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News Nation: Mexican immigrants more likely to remain behind bars after arrest, data shows
Mexican nationals are more likely to be detained after being apprehended by federal immigration officers, according to data compiled by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
TRAC figures show that in July, 57 percent of Mexican nationals arrested for crossing the border or for being in the country illegally were held in detention centers while their proceedings take place in immigration court.
By contrast, overall, only 30 percent of migrants were detained after their apprehensions.
According to TRAC, ICE determines when a person is held, and that there is no specific pattern in the decision-making.
“In reality, little is known about the factors that influence these custody decisions,” writes TRAC. “The ICE agents have wide discretion to make decisions and their criteria is rarely revealed.”
According to TRAC, it appears decisions are taken by the agents themselves and are influenced by their own backgrounds and ethnic identity.
However, the state in which migrants are apprehended can also determine whether they are detained.
TRAC says being detained can have major implications, adding that individuals who remain in custody have a more difficult time obtaining the documents and the legal help to make a case against deportation.
TRAC also says that the vast majority of individuals in ICE custody, through June 30, had no criminal record, and that 4 out of 5, either had no record or had only committed a minor offense such as a traffic violation.
Racial discrimination? Probably!
Click on one of the links below to see their detention rates nationality by nationality.
Raw Story: Trump’s bizarre Cabinet meeting revealed something ‘a little scary’: ex-White House aide
A former White House national security advisor was taken aback by the Trump administration’s most recent cabinet meeting.
Jake Sullivan, who served as former President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, discussed the meeting on a recent episode of The Bulwark’s podcast on YouTube. He described the meeting as one taken from a “Kim Jong-Un documentary,” referring to the dictatorial leader of North Korea.
“Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Sullivan said. “And there is a kind of ludicrous, humorous quality to it, but it’s also a little bit scary because it reflects something deeper and dangerous about the president’s autocratic tendencies and the fact that these people around him are just so slavish that I don’t think they would stand up to him on anything at any point.”
“And without those kinds of guard rails, I think it’s uh it’s bleak what we may be facing here in the coming days and months,” he added.
Sullivan said the tactics Trump is using to fulfill his autocratic tendencies reminded him of other strongman leaders across the globe.
“This looks a lot like Erdogan in Turkey. It looks a lot like Orban in Hungary,” Sullivan said. “But with one big twist, which is in both of those cases, it took a long time for them to play out their strategy. We’ve been at this now for seven months. And you just look at the breakneck speed with which Trump is moving to try to break down the various guardrails of our democracy.”
“It’s extremely concerning,” he added.
Washington Post: Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
Plans show the administration is preparing to send thousands of foreigners to the infamous detention facility, including people from Britain, France and Italy, with no intent to notify their home governments.
The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, starting as early as this week, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries. They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, but also other parts of the world, including many from Haiti. Officials shared the plans with The Washington Post, including some documents, on the condition of anonymity because the matter is considered highly sensitive.
The administration is unlikely to inform the foreigners’ home governments about the impending transfers to the infamous military facility, including close U.S. allies such as Britain, Germany and France, the officials said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/10/trump-guantanamo-deportations
Associated Press: Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute for aiding migrants
The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.
Border shelters, which have long provided lodging, meals and transportation to the nearest bus station or airport, were rattled by a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that raised “significant concerns” about potentially illegal activity and demanded detailed information in a wide-ranging investigation. FEMA suggested shelters may have committed felony offenses against bringing people across the border illegally or transporting them within the United States.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued to ask shelters in Texas and Arizona to house people even after the March 11 letter, putting them in the awkward position of doing something that FEMA appeared to say might be illegal. Both agencies are part of the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute for aiding migrants
The Trump administration has been releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S. border with Mexico after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.
Mirror: CNN abruptly halts broadcast for breaking news about Trump’s ‘wrong’ gift from Saudi Arabia
Nonetheless, [Erin] Burnett on CNN assailed the act as blatantly inappropriate, likening it to the “modern definition of a Trojan horse.”
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Lambasting Trump’s choice to take the plane, the news anchor declared: “Let’s be honest here, the President of the United States has no business accepting a plane for anything and from anyone. It is not political.”
She went on to argue that this situation was evidently black-and-white, concluding boldly: “Because this is something that is actually an easy call. It’s wrong. But Trump’s team will circle the wagons, it seems, on pretty much anything.“
CNN quickly halts show for breaking news about Trump’s ‘wrong’ Saudi Arabia gift
CNN host Erin Burnett was left fuming as she reported that American President Donald Trump had been gifted a $400 million jet by officials in Qatar – and he accepted it
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/cnn-abruptly-halts-broadcast-breaking-1150472
The Grifter-in-Chief Goes to Qatar to Line His Pockets
US President Donald Trump heads to the Gulf this week on a visit aimed at reaching security and technology deals, with his own family’s business dealings not far from the spotlight.
Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, which have collectively promised to invest more than $2 trillion in the US since he came to office. In return, Gulf states want concessions on chip sales and nuclear cooperation, Semafor’s Mohammed Sergie wrote.
The Gulf is Trump’s “happy place” because its leaders won’t criticize him, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted. That is helpful, given controversies surrounding Qatar’s offered donation of a presidential jet and his family’s crypto dealings in the region.
KARE-TV: Judge terminates deportation case of U of M student
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.
Associated Press: A Palestinian student at Columbia is freed after his arrest at a citizenship interview
A major win for freedom and the First Amendment, a major loss for our wannabe dictator King Donald:
A judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian student at Columbia University who led protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.
Immigration authorities have arrested and detained college students from around the country since the first days of the Trump administration, many of whom participated in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians.
Mohsen Mahdawi is among the first of those students to win his freedom after challenging an arrest. He walked out of a Vermont courthouse Wednesday and led hundreds of supporters in chants including “No fear” and “Free Palestine.” He said people must come together to defend both democracy and humanity.
A Palestinian student at Columbia is freed after his arrest at a citizenship interview
A judge has released a Palestinian student activist who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.
KARE-TV: U of M student detained by ICE for DWI conviction files lawsuit, claiming detention is unlawful
Dogukan Gunaydin, the STEM MBA student at the University of Minnesota who was arrested and detained by immigration officials last week, filed a lawsuit in federal court Sunday alleging the arrest and detention is a violation of his statutory and constitutional rights.
A Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement Monday that Gunaydin’s detention stems from a drunk driving conviction, clarifying that it had nothing to do with political activism on campus that has drawn scrutiny from the Trump administration. Gunaydin’s attorney also says he attended no protests.
Gunaydin is a citizen of Turkey.
Hennepin County Court records show Dunaydin was charged with gross misdemeanor DWI in July 2023. In March 2024, Dunaydin pleaded guilty to 3rd-degree DWI. The petition he signed said, “I understand that if I am not a citizen of the United States, my plea of guilty may result in deportation.
Gunaydin’s attorney Hannah Brown disputes in a petition for writ of habeas corpus that the DWI was a crime that is cause for termination of his student status or renders him deportable under immigration law.
U of M student detained by ICE for DWI conviction files lawsuit, claiming detention is unlawful