The Trump administration said the president actually signed the proclamation contending Tren de Aragua was invading the United States Friday night but didn’t announce it until Saturday afternoon. Immigration lawyers said that, late Friday, they noticed Venezuelans who otherwise couldn’t be deported under immigration law being moved to Texas for deportation flights. They began to file lawsuits to halt the transfers.

“Basically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,” Adam Isacson of the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on X.

  • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    With the way our system is currently work, they will most likely stay in a prison only to get out to be forced to work the farms on loan from the for-profit prisons. Which the tax payers will pay for. Looks like America is starting up the slave trade again and calling it prisoner loaning.

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      Yes, but not like you seem to be implying. These particular prisoners were being sent abroad for someone else’s slave trade.