Immigration Issues

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EXCLUSIVE: Zeteo Story on Dubious ICE Contract Spurs Congressional Inquiry

Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson and Shri Thanedar want ICE to explain why and how a $2.25 million contract was awarded without competition to a company owned by a prominent Republican donor.

zeteo.com

Following a Zeteo investigation into a no-bid ICE contract awarded to a company owned by a Republican donor, Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security launched an inquiry on Friday, demanding the Trump administration provide answers about its use of the sole-source contract.

In an oversight letter sent to acting ICE director Todd Lyons, Reps. Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Shri Thanedar (Mich.) pressed the agency to explain how and why the $2.25 million contract for 25 SUVs was awarded without competition to Hendrick Motorsports LLC, a company owned by prolific Republican donor Joseph Riddick "Rick" Hendrick III.

 

[bilby]

They aren't trying to dissuade immigration, they are trying to terrify immigrants non-whites. There's a huge difference.

FTFY. Having a US Passport, and even a US birthplace, won't protect you if you look foreign.

 

[Politesse]

Oh, the passport is the first thing to be confiscated. Criminals don't deserve to present "evidence" of citizenship.

 

[Toni]

They aren't trying to dissuade immigration, they are trying to terrify immigrants. There's a huge difference.

And the rest of us. Not an unintended consequence.

 

[crazyfingers]

One of the things that really pisses me off about these ICE immigration "operations" is the bold faced lying.

News is that they are coming to Massachusetts again.

The Trump administration has started an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Massachusetts, saying it was targeting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens living in the state.”

Lying

“The City of Boston and its mayor have been among the worst sanctuary offenders in America — they explicitly enforce policies designed to undermine law enforcement and protect illegal aliens from justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “If Boston won’t protect its citizens from illegal alien crime, this Department of Justice will.”

Boston has very low crime. Immigrants are not the source of crime. Pam Bondi is an evil lying sack of shit.

It's so clear from their previous roundups that they are not after criminals. They are after ordinary hard working people whose documents may not be 100% in order. I'd bet that fewer than 1% of the people that they snatch off the street are actual criminals.

This is the thing with EVERY SINGLE ONE of Trump's Departments. They LIE LIE LIE. NOTHING spewed from any Trump appointee can he taken at face value. They fucking lie lie lie.

ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts

The operation includes Boston, whose mayor has drawn the administration’s ire for speaking out against the growing scale of its immigration actions.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Shadowy Man]

They aren't trying to dissuade immigration, they are trying to terrify immigrants. There's a huge difference.

Yes. My post is to point out the hypocrisy of their position.

 

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Raids shock Koreans, halt Georgia factory projects

“We were deeply shocked by the sudden and opaque raids that appeared to target Korean nationals.”Ki…

www.donga.com

“We were deeply shocked by the sudden and opaque raids that appeared to target Korean nationals.”

Kim Gap-song, head of the Korean American Service and Education Consortium (KASEC) in New York, told the Dong-A Ilbo in a phone interview on Sept. 6 local time that fear and anger were sweeping the Korean community.

After U.S. immigration authorities stormed the Hyundai Motor-LG Energy Solution battery joint venture plant (HL-GA) in Savannah, Georgia, on Sept. 4 and detained more than 300 Korean employees, a sense that there is “no safe zone,” even for allies, spread quickly. The plant has been cited as one of the largest U.S. investment projects by a global company.

Kim Gap-song, who dispatched staff to Savannah to provide interpretation and other support for the detained HL-GA workers, said, “This raid has caused major disruptions to new factory construction across Georgia. I understand some Korean companies have decided to preemptively suspend construction in case of further incidents.”

Heavy blow as Georgia hosts many Korean firms

Georgia is considered a hub for Korean investment in the United States. More than 110 Korean companies, including Hyundai Motor Group in Savannah, SK On in Commerce, and Hanwha Qcells in Dalton, have set up operations. In a state where Korean firms contribute significantly to local communities, a large, coordinated immigration crackdown by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has left many Koreans feeling betrayed.

Demand foreign investment then fuck them over when they come.

Great strategy there, Don.

 

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Supreme Court essentially OK's racial profiling for roving ICE posses.

The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s push to allow immigration enforcement officials to continue what critics describe as “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts said likely violated the Fourth Amendment.


The court did not offer an explanation for its decision, which came over a sharp dissent from the three liberal justices.


At issue were a series of incidents in which masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled aside people who identify as Latino – including some US citizens – around Los Angeles to interrogate them about their immigration status. Lower courts found that ICE likely had not established the “reasonable suspicion” required to justify those stops.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/politics/supreme-court-ice-patrols-california

 

[Elixir]

Supreme Court essentially OK's racial profiling for roving ICE posses.

The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s push to allow immigration enforcement officials to continue what critics describe as “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts said likely violated the Fourth Amendment.


The court did not offer an explanation for its decision, which came over a sharp dissent from the three liberal justices.


At issue were a series of incidents in which masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled aside people who identify as Latino – including some US citizens – around Los Angeles to interrogate them about their immigration status. Lower courts found that ICE likely had not established the “reasonable suspicion” required to justify those stops.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/politics/supreme-court-ice-patrols-california

Enabling fascism, right up front.
Thanks, trumpsuckers.

 

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[scombrid]

Keeping us safe by harassing Tesla’s competitors. Awesome.

 

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Donna Brown, 58, who emigrated nearly 50 years ago, is being held by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement – known as ICE – and faces being sent back to Ireland...In July, Donna was arrested at customs in Chicago on her return from Ireland after a family funeral. She has now spent more than 30 days in jail in Kentucky as the US government moves to deport her,

Legal documents for her arrest say that ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check for $25. However, she paid the money back and was given probation. But Mr Brown said the US government is now arguing that was a ‘crime of moral turpitude’. MSN from UK News article link

 

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[Shadowy Man]

Because the fetus had yet to be born it was not a citizen.

 

[Patooka]

Remind me again how this differs from what the Geheime Staatspolizei were doing in Germany in the mid to late 1930s?

They’re not speaking German

Not yet.

 

[Lumpenproletariat]

Should this bad immigrant be executed?


Can't we do more to distinguish between the good from bad immigrants?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/12/us/dallas-motel-beheading-yordanis-cobos-martinez

Has this story been discussed here?

There are a few extreme cases of a crime committed by an (illegal) immigrant, and nothing was done about it.

Here's a case of a Cuban immigrant who had a criminal history but was released and remained in the U.S. because Cuba would not accept him:

Cobos-Martinez was previously held in ICE Dallas custody at the Bluebonnet Detention Center but was released on an order of supervision on January 13 “because Cuba would not accept him because of his criminal history,” according to ICE.

Perhaps this case is not typical, and also it could be that ICE did not really have the evidence of his earlier crimes but has a practice of arresting innocent people without giving them proper due process. Maybe in some cases it's impossible to establish the facts, not enough resources to do a real hearing.

And so it's difficult in many cases. BUT

At least we know this much: This Cuban immigrant has now committed a heinous crime, and he cannot be deported. Why not expedite this case and impose the death penalty and get rid of this character. And publicize the case as a warning to the bad immigrants that they risk the ultimate penalty if they come here and commit serious crimes.

 

[TomC]

Why not expedite this case and impose the death penalty and get rid of this character.

Call me Pro-Life if you must,
But I am generally opposed to deliberately killing people. Which includes capital punishment under nearly all circumstances. I think we should treat him like anybody else.

He committed a heinous crime and I don't want him free to commit another one. Lock him up permanently. But no moral person would condone your vengeance killing, IMNSHO.
Tom