They're doing the same with Kseniia Petrova, but slow-rolling it. I assume they're less eager to publicize a case they cannot connect to Latino gangs. But they have doubled down on absolutely absurd smuggling charges. She failed to declare a scientific sample. That carries a small fine, not jail.

Essential reading here

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the Trump administration, it's the perfect test case: they would like to assert their power to deport anyone they choose. They've also invested too much effort to back down, and if anyone remembers this post, they've been pwned (he did come back) and they are really pissed off about it.

literally the plot of Kafka’s “The Trial.”

"Claiming authority over reality itself" is reminiscent of M. Gessen's comparison of Trump to Putin.

ICE is the gang and human traffickers in reality.

I wonder how much of this is nothing more than racial "cleansing" I believe the white right wing deeply fears becoming a minority in their "own country"

This. Living in Texas for most of my life I always knew the politics of the majority were distasteful but they really went completely off the rails once Hispanics/Latino/etc. started to approach parity numberwise. I thought fleeing to Austin would help and it did, for a few years, but nah.

local radio fox affiliate just keeps referring to him as an M-13 gang member over and over.

It's what you have to do with a lie. Repeat it as much as possible. His allegedly incriminating knuckle tattoos consider of a marijuana leaf, an X-eye smiley (Nirvana fan?), a cross, and skull. These aren't gang tattoos, but are scary if you find his brown skin scary.

You won't hear this anywhere else but in The Guardian: 'Ábrego addressed a crowd of well-wishers in Spanish. “Regardless of what happens here today in my Ice check-in,” he said, “Promise me this: that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity and freedom. Not only for me; for everyone.”

Best article I’ve yet read on this absolute travesty. Thanks.

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"They have set about punishing Ábrego for his role as proof of their own malignant idiocy." Sums it up truthfully.