staticman posted:

Aaaand here come the tanks
https://twitter.com/EyesLeftPod/status/1192326019228635137

ikanreed posted:

We need to start drafting insurgent anti tank strategy today

Al! posted:

get used to this sight america because you're going to see it more and more often as capitalism continues to implode in the face of climate change

Larry Parrish posted:

unfortunately anti-heat armor is a thing now. however what still works great is IEDs and roadblocks combined with a lot of fire

StashAugustine posted:

there's the houthi strategy of "shoot whatever you have at them and hope the crew are incredibly stupid and/or cowardly so they bail out"

etalian posted:

The houthi How to Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv13s5JmvS4

ikanreed posted:

Remember when secret trials with withheld evidence was just for "terrorists" and "enemy combatants" and suggesting that it would extend to all Americans was insane slippery slope thinking?

paul_soccer10 posted:

this is a cool song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5V7Wy0RfYY

paul_soccer10 posted:

this is a cool song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5V7Wy0RfYY

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1197298401953628160?s=20

bloom posted:

lol if you aren't on one already

https://i.imgur.com/7mKDt6P.mp4

Algund Eenboom posted:

Algund Eenboom posted:

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got any sevens posted:

where are they going to send them, england?

Well you see, the entire Commonwealth of Australia has been legally removed from itself for immigration purposes. Therefore any Aboriginal person born in the Commonwealth of Australia cannot be said to have been born in the Commonwealth of Australia and are therefore not citizens.

This does not apply to white people because reasons.

wikipedia posted:

To stem the flow of unauthorised arrivals into Australia, in September 2001, the Australian government passed the Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) Act 2001[2] and the Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) (Consequential Provisions) Act 2001 which removed ("excised") a number of external territories from the Australian migration zone for purposes relating to unauthorised arrivals. The effect of this change was to limit the ability of "offshore entry persons" to apply for a visa on arrival.

After Australian Indian Ocean territories were excised, increasing numbers of asylum seekers attempted to reach the Australian mainland by-passing those islands, which are closer to Indonesia. To combat this tactic, on 30 October 2012, the Australian government excised the entire Australian mainland from the Australian migration zone

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Whistleblower in New Orleans hotel collapse is deported to Honduras
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma reported safety lapses to supervisors before the Hard Rock hotel disaster that killed three

A Honduran construction worker injured during the Hard Rock hotel collapse in New Orleans was deported by US immigration authorities on Friday, his lawyers confirmed.

Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma had reported potentially dangerous lapses in construction safety to his supervisors before the collapse, according to lawyers working on his immigration case and a civil complaint filed by Ramirez Palma and several other workers against hotel developers.

The collapse on 12 October killed three people and injured dozens. The bodies of two victims are still inside the half-crumbled remains of the 18-storey structure in downtown New Orleans. Developers are working with city officials to finalise plans to demolish the rest of the building.

Immediately after the accident, Ramirez Palma was interviewed by the local Spanish-language media outlet Jambalaya News. Two days later he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), while fishing with his family in a national wildlife refuge, because he lacked identification documents.

The timing and circumstances of his October arrest raised suspicions among his lawyers and advocates that his detainment was connected to the hotel collapse and his previous safety complaints. The arrest and planned deportation drew widespread criticism from immigration advocates and some state officials in Louisiana.

King Company, Ramirez Palma’s supervising company at the Hard Rock site, did not respond to interview requests from the Guardian.

Mary Yanick, a senior lawyer at the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice, an advocacy group, said Ramirez Palma had been interviewed by the whistleblower division of the US government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) on Monday. Osha and the New Orleans police department are investigating the hotel collapse.

Osha did not respond to a request for comment on Ramirez Palma’s role in the investigation.

This week Ava Dejoie, secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC), also advocated for Ramirez Palma’s release, citing his role in the Hard Rock investigation and, more generally, the need to protect whistleblowers from retribution. The LWC is responsible for enforcing labor laws in the state.

In a 27 November letter addressed to William P Joyce, the New Orleans field office director of Ice, Dejoie implored the agency to release Ramirez Palma, stay his deportation and “commit to neutrality in ongoing labor investigations for all witnesses and victims”. The letter was seen by the Guardian.

“In the aftermath of a disaster of this scale, the public needs all available information to understand what happened at the worksite, including information from Mr Ramirez Palma and workers like him who witnessed safety violations before the collapse,” Dejoie wrote. “If he is deported, the public may never know what key information is being deported with him. The investigations will undoubtedly suffer.”

As of Friday afternoon she had not received a response to the letter. Ice representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Ramirez Palma’s case.

Ramirez Palma’s lawyers previously believed he would be deported earlier in the week but that was delayed until today for unknown reasons. In 2016 a judge ordered he be deported. He had been regularly checking in with Ice since then and filed for a stay of deportation during 2019, Yanick said.

A citizen of Honduras, Ramirez Palma had lived with his wife and three children in New Orleans for 18 years. His lawyers and wife said he was seriously injured in the Hard Rock collapse and was briefly hospitalised for head trauma, internal inflammation and an acute eye injury that still requires surgery.

Algund Eenboom posted:

https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1202667343115169797

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Lawyers say border agents keep writing false addresses on migrant papers, undermining asylum cases
Lawyers for migrants are filing a Supreme Court brief saying El Paso border agents are undermining asylum cases by using false addresses on migrant papers.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers representing migrants seeking asylum at the border say U.S. border agents are systematically writing the same wrong address on the migrants' papers, leaving hundreds with no way to receive communications from the U.S. government about their cases, and undermining their ability to win asylum in the U.S.

Eighteen examples of migrants whose forms note their address as Casa del Migrante, a shelter in Ciudad Juarez they have never visited, are included in an amicus brief the lawyers plan to file to the Supreme Court next week, NBC News has learned. One lawyer told NBC News he knew of hundreds of migrants who had that address on their papers, and few had ever been to the shelter. The brief will urge the justices to consider the legality of the Trump administration policy known as "Remain in Mexico" that has left over 60,000 Central Americans in dangerous conditions as they wait in Mexico for what could become years for entrance to the U.S.

"Consistent with these international law obligations, federal law recognizes that, at a minimum, asylum seekers must be notified of the charges against them and have rights to a fair hearing," said the brief, to be filed by the Justice Action Center and the University of California's International Human Rights Law Clinic. The form, known as a Notice to Appear (or NTA), is given to migrants to tell them when and where to arrive in immigration court for their next asylum hearing and how the government will reach them with notifications about their cases. The agents are supposed to give the migrants NTAs based on information provided by the migrants and the court. If the migrants fail to appear in court, they could be deemed in absentia by a judge and ordered to be deported back to their home country without making their case for asylum. Under the Remain in Mexico policy, many immigrants have been ordered deported for failing to show up to their proceedings, and the false addresses could be one reason why they don't appear.

One of the immigrants referenced in the brief is Angelina, who uses a pseudonym to protect her identity, a 42-year-old Cuban who told NBC News she fled persecution at the hands of police and others in Havana for being lesbian. She arrived at the border in El Paso in July, hoping to be given asylum so she could live in Florida with her partner, a doctor who once worked at the same hospital in Havana where Angelina was a nurse. Asked for an address of a U.S. contact, Angelina provided agents with her partner's information. It was not until later, when she met with an attorney, that she realized the agents did not include the Florida address on her paperwork. Instead they wrote down the address for Casa del Migrante, a shelter she has never been to or heard of. "I have no idea if I missed court dates or if anything was sent to me," Angelina said in a phone interview from Ciudad Juarez, where she lives in an apartment with four other Cubans.

She has never tried to find Casa del Migrante because she rarely leaves the apartment, except when needed for food, because she fears for her life. "There's a lot of violence. Every single morning when we wake up, we see and hear on TV about the number of dead overnight. They're killing women, they're killing people from the LGBT community," Angelina said about life in Ciudad Juarez, where she has been living since July. Her attorney, Nicolas Palazzo, who works with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, said he has met with hundreds of asylum seekers awaiting their next asylum hearing in Ciudad Juarez and all of them were given paperwork that included the Casa del Migrante shelter as their contact address.

Despite many giving Border Patrol another contact address, including the addresses of family or friends they're in contact with in the U.S., the agents in El Paso continue to use only the Casa del Migrante address, according to Palazzo and the attorneys filing the amicus brief. Palazzo said many of the migrants are not aware of the mistake and are shocked and surprised when he tells them what has happened. While there is a hotline immigrants can call for an update on their cases, many of the cases have not been updated, he said.

The lawyers filing the brief to the Supreme Court hope the justices will see from the examples in Ciudad Juarez that the Remain in Mexico policy has inconsistencies and creates an emergency and that arguments against it should be heard in full. "The risk is not only that the U.S. violates its own procedures under due process, but also the risk of sending back asylum seekers to places they could be tortured or killed," said Karen Tumlin, the founder and director of the Justice Action Center.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that immigrants must provide U.S. addresses in order to receive correspondence on their legal cases. Tumlin said that decision will have "massive consequences" on asylum seekers who are subject to Remain in Mexico. But even when immigrants give U.S. addresses, such as the one Angelina provided, border agents in El Paso are ignoring them and including the address for the shelter in Ciudad Juarez, say Tumlin and Palazzo. Reports from earlier this year alleged agents in other sectors along the border were simply writing "Facebook" as an address for immigrants. Tumlin said she has seen cases where agents write a Spanish term that translates to "known address."

Angelina continues to wait for her next court date, scheduled for February, from Ciudad Juarez. And she is hopeful she will be eventually granted asylum. "Hope is the last thing to die," she said. Palazzo is now personally making sure that Angelina knows of her court dates and the status of her case. But he said the majority of immigrants waiting in Mexico for their asylum hearings in the United States are not lucky enough to have found a lawyer and are left navigating a very confusing process.

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Detention Watch Network, a nonprofit that tracks immigration enforcement, said this week that several activists have been targeted recently, including Maru Mora Villalpando in Washington state, Eliseo Jurado in Colorado, and New York immigrant leaders Jean Montrevil and Ravi Ragbir.

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Montrevil, who was deported to Haiti on Jan. 16, came to the U.S. legally in 1986 and was ordered deported in 1994. He has multiple felony convictions related to drug possession, according to ICE. But in an interview with the radio show Democracy Now, he questioned the timing of his deportation.

"I have been under supervision for 15 years, and I've never violated," Montrevil said. "I have always made my appointment. And I stay out of trouble. I have volunteered, and I work and take care of my kids. I pay taxes every year. I did everything right. Everything they asked me to do, I have done it. So why target me now?"

Ragbir, a citizen of Trinidad, was convicted in 2000 of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and later sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $350,000 restitution. ICE said he will be detained until he can be deported.

Montrevil is a co-founder of the New Sanctuary Coalition, which advocates for immigrants, and Ragbir is the coalition's current executive director. Ragbir has lived in the United States for more than 20 years.

"We see the last few weeks as an escalating series of actions against New Sanctuary and our leaders aimed at silencing those who speak for immigrants' rights," said Kirk Cheyfitz, a spokesman for the New York-based group. "All this comes as racist rhetoric from the White House leaves no doubt about the racial basis of the Trump administration's immigration policies."

Jurado, the 30-year-old husband of a Peruvian citizen living in a Boulder, Colo., church to avoid deportation, was arrested on Jan. 11 for being in the United States illegally. ICE said he has a 2007 driving offense in Adams County, Colo., and three misdemeanor convictions. He, too, is being detained pending a hearing before an immigration judge.

Jurado's advocates say ICE detained him in retaliation for his wife's public fight to avoid deportation to Peru.

Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican national in Washington state, said she has no criminal record and is proof that ICE is targeting activists.

"This latest tactic is something we might expect from generals in a tin-pot dictatorship, not federal officers in a 240-year-old democracy," said Kica Matos, a spokeswoman for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the largest network of immigrant-rights organizations in the United States. "Arresting immigrant activists who speak up is meant to sow fear in immigrant communities and stop political protest."

ICE mailed her a letter in December saying she may be deported. She has lived in the United States for 22 years and had met with federal officials during the Obama administration, when she helped publicize detainees' hunger strikes and other protests in Washington state.

"There's no way for them to know about me except for the work that I do," she said. "I think my case makes it clear that actually Ravi and Jean's case were politically motivated."

ICE officials would not say how Mora Villalpando came across the agency's radar, but said they are pursuing her deportation.

"All those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to enforcement proceedings, up to and including removal from the United States," the agency said in a statement.