Trump asking SCOTUS to ensure he’s not accountable for his mistakes:
What with all the different stories of people being deported who shouldn’t be, I had missed that this guy was a Salvadoran national.
That probably actually DOES mean that the US can’t do much at this point. Which only makes the situation more tragic, and the actions leading up to it more evil.
Asking about the nature of your business is perfectly routine. If you were quizzed more closely than usual, the nature of your trip might have given the officer reason to believe you might be going to Canada to do work. As a US resident, you wouldn’t be getting those kinds of questions on returning to the US, but I would and I have. In fact, on one occasion I was sent to secondary inspection by a US immigration agent on a trip to a perfectly routine business meeting simply because the agent didn’t understand – or had misunderstood – who I was working for. The situation was so simple and routine that the agent conducting the secondary interview was perplexed as to why I had been sent there. I think it was because I had gone into too much detail about the different consulting groups that were involved and apparently blew the agent’s little brain.
So no, I don’t think Canadian immigration is particularly strict. I believe that both US and Canadian border agents may, at their discretion, admit visitors who are doing unpaid work, like for a charity. It’s the UK that tends to be the strictest about that kind of thing, in my experience. It’s also the place where the passport stamp carries an explicit prohibition against visitors accessing NHS health services.
I didn’t mean to imply that Canada is stricter than the US. As you point out, i wouldn’t have direct knowledge of the US. But I’ve traveled to a great many other countries, and Canada has asked me more questions than all the others combined. The runner up is Bermuda, but i entered on an expired passport (legal at the time) and i think that led to them giving me a little extra scrutiny.
I wanted to mention this appeal to SCOTUS comes after the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the Trump Admin argument that the District Court order should be blocked.
The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
I’m not sure why but the only references I am seeing to the Appeals court decision seem to be buried in articles about the appeal to SCOTUS.
Could be because of the inverted timeline: The Trump administration asked for the Supreme Court’s involvement shortly BEFORE the Appeals Court decision came down. Per DaveNRockies’ CNN link:
The request to the Supreme Court came minutes before a ruling from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals denying DOJ’s request to lift the lower-court order.
The Orange Felon has been having a hard time with the lower courts in the past few years. I guess he considers the Supreme Court to be his bestest buddies who owe him big time. It will be interesting to see if their allegiance is to Trump or to the Constitution, because it can’t be both. I know how Thomas and Alito will vote.
Looks like his SCOTUS buddies helped him out again:
I really doubt these court hearings they must have in Texas to be fair.
Whoa, in a couple of days they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek
Until just now when I looked to paste the stanza I thought it was radical grease.
If some men in masks with no identification attack you, are you within your rights to blow them away?
Would they have allowed the deportation of the guy with a legal order to stay in the US? I doubt it.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/immigration-ice-gangs-deport-decisions
“People who are enemies of the United States don’t have the same level [of] due process [as in] the normal process,”
I could see such a thing resulting in a hung jury but that means the individual who defended themselves would still be arrested for murder and put on trial. This of course assumes that the individual is able to defend themselves against one undercover officer successfully without incurring immediate, lethal retaliation from any others that would also be there. So, to answer your question, theoretically yes but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Also, I do not believe there was the pressure of an almost impossible to meet arrest quota.
Just like Stalin’s NKVD
Me, too. “The Trump deportation news thread” should be about deporting Trump.
I keep hoping that the citizenship changes he’s proposing could be applied to him.
Words fail me:
The Ice director also said that he has been working with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) for access to social security numbers to look for “voter fraud”.
Nice to see the new internal police announce itself.
Nice. So they want to treat human beings like products in a business line that get shipped around as efficiently as possible. Can’t let inefficiency get in the way of finding a final solution to these immigration problems. Maybe can start keeping detailed records, transport lists, that sort of thing.
Sounds familiar…
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