Guardian: Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute

Posted on April 30, 2025 by M

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US, according to sources and an Ice document.

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In recent months, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Ice have begun engaging in “welfare checks” on children who arrived in the US alone, usually via the US-Mexico border, to “ensure that they are safe and not being exploited”, according to a DHS spokesperson.

Although DHS is characterizing the welfare visits as benevolent, an internal Ice document accessed by the National Immigration Project advocacy group and then shared shows Ice is also seeking out children who came into the US alone as immigrants – and their US-based sponsors – for immigration enforcement purposes and/or to pursue criminal prosecutions. The recent operations and document confirm a February report from Reuters, that the Trump administration has directed Ice to track down and deport this group.

How does one “[pursue] criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them LEGALLY in the US”? These creeps will do anything to get their numbers up.

Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US, according to sources and an Ice document. The moves are sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about what one critic called “backdoor family separation”. In recent months,…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-seeking-out-unaccompanied-immigrant-children-to-deport-or-prosecute/ar-AA1DMtr3

Closer to the Edge: An Open Letter to Tom Homan

Posted on April 28, 2025 by M

Dear Tom,

You probably won’t read this.

Men like you rarely look back at the wreckage they cause — unless it’s to count the bodies and brag about it on Fox News.

But just in case you stumble across it — maybe while Googling yourself between appearances at gun shows and MAGA fundraisers — let’s make a few things perfectly clear.

We know exactly who you are.

We know exactly what you did.

And we’re not letting you slither aroumd now that you’re back in power without dragging the full weight of your cruelty into the sunlight.

Over the next few weeks, Closer to the Edge will be publishing a trilogy of articles about you:

1. “Tom Homan: The Border Butcher Who Mistook Cruelty for a Career Path”

A surgical dissection of your rise from small-town cop to federal sadist.

Spoiler: We found nothing noble at the core — only ambition, obedience, and the hollow echo of a man who mistook breaking families for defending borders.

2. “The Cage Architect: Tom Homan Built an American Horror Story — And Then Bragged About It”

A full accounting of how you turned family separation into a bureaucratic meat grinder, leaving thousands of children traumatized, families destroyed, and the moral spine of this country bruised and bleeding.

You didn’t enforce the law, Tom. You vandalized it.

3. “Breaking the Cruelty Chain: How to End Tom Homan’s America Before It Ends Us”

An action guide for everyone who refuses to let you and your co-conspirators in cruelty — Miller, Noem, Trump — finish the job you started.

Because your legacy isn’t an inevitability.

It’s a warning label.

We are not neutral.

We are not polite.

We are not interested in “both sides” journalism when it comes to men who build cages and call them policy.

We are here to name you, expose you, and bury the myth of your “service” under the avalanche of truth you spent your career trying to outrun.

You will never again hide behind a badge.

You will never again camouflage your cruelty with a flag.

You are seen.

You are remembered.

And you are not getting away with it.

Not this time.

Sincerely,
The Editors and Writers and Staff at Closer to the Edge

P.S.
You built cages for children.
We’re building cages for your lies.
Let’s see who gets out first.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TOM HOMAN

From the Editors and Writers and Staff at Closer to the Edge

https://closertotheedge.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-tom-homan

Mediaite: Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] Threatens to Revoke Harvard’s Ability to Enroll Foreign Students Over ‘Cesspool of Extremist Riots’

Posted on April 28, 2025 by M

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] has threatened to remove Harvard University from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program and block the school from enrolling foreign students.

In a letter sent to Harvard’s leadership that was released publicly Wednesday via a DHS press release, Noem [Bimbo #2] demanded records on foreign students involved in protests or activities she described as promoting terrorism and antisemitism.

The university has until April 30 to respond to Noem [Bimbo #2] with the information she demanded, or it risks being removed from the SEVP program.

Noem [Bimbo #2] also announced the cancellation of two federal grants awarded to Harvard totaling $2.7 million. She blasted the school in a statement:

Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism — driven by its spineless leadership — fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security. With anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard’s position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory. America demands more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars.

Incredible overreach ….

Kristi Noem Threatens to Revoke Harvard’s Ability to Enroll Foreign Students Over ‘Cesspool of Extremist Riots’

In a letter sent to Harvard that was released publicly Wednesday via a DHS press release, Noem demanded records on foreign students involved in protests.

Kristi Noem Threatens to Revoke Harvard’s Ability to Enroll Foreign Students Over ‘Cesspool of Extremist Riots’

Fear and Loathing: Mohsen Mahdawi, almost a citizen. Almost.

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested outside his naturalization interview in Vermont. He was on track to become a U.S. citizen. ICE decided otherwise.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

THE ARCHITECTS OF ERASURE Donald Trump returned to power promising the largest deportation campaign in American history. That wasn’t bluster. It was policy. He brought Kristi Noem into the cabinet…

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Alireza Doroudi, Iranian PhD student, University of Alabama

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian PhD student at the University of Alabama, was picked up by ICE without charge. No one will say why. He’s still gone.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Rümeysa Öztürk, Fulbright scholar, Tufts University

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Rümeysa Öztürk was a Fulbright scholar at Tufts University. ICE agents in masks and hoodies grabbed her off the street, shoved her into an unmarked car, and vanished her into a Louisiana detention center. Her crime? Writing an op-ed critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Kseniia Petrova, Russian scientist, Harvard Univeristy

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard, was deported over a technicality involving frog embryo samples. When she said she feared political persecution in Russia, they shrugged and shackled her anyway.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Momodou Taal, British-Gambian PhD student, Cornell University

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Momodou Taal, a British-Gambian PhD student at Cornell, was told to surrender himself or be hunted. His activism cost him his place in the country. He left voluntarily. That’s what exile looks like now.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Jessica Brösche, German tourist

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Jessica Brösche, a German tourist, spent eight days in solitary confinement for a visa mix-up. She described her experience as a “horror film.” This is what awaits people who land on the wrong day, at the wrong airport, with the wrong stamp.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Fear and Loathing: Andry Hernández Romero, Venezuelan asylum seeker

Posted on April 24, 2025 by M

Andry Hernández Romero, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, was deported for having religious tattoos that DHS claimed were gang-related. He came here to escape persecution. We handed him over to it.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665054132830559

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.