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Hena M
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Immigration attorney, boy mom, music lover, bookworm.
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Join us next Wednesday, April 9th for our webinar "To El Salvador and Beyond: Third Country Removals, Due Process, and Trump's Assault on Rights". Register at: immcouncil.co/42w87L2
April 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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April 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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For the Injustice Report today, my colleague @olivalejandra.bsky.social wrote a jaw-dropping, must-read post: "Yes, the El Salvador 'Deportations' Are Really Bad'

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Yes, the El Salvador “Deportations” are Really Bad
and not just for the innocent people who got deported
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March 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Brave, vulnerable people, bearing witness, fighting for justice that every one of us needs and relies upon
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 24
NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me. When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador. 20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.
March 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
Confrontations with judges are grabbing attention, but more quietly a pattern of questionable arrests shows the extent to which the administration is willing to test norms and laws.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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daralind.bsky.social
This is more categorical than I usually go but I’m pretty sure the moment deserves it:

If you believe a lawyer is morally suspect because they choose to defend a disfavored group, you don’t really believe in a justice system.
March 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The White House is using client states to carry out illegal and unconstitutional expulsions. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/17/t...
Trump’s Deportation Machine Takes Shape
The White House is using client states to carry out illegal and unconstitutional expulsions.
foreignpolicy.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Outsourcing Cruelty: Immigrants Sent to El Salvador's Prisons Likely to Face Human Rights Abuses

Marco Rubio's Department of State is fully aware of the human rights abuses in Bukele's El Salvador as shown in their country conditions reports.

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Outsourcing Cruelty: Immigrants Sent to El Salvador's Prisons Likely to Face Human Rights Abuses
Marco Rubio's Department of State is fully aware of the human rights abuses in Bukele's El Salvador as shown in their country conditions reports.
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March 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Every time a story about an immigrant committing a crime gets reported in the news, I hear angry white people get outraged bc they say “they shouldn’t have been here in the first place.”

Probably how indigenous Americans feel every time a white person commits a crime. Sit down, colonizers.
February 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp (Gift Article)
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.
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February 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama (Gift Article)
The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM