Brown University Professor Deported Despite Valid Visa And Judge's Order
Brown University Professor Deported Despite Valid Visa And Judge's Order
Let me break this down:
Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.
Hey where was the motherfucker arguing they wouldnt deport legal people with me here? Huh? Where ya at?
They literally don't care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.
They're playing a different "game" entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.
This point should be understood by all - they're programmed to get a dopamine hit in the moment by pissing you off.
They're not arguing in good faith and all the time you spend making rational statements is a waste. Nobody is keeping a scorecard that punishes them for losing an intellectual discussion.
The opposition to MAGA has to find a new path, because applying rational arguments in discussions ain't going to work.
I hope Trump's Supreme Court are happy residing over a branch of government that no longer matters.
As long as the vacations and RVs keep coming, you bet they are.
They made it so, why wouldn’t they be happy?
They'll do just fine as long as they deliver him what he wants.
DOGE fires Supreme Court in 3...2...
It was what they were working towards
If only we could have foreseen this and prevented it somehow
BUt GeNoCiDe JoE!
Unfortunately close to half the US wants it to happen, or were OK with a president who announced that it was his plan. This is who the US is now.
Among other terrible things, this is exactly why Google shoving Android "SafetyCore" onto all Android phones is absolutely evil. Illegal phone searches become a casual click on a cloud interface to target millions with whatever they want to find.
Do you have any evidence pointing at that? So far it seems SafetyCore is a local-only service that despite all the uproar no researchers actually found doing anything suspicious.
And the only thing I hate more than Google is misinformation and fearmongering.
Yeah, the Internet really went paranoid with it, which doesn't help that it is still evil, but in a different way. Also, never feel safe by something called "local-only" as it can process on device and still fire a yes/no bit to the cloud. At its core, SafetyCore is pretty innocuous. It's a tiny ML model interface that other applications can query to search for targeted images. Its primary purpose is to look for things like CSAM and NSFW images, apps can query the interface to check if an image is naughty and send back basically a boolean yes/no. One of their selling points is "no more dick pics in your SMS!" There's also an ML library in the camera software that, for years, has known about looking at all sorts of things and identifying what they are, cat, dog, brown person, truck, sign.
Google can push software onto Android phones whenever they want, this is widely know, and SafetyCore was actually pushed in that fashion. Apple can too, to be fair. On some level, there's pretty much no reason to have any trust of your mobile device anymore when the vendor can change it whenever they want without consent, but I digress.
Now, tying it all together: the phone contains a "safety" ML model (SafetyCore) that can detect types of image and relay a yes/no, and a camera ML model that knows what most of our known universe looks like for the purpose of running the camera. The latter is likely not even needed, given the former was pushed without consent and could be updated by the same consentless mechanism.
The tl;dr boils down to: Google can push a query to phones to respond if they have a type of image. That type of image could be heavily illegal or terrible activity. It could also be anything the government in control wants to find. Picture of Tiananmen Square, sure. Protest signs, sure. How many phones have recent pictures of certain skin-colored people in a given square mile? Sure.
Unfortunately not direct evidence in this closed-source future, only extrapolation potential based on available evidence and how software works, and how companies like money.
There are some things our machines should just not do. The biggest weakness in this part of history. 25 years ago, tech evolution was limited by what computers could do. Tech evolution doesn't have that safety baked in anymore, your phone could run for weeks "turned off" recording everything you say and transpose it to a text file in the bootloader or a secondary controller chip and you'd never know. Your phone's battery life could be limited because every camera and microphone periodically fires to store data for later upload. The dead-reckoning sensors in the health tracking portion (the M-series coprocessors in iPhones, for example) could track your movement in a cave for miles (airplanes used to use this same tech for navigation across the planet.) Your camera's wide-angle lens could identify everyone at your dinner table when you set it face down on the table because cell service is never good enough to leave a phone in your pocket anymore but you don't want to disturb the meal with your entire screen turning on every 5 seconds.
We now have to consciously choose what our machines do because they can do anything they want, but we haven't chosen. The blind trust has run on for too long.
Secondary tl;dr: the software is there, just assume evil intent possibility. Google, in specific, chose this time to push an image identification application to phones without consent in a time where the planet's freedom is collectively dying. Hopefully it's just a marketing faux pas...
Constitutional crisis time! Who's ready to defend their rights and fight for democracy!
"I'll stand peacefully on a sidewalk holding up a sign to defend democracy, so long as no harm comes to me." - Americans
As an anti gun person my whole life, I am considering buying a gun to defend my rights as our 2nd amendment was designed to protect.
I think Democrats need to start forming or partnering with like like minded, armed groups, to help reinforce the importance and need for action. Then we have our support shown how we will defend our rights if actions are not taken.
I am not advocating for violence, but we cannot show up to a gun right with cardboard signs.
What have you ever done in your life keyboard warrior? Stfu
Most of America has work tomorrow, sorry.
LOLLLLL
Though the Trump administration did not initially detail their rationale for detaining Alawieh, Hilton Beckham, the assistant commissioner of public affairs for Customs and Border Protection, told HuffPost that "arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States.”
Which a valid visa is literally proof of, you ridiculously named fascist henchcritter! 🤦🤬
Bend It (Reality) Like Beckham
Also, Hilton is right up there with Reginald or Mildred when it comes to "blindingly white old money" names 😄
This is getting uglier. Ugh
It could stop tomorrow if Americans had the courage.
Deporting doctors, unbelievable.
Everything they do suggests the goal is just to ruin the USA and its (former) allies.
So what are we gonna do about it?
Watch in horror
I noticed my local Tesla dealership is not currently on fire…
Seems like a good couple million dollar lawsuit against the government, especially if done against a judge's orders.
And then if the executive branch ignores that decision?
There needs to be another plan than let them battle it out on the courts if they ignore court orders.
The article is about Trump (who has a history of ignoring court rulings) completely ignoring the courts, and your suggested solution is... the courts?
Wake the fuck up.
Lol
Whoever ignored that order should be held in contempt. You don't just "whoopsie" a judge's order.
Their story is that she was already deported before they got the order.
The order was given well before she was put on a flight. Someone somewhere along the way caused it either to be ignored or delayed relaying it long enough that she was put on the flight.
Not even that. They claimed they weren’t told officially.
Well obviously it's because they were Brown
The article says that Customs and Border Patrol agents "found “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in the deleted items folder of her cellphone."
That statement is vague enough in itself (could be memes from a group chat, could be something someone shared in a whatsapp chat that she had no interest in - we don't know). What we do know is that having pictures sympathetic to Hezbollah figures on your phone is not illegal, and it doesn't automatically equate to 'being supportive of terrorists'. I have photos of Trump in my phone from group chats and from web cache of viewed articles, and I hate the treasonous c*nt.
I don't think anything that they did to this lady was legal but for her to attend the funeral and then admit that to the agents seems like a exceedingly bad decision.
I'm kinda mystified why you'd attend a funeral of such a figure, take a bunch of pictures of you there(?), and fly back to the USA with the administration currently in place and not expect a shitshow. Is this an extreme version of 'don't talk to the cops' or was this lady just very naive? Even as a US citizen I'd probably wipe my phone before flying back to the US just to avoid anything weird popping up if it was searched.
Sounds like she can go teach in Europe now pretty easily. She's got a great story. Fucking slick, if deliberate.
The photos were in the 'trash can' according to the article. Most people would wipe their phone with a kleenex tissue.
Court decisions are just optional now. Who needs a court when you are judge and jury?
guns
Marching it the streets.
Mass protests.
Malicious compliance.
Organized disruptions of everyday life.
Sabotage.
All that first.
Guns are for when they refuse those.
You are a literal years ahead of the curve when it comes to lasting change. Be a martyr if you want. I dont care. But if we didnt follow behind luigi, we arent there yet. So shoot someone and get gunned down. Be my guest. You first.
Have you even done the bare minimum of protest before advocating for fucking violence? Are you lazy or just an armchair antagonizer?
Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship
What legal citizens have been deported?
I know you are just nitpicking on whether the current dictatorship has an official policy to deport American citizens, but I want to clarify, for the benefit of anyone else who might not be aware of this, that the American government has in fact already deported multiple American citizens by mistake. This GAO investation found that while ICE doesn't keep track of such stats, based on the data that is available it must report that indeed "ICE and CBP took enforcement actions against some U.S. citizens." The numbers are in the hundreds-arrests-per-year range, and dozens-per-year deportations. There are many interviews in the press with American citizens who say they were illegally detained or deported. Some Americans had to sneak back across the border after being illegally deported. Many Americans sued and won settlements for their illegal deportations, so now it is official court record that such events happened.
This is not just a matter of ambiguity, cases of "who can really know whether that person was a citizen or not". These are cases where CBP has been clearly negligent, where the victims had been able to procure for display real birth certificates, real passports, and the agents wouldn't look at them. The court-appointed lawyers would "lose" the documents and claim none were received in front of the judge, or there would not even be court hearings at all, just deportations. When sued later, no one would take responsibility, no one reprimanded, just settlements paid out. Sometimes the CBP would get sued, receive a court judgement affirming that the victim was a citizen who was unlawfully deported, then ignore the judgement and deport them again. This has all already happened... under past administrations. The implication is that the willful negligence under the current one will not get better.
There was the girl with cancer getting treatment in the US who was deported a couple weeks ago. She is a US citizen.
Her parents declared they were not, but were taking her over the border through a checkpoint to see her oncologist. As they have done 4 times prior without issue.
They were arrested and deported all.
oh yeah, that was messed up.
Why are all these big deportation stories about hezbolah people and gang members that we are supposed to be sympathizing with and vocally defending?
The AntiDeportation stories I would like to support are like 'nice mom that is just nice and not part of any gang nor anything illegal deported horribly from her 5 nice kids'. Give us those stories please. I am totally happy not having gang member neighbors. Why would I want that or sympathize with them?
the mom that worked in the big illegal weed op is the closest so far. I am totally for weed and in a place it's legal, but I understand that, if she makes money on the smuggling of weed from legal to illegal places, it will be bad for her when she's caught. That was not controversial to me. It shouldnt be that way, but it wasnt unusually controversial.
are there no actual innocent nice people being immorally deported? That seems crazy to me, but where are the stories?
No mention of gang involvement or anything illegal whatsoever from the female doctor deported in the article you're commenting on - so you're just spouting nonsense.
Looks like someone hasnt been following current events :)
What you are missing about why we are actually enraged is the complete lack of evidence of their crimes or any kind of due process. Everybody deserves to be heard by the court.
Even if you don't care about immigrants, you should realize that if they can be targeted and punished without evidence, then you can be too.
This is happening again and again: judges rule that deportations are illegal, then Trump's people just kidnap the victim and deport them anyway. A whole lot of people were just deported to a prison in a foreign country whose government has said they will never be released. They will be slave labor for a foreign country until they die, and there was no trial, no due process, no evidence presented for their being guilty of any crime. It's just the US government kidnapping people and trafficking them into slavery abroad, completely ignoring its own judicial system. The USA is already a dictatorship, and it only took a few weeks.
Unusual maybe, but I wish it wasn’t so easy to accept it as just another part of history. I hoped we were better than this with all the new tech, but I guess old habits die hard. The new tech just seems to be a new tool they’ve been getting the hang of, and AI makes the dumbest sound less dumb to the ridiculously ignorant by choice. By so many choices I can’t fathom.
It’s time for armed resistance
If these unjust and illegal actions can't be stopped through elections, politicians or courts, it does seem the only ways to stop them would involve physically obstructing them.
Anyone have a good source on the illegal kidnappings and the prison that won’t release people? I’ve been trying not to follow US politics but goddamn clearly I need to when they’re up to this shit already
NPR, the source that floofloof linked above, is a pretty solid news source. The article linked discusses the mega-prison in El Salvador.
Sorry, I'm not from the us. Who has imprisoned them? Is this the el Salvador thing?
And if anyone doing these illegal deportations is tried, and even convicted, the president can just pardon them.
Presidential pardons are dumb and were always waiting to be abused, change my mind.
Yes, it seems like for all the USA's supposed opposition to kings, they just had to make the President the closest possible thing to an all-powerful king. Whereas countries with parliamentary systems and a Prime Minister don't have this problem, even when they technically have an actual king.