wasn't helpful.

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

And the only source for that is a handwritten note that the Trump admin alleges was written by her mother. The note hasn't even been verified yet.

Not only that, but since when do we allow one parent to remove a child from a country without the father's consent? Let's flip the script here. Let's say the mother wasn't deported. Let's say she just chose to leave on her own. Would a mother leaving the country with a minor child without the father's say not constitute what many here would consider kidnapping? I think we'd have a thread for it right here on WS. But the feds get involved and they just don't have the time to deal with all those pesky little details, like following the law. And somehow, people think it's ok.

MOO.

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

I’m not doubting the note. As a mother, I would die before I left my child behind. I really don’t think many mothers would leave their little ones behind. imo

Except for those who were forced to by this very administration 6 years ago, you mean. MOO.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

What a choice!!

Unreal. Was Mom a criminal? Did she have her 14th Amendment Due Process? Apparently NOT. Perhaps you're able to link me to the laws that give authority to POTUS to:

- Ignore the Constitution;
- Make laws;
- Break Laws;
- Ignore Laws'; and/or
- Ignore that other Governerment Branchs' court rulings (ie: SCOTUS' most recent)??

I've asked a couple of times for someone/anyone to link me to the actual laws and/or Constitutional bits that allow for what is currently happening.

A few people posting that this is allowed by law, but I'm still not seeing any links to the actual source law or facts to back up the assertations. Just "IMOs".

I would think that would be pretty simple for someone to cite. I've looked and searched and cannot find it so I'm looking for help here to 'change my mind' based on some actual facts of law so that I can inform my opinion differently should the actual law allow for that.

IMO.
-

From everything I’ve read about her, I don’t believe deportation was in dispute. imo

 

[Sillybilly]

ADMIN NOTE

STOP personalizing and tag-teaming, piling on one member because of their opinion and views. It is a form of internet bullying and will not be tolerated.

Discuss the post not the poster. Express your own opinion and move on without personalizing, bickering, virtue signalling, or trying to make the other person feel "less than".

 

[303gmf]

Watching Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa podcast, renowned expert Dr Steven Hassan on authoritarian control. An author of The Cult of Trump book

 

[IzzyBlanche]

Three children, ages 2,4, and 7 who are American citizens were swiftly deported to Honduras before any appeals could be filed.

The 4 year old child has stage 4 cancer and was given no medications to take with them.

Snipped and bolded for focus

How very pro-life.