LA Times: L.A. Army veteran with Purple Heart self-deports to South Korea under threat of deportation
"...An Army veteran who grew up in Van Nuys and was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea this week as he was threatened with being detained and deported by federal immigration forces.
On Monday, veteran Sae Joon Park, who legally immigrated from South Korea when he was seven years old, grew up in Koreatown and the San Fernando Valley and held a green card..."
US soldier's son, born on Army base in Germany, is deported to Jamaica
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5373845-us-soldiers-son-born-on-army-base-in-germany-is-deported-to-jamaica/
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.
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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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In Chicago, a sanctuary city, immigration rights advocates say ICE has unlawfully picked up at least 22 migrants, creating warrants after some had already been detained.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
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GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans
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The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it's cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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UPDATE: After this story was prepared for publication, ICE awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for this company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet.
It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Inside Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Scholar to Trump Target in Louisiana Cell
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“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.
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"Wait, I’m sorry, the guy smashing a car window to abduct an immigrant may not be with ICE at all, but a member of a far-right militia group?"
-W Stancil
"My search says this individual's name is Michael Meyer, he commonly goes by the name Lewis Arthur, and his group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP), is associated with the Oath Keepers."
-M Datson
He has a criminal record⬇️
🚨Update, I apologize, the ID of the man hasn't been established.
#OathKeepers #ICE #Immigrants #DHS #USPol
https://tucson.com/news/local/man-leading-internet-claims-of-tucson-child-sex-trafficking-camp-arrested-again/article_be4184b7-fb9f-5f68-ab4c-8354814f4784.html
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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