U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[Soen Eber]

Just out of curiousity, where does Vance sit in relationship to immunity while in office? I know the Supreme Court gave Trump carte blanche, but what protections does the VP and members of the cabinet enjoy?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Setting aside other considerations for the moment, if that's the highest and best use of our military, aren't some colossal budget cuts in order? I mean, damn, we've spent trillions to have the awe-inspiring capability of sinking a damn rowboat.

 

[Free]

Just out of curiousity, where does Vance sit in relationship to immunity while in office? I know the Supreme Court gave Trump carte blanche, but what protections does the VP and members of the cabinet enjoy?

Trump only needs to pardon them. Which keeps them stuck like glue, huh?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I've said it before and will say it again, if you like the idea of strong law and order but have no freaking clue how a legal system works, you're probably MAGA.

Just to add to my comment: Vance has a Law Degree from Yale. He knows better than this asinine comment, but knows his idiot followers don't.

 

[detrius]

Look at this guy bullshit his way through a recent interview:


Do you think he'll be able to take over Trump's cult? I don't.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Look at this guy bullshit his way through a recent interview:


Do you think he'll be able to take over Trump's cult? I don't.

I honestly think he was picked for VP in part because he clearly does NOT have the force of personality/charisma to take over the cult after Trump.

 

[Soen Eber]

I honestly think he was picked for VP in part because he clearly does NOT have the force of personality/charisma to take over the cult after Trump.

It's pretty common for people of his ilk (dictators and wannabees) to hire people who cannot challenge them. It's part of the playbook.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It's pretty common for people of his ilk (dictators and wannabees) to hire people who cannot challenge them. It's part of the playbook.

Yep! some of the leadership books I've been encouraged to read for work talk about this sort of thing. Empathetic, humble leaders pick the strongest successors they can find in hopes their work continues. Narcissists have a tendency to setup a straw successor.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

He had been set to study aerospace engineering at the University of Aleppo, but the city was burning as the civil war raged. On 11 January 2013, a week after he turned 18, two of his childhood friends and co-organisers named Bashar and Ali were snatched off the street by Syrian intelligence officers. He feared he would be next.

The same night he made plans to flee, crossing the border into Lebanon the next day. “I left everything behind,” he says. “I fled without a plan. My biggest worry was that they would confess the names of the people around them. And you wouldn’t blame them to confess under such torture by the regime.”

Bashar and Ali were murdered after their arrest, their deaths confirmed only a few months ago after the Assad regime collapsed at the end of 2024.

Khalil recognises the different shades of authoritarianism he has faced throughout his life.

“What shocked me at the very beginning, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria,” he says. “You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.”

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Enemies of the State

How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.

www.newyorker.com

Evernote Link

An extraordinary piece of reporting. Lengthy but well worth the time to read it.

 

[detrius]

I honestly think he was picked for VP in part because he clearly does NOT have the force of personality/charisma to take over the cult after Trump.

Honestly, I think he got picked because he was Peter Thiel's boy toy.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Honestly, I think he got picked because he was Peter Thiel's boy toy.

well yes... that too.

 

[Free]

Honestly, I think he got picked because he was Peter Thiel's boy toy.

One would hope Thiel had better taste in his choice of couch cushions, but then I've learned to stop overestimating what billionaires get thirsty for.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Republican Candidate Takes Credit for Trump Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant

Tori Branum, a Republican running for Congress, says she feels “good” about Trump’s Hyundai raid, which resulted in the arrest of 450 people.

www.rollingstone.com

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[Free]

Republican Candidate Takes Credit for Trump Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant

Tori Branum, a Republican running for Congress, says she feels “good” about Trump’s Hyundai raid, which resulted in the arrest of 450 people.

www.rollingstone.com

They need to hang this trophy around her neck in 2026.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Republican Candidate Takes Credit for Trump Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant

Tori Branum, a Republican running for Congress, says she feels “good” about Trump’s Hyundai raid, which resulted in the arrest of 450 people.

www.rollingstone.com

This article presents a complicated situation of illegal immigrants being abused by subpar conditions, union workers losing work, and employers who have broken the law. But the woman who called out this situation doesn't appear to have any concern for the company breaking the rules, just for the immigrant labor breaking the rules. There's a whole lot of bad stuff going on, but the least of it is being one of the undocumented workers. The power of scapegoating.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/irish-woman-with-green-card-faces-us-deportation-over-25-bad-cheque?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other


Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque

An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.

Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.

Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

South Korea’s president says Georgia ICE raid could have ‘considerable impact’ on direct US investment from his country | CNN https://share.google/l2KeFR05KSRxmgn0L

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death

In a post on X on Thursday morning, the deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, wrote that “foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country” and said he had directed consular officials to “undertake appropriate action” against those deemed to be “praising, rationalizing, or making light of” Kirk’s death on social media.

Landau invited X users to bring such cases to his attention in the comments of his post, which he said would be monitored by consular officials.