"This is an extraordinary thing for the government to do, to instruct the immigration courts, a component of the [DOJ], to essentially ignore the final declaration of a federal court as to what the law is.”
-- @danmcfadden.bsky.social of @aclum.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/14/m...
So Trump started a war in which it's "easy" for the other side to shoot our very important targets in multiple ways, he has no current plan to fix that, but "hopefully" some other countries will bail him out? That's a pretty devastating confession.
ICE detained a 9-year-old with severe autism and his mom for more than 80 days.
The boy depends on daily therapy, but at Dilley, those supports vanished.
Unable to understand why they couldn’t go home, he would cry through the night and hit himself, his mother told me.
My latest for @nbcnews.com
The actual Trump doctrine is having no plan whatsoever for the predictable consequences of their own choices. And then flailing around in a panic. It's no way to run a country.
"No person shall be . . . deprived of . . . liberty . . . without due process of law." U.S. Const. Amend. V.
Jailing people arrested inside the United States without a detention hearing based solely on DHS's accusations in a civil proceeding can't possibly meet Fifth Amendment standards.
I wrote about similar 1A issues for disciplining IRR members for speech, although now many years ago.
"A force that exists for protection also has the potential to be a dangerous tool for internal repression. Once the door is open to military forces targeting some of the population, that door is very hard to close. When the rule of law becomes the rule of force, no one will be safe."
Periodic reminder that the Constitution protects the right to publicly assemble and be heard. "Protest" is not a dirty word.
Things ICE doesn't tell you:
ICE can usually put somebody in immigration proceedings WITHOUT arresting them.
And if ICE does arrest somebody, ICE usually has discretion to RELEASE the person after booking on conditions and with a court date.
Mass arrests/mass detention is 100% a choice by ICE.
Habeas corpus is literally the thing that prevents the government from putting anybody they want in jail forever.
This is not an exaggeration. That's literally what it is.
Any threat to suspend habeas is an attack on the rights and physical security of every person in the United States.
