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Tren de Aragua gangbangers at ICE facility barricade themselves, threaten to take hostages after spelling out SOS in prison yard

2025-05-14

[NY Post] Nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua gangbangers in an ICE detention center in Texas have barricaded themselves and threatened to take hostages in a major uprising — days after migrants spelled out “SOS” in the prison yard.

Members of the Venezuelan gang threatened to hold ICE officers captive and injure them on April 26 as they barricaded the doors of their unit with their cots, covered surveillance cameras, blocked windows, and flooded the unit by clogging the toilets, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The takeover attempt lasted “several hours,” with the detainees ignoring the orders of ICE agents.

Alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers were seen begging to be sent home by flashing a banner reading “Help, we want to be deported. We are not terrorists. SOS” to a drone overhead this week at the same facility.

And just weeks before, another group of migrants were seen by a Reuters drone forming the letters “SOS” at the Texas detention center.

That photo is something else. Someone is thinking — and organizing — out of the box.

In response to the uprising, DHS is asking the Supreme Court to allow deportations to resume under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, which was blocked after the Trump administration deported dozens of alleged gangbangers to El Salvador without giving them a hearing.

“Keeping these foreign terrorists in ICE facilities poses a serious threat to ICE officers, staff, and other detainees,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement.

“The media repeated these TdA gang members’ false sob stories, but the truth is these are members of a foreign terrorist organization that rape, maim, and murder for sport,” she added.

The group was set to be deported to El Salvador’s hellhole CECOT prison, but the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to use the Alien Enemies Act to kick them out of the country.

In the earlier drone footage, alleged Tren de Aragua members Diover Millan, 24, and Jeferson Daniel Escalona Hernandez, 19, were seen in the detention facility yard.

Escalona Hernandez was nabbed in January after he was arrested in Texas for evading arrest in a vehicle and ended up at Guantanamo Bay, where the Trump administration opened a migrant detention center, before being moved to the facility in the Lone Star State.

Escalona Hernandez had “self admitted” to being a Tren de Aragua member, according to DHS.

He denied having any gang affiliation and said he volunteered to get deported home, but was denied permission to do so, in a phone interview with Reuters from the detention center.

The alleged gangbanger said he believed the feds linked him to the gang after viewing photos on his phone of him making hand signals that are popular in Venezuela.

“They’re making false accusations about me,” he said. “I don’t belong to any gang.”

“I fear for my life here,” he said. “I want to go to Venezuela.”

The feds also tagged Millan as a member of Tren de Aragua after he was let go by the Biden administration at the border and later collared by ICE, according to DHS.

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Government Corruption

US Judge limits Trump-Era migrant deportation order from Guantanamo

2025-05-02

[KhaamaPress] A US judge has blocked the Trump administration’s push for rapid deportation of ~~migrants~~ colonists held at Guantanamo Bay, ensuring legal protections.

A U.S. federal judge in Massachusetts, Brian Murphy, has placed limits on a Trump administration directive to deport detained ~~migrants~~ colonists held at Guantanamo Bay. The ruling emphasizes the protection of ~~migrants~~ colonists’ legal rights and due process before removal to third countries.

According to a Rooters report on April 30, Judge Murphy ordered that ~~migrants~~ colonists must be given the opportunity to express concerns about potential threats to their safety or the risk of torture if deported. The decision aims to ensure that human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
considerations are not bypassed in deportation procedures.

Murphy also warned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not have the authority to transfer ~~migrants~~ colonists to other entities in a manner that would obstruct their access to legal counsel or fair judicial processes.

In recent years, the Guantanamo Bay facility—originally used to detain terror suspects post-9/11—has reportedly been repurposed to hold certain undocumented ~~migrants~~ colonists pending deportation. This shift has sparked renewed legal and ethical scrutiny.

The use of Guantanamo for immigration detention has raised concerns among human rights advocates, who argue that such practices may violate both U.S. constitutional protections and international legal norms regarding asylum seekers and detainees.

This ruling represents a significant check on executive power and reinforces the judiciary’s role in safeguarding individual rights, even in high-security environments. It also reflects growing legal challenges to immigration enforcement tactics employed in past administrations.

As debates continue around U.S. immigration policies and detention practices, this decision sets a legal precedent emphasizing transparency, humane treatment, and the right to a fair hearing for all individuals, regardless of their immigration status.

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-Land of the Free

Good of Them to Self-Deport

2025-03-29

[GatewayPundit] Five Senate Democrats Head to Gitmo to Protest Detention of Tren de Aragua Terrorists and Killers – But Don’t Give a D*mn About Americans’ Safety

Five Senate Democrats are heading to Guantanamo Bay—not to demand justice for Americans terrorized by violent foreign gangs, but to protest the detention of members of the notorious Tren de Aragua cartel, a brutal criminal enterprise originating in Venezuela with ties to trafficking, extortion, and murder.

The delegation includes Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and self-proclaimed Independent Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats. The trip was led under the guise of “congressional oversight.”

This visit follows months of Democrat outrage over the use of Guantanamo Bay to detain foreign nationals with suspected ties to international terrorist organizations like Tren de Aragua.

Progressive lawmakers have echoed the radical left’s talking points, prioritizing “rights” for foreign terrorists over the safety of American citizens.

The Democrat demands include:

An immediate halt to transfers of immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.

A detailed report on past or prospective transfers to the facility.

Access to counsel for any past present, or prospective detainee.

A full accounting of government expenditures related to this detention program.

While Republicans have been pushing for tougher immigration enforcement, border security, and strong action against violent foreign gangs, Senate Democrats appear more committed to virtue-signaling and appeasing the open-borders lobby.

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Venezuela to resume accepting US deportation flights

2025-03-24

[FoxNews] Deportation flights to Venezuela to resume Sunday

Venezuela will resume accepting deportation flights from the US after Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro suspended the flights earlier this month.

Jorge Rodríguez, the president of Venezuela's Assembly and chief negotiator with the U.S. announced the change in policy on Saturday.

"We have agreed with the U.S. government to resume the repatriation of Venezuelan migrants with an initial flight tomorrow, Sunday," Rodriguez said.

He added that the deal with the U.S. secured the "return of our compatriots to their nation with the safeguard of their Human Rights."

Rodriguez referenced the deportation of some Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in his statement. President Donald Trump's administration has sent some Venezuelan members of the Tren de Aragua gang to the country.

"Migrating is not a crime

...sometimes. Other times it is…

and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all those who require it and until we rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador," Rodríguez said in a statement.

Maduro himself referred to the Venezuelans held in El Salvador as "kidnapped" on Saturday.

In recent weeks, some 350 people were deported to Venezuela, including some 180 who spent up to 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Trump administration said that the Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo are members of Tren de Aragua.

Venezuela had long been a friendly oil-trading partner of the U.S. until Maduro's leftist regime took root following the 1998 and 2000 elections under the rule of the late Hugo Chavez and foreign policy challenges arose.

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Lawyer for Radical Columbia Grad Student Repped Al Qaeda Members—Including 'Close Associate' of Bin Laden

2025-03-15

[WashingtonFreeBeacon] When Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-supporting Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil appeared in court on Wednesday, he was represented by, among others, Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer perhaps best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists.

The Syrian-born Khalil had his green card revoked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the weekend as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on foreign nationals involved in pro-terrorist demonstrations at universities.

Kassem has represented murderous Moslems including Ahmed al-Darbi, an al Qaeda member convicted in 2017 for the bombing of a French oil tanker, as well as several other Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a "close associate" of the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again......
. He went on to serve as an immigration policy adviser to former president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented...
as a member of the White House's Domestic Policy Council.

Like his new client, Kassem was also involved in anti-Israel activism as a student at Columbia, where he lobbied to rename a sandwich called the "Israeli wrap" in the student dining hall, claiming the terminology was offensive to Moslems. He attended Columbia Law School on a fellowship funded by Paul Soros, the elder brother of Democratic megadonor George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both....
His client, Khalil, who graduated from a Columbia graduate program in December, was a leader of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which backed Hamas's "armed resistance" against Israel. He served as a lead negotiator for student activists' illegal anti-Israel encampment last spring and vowed that the group would "remain in this encampment until we achieve all of our demands," which included a boycott of Israel.

Columbia briefly suspended Khalil for his role in the encampment, but he continued to back the demonstrations on campus, which turned ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful in the spring, when students stormed and occupied campus building.

"What we will see [is] the students will continue their activism, will continue doing what they've done in conventional and unconventional ways," Khalil told The Hill in August. "So not only protests, not only encampments, kind of any—any available means necessary to push Columbia to divest from Israel."

"And we've been working all this summer on our plans, on what's next to pressure Columbia to listen to the students and to decide to be on the right side of history," Khalil went on.

Since then, pro-Hamas activists at Columbia have disrupted classes to distribute anti-Semitic flyers, ~~violent~~ mostly peacefully seized campus buildings, and physically assaulted university employees. The chaos led the Trump administration last week to cut off $400 million in federal grants to the university, citing the school's "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

Khalil is expected to remain in the country after a federal judge, Jesse Furman, intervened on Wednesday to block his immediate deportation. Furman, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is a prolific Democratic donor who once threw out a terrorism lawsuit against the Paleostine Liberation Organization.

Furman, who has served as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since he was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
, has a long history of involvement with liberal political causes. The brother of Obama’s former economic advisor Jason Furman, Jesse Furman has donated over $20,000 to Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
, including Obama, Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
, and the Democratic National Committee.

Furman also served as the treasurer of his family’s charity, the Furman Foundation, which has donated to Media Matters, the Alliance for Justice, and People for the American Way, according to his Senate confirmation questionnaire.

The Khalil ruling isn’t the first time Furman has staked out a controversial position on a case involving Israel. In 2018, Furman dismissed a terrorism lawsuit against the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Paleostinian leadership in the West Bank, citing a lack of jurisdiction.

The lawsuit was filed by the family of Ari Fuld, an American-Israeli citizen who was stabbed to death by a Paleostinian terrorist outside an Israeli shopping center in 2018. The plaintiffs argued that the PLO and Paleostinian Authority were liable in Fuld’s murder under the Anti-Terrorism Act, because the Paleostinian government paid the terrorist’s family following the attack. Critics say this payment system, known as the "pay-to-slay" program, incentivizes terrorism.

Furman tossed the suit, arguing that the court didn’t have jurisdiction over the PLO and the Paleostinian Authority. But Fuld’s family and other victims of Paleostinian terrorism have appealed the issue, and the Supreme Court agreed to take up the question of jurisdiction in December.

In Khalil’s case, the government is challenging the Southern District’s jurisdiction over the case, arguing that Khalil's lawyers should have filed it in either New Jersey or Louisiana, where Khalil was detained at the time.

Ted Frank, the director of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, told the Washington Free Beacon that there is a strong argument for challenging the jurisdiction and that he would be "surprised if the motion isn't granted."

Khalil's lawyers countered that there is legal standing to file his case in the place where he was arrested, if there is evidence that the government transferred him to prevent him from speaking with legal counsel.

"There is a two-track process here: habeas corpus (in federal court) and deportation (before an immigration judge)," Andrew McCarthy, a former prosecutor in the Southern District and columnist for National Review, told the Free Beacon. "The issue in the habeas case is whether Khalil's arrest and detention violate the Constitution."

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-Land of the Free

Trump tops 50,000 migrant removals including fugitives who evaded justice for 20 years

2025-03-01

We are now in the sixth week of the Trump 47 presidency. Yesterday we learnt that it was 20,000 at the one-month mark. After the first two weeks it was 6,000. That sounds like an exponential curve to me.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] When immigration agents were first ordered to deport Ivan Oramas and Santos Maradiaga-Villalta, President George W. Bush was in the White House and the iPhone was a distant dream.

That was over two decades ago—yet both men were arrested this week, according to federal data reviewed by DailyMail.com.

They were among over 50,000 illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists removed so far, a Department of Homeland Security official revealed to DailyMail.com.

News of their arrest was circulated Thursday in an internal immigration memo noting recent enforcement actions made by President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
's administration.

Oramas, 61, is a citizen of Cuba with a rap sheet including convictions for sexual battery and aggravated assault.

His sexual battery case caused serious injury, according to his charges in the file.

ICE Houston
Houston

...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...
nabbed Oramas this week, enforcing a deportation order first handed down in October 2003—21 years overdue.

Maradiaga-Villalta, a 40-year-old alien from Honduras, has convictions for smuggling aliens into the U.S. He was arrested recently by ICE in Phoenix. His first deportation order dates back to January 2006, a 19-year lapse in action.

Now, as Trump's administration continues ramping up its crackdown on illegal immigration, these long-evading, on the lam runaways are getting taken in after decades of delays.

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem announced that in conjunction with Border Czar Tom Homan, immigration officials have already apprehended over 20,000 on the lam illegal aliens since Trump was sworn in.

'That's a 627% increase in monthly arrests compared to just 33,000 on the lam arrests under Biden for ALL of last year,' she wrote in a post on X.

In another post on the platform she bragged that DHS has slashed border encounters from 15,000 a day under Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
to just 200 under Trump.

It's a '15-year low,' she wrote.

Among the other criminals that surfaced in this week's federal data were Guatemalan national Alexis Aquirre-Velasquez, 37, who was ordered out of the U.S. 12 years ago in February 2013.

He was charged with four counts of indecent liberty with a child and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The president has pledged to purge the U.S. of its 'most dangerous' unlawful im~~migrants~~ colonists through a sweeping deportation strategy that would result in the 'largest deportation effort' ever carried out.

Recently, White House officials revealed to DailyMail.com that north of 6,000 ~~migrants~~ colonists were deported in Trump's first two weeks.

Migrants have been airlifted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well—a location that the president intends to detain approximately 30,000 aliens, including terrorists, as ICE facilities reach their limits.

It comes after Caleb Vitello, the former acting director of ICE was reassigned earlier this month.

It came as deportations of ~~migrants~~ colonists have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official said.

A front man told the Wall Street Journal he was 'actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role.'

Instead, he would be 'overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.'

He was the third senior ICE official to be removed this month.

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-Land of the Free

Over 20,000 illegal migrants arrested inside the U.S. in Trump's first month including 22 suspected terrorists

2025-02-28

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] During President Donald Trump's first month back in office thousands of migrants illegally in the country were taken into custody and prepped for deportation.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies and law enforcement partners have conducted raids and arrests of undocumented immigrants all across the country since January 20.

Authorities are on track to more than double the 113,000 arrests the agency made in Fiscal Year 2024 under former President Joe Biden.

According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the number of arrests was 20,000 in the one-month span from January to February.

A breakdown of who these migrants are is not readily available.

But DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said of those arrested, 22 are suspected terrorists, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Another 640, she notes, are known to be suspected gang members.

Trump vowed to remove the 'worst of the worst' illegal immigrants from the U.S. in his mass deportation plan.

White House officials confirmed to DailyMail.com earlier this month that more than 6,000 migrants had been deported in Trump's first two weeks back in the Oval Office.

At least several hundred migrants were flown to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba recently as Trump planned to use the terrorist prison there to house around 30,000 illegal immigrants as ICE detention facilities approach capacity.

The administration halted housing migrants in tent structures on the base amid concerns the lack of air conditioning and electricity in the temporary facilities fails to meet detention standards, a CNN report notes.

ICE was publishing daily arrest figures with a breakdown of deportation numbers along with the demographics of how many had committed crimes outside of their illegal crossings into the U.S.

The agency stopped widely providing these numbers after the first few days of Trump's second term – but they periodically disclose estimates to inquiring journalists.

ICE officials told their agents after Trump's first week back in D.C. that offices are each responsible for 75 arrests every day, which nationwide would amount to approximately 1,500 total.

When numbers were still being reported daily, the highest day for arrested included roughly half with a criminal background.

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ICE moves illegal Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras for deportation

2025-02-22

[JustTheNews] ICE officials on Thursday said the 177 ~~migrants~~ colonists are being returned to Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Thursday transported over 100 illegal Venezuelan ~~migrants~~ colonists from its Guantanamo Bay detention center, in Cuba, to Honduras for deportation.

President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
signed an executive order last month to have the departments of Defense and Homeland Security expand Guantanamo Bay to hold thousands of illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists coming from the U.S. Former President George W. Bush's administration established the center after the Sep. 11, 2001, terror attacks to detain terror suspects.

The Trump administration previously stated that the location would be a transitional place for criminal illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists who were in the process of being deported, in order to get them off the U.S. mainland faster.

ICE officials on Thursday said the ~~migrants~~ colonists are being returned to Venezuela, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.S.

"ICE Air Operations transported 177 Venezuelan illegal aliens from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras today for pickup by the Venezuelan government, which returned them to their home country," ICE wrote on X, confirming reports of transfers.

The deportations come a week after two Venezuelan flights took another 190 illegal ~~migrants~~ colonists directly from the United States back to their homeland.

The administration has put an emphasis on deporting illegal ~~migrants~~ colonists who have committed crimes or have exhausted all legal appeals for remaining in the U.S. This includes nearly 1.5 million ~~migrants~~ colonists who had final removal orders as of Nov. 24, including more than 22,000 Venezuelans, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

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Deported migrants, including Afghans, arrive in Costa Rica from the US

2025-02-22

Afghans are keeping a close eye on this new situation.

[KhaamaPress] The first flight carrying deported ~~migrants~~ colonists from the United States landed in Costa Rica on Thursday, as part of an agreement between the Costa Rican government and the administration of Donald Trump

...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
. Among the ~~migrants~~ colonists on board, there were nine Afghan citizens.

According to Rooters, the first group of deported ~~migrants~~ colonists arrived in Costa Rica on Thursday. The flight carried 135 ~~migrants~~ colonists from various countries, as a result of the agreement between the Costa Rican government and the Trump administration.

Costa Rican immigration authorities have stated that of the 135 ~~migrants~~ colonists, nine are Afghan citizens. Upon landing in Costa Rica, the ~~migrants~~ colonists underwent initial screenings, and the authorities will decide on their residency status.

Upon resuming his presidency, Donald Trump imposed strict immigration policies, including plans to deport ~~migrants~~ colonists from the United States.

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristjen Neilsen, announced a multi-million dollar advertising campaign against undocumented im~~migrants~~ colonists. In a warning message posted on X, she urged undocumented ~~migrants~~ colonists to "leave the U.S. immediately."

Costa Rica is one of the countries that, as part of its agreement with Washington, accepts some of these ~~migrants~~ colonists. This measure is part of broader U.S. policies aimed at controlling the influx of migration into the country.

It is also noteworthy that the U.S. government deported several Afghan and Iranian citizens on a flight to Panama. Additionally, the U.S. has announced that some undocumented criminal ~~migrants~~ colonists have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

These deportation efforts are part of a larger strategy by the U.S. to curb illegal immigration. The move reflects a continued commitment to the harsh immigration policies under the Trump administration, with countries like Costa Rica playing a key role in hosting deported ~~migrants~~ colonists as part of the broader migration control initiatives.

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President Trump signs executive order cutting all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants

2025-02-20