#department of homeland security

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sara Boboltz at HuffPost:

The Department of Homeland Security is now seeking to distance itself from comparisons to Nazi Germany after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) called its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a “modern-day Gestapo.” “It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo,” Homeland Security said Sunday on its official X account, referencing the police force that apprehended and deported groups of people labeled political enemies in Nazi Germany. “Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong,” the department said. “Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.” The post also echoed a statistic contained in last week’s statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who said “attacks and smears” against ICE have led to a “413% increase in assaults,” although she did not provide more details. Video of ICE operations around the country has sounded alarm bells among immigration and democracy advocates as agents with face coverings are seen wrangling people into their custody. President Donald Trump and his supporters say that they are targeting gang members and violent criminals, although in many cases, the administration is seeking to deport people without allowing them a chance to prove they are not who the administration says they are. [...]

Walz referenced the ICE operations during his commencement speech at the University of Minnesota’s law school on Saturday. “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked vans wearing masks being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons,” he said. “No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared,” the governor went on. “To be clear: There’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial. We’re supposed to just take their word for it.” Walz called on the new law graduates to live up to their pledge to uphold the law, saying they are “graduating into a genuine emergency” under Trump. “This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies,” Walz said in a speech that sparked applause and cheers from the graduates.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) is correct to compare ICE to the Gestapo during a commencement speech at the University of Minnesota.

DHS had a tizzy about it, because Walz told the truth.

[political-us]

Congress members call for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil:

[mckitterick]

When Noem testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, ranking member Senator Chris Murphy gave such powerful, informative, and important opening remarks I have to share:

transcript:

"I say this with seriousness and respect, but your department is out of control.

"You’re spending like you don’t have a budget. You are running out of money for this fiscal year. You are illegally refusing to spend funds that have been authorized by this Congress and appropriated by this committee. You are ignoring the immigration laws of this nation, implementing a brand new immigration system that you have invented that has little relation to the statutes that you are required to follow as spelled out in your oath of office. You are routinely violating the rights of immigrants who may not be citizens, but whether you like it or not, they have constitutional and statutory rights when they reside in the United States.

"Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter, as if the election gave you some mandate to violate the Constitution and the laws passed by this Congress. It did not give you that mandate. You act as if your disagreement with the law, or even the public’s disagreement with the law, is relevant and gives you the ability to create your own law. It does not give you that ability.

"Let’s start with your spending. You are on track to trigger the Anti-Deficiency act. That means you are on track to spend more money than you have been allocated by Congress. This is a rare occurrence and it is wildly illegal.

"Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year. You may not think that Congress has allotted enough money to ICE, but the Constitution and the federal law does not allow you to spend more money than you have been given or to invent money.

"This obsession with spending at the border has left the country unprotected elsewhere. The security threats to national security are higher, not lower, since Trump came to office. To fund the border you have illegally gutted spending to cybersecurity.

"As we speak, Russian and Chinese hackers are having a field day attacking our nation. You have withdrawn funds for disaster prevention. Storms are going to kill more people because of your illegal withholding of these funds. Your myopia about the border fueled by President Trump’s prejudice against people who speak a different language have shattered most of this country’s most important defenses.

"Now let’s talk about the impoundments. When Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose the administration has no discretion whether or not to spend that money unless you go through a specific process with this committee.

"Let me give you two of many instances of this illegal impoundment. The first is a shelter and services program. Senator Britt may want to zero that account out, but that account is funded in a bipartisan way. You may not like the program. Your policy is to treat migrants badly. I think that’s abhorrent, but it doesn’t matter that you don’t like the program. You cannot cancel spending in this program, and you cannot use the funds, as you have, to fund other things, like ICE.

"You have also cancelled citizenship and integration grants, which help lawful permanent residents become citizens, helping them take the citizenship test. I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants, but that goal is not broadly shared by the American public. That’s why Congress, in a bipartisan way, for decades has funded this program to help immigrants become citizens.

"Now let’s talk about why encounters at the southern border are down so much. This is clearly going to be your primary talking point today. You will tell us that it represents as success. But the prime reason why encounters are down is because you are brazenly violating the law every hour of every day.

"You are refusing to allow people showing up at the southern border to apply for asylum. I acknowledge that you don’t believe that people should be allowed to apply for asylum, but the White House doesn’t get to choose that. The law requires you to process people who are showing up at the border to apply for asylum.

"Why? Because our asylum law is a bipartisan commitment, an effort to correct for our nation’s unconscionable decision to deny entry to Jews to this country who were being hunted and killed by the Nazis. Our nation, Republicans and Democrats, decided, wrote it into law, that we would not repeat that horror ever again, and thus we would allow for people who were fleeing terror and torture to come here, arrive at the border, and make a case for asylum.

"Finally let’s talk about these disappearances. In an autocratic society, people who the regime does not like or who are protesting the regime are often picked up off the street, and spirited away, often to open-ended detention. Sometimes they’re never seen again.

"What you are doing, both to individuals who have legal rights to stay here, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, or students who are just protesting Trump’s policies, is immoral and, to follow the theme, it is illegal. You have no right to deport a student visa holder with no due process simply because they have spoken in a way that offends the President. You can’t remove migrants whom a court has given humanitarian protection from removal.

"Now, reports suggest that you are planning to remove immigrants with no due process and send them to prisons in Libya. Libya is in the middle of a civil war. It is subject to a level 4 travel advisory, meaning we tell American citizens never to travel to Libya. We don’t have an embassy there because it is not safe for our diplomats. Sending migrants with pending asylum claims into a war zone, just because it’s cruel, is so deeply disturbing.

"Listen, I understand that my Republican colleagues on this committee don’t view the policy as I do, don’t share my level of concern for the way the government treats immigrants, but what I don’t understand is why we don’t have consensus in the Senate and on this committee on the decision by this administration to impound the spending that we have decided together to allocate in defense of this nation.

"We as an appropriations committee worked interminable hours to write and pass this budget, and so we make ourselves irrelevant when we allow the administration to ignore what we have decided. And then when we look the other way when the administration rounds up immigrants who are here illegally and have committed no offenses worthy of detainment, we also do potential irreversible damage to the Constitution.

"These should not be partisan concerns—destroying the power of Congress, eroding individuals’ Constitutional rights. This should matter to both parties."

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I never knew that our asylum laws arose from when we didn’t take Jews escaping from the Nazis. Both parties said never again. Yet here we are.

Everything this "administration" is doing is impeachable, and this Congress has a responsibility to get these criminals out of office and keep them out.

Contact your representatives and demand that they hold Homeland Security to account if they want to keep holding their offices - if they in fact want those offices to still be a thing in the future.

[saywhat-politics]

Kristi Noem said the deported Maryland man “will not be coming back" despite a court order, a claim that one Democratic senator called "incredibly chilling."

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday openly flouted a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S., insisting during a Senate committee hearing that there is “no scenario” in which the Maryland man will be in the country again.

In response, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called her remarks “incredibly chilling for the balance of powers in a democracy.”

[destielmemenews]

"Noem, who was asked about the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll, acknowledged the incident and said the matter has not been resolved.

The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the Capital Burger restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag and leave the restaurant, a law enforcement source said.

The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash."

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[generallemarc]

Heard a radio ad by the DHS that was basically a campaign ad

I know it was them because they said they were the ones who paid for it at the end. It was full of dramatic music and campaign-style talk about Trump's immigration crackdown. Supposedly it was directed at illegal immigrants, telling them to leave of their own volition and they would be allowed a chance to return legally, but I would be very interested to hear of literally any examples of criminals deciding to cease doing whatever law-breaking activities they're doing because an advertisement told them "hey, stop doing that and maybe one day you'll get to do it legally". But the worst part by far was the references it made to "weak politicians"-I don't care if Trump wants to insult everyone under the sun, but while no names were named it could not be more obvious to which former government officials he was referring, and that was done with my tax dollars, and yours, and everyone else's. As far as I'm concerned Trump just used tax money for a campaign ad, and he didn't even do it during an actual fucking campaign. Hope the lawsuit was worth, what, trying to boost two special elections to the Mississippi state house and some ballot measures in Louisiana? Anything else happening electorally this month I'm missing?

This is absurd and nobody should be supporting this. It would be a total waste of money anyways, because again there are no criminals who stop breaking the law because the government asks them to on the radio, but with this added in it's easily the worst thing he's done so far that hasn't 1. killed anyone(sad that that's just something Presidents do now, but 9/11 sure was a thing 24 years ago) or 2. been done explicitly in the name of bigotry(the trans army ban and passport bs).

[tiredgirlvent]

This was posted 2 minutes ago on Instagram

I like the idea personally

The Anti semites won't be able to hide anymore

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sara Boboltz at HuffPost:

Facing mounting courtroom losses over student visa revocations, the Justice Department announced that it was backing down and would manually restore many student visas while it developed new policy guidelines for their removal. The surprise reversal came after thousands of foreign students had their immigration records abruptly terminated in the federal system that keeps track of them, which is maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The terminations meant that the students were suddenly vulnerable to deportation, with some unable to figure out what they had done wrong. Some of the students appeared to be flagged for participation in pro-Palestine demonstrations while others had minor legal infractions on their records, many of which had been thrown out.

The about-face marks an unexpected defeat in President Donald Trump’s war on immigration. During a Friday morning hearing in federal court, a federal prosecutor read a statement from ICE noting it was “developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations,” referencing the system that tracks students’ immigration status, called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.

The evil 47 Regime has been forced to concede on the student visas, as numerous student vias wrongly terminated have been reinstated.

See Also:

Wonkette: Nice Time: DHS Backs Down, Says It Will Restore International Students’ Records After All

The Guardian: US restoring legal status of hundreds of students after abruptly revoking visas

[makymakvrchat]

DHS employees arrested for leaking ICE raids

[thedialoguedilemma]

The Senate votes to confirm South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Kristi Noem in her book famously bragged about killing her own dog and a goat.

[saywhat-politics]

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant

The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, the law enforcement source said.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The only thing Trump should do with the DHS is abolish it.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/it-is-time-to-abolish-the-department-of-homeland-security

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[jacksproject2025]

Sworn in on Saturday, on ICE raids on Monday.

A woman’s work is never done. 🇺🇸