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@georgetakei The #Trump #Gestapo hard at work, quashing the 1st Amendment, and anyone who would exercise it. #Despicable 
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Now that you can literally watch ICE kidnapping people off the street, it bears repeating, if ICE, cops, or someone purporting to be an official wants you to tell them where someone is... YOU KNOW NOTHING.
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Appeals court sides w/ #Boasberg & denied Trump stay request in #AlienEnemiesAct case
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114230595357683804
#Trump #immigration #gestapo arrests yet another student w/legal status, #RumeysaOzturk, because their viewpoint differs from his
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114228732340388688
#YunseoChung’s case was scheduled for May 20 waaay too long requiring her to remain in detention
MastodonNonilex (@Nonilex@masto.ai)Woo hoo!!!!
🚨NEW: The US Court of Appeals for DC just DENIED #Trump's request to stay Judge #Boasberg's halt on the use of the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The decision is 2-1, w/ Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting [shocker] on jurisdictional [technical, not merits] grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41844/gov.uscourts.cadc.41844.01208724047.0_3.pdf
#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #ConstitutionalCrisis #CivilRights #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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Seems this #ICE of yours is behaving like our good old #GESTAPO! 
Congrats to #AgentOrange or should we better call him Mr #Krasnov? 
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In July 1936, for example, Fraenkel won a case for employees of an association taken over by the #Nazis. A few days later, he learned that the #Gestapo had seized the money owed to his clients & deposited it in the government’s coffers. Over time, the prerogative state would distort & slowly unravel the #legal procedures of the normative state, leaving a smaller & smaller domain for ordinary #law.
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As I wrote several times during the first Trump presidency, the obscene amount of power the US system of government affords the president (whomever he or she may be) over immigration, border policing, and counter-terrorism activities, has always meant that Donald Trump doesn't have to build a Gestapo; he already has a ready made cavalcade of security forces more or less directly under his control and ideologically aligned with vast portions of his xenophobic, nativist, and ultimately fascist agenda - including the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and the CBP. This direct control and ideological alignment in turn, goes a long way towards explaining why the Trump regime is targeting migrants, foreign visitors legally inside the United States, and folks crossing the border, as a test laboratory for fascist ideological policing policies you can bet your ass Trump intends to roll out against the rest of America if nobody stops him from doing so by whatever methods are necessary.
Take for example this recent story of a French researcher who was denied entry to the US, threatened with federal charges, and then expelled from the country for messages on his phone to friends and colleagues in which he was critical of the Trump administration's drastic cuts to science research funding:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
"France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added."
Naturally, you're probably thinking "criticizing Trump's shortsighted budget policies and Elon Musk's hard on for destroying any scientific research capabilities he and his tech fascist buddies don't own isn't a crime, and doesn't represent a danger to American security" and you're absolutely right. Unfortunately due to America's twin historical freak outs about "communist spies" and "terrorists" the fact is that American border authorities have already been conducting ideological screening at the borders and turning away folks who share benign opinions with millions of Americans under the guise of "keeping us safe," for decades. What's new here under the Trump regime, is the argument that thinking Der Führer and Elon Musk are idiots, is now being treated as prima facie evidence that someone, even a scientist here for a scientific conference, is a danger to the national security of the United States. In other words, what Trump's border Gestapo is doing here is *probably* legal, but it's still fascist; which is part of why I keep reminding you that America has been embracing fascist ideology and building a fascist police state for far longer than Donald Trump has been involved in politics.
Even more disturbing however, is the news that the FBI was called in to investigate the researcher and charges were considered; again, for criticizing Donald Trump and Elon Musk's quest to gut scientific research funding.
"Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled."
As note above, the researcher was told that the "charges were dropped," but it says a lot about the FBI under the Trump regime that the US government was actively looking for a way to turn private conversations critical of Trump into a criminal offense in the first place. Right now there are probably more than a hundred million Americans expressing critical opinions of Trump, Musk, and the Pork Reich regime; which is a rather ominous thought when you remember that the Trump administration is already manufacturing consent to apply this kind of ideological policing domestically under the guise of opposing "terrorism" and protecting public safety.
The Guardian · French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
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@nullagent The #ICE is reminding me of all the stories I've heard from the non-nazi of my grandparents about the #GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei). It never cared about law, only order. (I guess it's more than coincidence that the means of Trumps regime is using excessively something called „executive order“.)
You are living in the US-Variant of 1934 Germany where Hitler got his „Ermächtigungsgesetz“ – in the US it is the courts acknowledgement of the inaccountability of the acting president.
#American #Gestapo wannabes in #ICE have now abducted a #Canadian small-business woman and former actor, Jasmine Mooney who was traveling to San Diego to renew her work visa. She has been shackled inhumanely in #Arizonistan for two weeks. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jasmine-mooney-actor-detained-by-ice_n_67d83e6be4b0dade360cd495
HuffPost · Canadian Actor Detained By ICE Speaks Out On 'Inhumane' Conditions
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The Providence Journal · She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
DHS searched Columbia University dorm rooms last night. One student arrested today.
#dhsarrest
#gestapo
#columbiauniversity
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/homeland-security-search-columbia-students#:~:text=Agents%20from%20the%20Department%20of,crackdown%20on%20some%20American%20universities.
The Guardian · Homeland security agents search two Columbia University students’ rooms
So uh, what stage of "you can't call it fascism!"TM is it when Downmarket Mussolini sends the immigration Gestapo that pretty much answers to only him, to unlawfully arrest student protest leaders who legally in the country, and disappear them into the labyrinth of the American migrant carceral complex?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests
Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
"Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment, blocks from the private Ivy League university’s main campus in New York when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press.
One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.
The arrest comes as Donald Trump vows to deport foreign students and imprison “agitators” involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza."
As the story goes on to mention, Khalil, who is Palestinian, is in the United States on a legally-issued Green Card, which cannot be revoked by either ICE Gestapo pigs or our fascist State Department without the order of an immigration judge; which makes this an unlawful arrest and detention. What the story doesn't discuss however is that Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant, is an American citizen. I mention these things not because it would somehow be "okay" for the fascist Trump regime to snatch up a student leader for the (not illegal) "crime" of protesting a genocide if he only had a student visa, or his wife wasn't a U.S. Citizen, but to point out that clearly the administration and its security forces do not give a flying fuck about any of the rules they're violating or laws they're breaking to punish dissent. Furthermore, reports posted on social media by a person identifying themselves as Khalil's lawyer, indicate that the Department of Homeland Security has *already* moved Mahmoud, possibly as far as Georgia, and thus he does not have access to legal representation. If this were Middle Eastern country with oil reserves, our establishment would rightfully note that the regime has thus effectively "disappeared" what amounts to a political prisoner.
Folks, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but like I've been telling you (even long before Trump was re-elected) the fact is that fascists don't give a fuck the about laws, rules, or standard operating procedures. If the law can be used to justify seizing power, eliminating civil rights, and punishing enemies they're happy to employ it. But if not, they'll replace or simply ignore any rule that gets in the way of the attempts to purge the opposition and transform society into the full on fascist dictatorship of their dreams. You don't get to let this one slide because "he's not an American," you don't care about Gaza, or you've been taught to hate student protestors by your media and the larger ruling class establishment. If Americans (including the nominal opposition in the US establishment) stand by and watch this happen to folks like Mahmoud Khalil, then it is an absolute historical certainty that it is only a matter of time before Trump is sending jackbooted thugs after anyone who won't goosestep along with the fascist order - and that includes figures in our complicit media and political classes. A whole bunch of affluent liberals have spent the past couple of years tossing around historical warnings about how Nazism and the Holocaust happened in Germany; now its time to prove you understand the lessons those words were trying to teach you about resisting the slide into overt fascism before it goes far enough that you can no longer stop it - because I assure you, if you tolerate this then (you and) your children *will* be next.
The Guardian · Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
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The govt database—created to help enforce #ChildSupport payments & overseen by the Admin for Children & Families, or #ACF —contains substantial amounts of personal income data linked to nearly ALL US workers [not just govt workers].
An #HHS ofcl confirmed #DOGE received access, saying that #Musk’s agents sought “read-only access” to the system & were required “to take all necessary trainings”(ಠ⁔↼) before being granted permission to use it.
This is so much worse than #Trump’s 1st term
#HHS grants #DOGE access to #ChildSupport database, overriding objections
An HHS ofcl said the associates of #ElonMusk’s group had sought ‘read-only’ access [that’s plenty].
The #RFKJr’s HHS has granted associates of the US DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database w/troves of income data [for all Americans not just #FederalWorkers], overriding objections of career employees.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #Gestapo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/08/hhs-doge-child-support/
The Washington Post · HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections
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And, citing an article from the *#conservative* media outlet Daily Wire as their inspiration, #DOGE team members analyzed >800 federal job postings w/ #DEI responsibilities on usajobs.com to determine that 50 had been filled in 2024, the documents show.
“The employee names are not [available],” one DOGE spreadsheet reads, “but included below is as much information available about each of the jobs, so we can find the hired employees in Phase 2.”
#Gestapo #law #USpol #Trump #TrumpCoup
#ElonMusk’s #DOGE agents access sensitive #OPM data, alarming #NationalSecurity officials
The highly restricted data includes personally identifiable information for millions of federal employees maintained by the Office of Personnel Management.
#law #USpol #security #Trump #TrumpCoup #Gestapo #SecretPolice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-access-personnel-data-opm-security/
The Washington Post · Musk’s DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials
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The task forces are part of a broader program known as “287(g),” for the section of the #Immigration & Nationality Act that enables it. Congress created the program in 1996 as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Currently the program operates only in #jails. >130 agencies have allowed #ICE to train some officers to enforce immigration laws against people in their jails who have already been arrested for a local #crime….
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The program authorizes #ICE to designate certain state & local officers to question & arrest people they *suspect* of violating federal #immigration laws during their regular patrols.
…In #Arizona’s #MaricopaCounty, Sheriff #JoeArpaio was #convicted in 2017 of #criminal contempt of court for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining residents because he suspected them of being in the US illegally. #Trump gave Arpaio a #pardon during his first term.
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The #Trump admin is considering deputizing state & local law enforcement to arrest *suspected* #undocumented #immigrants at traffic stops & other locations, resurrecting a program that the Obama admin terminated amid allegations that it led to #RacialProfiling.
Russell Hott, a top official at #ICE, told the nation’s sheriffs’ association at a conference last weekend that the new admin is examining ways to restart the program, called the “task force model.”