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Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop’s report

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The imprisoned man sought shelter in the U.S. after he told authorities he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the “particular social groups” allowed to claim asylum.

  • A former Milwaukee police officer with credibility issues played a key role in the deportation of a Venezuelan migrant to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
  • Charles Cross, Jr., a CoreCivic employee, signed a report alleging the migrant’s affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang based on his tattoos.

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY. 

A report approved by the police-officer-turned-prison-contractor claimed the Venezuelan man was a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua. 

But the credibility of Charles Cross Jr., who signed the report, was so bad, prosecutors flagged him on a list of police who had been accused of lying, breaking the law or acting in a way that erodes their credibility to testify in Milwaukee County.

Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee police sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated. He appealed the decision and resigned in the process, according to the department.

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Earlier misdeeds had landed him on the Milwaukee County Brady List, a compilation of law enforcement officers deemed by county prosecutors to have credibility problems. 

Being on a Brady List is a kiss of death for most cops. Apparently immigration judges, ICE, and King Donald think that habitual liars are just fine.

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop’s report

Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/04/10/fired-milwaukee-police-officer-report-gay-stylist-salvadoran-prison/83005721007

Reason: Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Claim That He Can Summarily Deport Anyone He Describes As an ‘Alien Enemy’

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The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously agreed that alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have a due process right to challenge President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to summarily deport them.

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As the Court’s unsigned order in Trump v. J.G.G. notes, “‘it is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law’ in the context of removal proceedings,” meaning “the detainees are entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard ‘appropriate to the nature of the case.'” Specifically, the majority says, “AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

That order decisively rejects the Trump administration’s attempt to deport suspected gang members without judicial review.

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Claim That He Can Summarily Deport Anyone He Describes As an ‘Alien Enemy’

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously agreed that alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have a due process right to challenge President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to summarily deport them. At the same time, the majority lifted a temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocked those deportations, saying Venezu…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-rejects-trump-s-claim-that-he-can-summarily-deport-anyone-he-describes-as-an-alien-enemy/ar-AA1CxXGN

New York Post: Texas man allegedly vowed to ‘open fire’ on ICE agents, said Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] should be sent to ‘gulag’

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Homeland Security agents nabbed a Texas man who allegedly vowed to “open fire” on ICE agents coming to his neighborhood — and said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] should be sent to a gulag.

Robert King, a US citizen, was collared in McKinney, Texas, after he made the disturbing threats online, Homeland Security Investigations said Wednesday.

“It’s time to stop being a p—- and put the Second Amendment to work. ICE are not real cops, they are a secret police force with no real legal authority. Kill them,” King said in one of the menacing posts, according to Fox News.

Texas man allegedly vowed to ‘open fire’ on ICE agents, said Kristi Noem should be sent to ‘gulag’

Robert King, a US citizen, was collared in McKinney, Texas, after he made the disturbing threats online, Homeland Security Investigations said Wednesday.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/us-news/texas-man-allegedly-vowed-to-open-fire-on-ice-agents/

I hope Robert King lawyers up, because the government has some real problems here. For starters, we don’t have to like the government. Moreover, we can’t be penalized for hating what the government has become. ICE today is close to what the SA & SS (Gestapo) were in the early years of Nazi Germany.

Robert King’s statements are not threats, certainly not actionable threats. They are the constitutionally protect free speech of a man who is obviously disgusted and exasperated at the fascist Nazi party Trump cronies have turned into.

Personally I hope we can resolve the current situation and send the Trump regime packing peacefully. But if we can’t, the Second Amendment is there for us.

The Second Amendment is not about deer hunting and target shooting. It is there because we had just removed a repressive regime, and our Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that we could remove another one should the need arise.

And as far as Bimbo #2 Kristi Noem is concerned, I could care less what happens when Bimbo #2 dies and goes to Hell. She’s a heartless wench who shot her own puppy and pet goat and later bragged about it; a gulag in Hell will suit her just fine.

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home

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Families and activists say deportees signed documents to return to Venezuela but were sent to Salvadoran jail instead

Venezuelans deported from the US to El Salvador in a case that has become a legal flashpoint for Donald Trump’s US administration had signed documents agreeing to be returned to their home country, according to families of some of the deportees and a campaign group.

Two families of men on the now notorious Saturday flights to El Salvador told the Financial Times their relatives had signed what appeared to be voluntary deportation orders in exchange for returning to Venezuela sooner.

But their families later spotted them in videos posted by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele that showed them in his country in chains, claiming they were violent gang members.

Kelvi Zambrano, co-ordinator for the US-based Venezuelan non-profit Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy, said his organisation represented three more Venezuelans who signed agreements to return home and were now missing. Their names all appear on a US government list of deportees sent to El Salvador that was published by CBS News.

It is not clear how many of the 238 Venezuelans flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador from Texas on Saturday had signed the papers to return to their home country.

So they think they’re going home to Venezuela? And instead they get de facto one-year prison sentences in a Salvadoran jail with no hearing, no due process whatsoever?

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home

Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] Violated Geneva Convention “To Pose with Prisoners” Says U.S. Former POW/MIA Director – MAGA Defends Her

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When U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited the mega prison in El Salvador on Wednesday and posed with the bare-chested and head-shorn inmates behind her, Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Michael Franken responded to Noem on X: “It is a violation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to pose with prisoners.”

Franken, also the former Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) who served under Presidents Obama and Trump, added: “The first three Geneva Conventions dealt with combatants. The 4th with civilian prisoners. They are either combatants in MAGA minds or civilians without due process. Geneva signatory is germane.”

Kristi Noem Violated Geneva Convention “To Pose with Prisoners” Says U.S. Former POW/MIA Director – MAGA Defends Her

Trump Administration officials continue to defend its use of extraordinary war powers to deport more than 200 Venezuelan migrants accused of being criminals to a new mega prison in El Salvador. The President’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to allow the deportation has ignited a legal battle. Note: Chief DC District Judge James Boasberg issued a […]

Kristi Noem Violated Geneva Convention “To Pose with Prisoners” Says U.S. Former POW/MIA Director – MAGA Defends Her

The first sentence of article 2 of the Fourth Geneva Convention very clearly states that it applies in peacetime:

In addition to the provisions which shall be implemented in peacetime, …

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.33_GC-IV-EN.pdf

US Appeals Court Hands Trump Stinging Defeat in Deportation Case

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In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the March 15 ruling from Boasberg that temporarily halted deportations under the Alien Enemies Act after ordering that the government’s “emergency motions for stay be denied,” according to court documents reviewed by Newsweek.

US appeals court hands Trump defeat in deportation case

The Justice Department had appealed the decision after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations.

US Appeals Court Hands Trump Defeat in Deportation Case – Newsweek

ABC News: Man deported under Alien Enemies Act because of soccer logo tattoo: Attorney

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An attorney representing a migrant sent to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act says her client was deported due to a soccer logo tattoo, according to court declarations submitted Wednesday night.

Linette Tobin is representing Jerce Reyes Barrios, a professional soccer player from Venezuela who protested the Maduro regime in February and March 2024 and was detained and tortured after one of the demonstrations.

Man deported under Alien Enemies Act because of soccer logo tattoo: Attorney

Man deported under Alien Enemies Act because of soccer logo tattoo: Attorney

261 alleged gang members “sentenced” to year in El Salvador prison without trial

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Who needs due process when you can just ship people you don’t like to a prison in El Salvador?

Salvadoran officials said the detainees included 238 Venezuelans who are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, as well as 23 members of MS-13. They were immediately transferred to a Terrorism Confinement Center, where they are scheduled to stay for at least one year, under an agreement between the U.S. and El Salvador worth $6 million, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/us-deports-gang-members-prison-el-salvador