Other new #immigration “fees”:
- $250 bond for ALL nonimmigrant #visa applicants
- $550 for “parole” work permits
- $1,500 fee for applying to adjust status to get a #GreenCard before a judge.
The bill would also dramatically increase immigration #enforcement #funding.
$45B for #ICE #detention, assuming $4.5B/year, that would be nearly a 250% annual increase to the current $3.4 detention budget.
#europe should introduce a free #greencard for students, scientists, specialists et al. from the united states
The #Trump admin has detained #ColumbiaUniversity student & #GreenCard holder #MohsenMahdawi a #Buddhist #Palestinian committed to #nonviolence because he advocated on behalf of Palestinian #HumanRights.
Mahdawi became a focus of attacks from a member of #Congress & #Zionist groups like Canary Mission & Betar. Guess we know where the deportation lists are coming from.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FreeSpeech
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador
Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador
By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025
"Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.
"Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'
"El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.
"Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.
"The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.
" 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.
" 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'
"In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/xliRd
It's the #Gaza protesters apologizing for #Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the #UnitedStates, that puts their government sponsorship student visa or #greencard in jeopardy.
You are not entitled to your own facts or to use your own facts in support of a designated terrorist organization..
You travel to (A) country to work in a Government sponsored program.
The Government decides to kick you out of the program and send you home because you speak out against the government.
This is a violation of the first amendment but because you are not a full citizen of the country you are traveling to work in, the sponsor of your program can decide you don't qualify to stay for ANY reason. That is work or student sponsorship in the #unitedstates.
#immigration
#VISA
#greencard
David Nakamura, Neeti Upadhye & Reshma Kirpalani: ‘Can I travel?’: U.S. green card holders cancel trips, on edge after detentions: Lawful permanent residents fear they are not immune from tRump’s mass deportation campaign.
#greencard #immigration #trump #ICE
https://archive.ph/gO4CX
‘Can I travel?’: #US #GreenCard holders cancel trips, on edge after detentions https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/can-i-travel-u-s-green-card-holders-cancel-trips-on-edge-after-detentions/ar-AA1BW2LP
A 64yo Seattle woman was recently detained at SeaTac airport after returning from a trip to visit family in the Philipines.
Lewelyn Dixon has lived in the US for 50 years, is a green card holder and works at UW Medicine. She's been detained at ICE's notorious prison, the NW Detention center.
https://www.newsweek.com/lewelyn-dixon-green-card-detained-ice-2049154
#Immigration ofcls also detained #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate #MahmoudKhalil – a #GreenCard holder – earlier this month in front of his pregnant wife, Noor, a US citizen. Other students detained by immigration ofcls include #BadarSuri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at #Georgetown University, after #DHS accused him of having ties to Hamas.
In recent wks, federal authorities have detained a handful of other #university #students & #researchers – including #GreenCard holders – who have expressed #Palestinian solidarity amid #Israel’s deadly war on #Gaza. Earlier this week, 30-yr-old #RumeysaOzturk, a Turkish doctoral student at #Tufts University, was detained by masked federal ofcls in dramatic footage that has caused widespread outrage.
“But with Ozturk’s case—a brazen state #abduction in daylight, on video…it feels like a new threshold has been crossed.
When the gov rolls up on a young
It doesn’t matter if you have a #greencard a #visa or, maybe, any legal status at all.
Each new case is pushing the limits of the #law & the #trump admin has already made it clear it doesn’t care if the #courts try to
German electrical engineer with green card stripped and 'violently interrogated'
Musky got the FAA contract. Good for him. He will make it great. Just like Tesla is great. I “ bought “ a new red one. I like red. Red square is very pretty this time of year. My hats are red. My tie is red. My eyes are red. Is America great yet?
#FAA #tesla #musk #red #cyberTruck
#arrested #greenCard #ice #arrest #nazi #gestapo #torture
#America #Justice
#maga #USA
#socialmedia
#socialSecurity
#unitedStates #dictator #Trump #1stFelon #president #disgrace
#WhiteHouse #dictatorship