The U.S. Immigration Catch-All Thread [R]

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an 11 year old girl committed suicide, allegedly because she was being bullied about her family’s immigration status.

From the article, it seems like the school personnel majorly ********ed up too.

This is one of those stories that makes you hate humanity.

 

Never heard of Gainesville, Texas. Evil has resided there for quite some time. According to Wikipedia

In October 1862, during the Civil War, Confederate authorities in Cooke County arrested about 150–200 men suspected of Unionist sympathies. A “Citizens’ Court” of local men - lacking legal authority - convicted many of them of treason. Under mob pressure, executions escalated: 41 were hanged in Gainesville and at least two others killed elsewhere, making it the largest mass hanging in U.S. history.[15]

Afterward, Confederate leaders shut down the court, and thousands fled North Texas. A 1964 state marker defended the executions,. . .​

 

ICE is trigger happy, then lies about everything:

🚨 WATCH THIS.

Newly released body cam shows Border Patrol agents deliberately steering into Marimar Martinez — an American teacher — before shooting her 5 times.

DHS falsely claimed she “ambushed” them.

Kash Patel amplified the lie.
Prosecutors later dropped the case.

Texts… pic.twitter.com/ExxGHJ1X5E

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) February 12, 2026

 

It is almost as if these policies were not thought through...

Democrats and Republicans issue H-1B warning to Kristi Noem

The letter to Noem was signed by 100 Members of Congress over concerns about the impact of the fee on the health care workforce. Signatories include Democratic lawmakers such as Kirsten Gillibrand, Judy Chu, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bennie Thompson, as well as Republican members including Brian Fitzpatrick, Thomas Kean Jr., Jefferson Van Drew and James Moylan.

Lawmakers warn that the fee could worsen staffing shortages by preventing hospitals from filling essential positions.

“Rural hospitals and urban safety net hospitals face uncommon recruitment and retention issues and will most acutely feel the effects of the $100,000 fee. These hospitals rely heavily on the H-1B visa to maintain adequate staffing and offer comprehensive services in high-need areas,” the lawmakers wrote.

The lawmakers warn that the $100,000 fee could ultimately result in hospital funds being redirected away from patient care and recruitment, adding pressure to institutions that are already operating under constrained budgets.

“If these hospitals cannot petition for new H-1B visas to address their staffing needs without also having to pay this fee, it will further damage their financial viability. Critically needed open positions will simply go unfilled, leaving rural and high-poverty urban areas without adequate access to care,” lawmakers said.

Or maybe they are...

 

Where's her fertility blanket?

A pilot fired over Kristi Noem’s missing blanket and the constant chaos inside DHS

After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under Noem’s purview at DHS during peacetime. Lewandowski also spends time at the house.

The DHS spokeswoman said Noem moved to the house for increased security and pays rent.

Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department. The DHS spokeswoman said the department “doesn’t waste time with salacious, baseless gossip.”

The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter. DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary’s use.
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Noem and Lewandowski’s management of DHS resources in particular has caused concern inside and outside the administration. Noem has put all department spending over $100,000 under an approval process that has held up contracts across DHS, which is flush with recently appropriated billions from the president’s major legislative package last year, the “one big, beautiful bill.”

The approval process has given Noem and Lewandowski an opportunity to play a bigger role in the department’s spending decisions than is typical for a secretary. Given Lewandowski’s continuing business interests in the private sector, his role in awarding contracts has raised alarm bells inside the White House and DHS.

Several officials inside the department said contracts and grants are being awarded in an opaque and arbitrary manner, and some are being held up without explanation.

Lewandowski has urged officials to move away from continuing long-term contracts with companies toward new ones. Some said allies of Noem and Lewandowski also instructed high-level staff to meet with particular companies for services that other contractors have previously carried out.
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Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.

In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.
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In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push. Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training.

Lewandowski next turned to ICE’s legal office for help writing him a legal justification to be issued the badge and gun. A top ICE lawyer, Ken Padilla, also declined to sign off, and days later he was placed on administrative leave. He was later demoted and moved to FEMA, the people said. Padilla declined to comment.

Lewandowski eventually persuaded other lawyers to sign off. The ICE director’s autopen was used to sign the paperwork, the people said.

 

You sure it's a fertility blanket? It could be a security blanket, like for a toddler.

 

Well, not fertility because she's past that age, but they probably use that thing for their "internal affairs".

 

At least invite your spouses on the jet for some 4-way hanky panky

 

Saw a clip of kids in Camden County NJ running from a bus stop because ICE showed up. The terrorism continues.

 

Guess what! More immigration agents have been caught in lies in events where they shot people!!

1. 2 federal agents have been placed on leave after it was revealed that they lied on an FBI affidavit around the events leading up to them shooting and detaining 2 immigrants in Minneapolis shortly after Rachel Good was shot and killed. The article does not say what about the encounter with the 2 immigrants the agents lied about, but it was enough that the US Attorney filed a request to dismiss the charges with prejudice (meaning the charges cannot be refiled).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...inneapolis-fbi-shooting-venezuelan-rcna258870

While the article above doesn't say what the agents lied about, I'm pretty sure we can figure it out. The shooting happened during a traffic stop and the agents claimed they were attacked with a shovel and a broom. So, in all likelihood, a video showed up showing that the men did not actually attack the agents with a shovel and a broom.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-shooting-dhs-rcna254150

2. A trove of video, texts, and other documentation was released yesterday about the shooting of a woman in Chicago late last year. At the time, the agents claimed that the woman attempted to assault officers with her car and that they shot her in self defense. The charges against her were dismissed back in November, but yesterday the judge in the case ordered that the evidence the feds had in the case be released. The most damning of the evidence comes from the body cam from the vehicle the agents were in prior to the shooting. In the video, what can be seen is the agents have their guns drawn before they even attempted to perform the traffic stop, one of the agents then says "It's time to get aggressive" because they were about to be boxed in . The driver then appears to turn the steering wheel towards the woman's car initiating the collision with her car. The agents then jump out of the car and start opening fire almost immediately.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...atrol-exum-body-cam-texts-released-rcna258549

 

I mean this shit would be war crimes

 

Why war crimes? Aren’t they just crime crimes?

 

Yes. Lying in an FBI report is a federal crime, shooting civilians for *checks notes* driving their car bear you is attempted murder or murder, etc, etc.

 

Uhm, no.
However I would be certain they're crimes against humanity.
But your lot doesnot recognize the ICJ and it happens within the USA against US citizens.
I wonder, when done against citizens of another country, complaints about it by their country would be deemed to fall under the jurisdiction of The Hague.

 

But it gets worse as it always does. Expect many more of these stories




https://bsky.app/profile/mikehixenbaugh.com/post/3merb6h3yq22v

A TOTL won't be cruel like this, unfortunately. But I'd be happy as hell to be the Punishment Czar for TrumpCo

 

C) both of the above

 

Uhm, no. I was using the conditional, not the indicative.

 

If the entire premise of all of this is that we are being invaded by a foreign army and that the executive branch needs war powers to defend the country then, yes, we are at war. You don't get to invade a city on the premise that we are at war and then say that we aren't at war. Pick one.

 

What is the conditional thing? Being at war? With whom?

 

IF we were at war and the government did this to civilians on the other side THEN we would have war crimes.

My point is, if things like what ICE is doing domestically were being done internationally, there would be grounds for severe repercussions.

I'm aware this is not international, just pointing out that it's very, very, very bad what's going on.