6 d. ago What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben

Allegations of criminality have always been deployed to justify state violence but even ‘imperfect’ victims deserve basic rightsUS politics live – latest updatesLast month, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Federal officials alleged that the detainees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, calling them “heinous monsters” ,“criminal aliens”, “the worst of the worst”. The federal government has also revoked visas for a thousand international students over their alleged participation in protests against Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Some were abducted, like Mahmoud Khalil, who has spent more than a month incarcerated in one of the worst jails in the US. Officials alleged that Mahmoud “sided with terrorists who have killed innocent men, women, and children”.Media reports quickly revealed that the Trump administration is lying about “innocent” people to justify abducting them. But this raises a more important question: if Trump...

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7 d. ago AP PHOTOS: A look at the huge prison in El Salvador linked to US deportations

President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison, but is arguing against returning him to the United States because of his alleged gang ties and the U.S. government’s lack of power over the Central American nation.

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7 d. ago US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations

Federal judge opens proceedings over administration’s use of wartime act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang membersUS politics live – latest updatesA federal judge ruled on Wednesday that there was probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt for violating his temporary injunction that barred the use of the Alien Enemies Act wartime power to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.More details to come Continue reading...

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1 week ago US deports 10 more alleged gang members to El Salvador, says Rubio

Secretary of state says ‘criminals’ were taken to country thanks to alliance between Trump and Nayib BukeleThe US has deported another 10 people that it alleges are gang members to El Salvador, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Sunday, a day before that country’s president is due to visit the White House.“Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador,” Rubio said in an Twitter/X post. Continue reading...

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1 week ago White Lotus drug ring smashed: Alleged British ringleader of a smuggling gang shipping cannabis from the hit TV show island to London is arrested

Adel Mohammed, 30, allegedly controlled the network of Brits picking up marijuana from farms on Koh Samui in southern Thailand.

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1 week ago White Lotus drug ring smashed: Alleged British ringleader of a smuggling gang shipping cannabis from the hit T

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1 week ago US government wrongly link British man’s tattoo with Venezuelan gang

A British man was shocked to see a picture of one of his tattoos being used in US government documentation on symbols identifying Venezuelan gang members.

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1 week ago Homeland security apparently used British man’s tattoo to identify alleged gang members

‘Average man from Derbyshire’ shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child’s birth was used to deport migrantsA British man was shocked to discover that a photo of his tattoo was included in a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to identify alleged members of a notorious Venezuelan criminal gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA).Earlier this week, 44-year-old Pete Belton, who lives in the English county of Derbyshire, told the BBC that he was stunned to find a photo of his forearm tattoo featured in a DHS document among nine images of tattoos intended to assist in “detecting and identifying” TdA members. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Justice Department moves to drop case against alleged top MS

The Justice Department has moved to drop a criminal case against the alleged East Coast leader of the MS-13 gang less than a month after he was charged, saying they plan to deport him instead

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2 w. ago Home Secretary confirms grooming gang inquires will go ahead after allegations they had been scrapped

Yvette Cooper on Thursday blamed "party political misinformation" for claims that five local investigations into the scandals would not happen

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2 w. ago US supreme court blocks ruling that 16,000 fired federal workers must be rehired

Probationary employees laid off in Trump administration’s purge lose reinstatement in 7-2 ruling over legal standingUS politics live – latest updatesThe US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a reprieve from a judge’s ruling that his administration must rehire 16,000 probationary workers fired in its purge of the federal bureaucracy.A day after ruling in the White House’s favor to allow the continued deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, the court gave the White House a less clear-cut victory in halting the order by a California court that dismissed workers from six government agencies must be rehired. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Supreme Court backs Trump over Venezuelan deportations but insists on due process: Live

Decision allows president to continue summarily deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador

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2 w. ago US supreme court allows deportations under 18th century law with limits

In 5-4 ruling, court laid down terms for invoking Alien Enemies Act, stating any challenges to law must take place in TexasDonald Trump may continue using a 1798 law to deport alleged gang members to Venezuela, the supreme court ruled on Monday, however it will apply certain limits. Any challenges to the wartime law, called the Alien Enemies Act, must take place in Texas, where the migrants were held, and not in Washington DC, the court said.In a 5-4 ruling, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a Washington DC-based judge’s order temporarily blocking the deportations. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Supreme Court sides with Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations despite ‘extraordinary threat to rule of law’

5-4 opinion clears path for administration’s swift removals of alleged gang members, for now

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2 w. ago Supreme Court sides with Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations

5-4 opinion clears path for administration’s swift removals of alleged gang members, for now

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4 w. ago ‘Big Balls’ gave tech support to criminal group that cyberstalked an FBI agent, report says

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old Elon Musk acolyte and DOGE staffer, allegedly provided services to cyber gang EGodly while in high school

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4 w. ago Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s Wednesday trip to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

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