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Raw Story: ‘Our Country, as we know it, is finished!’ Trump rages at legal setback in overnight rant

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Buffeted by multiple court rulings overturning actions taken by his administration, Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the wee hours of Saturday morning to lash out at the legal system.

On Thursday, Trump-nominated U.S. District Judge Fernandez Rodriguez permanently blocked the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security from transferring or removing Venezuelans held under the Alien Enemies Act in the Southern District of Texas.

Judge Rodriguez wrote, “The court concludes that as a matter of law, the executive branch cannot rely on the A.E.A., based on the proclamation, to detain the named petitioners and the certified class, or to remove them from the country.”

That, apparently, set off the president who fired off an attack on his social media platform.

Early Saturday, Trump wrote, “Can it be so that Judges aren’t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from? If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished! Americans will have to get used to a very different, crime filled, LIFE.”

“This is not what our Founders had in mind!!!” he insisted.

Poor crybaby King Donald!

‘Our Country, as we know it, is finished!’ Trump rages at legal setback in overnight rant
Buffeted by multiple court rulings overturning actions taken by his administration, Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the wee hours of Saturday morning to lash out at the legal system. On Thursday, Trump-nominated U.S. District Judge Fernandez Rodriguez permanently blocked the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security from transf…

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Alternet: ‘Sad white boys’: Fear as Trump terror adviser shrugs off threat from ‘inside the house’

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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was removed this week but a key Trump counterterrorism official remains in place at the White House — and he’s planning a change in strategy to focus on jihadists rather than white supremacist groups that one leading expert said remain a significant domestic threat.

“The call is coming from inside the house,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. “We all understand why the right doesn’t want to tackle domestic violent extremism — it’s their base.”

‘Sad white boys’: Fear as Trump terror adviser shrugs off threat from ‘inside the house’
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was removed this week but a key Trump counterterrorism official remains in place at the White House — and he’s planning a change in strategy to focus on jihadists rather than white supremacist groups that one leading expert said remain a significant domestic threat. “The call is coming from inside the house,” sa…

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The Atlantic: Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’

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Fears of being detained are in overdrive, even if the Trump administration insists that they’re overblown.

Jeff Joseph, a 53-year-old immigration attorney in Colorado, has recently started taking precautions while traveling abroad that, at another time, he would have considered a little paranoid. He leaves his phone at home. Instead, he carries a “burner’’—a device scrubbed of his contact list and communications—in case U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers send him to secondary inspection or seize his electronics when he returns home. Joseph told me his knowledge of immigration law has left him with less confidence, not more, about the risks of crossing U.S. borders during the second Trump administration.

“Among immigration lawyers who are well versed in this, and who know what happens in secondary, there’s a level of anxiety and panic that we’ve never seen before,” said Joseph, the president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “Myself included.”

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Immigration attorneys also note Trump has curbed CBP officers’ ability to allow the entry of migrants or visitors using an authority known as “parole.” So travelers who do not qualify for admission to the United States are more likely to be handed over to ICE for detention and deportation. Although U.S. citizens cannot be denied entry to the United States, all other categories of noncitizens—even, in some cases, legal permanent residents with green cards—are at risk of being denied entry or deemed inadmissible by a CBP officer.

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Associated Press: International students in Alabama fearful after researcher with no political ties is detained

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Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and her fiance, Alireza Doroudi, had just spent an evening celebrating the Persian new year at the University of Alabama when seven armed immigration officers came to their apartment before dawn and arrested Doroudi.

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Bajgani said the couple does not know why Doroudi — who has no criminal record or public political views — faces deportation, adding that Trump’s recent visit to the school made her feel like the university was “ignorant of our crisis.”

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“It’s like all of us are waiting for our turn. It could be every knock, every email could be deportation,” said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing his legal status.

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Doroudi’s visa was revoked in June 2023, but the embassy didn’t provide a reason and ignored his inquiries, Bajgani said. The university told him he could stay as long as he remained a student but that would not be allowed to reenter the U.S. if he left, she said.

He was operating under that guidance when immigration officers came to the couple’s door in March.

International students in Alabama fearful after researcher with no political ties is detained
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and her fiance, Alireza Doroudi, had just spent an evening celebrating the Persian new year at the University of Alabama when seven armed immigration officers came to their apartment before dawn and arrested Doroudi. In a moment, the young couple’s life was upended. “I was living a normal life until tha…

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CNN: Tennessee authorities release video of Abrego Garcia at a traffic stop that officials have used to paint him as a criminal

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US officials have argued the traffic stop in November 2022, during which Abrego Garcia was not detained, supports their claims that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 and involved in human trafficking. The stop resulted in no charges, and there was no mention of human trafficking in the parts of the redacted report that have been made available.

Yet the 2022 traffic stop now could play into the ongoing political debate and legal standoff over Abrego Garcia, who is still in El Salvador while a federal judge demands answers and more evidence from the Trump administration.

So far in the ongoing court proceeding over his custody, his attorneys have said that the US in his 2019 immigration proceedings offered little reason to believe Abrego Garcia was tied to a gang, other than the fact he wore a Chicago Bulls hat and that a confidential informant provided a tip to authorities.

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“There is no known link or association between him and the MS-13 gang,” his lawyers told the federal judge last month.

In a statement provided to CNN regarding the bodycam footage, Abrego Garcia’s attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said, his client “has been denied the most basic protections of due process—no phone call to his lawyer, no call to his wife or child, and no opportunity to be heard.”

Sandoval-Moshenberg added that “I see no evidence of a crime in this footage. But the point is not the traffic stop — it’s that Mr. Abrego Garcia deserves his day in court. Bring him back to the United States, return him before the same immigration judge who heard his case in 2019, and let him speak for himself.”

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Earlier, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Highway Patrol told CNN that Abrego Garcia was flagged to federal law enforcement, “who made the decision not to detain him.”

According to a Department of Homeland Security statement released last month about the incident, federal officials released Abrego Garcia with a warning for driving with an expired license.

And today Trump’s minions are desperately grasping at straws to deport anyone and everyone they can so as to increase their deportation counts.

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Inquirer: ICE facilities need ‘drastic improvements,’ says Fil-Am attorney general

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding state detention centers make “significant improvements” to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention standards.

That’s after a new 165-page report from the Department of Justice released Monday found that all of the state’s six privately-operated immigration detention facilities are failing to meet basic requirements for mental health care, medical recordkeeping, and suicide prevention. The report also found excessive use of force, discipline against detainees and use of solitary confinement.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding state detention centers make “significant improvements” to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention standards.

That’s after a new 165-page report from the Department of Justice released Monday found that all of the state’s six privately-operated immigration detention facilities are failing to meet basic requirements for mental health care, medical recordkeeping, and suicide prevention. The report also found excessive use of force, discipline against detainees and use of solitary confinement.

ICE facilities need ‘drastic improvements,’ says Fil-Am attorney general
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding state detention centers make “significant improvements” to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention standards. That’s after a new 165-page report from the Department of Justice released Monday found that all of the state’s six privately-operated immigration detention facilities are failing to meet basic requirements for mental health care, medical recordkeeping, and…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-facilities-need-drastic-improvements-says-fil-am-attorney-general/ar-AA1E4xHC

KARE-TV: Judge terminates deportation case of U of M student

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An immigration judge terminated the deportation case of the University of Minnesota student who was detained by immigration officials in March.

According to court documents obtained by KARE 11’s Lou Raguse, Judge Sarah Mazzie ruled that Dogukan Gunaydin, a 28-year-old citizen of Turkey, cannot be deported because the DWI case he pleaded guilty to was not grounds for his removal. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is appealing the decision.

Trump’s losers intend to appeal the decision.

Judge terminates deportation case of U of M student
The Department of Homeland Security is appealing the decision.

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Medium: Community Rallies to Support Family After Traumatic ICE Raid in Oklahoma City

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  • A GoFundMe campaign, “Help a Family Rebuild After Unjust Raid,” supports a U.S. citizen family mistakenly raided by ICE on April 24, 2025, in Oklahoma City.
  • The campaign raised over $25,000 from 470+ donors within 24 hours, reflecting strong community empathy.
  • The raid left the family, led by a mother called Marissa, traumatized and without phones, laptops, or savings.
  • Controversy surrounds the raid’s execution, with critics arguing it violated the family’s rights, while DHS defends it as lawful.
Community Rallies to Support Family After Traumatic ICE Raid in Oklahoma City
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https://medium.com/@jackolmsted/community-rallies-to-support-family-after-traumatic-ice-raid-in-oklahoma-city-4d2dfc64a79f

Who are the real terrorists now?

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ICE, FBI, US Marshals

Raid wrong house in Oklahoma City

Terrorize mother and three daughters, all U.S. citizens

Force them outside in the rain in their underwear

Steal their phone, laptops, money

Are you proud of your thugs now, Kristi Noem & Tom Homan?

Rot in Hell you f*ck*ng pieces of fascist sh*t!

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ICE raids wrong Oklahoma home and seizes family’s life savings — then leaves
The state agreed earlier this year to increased cooperation with federal immigration agents
ICE Agents raid home, force family out in their underwear: “Traumatized”
A woman in Oklahoma City said agents forced her and her daughters outside into the rain before they had a chance to get dressed.
ICE Raid Mistakenly Targets Innocent Family in Oklahoma City, Leaving Them With Nothing [Video]
A Maryland family who recently moved to Oklahoma City says federal agents raided their home by mistake, confiscating their belongings and traumatizing them — despite not being the suspects listed on the warrant.
‘We’re citizens!’: Family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings — even though they were …
Updated: 20 armed agents burst into the home of US citizen & her daughters in the early morning
They moved from Maryland into a nightmare. A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were not the…
Mom Says ICE Agents Humiliated Her Family in Mistaken Raid – NewsBreak
A woman says Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agents raided her Oklahoma City home and forced her family to stand outside in
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.
Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
You should watch the folliwing KFOR news story because it captures something most headlines can’t: the raw human cost of a government that refuses to take responsibility. This isn’t just another…

Latin Times: Active Duty Military Found Alongside Tren de Aragua Members at DEA Raid of ‘Underground Illegal Nightclub’ in Colorado

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The Department and Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain DEA teamed up to raid a Colorado Springs nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to the DEA, club patrons included Tren de Aragua gang members and active duty military personnel.

So where was Pete Hegseth (our O-3 washout turned Secretary of Defense) when all this was going down? Pete was (pick all that apply):

  1. Asleep at home
  2. Asleep at the office
  3. Hard at work de-woking whatever
  4. Drinking at home
  5. Drinking with the boys in Colorado
Active Duty Military Found Alongside Tren de Aragua Members at DEA Raid of ‘Underground Illegal Nightclub’ in Colorado
The Department and Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raided a Colorado nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to DHS Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, it was an “illegal alien nightclub” that was used by Tren de Aragua gang members.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/active-duty-military-found-alongside-tren-de-aragua-members-at-dea-raid-of-underground-illegal-nightclub-in-colorado/ar-AA1DITGA