Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Just One of Trump's Disappeared

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

... Judge Xinis ordered the government to bring Abrego Garcia home, but the Trump administration claims it cannot – even though they are paying El Salvador $6 million to imprison immigrants. A federal appeals court agreed with Xinis ...

There are hundreds more who have been removed to CECOT, all of them accused without evidence by Trump and his subordinates of being dangerous gang members. An estimated 90% of them have no criminal records. Most of them were rounded up and shipped to El Salvador under the authority claimed by Trump using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law that has only been used a handful of times in US history, most recently during WWII.

International students at universities across the nation are also being targeted, having their visas revoked if suspected of engaging in Palestine solidarity protests. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that any student that creates a “ruckus” while in the US will have their visa revoked. So far, an estimated 300 students have been stripped of their visas. Several have been arrested.

“What is Trump doing?” Constitutional law scholar and Georgetown professor David Cole asked on Democracy Now! “He’s targeting the most vulnerable, immigrants, dissidents, transgender folks, people of color. But he’s also seeking to neutralize any place where there might be opposition, the checks and balances, so removing heads of agencies, removing inspectors general, targeting the press and punishing them if they disagree, targeting law firms and punishing them if they disagree, and now also targeting universities and punishing them in totally unlawful ways.”

There is a force more powerful than authoritarians: the power of people, organized in solidarity and resistance.

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