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#humantrafficking

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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Speaking of the important legal principle that is "because I said so," Trump's Border Czar and noted Fury Road villain Tom Homan recently responded to questions about who determines if a person targeted for deportation is in a gang and how do they do so, with almost literally - "just trust us bro."

truthout.org/articles/trump-bo

Trump Border Czar: ICE’s Word Is Enough to Prove Someone’s a Gang Member

"Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s so-called “border czar,” has said that nothing more than the word of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is needed to prove that a noncitizen living in the U.S. is a gang member, and thus subject to deportation.

Trump signed an executive order earlier this year asserting his right to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants living in the U.S. if they are deemed by the administration to be violent gang members. Hundreds of migrants have been deported on that basis, even though an analysis by CBS News found that nearly three-quarters of the people sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record at all.

Those who have been deported have largely been denied their due process rights, which would have allowed them to argue against being indiscriminately labeled as a gang member by the administration.

In an interview with Axios that was published on Tuesday, Homan appeared to dismiss those concerns, claiming, without evidence, that even those with no criminal history are members of violent gangs."

My favorite Trump regime stories are the ones where you can tell the government is lying, but even if they weren't their excuses wouldn't matter anyway.

Homan wants us to believe that ICE is doing "deep dive" investigative work into whether or not migrants targeted as part of a human trafficking scheme to ship people to a slave labor prison in El Salvador, are members of a gang; which would be pretty implausible if you looked at how fast they're finding and deporting people, but becomes almost laughable when the regime is openly admitting it just deported an innocent man who had a judge's order protecting him from deportation a little over a week ago. I'm sure there were a crack squads of Gestapo investigators working around the clock on making sure these were gang members when they deported *checks notes* the soccer player with a Real Madrid tattoo, and the guy with an autistic brother and an autism acceptance movement tattoo as well; gimme a break. The entire line of argument was also rendered irrelevant however when Homan admitted, in the same interview, that it's just vibes:

"But ultimately, he said, if an ICE agent suspected someone of being in a gang, that was all the evidence needed.

“ICE is the principal arbiter” in making these determinations, Homan said."

Of course, all of this ignores that no matter how objectionable we may find gangs in our society, it's not actually illegal to be in a gang - which will be news to racist police officers all over the country, but isn't to the District Attorneys who prosecute actual crimes. Furthermore, let us remember that these human trafficking flights (people are being kidnapped, transported to a slave labor prison, and money is changing hands) are themselves being justified by a wholly made up invasion, by a gang with reportedly less than a thousand people in the United States, that is sekretly a terrorist arm of the Venezuelan government pretty much entirely because Trump said so in an executive order; nothing about this fascist shitshow is based on facts, evidence, or reality.

Tom Homan, the border czar for President Donald Trump, meets with state Republican lawmakers on March 12, 2025, during a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, New York.
Truthout · Trump “Border Czar” Says ICE’s Word Is Enough to Prove an Immigrant Is a Gang MemberHundreds of recently deported immigrants were labeled as gang members despite having no criminal histories.
#Fascism#TomHoman#Trump
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴

#ICE director Todd Lyons wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

And he wants the immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

So #HumanTrafficking is what he's proposing.

Totally disgusting.

The Guardian · Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’By Marina Dunbar
#Immigration
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ABC Feeds

Australian adoptees call for inquiry in wake of Korean adoptions scandal
By Luke Bowden and Gina McKeon

After a scathing report into South Korea's decades-long baby export program, Australians have launched a petition urging the federal government to investigate the adoptions of about 3,600 children since 1978.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/sou

ABC News · Australian adoptees call for inquiry in wake of South Korean overseas adoptions scandalBy Luke Bowden
#HumanRights#Adoption#HumanTrafficking
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Dave Fenichel

Inside El Salvador's Prisons, Where Trump Is Sending Deported Migrants

Exposé of Trump & Rubio's #ElSalvador #torture #prison to which random US-residents of Nicaraguan heritage were sent after being kidnapped by Kristi Noem's #ICE thugs, making every citizen of the US and the world FAR less safe & secure by eliminating due process and implementing summary, extralegal/wrongful #imprisonment. Documented by Noah Bullock, Executive Director of #Cristosal, a #humanRights organization based in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

#authoritarianism #colonization #humanTrafficking #slavery #crimesAgainstHumanity #habeuscorpus #DHS #stateTerror #romeStatute #constitution #ICC #humanSecurity #prisonState #rendition #kidnapping #Sturmabteilung #deportations #refugees #roundups

foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/20/t

Foreign Policy · The Horror Inside the Salvadoran Prisons Where Trump Is Sending MigrantsBy Noah Bullock
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Nonilex

#DOJ has directed prosecutors to stop pursuing litigation against people committing #fraud w/ #digital #currency, the latest example of the #Trump admin easing up on #WhiteCollarCrime enforcement.

In a memo sent to the DOJ on Mon night, Dpty AG #ToddBlanche said the dept will no longer participate in regulation in the digital asset space & will instead focus on crimes that people commit w/ #cryptocurrency, such as dealing #narcotics & #HumanTrafficking.

#law #felon47
washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump directivesBy Jeremy Roebuck
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"The admn’s attempts to characterize this as a routine “deportation” matter represent perhaps their most cynical wordplay yet (& one the #media should stop repeating...) #Deportation is a legal process w/ established due process #rights. What happened here was something far darker: the #US govt engaging in what amounts to #HumanTrafficking, shipping people to #ElSalvador as forced #labor without any due process."
- @mmasnick.bsky.social

techdirt.com/2025/03/24/contem

Text from article(edited for length): This outright defiance marks a subtle, but notable, departure from the administration’s playbook the past few months. Until now, they’ve preferred more smirking forms of contempt... But each of these smaller acts of contempt has apparently emboldened them toward more brazen defiance. Even in this case with Judge Boasberg, the White House has been trying to claim that it’s not ignoring his orders. "A second administration official said Trump was not defying the judge whose ruling came too late for the planes to change course..." This argument, that the order came too late, is nonsense. But it’s notable how the administration is trying to insist it’s actually obeying orders in court, while doing wink, wink, nod, nod stuff out of court. The administration’s attempts to characterize this as a routine “deportation” matter represent perhaps their most cynical wordplay yet (and one the media should stop repeating, though that’s a different issue). Deportation is a legal process with established due process rights. What happened here was something far darker: the US government engaging in what amounts to human trafficking, shipping people to El Salvador as forced labor without any due process. The mask slipped entirely when El Salvador’s President tweeted “Oopsie… too late” in response to Judge Boasberg’s order — a tweet that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk both found amusing enough to amplify:
#Trump#Law#News
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1223826/osaka-pol Osaka police to arrest Japanese man detained in Thailand #fraud #HumanTrafficking #JapanesePolice #myanmar #MYANMARJAPANRELATIONS #Osaka #OsakaTopics #THAILANDJAPANRELATIONS #大阪 #大阪府 Osaka prefectural police said Monday they plan to arrest a Japanese man — currently detained in Thailand for allegedly luring a Japanese high school student to Myanmar and forcing him to take part in a fraud scheme there — on suspicion he imprisoned an acquaintan…

Osaka police to arrest Japanese man detained in Thailand
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MediaFaro News Digest

Tate brothers return to Romania.

After weeks in the United States, influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate flew back to Romania early on Saturday, saying “innocent men don’t run from anything.”

The brothers, who are dual US and British citizens, face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women in Romania.

mediafaro.org/article/20250322

Euronews · Tate brothers return to Romania.By Daniel Bellamy
#AndrewTate#TristanTate#Romania
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