US judge had ordered that the man remain in Pennsylvania
Supreme Court ruling halted deportation effort last week
Transfer shows Trump’s aggressive deportation tactics
President Donald Trump‘s administration moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge had issued an order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania or the United States, according to court records.
A plane transporting the man took off on April 15 from an airport in the state capital Harrisburg about a half hour after U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines issued an order temporarily blocking the administration from moving him out of her western Pennsylvania judicial district or the country, Justice Department lawyer Laura Irwin told an April 17 hearing, conducted as a conference call.
Trump’s crony & billionaire F’Elon Musk isn’t above looting the treasury by pretending to be a “small” business:
Musk founded Boring in 2017 as a subsidiary of SpaceX. Its raison d’être was rectifying Southern California gridlock via a subterranean transportation network, though it has failed in that regard. In 2018, Musk spun off Boring, making it a privately held company that has largely served to promote his car manufacturer, Tesla. Through the gravity of its founder, carefully staged photo ops, and alleged environmental and labor violations, Boring has maintained media interest throughout its eight years of existence. But it remains the least distinguished of Musk’s companies. It has struggled to generate revenue despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in fundraising.
The company, which is based near Austin, Texas, has built just a few miles of commercial tunnels, all of which are located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its failure to generate substantive business could explain why it would seek federal funding from a White House that has proven to be partial to Musk’s business interests. A senior Trump adviser, Musk also leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the White House’s austerity and parapolitical initiative. Steve Davis, the president of the Boring Company, is reportedly in charge of DOGE’s day-to-day operations.
Musk-owned company says it qualifies for federal contracts reserved for small businesses
Not long after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Elon Musk’s $7 billion tunneling company registered as a small business on a government portal for federal contractors.
Experts say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets of US defense department and given assistance to foreign spies
As more develops about the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and his repeated disclosures of sensitive military intelligence in unsecured Signal group chats, there are growing concerns his behavior has weakened the Pentagon in the eyes of its foreign adversaries and made him and his entourage a top espionage target.
Allies, already concerned by Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs, have also begun to see the US as an intelligence-sharing liability. There are fears that the mounting firings and leak inquiries in Hegseth’s orbit, along with his inability to manage these internal crises, exposes the entire global US war footing – especially, if a geopolitical and external crisis comes across his desk.
Fears grow that Signal leaks make Pete Hegseth top espionage target
Experts say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets of US defense department and given assistance to foreign spies
Badar Khan Suri didn’t carry a weapon. He carried a syllabus.
A postdoc at Georgetown, he taught courses on peacebuilding, minority rights, and international diplomacy. His lectures challenged power with principle. His research gave voice to the stateless. That was his crime.
DHS never accused him of violence. Never accused him of lying. Just thinking too loudly. Being too brown, too bold, too unwilling to shut up.
And so, in March 2025, they grabbed him.
Masked agents. No warning. Broad daylight. His children watched from the window. His wife — a U.S. citizen — screamed as the SUV pulled away. Georgetown stayed silent for three days. Then the protests began. Students. Professors. Even Jewish alumni. All demanding his release.
The government didn’t care.
What evidence did they offer? His father-in-law was once a Hamas spokesperson. That’s it. No charges. No trial. No defense. Just guilt by association, passed down like a curse.
They revoked his visa. Hauled him to Texas. Locked him away without a single charge.
As of April 2025, he remains detained at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. He has not been deported. He has not been charged. A federal judge has temporarily blocked his removal while his legal team fights back. His next immigration court hearing is scheduled for May 6.
They call him a national security threat.
We call him a scholar silenced.
Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
Badar Khan Suri didn’t carry a weapon. He carried a syllabus. A postdoc at Georgetown, he taught courses on peacebuilding, minority rights, and international diplomacy. His lectures challenged power…
Artemis Ghasemzadeh didn’t come here to start a fight. She came here to survive one. A Christian convert from Iran — a crime that courts execution back home — she crossed into the United States seeking asylum. She brought a battered suitcase, a birth certificate, and a whisper of hope.
She didn’t get a hearing. She didn’t get a lawyer. She didn’t even get a question.
She got dumped.
Panama. A third country. A place she’d never seen, never requested, never even flown over. ICE called it “expedited removal.” We call it what it is: geopolitical laundering of a human soul.
In February 2025, they shackled her and shipped her to a hotel in Panama City — no sunlight, no due process, no warning. She scrawled “HELP US” on the window in lipstick — because that’s all she had. The photo made the front page. The administration didn’t blink.
Then came the jungle. The Darién Gap. They moved her to a remote camp near the edge of the most dangerous migrant trail in the hemisphere — a place where people disappear.
Snakes. Rot. Disease. The constant threat of violence. Women vanish here. Men too.
She was told it was temporary. And this time, it actually was.
In March, after weeks of pressure and media attention, Panamanian authorities released her with a temporary visa. One month. No clear future. No asylum. Just limbo.
She sleeps in borrowed rooms now. Eats what she can afford. Prays to a God she once trusted with her life.
This country didn’t just turn her away.
It exported her crisis.
And if it can vanish Artemis — a teacher who ran from death — what chance do the rest of us have?
Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
Artemis Ghasemzadeh didn’t come here to start a fight. She came here to survive one. A Christian convert from Iran — a crime that courts execution back home — she crossed into the United States…
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
