The case is the focal point of an increasingly violent and unhinged campaign by Trump to assert unlimited presidential powers, which supposedly cannot be constrained by the courts, which in the Constitution is a co-equal branch of government.
Vizguerra’s arrest, detention and possible deportation underscore that Trump’s racist and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants have nothing to do with “public safety” but are aimed at intimidating and suppressing the democratic rights of everyone.
Taal reported on social media that police were stalking him outside his residence after a federal judge scheduled an in-person hearing concerning his lawsuit against Trump’s executive orders.
Government lawyers had sought to get the case moved to Louisiana, where Khalil remains imprisoned and at risk of deportation.
Khalil’s powerful statement came the same day Trump threatened to impeach a federal judge for seeking to block the kidnapping and deportation of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran immigrants.
Empowered by the Trump administration and with the complicity of the Democratic Party, US immigration police are detaining and deporting legal tourists, multi-decade residents and visa holders in violation of court orders.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York on Saturday, is the first major legal challenge to Trump’s executive orders on speech and dissent.
On Friday, Trump’s deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, threatened to pursue terrorism charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The authoritarian law has been used to detain and deport thousands of people without a hearing, including during World War I and II.
Protesters denounced the fascist actions of the Trump administration and the complicity of the Democratic Party in the Gaza genocide and Khalil’s detention.
Students, teachers and community members at the rally warned that the disappearance of Khalil was an attack on everyone's democratic rights.
Sanders' rebuttal to Trump sought to cover up the essential agreement of the Democratic Party with Trump’s social austerity policies and attacks on democratic rights.
The aspiring dictator threatened to deport and/or arrest students for the “crime” of exercising their First Amendment rights.
On the same day the troop deployment was announced, Trump signed a fascist executive order declaring English the “official” language of the United States.
A recent report from Apollo Global Management estimated that 300,000 federal workers would be fired in the coming weeks, leading to an additional 600,000 contractors losing their jobs.
Recalling the forced registration and deportation of German Jews under the Nazis, the Trump administration is ordering immigrants to provide names, addresses and fingerprints to immigration police to hasten deportations.
Bongino’s installation under Kash Patel at the FBI underscores the transformation of the reactionary police/intelligence agency into a personalist force loyal to Trump.
Trump’s decision to utilize and expand military bases for internment is a further sign of the breakdown of democratic forms of rule in the US and underscores that the ruling class is preparing to revive and expand on the worst crimes in world history.
Attendees at meeting called by the US Postal Workers Rank-and-File committee passed a resolution calling on workers to make preparations for “mass resistance, up to and including strike action.”
The annual right-wing conference outside of Washington D.C. featured speeches and Nazi salutes from Hitler lovers inside and outside the Trump administration.
