Immigrants Are Now Officially Dead:
Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falselylabeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.
Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of technology experts, had pushed back on the Trump administration’s plan to move the migrants’ names into a Social Security death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages and, officials hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed with Scott Coulter, the new chief information officer installed by Elon Musk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead, according to three people familiar with the events.
But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy — pushed by Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service and the Department of Homeland Security — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by government agencies, employers, banks and landlords to check the status of employees, residents, clients and others.
We’re witnessing a ‘flooding the zone’ with so many similar actions that the intent behind them is clear: Amerika must be a dominant white nation again.
Which could only happen with mass capitulation. As in:
More Law Firms Cave:
Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action by President Trump reached deals on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to causes supported by the president.
Four of the firms — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett — each agreed to provide $125 million in pro bono or free legal work, according to Mr. Trump. A fifth firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, agreed to provide at least $100 million in pro bono work.
With the latest round of deals, some of the biggest firms in the legal profession have agreed over the past month to provide a combined $940 million in free legal services to causes favored by the Trump administration, including ones with “conservative ideals.”
Why were these firms targeted? Same as the others:
Everything else is the same as all the other firms statement of capitulation or Trump’s version of it for them.
The only thing different is that they were all sent notices on March 17th from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that were now rescinded. The letters probably said they were under investigation for having DEI policies, which has been turned on its head to mean racial discrimination against white people.
White people have been discriminated in the US for centuries. That’s the New History.
Looks Like Trump Might Cave On This. He may suddenly discover that farm workers aren’t gang members, drug mules, and pro-Palestinian. As long as they work for pennies on the dollar:
Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations was always reliant on a degree of shock and awe. Fear and intimidation were both means and ends. But recently, the administration has had to slow down or even abandon individual deportations in the face of strong popular resistance. And now the president is signaling another huge exception to his deportation policy.
“We’re also going to work with farmers,” Trump said Thursday. “If they have strong recommendations for their farms for certain people, we’re going to let them stay in for a while. . . . We have to take care of our farmers and our hotels and various places where they need the people.”
‘We’re going to let them stay for awhile’. Turn that phrase over in your heads a few times.
Trump Defies Court On Bringing Back Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Utterly Kafkaesque.
The Trump administration defied a court order on Friday, telling a judge in writing and verbally that it could not provide information about a man that it admitted it wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison.
At the court hearing, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis for the District of Maryland repeatedly asked a DOJ lawyer to provide basic information about the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported on March 15.
“I have a simple question: Where is he?” Xinis implored more than once.
Each time the judge asked, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign was unable to answer the question. He said he had no personal knowledge and that Trump administration officials were still assessing what they could and would tell the court about Abrego Garcia.
“The Supreme Court has spoken quite clearly, yet I can’t get an answer from you about what has happened,” a visibly frustrated Xinis said.
Ensign repeatedly refused to budge. He said that the administration needed time to interpret the Supreme Court’s ruling mandating that it comply with Xinis’ decision to facilitate Abrego Garcia return. In an earlier written filing on Friday, the administration did much the same: It said that it would not comply with a request for information about its efforts to release Abrego Garcia because Xinis had provided too short a deadline.
Ensign contended that Xinis should have asked for more briefing from the Trump administration after the Supreme Court’s ruling before issuing her new order demanding information on the status of the Abrego Garcia. The judge strenuously disagreed.
“My words are clear,” Xinis said.
After being stymied from learning of Abrego Garcia’s current status, Xinis turned to the question of what the Trump administration had already done to try to facilitate his release. Xinis noted that the administration had been under her deadline beginning last Friday and continuing until last Monday, when the Supreme Court lifted the deadline. Ensign said the administration was not prepared to provide that information, at one point suggesting it may raise new claims of privilege to avoid responding.
Bottom line: They’re not gonna do anything to bring him back, and there’s nothing the Court can do to make them.
They can, and will, however, continue to deport students:
Eight University of Delaware sponsored visa holders have had their visas terminated by the Department of Homeland Security.
Three current students and five former students on post-graduation Optional Practical Training work authorization had their visas revoked.
The federal government gave UD no advance notice of the decisions, and the ACLU of Delaware says many of the students also didn’t get any advance notice.
ACLU of Delaware Executive Director Mike Brickner.
“We would very much like to hear from students who have had their visa revoked, because we’re very concerned about the constitutional implications for this that when you have your visa revoked, it should only be for very specific reasons according to federal law, and that the students should have due process that they have a right to be notified. They have a right to challenge that revocation,” said Brickner.
Brickner notes those who had their visas revoked are in danger of being detained or deported at any moment.
He adds the visas revoked weren’t expiring, and there’s been well over 400 known cases of student visas revoked nationwide.
At least one Delaware school is taking action:
Meanwhile, Delaware State University President Tony Allen has joined an amicus brief filed by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration opposing the policy of targeting non-citizen students and faculty.
I could keep going, but I think I’m already stressing everyone’s attention span.
What do you want to talk about?
First-time commenter. Cris Barrish is still keeping tabs on state government under the new administration, this time with Kathy Jenning’s kinda sorta job-related travel. Between him and Spotlight, I feel like Meyer’s quest for transparency may be easier than he thought
https://whyy.org/articles/kathy-jennings-delaware-junket-safari/
That article was handed to Barrish all wrapped up and bow-tied by a right-wing “research” group. He barely had to do any reporting.
Buried waaay down: “But Thomas Jones, who heads the conservative American Accountability Foundation and provided WHYY News with documents about the AGA trips that he obtained from public records requests in Delaware and several other states, scoffed at the notion that they are necessary or benefit the general public.”
Yep. Betcha Jones didn’t investigate ANY of the ALEC junkets attended by Delaware Rethug legislators.
Jennings’ trip didn’t cost taxpayers a penny. The General Assembly USED to reimburse legislators who attended ALEC although they don’t any more.
What gets me is that Jennings hid behind the PIC and that the PIC even went forward with this terrible decision to allow the trip to go unreported. BAD BAD BAD. It needed to be reported and she should have done so. This reminds me of when Sherry Freebery defended her non-disclosure to the district court by claiming that she thought she was doing right by asking Judge Farnan to tell her if her loan/gift from the duPont heiress was ethical.
No comment on the genesis of the South Africa story but it was clearly a luxury junket. It’s time for new leadership in the AG’s office. We need a fighter not a person my age running for a 3rd term. Thank you for your service but I will be supporting Dwayne Bensen who has the courage and skill to take on the avalanche of authoritarian BS we are facing.
‘Thank you for your service’? Jennings, IMO, has been a great AG. She has taken on ‘the avalanche of authoritarian BS’.
Which is not to say that I’m dismissive of Dwayne Bensing’s candidacy.
But, come on, Jennings has been one of the all-too-few elected officials to push back against the Delaware Way.
Ask Keandra McDole or me how much we had to agitate to have the dude who pointed a gun at our heads in Front of Republican HQ on Lancaster Ave in 2020 with his Proud Boy friends and State Police watching charged. Ask Keandra about the harassment she has faced at with at minimum the selective blindness of her office. Miss me with how great the AG is.
You tell me what other Delaware AG has gone after corruption by public officials. You tell me what other Delaware AG has gone after tobacco companies, pharmaceutical companies and, yes, the Trump Administration.
There was a Tobacco settlement 20 years ago but ok. If you believe she has done as much as possible so be it. I expect more particularly in the area of harassment by police. I direct you to the case of the 15 year old that was charged and vigorously prosecuted threatened with decades of imprisonment at a protest after being beaten by a notorious city cop. Only public pressure and street protests turned that case around. She has not been the worst but by no means the best. I would point out Rich Geblein who worked tirelessly to give us drug courts. I expect more and better, that will take a new AG.
OK, who was a better AG? I can’t think of one, not in my memory.
So your standard is she was better than the past AG’s.? Personally I’d want an AG who does much more in protecting the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized. As to Trump push back name me something she did beyond attaching her name to suits written and championed by AG’s in other states?
Did she or did she not go after our corrupt State Auditor?
Did she or did she not stop BHL from throwing away yet more millions of dollars?
Plus, you have NO IDEA whether she just ‘attached her name’ to the lawsuits.
Of all the elected officials to go after, Jennings would be at the bottom of the list.
We have different lists and actually I do have a pretty good idea and a campaign based on facts will bring that out. By the way I vote Beau. What happened when we allowed the last guy in high office from DE toddle past his expiration date? I will go with young and vigorous and for me that’s Dwayne Bensing.
The Absentee AG? Had a great last name, though.
At least back then…