On Monday, Park, a #GreenCard holder, self-deported to South Korea. His removal order was the result of charges related to drug possession & failure to appear in court from >15 yrs ago—offenses that, he said, stemmed from years of untreated PTSD.

Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after #combat & the perils that #noncitizen #veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the #Trump administration's push for record #deportations.

#PaolaClouatre wife of US military man #AdrianClouatre kidnapped by #ICE during a #greencard appointment, i.e. 'doing it the right way' .

She's in an #ICEdetention facility in #Monroe #Louisiana

She was abducted AS SHE'S BREASTFEEDING HER 3 month old CHILD

US District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled on June 11 the #Trump admin was violating #MahmoudKhalil's #FreeSpeech rights by detaining him under a little-used #law granting the US secy of #state power to seek #deportation of non-citizens whose presence in the country was deemed adverse to US #ForeignPolicy.

But he declined on June 13 to order Khalil's release after the admin said Khalil was being held on a separate charge that he withheld info from his #GreenCard application.

…the govt filed court papers saying it believed it could continue detaining #MahmoudKhalil based on its secondary rationale for expelling him from the #US — an allegation that he lied on his #GreenCard application.

Judge Farbiarz, who sits in #NewJersey, wrote in his Friday ruling that Khalil’s lawyers hadn’t presented enough evidence that #detention on those grounds was unlawful & suggested that Khalil’s next step could be to ask for bail from an #immigration judge in #Louisiana.

Here’s the non- #ForeignPolicy rationale:

#MahmoudKhalil can remain jailed over claims he *lied* on #GreenCard application, judge says

A federal judge who barred the #Trump admin from deporting #Palestinian #activist Mahmoud Khalil declined Friday to order his release from an #immigration detention center, saying the former #ColumbiaUniversity student hadn’t yet proven he was being held illegally.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protest-trump-immigration-d89cf3bdf995a85b4b499f74554834a6

But the #PERM system also takes a toll on its supposed beneficiaries, the temporary #employees seeking permanent residency. Even after their PERM applications are approved, they must typically wait >10yrs before getting a #GreenCard, a long wait even by the standards of the US #immigration system. In the interim,it can be hard for them to leave their sponsoring employers,exposing them to overwork at jobs that often pay less than what their American counterparts receive.
#labor #law #exploitation

There is even less attention given to what happens w/these foreign #workers — ¾ of whom are…from #India —when many decide they want to stay beyond the 6yr max allowed for an #H1B recipient (a 3yr term can be renewed 1X). To qualify for a #GreenCard, workers must get their employers to sponsor them via the Permanent #Labor Cert process, aka #PERM. And to do that, employers must demonstrate that they made a sincere effort to find someone else—a #UScitizen or permanent resident….

This story is a couple of days old, but I want to highlight it briefly because I think it speaks to the stunning myriad of ways the Trump regime is actively looking to claim and consolidate extraordinary, often unconstitutional and blatantly illegal powers in hands of the executive branch; which for now means the Trump administration. Standing before a three judge appellate court, a Department of Justice lawyer argued with a straight face that Attorney General Pam Bondi had the right to revoke anyone's green card, for any reason, even if they've been legally residing in the country for years.

https://truthout.org/articles/doj-lawyer-argues-ag-pam-bondi-can-revoke-a-persons-green-card-at-any-time/

DOJ Lawyer Argues AG Pam Bondi Can Revoke a Person’s Green Card at Any Time

"During an appellate court hearing last week, a lawyer for the Trump administration argued that Attorney General Pam Bondi has the authority to revoke a person’s green card at any time, for any reason she sees fit — even if they have lived lawfully in the United States for decades.

Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Lindsay Murphy made the argument before a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday in a case involving Mohammad Qatanani, a Palestinian-born Muslim imam who has lived in New Jersey since the mid-1990s."

The article goes on to talk about the details of Qatanani's case, which has been ongoing for years and began anew in 2021 in a scenario that to me, sounds a lot like the US government once again enforcing unrealtiy on behalf of Israel, but your mileage may vary and I can't profess to be intimately familiar with the details of Qatanani's life. What's important to take note of here is that a Trump administration that's already asserting that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio can unilaterally and instantaneously revoke someone's green card without providing justification under dubious foreign policy concern arguments, are now putting forward the legal position that Trump's fascist DoJ pit bull Pam Bondi can do so, just 'cause. It is of course unclear how legally successful this strategy will be overall, given this case is ongoing and the deportations facilitated by Rubio's actions against Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi and others are still mired in legal proceedings.

What we do know however is that the Trump regime is desperately searching for a way to legally revoke green cards quickly and without oversight. Furthermore I think we can surmise from the openly nativist, white nationalist nature of Trump's, or perhaps Stephen Miller's immigration policies, that despite the regime's protestations otherwise, the ongoing "whitening" of America project being conducted under the fascist Trump regime is ultimately designed to target legal immigrants as well; and in sufficient enough quantity as to require no oversight whatsoever. Which to anyone who has studied the history of politically-empowered fascist movements, sounds like a recipe for some type of ethnic cleansing.

Folks, I don't know how to say this any clearer, but I'm convinced these guys are basically the Nazis, like with a capital N. This is a fascist regime, stacked to the brim with actual white nationalists, built around a hyper-racist cult of personality surrounding Donald Trump. In just under fourth months, virtually all of these people have shown a horrifying lack of concern for human life in general while exposing their eliminationist worldviews in a staggering number of ways. The regime may not win in court here, but whether its through the budget reconciliation bill, emergency Supreme Court petitions, or public propaganda disseminated on cable news, they are making it clear that the intention is to consolidate all state power in the executive branch; when that happens to a country being run by fascists, you've got yourself a fascist dictatorship. There is no fucking bottom here, no depth too low for these people to sink to, no power too forbidden for them to try to exert. I can't predict the future, but a reasonable understanding of history says that this sort of shit usually ends in mass graves unless the people living under fascist tyranny do something to stop it.

#Immigration agents arrested #MahmoudKhalil, a #GreenCard holder married to an American #citizen, on March 8 in the lobby of his #student apt building in Manhattan. A #Palestinian born in Syria, Khalil was a spox & negotiator for pro-Palestinian #protesters on campus.

The govt cited a Cold War-era immigration #law stating that individuals can be deported if their presence in the #US is adverse to American #ForeignPolicy interests.

Other new #immigration “fees”:

- $250 bond for ALL nonimmigrant #visa applicants

- $550 for “parole” work permits

- $1,500 fee for applying to adjust status to get a #GreenCard before a judge.

The bill would also dramatically increase immigration #enforcement #funding.

$45B for #ICE #detention, assuming $4.5B/year, that would be nearly a 250% annual increase to the current $3.4 detention budget.