🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration has fired 113 immigration judges since last January… without due process, explanation, or stated cause.
And this isn’t just unusual… it’s almost unheard of.
Immigration judges are typically protected by strict hiring and removal standards, meant to preserve independence in the system.
So, seeing this many removed, in such a short time, is raising serious alarms.
Jeremiah Johnson, a former immigration judge in San Francisco, told the New York Times:
“On Nov. 21, I heard my afternoon case. It was a family of four Indigenous Guatemalans, a mother and father and two children. They were refugees who had suffered physical abuse. The father’s leg had been broken, and his brother had been killed. They were targeted for their race and ethnicity. They had a fear of persecution, based on past persecution, which the government didn’t rebut.
I granted them asylum. DHS waived the appeal. My last words on the bench to that family were: You’ve been granted asylum in the United States. That decision is final. Welcome to the United States.
One of the kids — I think he was in fifth grade — jumped up and clapped his hands together.
Later, I went to my office and signed onto my computer and found out I’d been fired. I was escorted out without time to print the letter they sent.”
This is why what the Trump administration is doing has never been about “the worst of the worst” or “doing it the right way.”
It’s about who the government believes deserves to be here… and who it decides doesn’t.
And when you follow that pattern long enough, it stops looking like isolated decisions, and starts looking like a system built around white supremacy.
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."
RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!
Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.
They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️
🚨BREAKING: Armed suspected ICE agents are now grabbing young women outside college fraternities…
Yesterday, a young woman was surrounded by armed men and taken, outside a fraternity house, at the University of Washington…
And we need to stop pretending this is normal.
Armed men grabbing a woman in public, and refusing to identify themselves, is exactly what we teach women to fear… and now the government is normalizing that, and calling it “law enforcement.”
And this doesn’t just affect one person… it lowers the safety of every woman, on every campus.
Because now, there’s no clear line between law enforcement and a predator.
If unidentified men can take a woman from a dorm, a campus, a fraternity… then any man can pretend to be ICE and do the same thing, and that confusion is exactly what predators rely on.
But, it gets worse…
ICE has a pattern of detaining people they shouldn’t, then releasing them without belongings, without support, sometimes far from where they were taken…
Now, apply that to a college student… away from family, in an unfamiliar place, suddenly without a phone, ID, or any way to get home.
ICE agents are illegally taking whoever they can… and every time people excuse it, the line moves further.
Because the second a country normalizes masked armed men grabbing any women in public, especially college students, and refusing to identify themselves…
That’s not only NOT public safety… it’s actively putting every woman at risk.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.