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"Last night, Rachel Maddow hosted immigration lawyer Lindsay Toczylowski, cofounder/president/CEO of the Immigration Defenders Law Center, to talk about her client, who was disappeared by Donald Trump’s ICE thugs last weekend. She revealed his first name, Andry, and explained that he is now in that Salvadoran prison."

~ Evan Hurst


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evanhurst.substack.com/p/trump

The Moral High Ground · Trump's Immigration Gestapo Disappearing Innocent LGBTQ Migrants? Or Just The One So Far?By Evan Hurst

"As Toczylowski has explained, Andry is part of the LGBTQ community, a gay man. He worked in the arts in Venezuela. He’s a makeup artist. He came here for asylum, legally. He has no criminal history. ICE detained him originally because of his tattoos. He was kidnapped, and now he’s trapped in El Salvador, in torture central, because Donald Trump put him there, without due process, because Donald Trump is an evil, racist bag of shit."


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"The Trump administration contends that Andry has tattoos that suggest he is part of the Tren de Agua gang. Toczylowski says that’s utter bullshit, and that Andry’s tattoos are the kind you’d see on literally anybody, anywhere, in Venezuela or in the US."


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"We feel it's important to let the world know who Andry, our client is, because he is a human being He is a young professional from Venezuela. He's a makeup artist. He is a gay man. He is someone who came to the United States seeking protection. He came seeking asylum."

~ Lindsay Toczylowski


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youtube.com/watch?v=_iNQwfptvy

"These are not the tattoos of somebody who is involved with gangs. These are normal tattoos that you would see on anybody at a coffee shop anywhere in the United States or Venezuela."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"America cannot be a country where we just willy-nilly pull people off the streets because they have a real Madrid tattoo and we send them to the worst conditions imaginable in another country with no recourse."

~ Tim Miller

But it is, Tim: America now is that kind of country. Some 77 million of us eagerly voted to turn it into that kind of country.


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youtube.com/watch?v=_iNQwfptvy

"Trump is claiming the power of a king, and attacking anyone who won’t stand aside, including any judge who won’t weaponize the power of the judiciary to give Trump what he wants.

Under cover of fighting criminal foreign gangs, he is jettisoning due process protections for anyone the administration designates, without proof of having committed any crimes."

~ Court Accountability Action and Meidas


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meidasplus.com/p/trumps-violat

Meidas+ · Trump's Violations of Court Orders — What We Can DoBy Court Accountability Action

"Now we can summarize Trump’s position here. He invoked an ancient (and often criticized) law during non-wartime, which no president has ever done. A federal judge said, Hey, wait a minute and ordered the action ended (that is, he ordered those airplanes turned around). Trump ignored that order; the planes flew on."

~ Michael Tomasky


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newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?a

newsletter.tnr.comTrump v. Boasberg: If this isn’t a constitutional crisis, what is?Fighting Words. What got me...

"Now Trump’s attorney general has invoked yet another obscure and controversial law in an effort to shut the judge up. And finally, Trump now demands that Congress impeach the judge because of his refusal to accept the laws of the land. ...

Let us recognize the stakes: Today, it’s noncitizens who are the victims of Trump’s lawlessness. Maybe Trump will stop there."


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"But if this gets to the Supreme Court and a majority there upholds Trump’s position, do we really think Trump won’t at least be sorely tempted to galumph his way through that open door? What will happen when a future roundup includes naturalized citizens? Or even birthright citizens, a category we know Trump wants to eliminate? And what happens when it simply becomes anyone who the president doesn’t like?"


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"Trump’s deportations rely on tattoos—it’s bullshit. It turns out tattoos inspired by a reggaeton artist who endorsed Trump are also a marker of gang involvement."

~ Adrian Carrasquillo


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thebulwark.com/p/trump-deporta

The Bulwark · Trump’s Deportations Rely on Tattoos—It’s Bullshit.By Adrian Carrasquillo

"Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, in the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.

It will be effective on 24 April."


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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and VenezuelansBy Diana Ramirez-Simon

@wdlindsy
RE
#TrumpDeportations rely on tattoos, it’s bullshit

Right, it's to make money and a #distraction that almost half of #Project2025 has been pulled off

"I’m the #Canadian who was detained by #ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention.

Yet, compared with others, I was lucky"

Jasmine Mooney
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

@wdlindsy

#Canada citizen describes her ‘nightmare’ 12 day #ICE detention that came without warning SEE VIDEO #KatyTur #MSNBC

astromaxx7771
Having ICE officers hunting down international tourists just to fill quotas for those privately-held, tax-payer funded detention centers is chilling.
Not going to the US for a long long time.

for833
those centres filled, they have to pick on tourists. This will be devastating to their tourism industry!

@wdlindsy
By trump's tattoo standard almost every one of the Capitol attack felons, who he pardoned, should be deported immediately.

@wdlindsy evidence is mounting that it is *already* just ppl the President does not like, or who his followers in uniforms wish to abuse

@wdlindsy I'm pretty pissed at Americans right now....

@wdlindsy can't "like" it; can't dispute it.