Like when Jack Bauer gets CTU to drop all charges against terrorist tool Joe Prado so he can break his fingers in the parking lot (S4).
Posted on 05/22/2025 4:23:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MIAMI — Juan Serrano, a 28-year-old Colombian migrant with no criminal record, attended a hearing in immigration court in Miami on Wednesday for what he thought would be a quick check-in.
The musty, glass-paneled courthouse sees hundreds of such hearings every day. Most last less than five minutes and end with a judge ordering those who appear to return in two years’ time to plead their case against deportation.
So it came as a surprise when, rather than set a future court date, government attorneys asked to drop the case. “You’re free to go,” Judge Monica Neumann told Serrano.
Except he really wasn’t.
Waiting for him as he exited the small courtroom were five federal agents who cuffed him against the wall, escorted him to the garage and whisked him away in a van along with a dozen other immigrants detained the same day.
They weren’t the only ones. Across the United States in immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet testing out new legal levers deployed by President Trump’s administration to carry out mass arrests.
While Trump campaigned on a pledge of mass removals of what he calls “illegals,” he’s struggled to carry out his plans amid a series of lawsuits, the refusal of some foreign governments to take back their nationals and a lack of detention facilities to house migrants.
Arrests are extremely rare in or immediately near immigration courts, which are run by the Justice Department. When they have occurred, it was usually because the individual was charged with a criminal offense or their asylum claim had been denied.
“All this is to accelerate detentions and expedite removals,” said immigration attorney Wilfredo Allen, who has represented migrants at the...
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“...no criminal record...”
He’s NOT an illegal?
They were hanging around picking lint from their belly buttons in the nice a/c building and arresting someone trying to abide by the law. Idiots.
“All this is to accelerate detentions and expedite removals,” said immigration attorney Wilfredo Allen.”
Alfredo does get it.
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Although his very presence is...illegal???
“and arresting someone trying to abide by the law. “
How did he enter the U.S.?
He was here for 2 years BEFORE he applied for asylum.
It was a deportation hearing. IOWs he had to show reason to be allowed to stay else deportation.
He was mostly homeless till he found a gf.
See we don’t want them here
“Unfortunately, not a lot of Americans want to help us.”
“trying to abide by the law. Idiots.”
Huh? If they were trying to abide by the law they would go home and enter the country legally.
Like when Jack Bauer gets CTU to drop all charges against terrorist tool Joe Prado so he can break his fingers in the parking lot (S4).
Ya know the Biden administration deported 1.1 million aliens in 2023. Hope fully Trump can meet that quota this year.
For the few aliens that are held up by the courts tens of thousands of them will be deported as allowed by immigration law.
Just sayin... But Trump will reach his goal because aliens can’t afford a $2k per hour attorney.
“Ya know the Biden administration deported 1.1 million aliens in 2023.”
Those numbers were fudged.
La Times has a problem with deporting ILLEGALS ..
B.S.
Noob🤡
“...Biden administration deported 1.1 million aliens in 2023...”
Biden allowed in tens of millions ILLEGAL aliens....
“...what he calls “illegals” ...”
Hey Joshua and Gisela ESAD !
Yes, And Trump is going to deport 5M over the next four years.
Hopefully more than that...
And all this trouble over a migrant? /s I didn’t know we deported migrants. I thought it was just illegal aliens.
Jesus said, “And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?”
The illegal immigrants will not have legal status so they can be easily removed. The attorneys trying to defend illegal aliens won’t be paid for 95% of the illegal immigrants. The librul attorneys are grand standing on a few cases, but they can’t defend them all without a paycheck. IMHO.
That’s because the LA Times is a lefty propaganda outlet for the demonrats.
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