That headline confused me, I thought he somehow became father of an insane number of children before coming back to the US
The headline should read "US Citizen deported to Mexico by ICE returns after producing proof of US citizenship."
The important subtext here is that being a citizen won't save you from being deported from your own country under trump's America. This example is proof-positive.
Also seemingly, the government doesn't keep copies of any records.
Birth certs are state level, feds don't keep them.
yeah but I'd wager he'd have an SSN that could be cross referenced easily with the state.
ICE doesn't want to do the work, they just want to sweep and purge.
Pretty sure they could just ask nicely... But I guess up ending a citizen's life while billing the taxpayers is probably easier!
Hey, the unelected douchebag that is Stephen Miller has quotas they have to keep!
Peewee Himmler
Yep. It's not right but that is the way it works.
I wouldn't quite call that "working", Bob.
No one said it's working, just that's how it works, Dan.
Fuck ICE. May we never forget each and every member of this evil organization.
after this shitshow ends, most need to be in jail and the rest should live with a mark on their career: chose to enable fascism
I like they way Brad Pitt's character made sure nazi's live with the shame by marking the forehead in glorious bastards personally.
Just substitute the swastika with the word ice. Or why not both?
I wouldn't be opposed to a scarlet letter carved into the forehead for enabling fascism.
"POOR IMPULSE CONTROL"
A Texas man who was deported to Mexico by U.S. immigration authorities after a traffic stop, despite insisting he was an American citizen, has returned to the United States after federal officials agreed to allow his reentry while his case proceeds in court.
Oh how fucking benevolent of them to let him back in while his case proceeds in court! /s
Why the fuck is there even a case?! He proved he's a natural born citizen! ICE fucked up (yet again!). No court case for him to exonerate himself is needed. The only thing needed is that the fucking clowns who did this be fired and barred from ever working for the federal government again. Hell, they should be the ones locked away, if anything.
I hope he sues the feds for a boatload in damages.
These idiots are just wasting everyone's time, money, and energy. And with the added bonus of traumatizing (and in some cases murdering) a bunch of innocent people.
Why the fuck is there even a case?! He proved he's a natural born citizen!
The case is because they initially did the fascist, and any doing of fascist comes with a free kangaroo show, because...
No court case for him to exonerate himself is needed.
The case is not about him. He's going to be found to be cleared of any wrongdoing.
What they're going to do and why the appearance of being benevolent matters to the apparatus is...
The only thing needed is that the fucking clowns who did this be fired and barred from ever working for the federal government again. Hell, they should be the ones locked away, if anything.
... establishing the appearance that they're the beleaguered good guys and there's just too many immigrants for basic humanity and common sense procedural adherence.
Because they'll be found to be in the wrong, they'll appeal regardless of it landing in one of the shitty or one of the slightly less shitty Federal district courts, and then SCOTUS can expand their qualified immunity to include ruining the life of actual citizens willy-nilly.
Because they're gonna need carte blanche to make more "mistakes" with deporting citizens as planned all along, as yet another ratchet in the slow build towards open and naked racism.
Gotta have immunity from mistakes when you start your pretext with immigration, before you build up to the triangles and star patches portion on all the undesirables.
The racism is just the lead in for class-ism. You better believe it, and you better believe economic downturns and events will widen the pool of the non preferred class. To eventually include near everyone.
This is not a dumpster fire, not a tire fire, it's a landfill fire. And it just hit that radioactive material the air force dumped in there decades back then couldn't find after someone was like, wait what? (That is a real thing, sw somewheres I think, NM maybe but forget. The fire is in the landfill, for years, landfill fires never go out because methane oftentimes. It hasn't hit the radioactive material, but we know it's there and that fire is there and if the two meet it's not good.)
I don't think that's quite right
The racism isn't a lead in for class-ism, it's a distraction method. It's an attempt to redraw the lines between "us" and "them" to create the appearance of a lower class
They target susceptible groups specifically in order to convince people that the rest of us are all in the same class. It's an attempt to convince people that if they have any advantage in life, they're on the same team as the billionaires
The distinction matters because it's becoming less and less effective. Fascism has a short shelf life, because the solution it offers becomes an increasingly obvious lie. Material conditions become worse and worse until people can't ignore their own problems anymore
Hatred is a hell of a drug, but at some point all but the clinically mentally unwell care more about filling their stomachs than shitting on an imagined enemy
The racism is just the lead in for class-ism.
Yes. That is also implied in my comment, under a careful read. The progression is the same and has been there in the US forever.
Their dream model is:
Immigration - > Opposing Ideologies - > Racism -> Ethno state -> Enforced hierarchy on the remaining population
Every single one of those steps are all enforcing class division. There isn't any other war besides class war.
But the mechanisms the fascist leverages to achieve it don't include them screaming it out, for obvious reasons.
Racism, is what made the centrist be okay with MLK's assassination. His beginning to move the message from the racism cover story employed by the system, to the class-division foundations beneath, the reason he was killed.
I'm not entirely sure how to interpret your on fire analogy, except to agree that everything is indeed on fire?
Also pretty sure you're referring to a broken arrow incident with the AF thing? Yeah, there's literal and metaphorical nuclear bombs out there waiting for the fire to reach them, I can dig that.
First, sorry I must have come across wrong, I meant to just add to what you said not challenge you for not providing enough detail on race v class and such. I need word things in more clear ways, what seems clear to the author is often not to the reader.
The fire analogy, I have been calling it a dumpster fire, but it will burn for longer, so I was like, wait, what about a tire fire? Doesn't quite fit though they can burn indefinitely I think. But then, I was like, oh fuck, landfill fire. They have them going for decades, some places are siphoning methane for house use from them.
And finally, what about broken arrow? Never heard of it. I only heard of this from a person, never read it, about the nuclear dump. It's a person I did trust but have since learned is not reliable, but on this I trust him still.
No harm done, and I certainly understand a thing or two about failing to communicate myself in a way that is parse-able by others and retains my intent. I understand that all too well.
As for broken arrows: "A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon."
The nuclear powers all have way too many embarrassingly stupid ones on record, given that you'd expect nuclear weapons to be the literal most important thing with the literal most stringent procedures for handling.
There was one in NM in the 50s with some limited contamination exposed in the local area, and I thought that's what you were referring to.
Wikipedia has a neat list of both broken arrows (military accidents) and civilian ones, involving nuclear technology.
Oh yeah, the air force actually dropped two armed hydrogen bombs on North Carolina at one point. They didn't go off but still.
It is understandable though, who hasn't wanted to nuke north carolina at some point?
This guy knows his fascists. Excellent summary.
Another example of completely wasting money while people are starving
I just read about these dudes they sent straight to prison in some african country they had never been to, rush job on a private plane. They are spending a fucking fortune, then paying these dictators to keep people in prison for life without charge.
Like, if we decide to deport the illegals, we can at least do it in a decent way. This does not represent how the majority feels people should be treated.
Now make sure the suit lists Donnie personally
If immigration courts didn't catch that, they failed and need to be overhauled.
Obviously we already know that, the rest of the country does not.
But was it the long form birth certificate?
But he was brown at least right?
Newsweek isn't news.
His name is "Brian José Morales García" if you want to run a search and read about the situation from the publication of your choosing
How so? I heard they were right wing. But back in the day, I read about Israel in them, they were honest. In explaining Israel segregating palestinians into what amounts to ghettos.
They're a tabloid and do not have journalistic integrity. I can't say many outlets do now, but they absolutely do not.
Someone else said something similar. I don't doubt they went to shit. But even when I read truthful information on Israel circa 2000, I think they were known to be conservative-ish, I think, but that was different than it is today, to be a conservative.
Yeah from what I could find, historically they were reliable news, but now they're just sensationalist rage bait bullshit machine.
There are precious few reputable publications left. A number still in periodicals, but for daily news we are fucked. Nothing locally, just the guardian and reuters, or the ap, and reuters is letting a little more bias creep in, they don't seem to care for the socialists for instance.
But fuck, there is nothing left, almost nothing. A handful of periodicals, and some limey daily news orgs.
And it is fast getting worse too. The law will soon be further weaponized against news orgs too.
Semafor seems alright, relatively new on the block but great bias scores and high accuracy, global outlet on inception too
Oh wow thanks! I desperately need news sources.
What else we need, off subject a bit, is search engines that deliver what we are asking for. in 2021 they stopped. Many previously easy to find articles, no longer available, even with exact information. Not a one off it's all sorts of stuff they are maximizing revenue in an illegal trust led by the big one there but this is all another story.
How hard would it be for us to make an open source search engine? Because without that, nothing else matters, because the bad guys will win. Melodramatic sounding or not, I believe that to be the truth.
Found it.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Why make when you can make better :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLypfM9U-g
Disclosure, haven't watched this but it looked like the right amount of time for a deep dive
I've heard good things about kagi I think or searchxrg I think it's called or maybe searxng or something. And yes, it's my least favorite thing. I have yet to fix that, but it's high on the list.
I believe that searxng is foss could be wrong.
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