First real action since the Deportations began.  One hopes for the sake of the protesters arrested they are 3 generation deep white kids.  Preferably with squeaky clean doctor/lawyer/bizman dads.  Otherwise the Trumpenator will drop them on the first plane to El Salvador, never to be heard from again.  They're definitely challenging His Trumpness, so hopefully the organizers were able to recruit some White Bread protesters to staff the action.  Even they are risking a minimum of expulsion.

IF they manage not to get deported, this should encourage more campus protests, which have been pretty well subdued by the fear & intimidation.  Waiting for the blowback from the White House.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/us/columbia-university-library-protesthttps://www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/us/columbia-university-library-protest

Multiple people in custody after pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia University library

QuoteThis guy just bought a free one way ticket to El SalvadorThis guy just bought a free one way ticket to El Salvador

Then all three making the arrest should be charged with contempt of court, and bench warrants should be issued in their names.

Quote from: K-Dog on May 09, 2025, 07:18 AM

QuoteThis guy just bought a free one way ticket to El SalvadorThis guy just bought a free one way ticket to El Salvador

Then all three making the arrest should be charged with contempt of court, and bench warrants should be issued in their names.

Apparently, Columbia has hired "enhanced" private security guards who have been given arrest powers.

RE

Hard not to notice that all the protesters arrested in this photograph are FEMALE.  The story fails to mention this salient fact.  Another story I read did mention it.  I think the strategy being employed is that women are less likely to be deported.  Also to demonstrate they are motivated by humanitarian reasons and don''t fit the typical profile of a terrorist in the mind of an Amerikan.  Remains to be seen how his Trumpness deals with this.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-students-arrested-over-latest-building-storming-include-repeat-offenders-punished-for-earlier-raids/

Columbia Students Arrested for Storming Library Include Several Repeat Offenders—Including Grad Student Who Demanded Humanitarian Aid From University

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Harvard should just move to Canada.  Or maybe New Zealand since Trumpolini will annex the Hosers.

Time to see just how powerful the Harvard alumni really are.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

RE

Quote from: RE on May 22, 2025, 04:45 PMHarvard should just move to Canada.  Or maybe New Zealand since Trumpolini will annex the Hosers.

Time to see just how powerful the Harvard alumni really are.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

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Harvard is the educational bastion of the upper class.  Harvard is 'old' money.  I searched for info on 'Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification', and the idea that Harvard is violating rules is ludicrous.

In the fall of empires the rich eat their own.  In America there is a lot of old money for the Trump team to eat. 

If I had a time machine I'd send Kristi Noem back about 500,000 years.  Back to where she belongs.  Send her back to when homo heidelbergensis cannibals hunted competing tribes for food with stone tools, wooden spears, and chipped flint scraping tools.  Note the resemblance, she would fit in.  Fucking dog killer.


  Homo heidelbergensis wearing makeup.

She and Marjorie Taylor Green have the cave woman look.

Quote from: K-Dog on May 22, 2025, 09:05 PMHarvard is 'old' money.

Yup. The oldest money in the FSoA.  Founded 140 years before the FSoA.  Founded before the Dutch founded New Amsterdam, later to be renamed New York when the English took it over.  Most SCOTUS justices by far, 22 to 11 from Yale.

The main question here is whether they are gonna stick to the legal system or fix things the old fashioned way?

RE

Well, Trumpolini is certainly keeping the lawyers bizzy.  Nice to be able to get your lawsuit heard in Federal Court the next day.  So now how will His Trumpness re-retaliate?  Can we just skip all these steps and go straight to the Black Bag Squad?  This bizzness is getting old.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/23/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-ban-foreign-students

Judge blocks Trump administration's ban on Harvard accepting international students

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This is fabulously convenient logic.  Define immigration as a National Security issue.  Thus, anywhere there are immigrants, NS is threatened.  The POTUS is responsible for protecting the NS with military force if he deems it necessary.  Therefore, the POTUS can deploy the military anywhere there are immigrants, which is everywhere but concentrated in Blue state Big Shities.  Thus the POTUS can deploy military troops to patrol all Big Shities.  This is the precedent that Trumpolini is setting, and the SCOTUS probably will buy it.

I'll bet His Trumpness deploys a unit of Marines to protect every ICE detention center and dispatch office complete with the grunts carrying M-16s loaded with full metal jacket ammo to deter the graffiti artists.  Pretty soon the FSoA will look like  Chile under Pinochet.

.762,,,Full...Metal...Jacket...


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/trump-national-guard-los-angeles-pete-hegseth.html

Trump deploys 2,000 additional National Guard troops to Los Angeles

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That is why he has them sleeping on floors, to push them over the edge.  He only needs one to flip out if the camera angle is right.

Looks like FL is destined to be the Buchenwald of the FSoA.  They don't even need Gas Chambers and Ovens.  Just feed the immigrants to the alligators.  Or alternatively, deport them to a war zone.

Together, this should pretty effectively shut down the inflow of refugees, since I doubt many want to risk ending up even worse off then they are in their home countries.  Gonna be pretty hard to find dishwashers and lettuce pickers though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvq1eg8w9o

Florida building 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention centre in Everglades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/23/supreme-court-trump-deportations-third-country-south-sudan/

Supreme Court allows Trump's third-country deportations

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.

The news highlights the Trump administration's growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE's enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.

"Face recognition technology is notoriously unreliable, frequently generating false matches and resulting in a number of known wrongful arrests across the country. Immigration agents relying on this technology to try to identify people on the street is a recipe for disaster.

Congress has never authorized DHS to use face recognition technology in this way, and the agency should shut this dangerous experiment down," Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media in an email.