Red, White, and Gulag

“Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador — and then contending that no federal court has the authority to right these brazen wrongs.” Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe in the NYT (Gift Article): We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “There would be nothing to stop the government from jailing its critics in another country and then claiming, as it is now, that the courts have no jurisdiction to remedy the situation. Armed with this power, the government would know that Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the F.B.I. or any federal law enforcement agency could apprehend anyone, ignore the requirements for due process and ship them to El Salvador or any country that would take them. These individuals would have no legal recourse whatsoever from any American court. The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union.”

+ About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record.

+ “The detention of Mr. Orellana and other green card holders is the latest sign that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is expanding far beyond people who are in the country illegally.” ‘Where’s Alex?’ A Beloved Caregiver Is Swept Up in Trump’s Green Card Crackdown.

+ IRS chief to quit over immigrants’ tax data sharing with ICE. (She’d only been on the job since Feb.)

+ Meanwhile, ICE Chief Suggests Copying Amazon Prime for Trump’s Mass Deportations.