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Emily E. etc.

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Retired educator.

  1. This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.

    “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

    What has America become?

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  2. There are two fees in the big beautiful bill.

    Min $5,000 for entering illegally Min $5,000 for being picked up by ICE

    Companies are paying prisoners $1 per day for labor in ICE prisons.

    What happens when a person cannot pay and is not eligible for release on bond.

    Slavery happens.

    🚨NEW: Reversing generations of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

    Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent
Decided September 5, 2025
U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office for Immigration Review
Board of Immigration Appeals
Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond
requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.
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