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This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”

Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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"We are legal permanent residents with valid green cards. My husband, Eissa Hashemi, is also a professor, and has dedicated his life to mentoring PhD students in the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School." Plus: NO criminal record. HOW? & Why? So sorry for this family.

...and there I can already hear so many people typing "WELL, if their records are so clean, why haven't they long since naturalized? Eh? Eh? Can't be so innocent if you stay on a Green Card forever without applying for citizenship!"

That is a tenor I get a lot especially in recent immigrant forums online. Anyone who doesn't naturalize the second it's an option is seen by a LOT of recent immigrants who DID naturalize right away as suspect.

A beloved, drive thru in my community called 'Ms. G's Tortas & Tamales' was recently shut down when its owner, 'Ms G,' was pulled over for expired tags, but she was here illegally, so detained & then sent back to Guatemala She had a valid bznss license for FIVE years, but never bothered to be legal😱

...I strongly disagree with that notion if that's not clear. People can remain LPRs forever if they don't want to naturalize. Some countries will not allow dual citizenships, for example. But that reason shouldn't matter. You want to stay an LPR? Cool. You do you.

Another horrible aspect of these long incarcerations into hellish conditions is many of them may lose their jobs, can’t pay bills and trash their credit ratings, and get evicted from their homes and lose all their possessions. 😡🥲

He's gone from illegals who are criminals to undocumented people w/ no criminal records to removing legal status from working people (taking away TPS from Haitians) to green card holders ... next step is deporting Americans. Trump was recorded talking about sending the "home-growns" to El Salvador.

You're 100%right.Those concentration camps were never for illegal immigrants only;they will be used for citizens born here onU.S.soil. What exactly Independents need to think abt escapes me. So stupid,playing with their own freedom.Every person must voteDem! (Republicans are a lost cause. Inhuman.)

Trump's already decreed "anti-fascists" as domestic terrorists. So if you don't support fascism, you're a terrorist. He (actually Steve Miller and gang) have been setting up fascism in every conceivable avenue, one by one one.

These private prisons are making a fortune and even when you’ve been ordered by a judge to be released, they will begin shipping you around so no one can find you to release you. We can’t find them. Please pay us. It’s also disgusting

I hope there is someone, a lawyer, anyone out there who can help this family. Our country is richer with them out in the world teaching, contributing to our lives.