Advocates for immigrants raised alarms Sat amid reports that the #Trump admin, after signing the proclamation w/o publicizing it, had arranged to spirit immigrants onto airplanes & out of the country, in particular to El Salvador, where Trump agreed last month to house immigrants & US #citizens who had been convicted of crimes.
The ACLU says the men do not have any ties to the criminal group.
Judge Boasberg said the immigrants clearly face irreparable harm, “given that these folks will be deported & many or the vast majority to prisons in other countries or sent back to #Venezuela, where they face persecution, or worse.”
“This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately,” he told the #DOJ.
US District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge in DC, quickly blocked ofcls from deporting Venezuelans under the proclamation after #CivilRights groups filed a challenge earlier Sat. As he issued his ruling, the judge said he heard that “flights are actively departing” & ordered the #Trump admin to immediately halt the removals & return to the #UnitedStates any flights that are in the air.
Judge blocks #Trump after he invokes wartime #AlienEnemiesAct to speed up #deportations
A federal judge ordered the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off after the act quietly went into effect.
#law #immigration #Venezuela #DueProcess #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/15/trump-alien-enemies-venezuela-migrants-deportations/
In invoking the #law, #Trump claimed the #US was facing an "invasion" from a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime & contract killings.
Furthermore, Trump claimed members of the gang were "conducting irregular warfare & undertaking hostile actions against the #UnitedStates" with the goal of destabilizing the country.
#Trump has issued an #ExecutiveOrder invoking the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798, an obscure 227 year old #law that allows the removal of unauthorized immigrants with little #DueProcess. Trump’s order says that Venezuelans who are 14 years & older, in the United States without authorization & part of the Tren de Aragua gang [or that the admin says are part of the gang] are “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured & removed.”
#immigration #Venezuela #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-some-deportations-after-lawsuit-cites-fears-wartime-law-2025-03-15/
The #US strikes came just days after the #Houthis announced plans to resume attacks on #Israeli ships passing through the Red & Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait & the Gulf of Aden, ending a period of relative calm starting in January w/the #Gaza ceasefire.
The Houthis launched >100 attacks targeting shipping from November 2023, saying they were in solidarity w/ #Palestinians over #Israel's war w/ #Hamas in Gaza.
#Trump warned #Yemen's Houthis, "hell will rain down upon you" if they did not stop targeting commercial vessels & US warships.
Trump also warned #Iran, the #Houthis main backer, that it needed to immediately stop supporting the group. He said if Iran threatened the #UnitedStates "America will hold you fully accountable &, we won’t be nice about it!"
#geopolitics #USpol #MiddleEast
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-launches-strikes-against-yemens-houthis-warns-iran-2025-03-15/
US #warships & #jets launched attacks across #Yemen, targeting radars, air defense sites & drone launch points, a defense ofcl said. The operation is the beginning of a campaign targeting #Houthi military capabilities following attacks against merchant ships & US forces in the region.
“The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated,” #Trump posted on social media. “We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”
#Trump orders large-scale #military strikes against Yemen’s #Houthis
The #UnitedStates launched a “decisive & powerful” attack on #Houthi militants in #Yemen, Trump said Saturday, an escalation against the Iranian-backed group that for months has besieged commercial maritime traffic in the #RedSea.
#geopolitics #USpol #MiddleEast #Iran
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/15/trump-yemen-houthis-iran/
We should support all the brave Hungarians protesting against Orban. This great country deserves a better leader. The EU has no conflict with the Hungarian people only with it's current autocratic leader and Putin-ally.
#orban #hungary #protests #eu #geopolitics @geopolitics
The #Trump admin is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new #TravelBan to the #UnitedStates that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during Trump’s first term.
#geopolitics #USpol #law #WhiteNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5EF50CC3-7684-4BEC-87EC-9167B5B9764A
"We Don''t Care What #Europe Thinks": #Trump & #Vance Humiliate #NATO Secretary #MarkRutte On #Greenland
"The "Five Eyes" have two concerns:
"1. That the Trump Administration has completely gutted the top level of our intelligence directorates uh has them terrified because they are seeing things leaked out into the public sphere that should be kept secret
"2. They're worried about Elon Musk's DOGE because you've got people who are in their 20s with no security clearance getting access to databases and then
just puting it on social media because it's fun.
"Whether this is just rank gross in competence on the part of the Trump Administration or the Russians are directly manifesting these things from behind the scenes really doesn't matter - the Five Eyes are seeing Russian eyes and fingers in the hearts of their own National intelligence systems right now which means that the United States just isn't a competent or a trustworthy partner to them.
"I can't believe I have to say this but if you are one of my followers in the intelligence community and you are concerned that your senior leadership is either completely incompetent or has already been compromised your options are limited for what you can do. "
#USPol #Ukraine #Russia #Intelligence #Geopolitics #Trump #FiveEyes
The art of no deal —
Portugal's air force had recommended buying U.S.-built F-35 stealth jet fighters, but "... [w]ith the dramatic realignment taking place under trump — who said again... [that] he would annex Greenland and threatened Canada — there are fears the U.S. government could... block access to software updates and spare parts needed to make the F-35 fully operational."
https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-rules-out-buying-f-35s-because-of-trump/
#SoMuchWinning #F35 #Portugal #geopolitics
So Trump shut off intelligence and weapon supplies (only recently restarted) and is now suddenly worried about encirclement of Ukrainian troops, something you can typically prevent with good intelligence.
#Trump #Ukraine #Russia #geopolitics @geopolitics
I’ll believe it when it happens. This idiot pathologically overpromises & underdelivers.
#Trump says productive discussions w/ #Putin could end war in #Ukraine
"We had very good & productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of #Russia yesterday, & there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end," Trump posted, adding that he had requested that Putin spare the lives of "completely surrounded" Ukrainian troops.
#geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-had-productive-discussions-with-putin-war-ukraine-could-end-2025-03-14/
NEW EPISODE
This week we speak to self-described Wagner Group stalker @beverly_ochieng about what Russia is playing at in Africa. We're also talking about a Eurovision controversy, and why none of the world's tech giants come from Europe.
Love love @timnitGebru’s energy in this episode, no BS, just straight talk about what’s going on with the AI hype.
https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru
Powerfull provocative statement of the current situation.
https://youtu.be/0nxu6AlOJyI
#resistance #usmaffia #europe #gaslighting #betrayal #krasnov #geopolitics #democracy #authoritarian #trumpregime #SecuringOurFuture #jddunce #50501protests #ukrainerussiawar #zelensky #ukraine #tariffs #canada #mexico
