Trump Is Nabbing and Deporting Innocent Immigrants

Trump Is Trying to Deter Us From Representing Immigrants in Court. It Won’t Work.

On March 22, the Trump administration issued a memo, directing the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to take disciplinary and punitive action against attorneys practicing in our national courts. While the memo is broad, it takes particular aim at immigration lawyers, pro bono attorneys representing asylum seekers in immigration […] The post Trump Is Trying to Deter Us From Representing Immigrants in Court.…

Trump Is Nabbing and Deporting Innocent Immigrants

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently released a propaganda video to justify the administration’s draconian effort to deport immigrants suspected of gang ties to El Salvador’s gulag. Despite Noem’s warning that they “will be prosecuted,” Donald Trump has actually bypassed the courts to expel these men without hearings or due process by using the John Adams-era Alien Enemies Act, as Ilya Somin had warned in The UnPopulist. And all…