The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly weighing a pitch for a reality series where immigrants would compete for a chance to win United States citizenship.

The cases of Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi represent two ongoing blows to the current administration’s ongoing attempt to turn the U.S. into a police state. Both activists were kidnapped by ICE and shipped far from their homes without due process. Both Öztürk and Mahdawi have been ordered released and returned to their homes by federal judges.

Öztürk and Mahdawi are still being pursued for deportation by ICE, but in the meantime they are both suing the government for wrongful arrest.

Mahdawi said he is not afraid of the government, that he plans to continue protesting, and that his school, Columbia University, is a puppet of the Trump administration: “Columbia University is participating in the destruction of the democratic system… They are supporting the initiatives and the agenda of the Trump administration, and they are punishing and torturing their students.”

Öztürk spoke to the press upon her return to Boston after six weeks in horrible conditions at a Louisiana detention center. She ended her remarks with a plea on behalf of her fellow detainees: “Please don’t forget about all these wonderful women in the immigration detention system,” she said. “I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can be all preventable.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

[Content warning: the linked article contains embedded video showing the violence of recent ICE arrests in Worcester. Viewer discretion advised.]

Trump promised increased ICE activity, and it certainly appears this is a wretched promise this administration plans to keep.

The Boston area has seen nearly 400 detentions in six days, while the total for the entire previous year, across all of New England, was 900 arrests. One community defense group has seen a 100% increase in calls to their tipline. Particularly disturbing video of arrests in Worcester has spread widely on the internet.

No one is sitting on the sidelines waiting things out while ICE kidnaps people, violates due process, and generally acts like a terrorist secret police force.

Community members are taking stock of ICE’s tactics, and doing everything they can to protect their neighbors and family members. Groups like LUCE: the Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts are helping to monitor and verify ICE activities, report on abuse, and provide community defense.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

Anonymous, a “hacktivist” group who have orchestrated cyber attacks on a broad range of organizations, from the Church of Scientology to the Minneapolis police department in the wake of the George Floyd murder, has claimed responsibility for breaching the website of an airline carrying out deportation flights of immigrants under the Trump administration.

Hackers released flight data and internal documents as well as breaching the website of Global Crossing Airlines, a U.S. based charter airline responsible for several chartered flights to Venezuela that are now being challenged in court by a class action lawsuit. This is a developing story from Migrant Insider and 404 Media.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

Elected officials, clergy, and concerned citizens were among scores of people who turned out to protest the arrest and detention of Daniel Orellana in Framingham, Massachusetts last week. Although they were looking for someone else, ICE detained Orellana after arresting him at a local gas station. His family did not know where he was until late that night.

While the suburban town has not been a hotbed of protest since the Revolutionary War era, the event, organized by the group 50501 Massachusetts, drew residents concerned about the impact of ICE raids on their community. Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and congresswoman Katherine Clark, whose district includes Framingham, also sent supportive messages.

Local pastor Debbie Edwards commented: “We are here to say yes of the vision, the vision of our values that says we are stronger and better when we honor the gifts of people from many diverse communities.”

Who in your community will show up to defend against ICE raids?

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

Newark, NJ Mayor Ras Baraka, son of poet and activist Amiri Baraka, was arrested last week outside of Delaney Hall, an ICE prison operated by GEO Group under a 15-year, $1 billion dollar contract which recently reopened without permission from the city and in violation of local ordinances. (GEO Group is the same company that runs Texas’s Broward Transitional Facility, where Marie Ange Blaise was pronounced dead after allegedly being denied adequate medical care.)

Mayor Baraka had attempted to join a scheduled congressional oversight visit with NJ Reps Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman. Federal officials blocked their entry and physically confronted both Mayor Baraka and the congresswomen, arresting Baraka after he had left the premises and returned to the public side of the gate.

A DHS statement inaccurately characterized the visitors as protestors who “stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility.” Mayor Baraka sued GEO Group as soon as plans to open Delaney Hall were announced and has been vocal in his opposition to the administration’s targeting of immigrant communities. Call your mayor and ask them to be more like Mayor Baraka.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)

The cases of Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi represent two ongoing blows to the current administration’s ongoing attempt to turn the U.S. into a police state. Both activists were kidnapped by ICE and shipped far from their homes without due process. Both Öztürk and Mahdawi have been ordered released and returned to their homes by federal judges.

Öztürk and Mahdawi are still being pursued for deportation by ICE, but in the meantime they are both suing the government for wrongful arrest.

Mahdawi said he is not afraid of the government, that he plans to continue protesting, and that his school, Columbia University, is a puppet of the Trump administration: “Columbia University is participating in the destruction of the democratic system… They are supporting the initiatives and the agenda of the Trump administration, and they are punishing and torturing their students.”

Öztürk spoke to the press upon her return to Boston after six weeks in horrible conditions at a Louisiana detention center. She ended her remarks with a plea on behalf of her fellow detainees: “Please don’t forget about all these wonderful women in the immigration detention system,” she said. “I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can be all preventable.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

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Donald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said.

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to be suspended in times of "rebellion or invasion".

Wait, is Israel cancelled or am I tweaking?

kindly someone smarter please give your analysis

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