It's a White House of Liars with the Convicted Felon having recruited liars to serve in the administration. And cuck of the country Stephen Miller thinks he can pull a Pam Bondi and get away with it. Bondi went on FOX "NEWS" in February bragging about the Epstein client list she had on her desk and was going to release just as soon as she vetted it. Remember? Then she found Donald Chump's name in the paper work over and over, warned him in May and at the start of last month (July 6th) announced there was nothing to release.
Anna Betts (GUARDIAN) reports:
In a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements from White House officials about pursuing a goal of at least 3,000 deportations or deportation arrests per day.
In May, reports from both the Guardian and Axios revealed that during a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders on 21 May, the White House adviser Stephen Miller and the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people per day.
Following that report, Miller appeared on Fox News in late May and stated that “under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for Ice every day.”
He added that Trump “is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day”.
However, in a court filing on Friday, lawyers representing the US justice department said that the Department of Homeland Security had confirmed that “neither Ice leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or target for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that Ice or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.”
Yam Perera-Nunez was expected in Highlands County Court Thursday morning but he was nowhere to be seen. That’s because Perera-Nunez – who faces deportation — is in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at “Alligator Alcatraz,” Florida’s, and the country’s, newest immigration detention facility.
Attorney David R. Paz Jr. represented Perera in court Thursday morning. He told Circuit Court Judge David Ward that his client was being held in Alligator Alcatraz. He also filed an ICE document that indicated Perera-Nunez, a Cuban national, was in custody at the Collier County facility.
It marks the first time in Highlands County that a defendant was diverted to the controversial facility before a court hearing.
[. . .]
On June 9, the Florida Highway Patrol chased Perera-Nunez – who was behind the wheel of a black Dodge Ram pickup truck as it hit speeds of 110 mph on State Road 70 – into Highlands County. Perera-Nunez allegedly failed to slow down, even in construction zones. A FHP trooper, Z.T. Forbes, kept on Perera-Nunez, even as the driver turned right on Old State Road 8 and headed south at high speed. It took Forbes two pit maneuvers to send the pickup off the road and into a tree. According to Forbes, Perera-Nunez was taken to the hospital, then to Highlands County Jail.
He's a Cuban immigrant. I'm going to say it again This is a Republican president and Republicans control both houses of Congress. One of the GOP's most loyal voting groups over the last decades have been Cuban Americans. And this is how the political party pays them back?
People are tired of the terror. They turned out over the weekend in LA. KABC reports, "Hundreds of teachers marched through downtown Los Angeles Saturday to call on LAUSD to do more to protect students from immigration raids. Educators marched a quarter of a mile through downtown to LAUSD headquarters. They chanted 'ICE out of L.A.' and 'immigrants are welcome here'."
Brandon Kingdollar (NORTH CAROLINA NEWS-LINE) reports:
As residents rally to alert neighbors to immigration agents around the city, Durham City Council member Javiera Caballero warned Saturday that anyone could be arrested off the street and detained.
Speaking to an audience of around 70 at a “State of Durham” town hall held in the Durham County Main Library, Caballero said the massive boost in funding given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the recent congressional megabill would only embolden the agency to abduct noncitizens and citizens alike.
“Once that money really hits, what’s going to happen to our community is actually quite terrifying. And so when I say we’re going to have to put our bodies on the line, it’s not hyperbole,” Caballero said. “They will disappear folks, they will kidnap folks, and it’s not just going to be folks who, quote, shouldn’t be here.”
Though the discussion, moderated by organizers with Kids Voting Durham and a journalist from INDY Week, ranged from housing and transit to education and crime, the presence of ICE and other ways the city might be targeted by immigration enforcement proved a recurring source of anxiety among audience members.
Caballero said she was proud of the city for mustering an “amazing community response” to ICE agents spotted at the Durham County Courthouse, apparently seeking to detain a man ahead of his initial court appearance. Their presence became widely known through immigrant advocacy group Siembra NC’s “ICE Watch” program, which trains spotters who monitor their communities for ICE amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
People are fighting back because it's wrong and it's getting worse. At THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, Patricia Lopez observes:
Mandatory detention is the newest and potentially most powerful weapon in the White House’s arsenal for turbo-charging deportations. Once arrested, immigrants without legal status will, with few exceptions, be held in custody until they are deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That means they are no longer eligible, as in the past, to post bond at a hearing and have an immigration judge decide their fate. ICE alone will be the decider.
That threatens to transform temporary detention centers into long-term prisons — and to strip immigrants of the constitutional rights that are due to every person in the U.S., regardless of legal status.
Acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons wrote in a July memo obtained by the Washington Post that immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” a process that can stretch out for months, or even years, given judicial backlogs. That could affect millions of immigrants.
It is an aggressive move from an agency that is becoming increasingly reckless in its handling of immigrants. The policy is already expected to draw a court challenge questioning the constitutionality of sidestepping judges.
Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Caring and Compassionate Chump" went up Friday. The following sites updated: