trump Violating Humanity

As feared, trump and his lackeys aren't respecting the courts. They're still shipping people overseas (via Ximena Bustillo and Jasmine Garsd at NPR):

A federal judge on Wednesday said the Trump administration violated his court order to not deport migrants to countries where they have no ties without giving them sufficient due process to contest their removals.

Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts said the Department of Homeland Security's rapid removal of eight migrants abroad went against his April preliminary injunction preventing such deportations. Lawyers for at least one of the men on board say the flight landed in South Sudan; the government hasn't disclosed the destination, saying it's classified.

Murphy left open the possibility of holding the government in contempt for a criminal obstruction in the future.

Sending migrants to South Sudan is a deliberate attempt by trump and cohort to mock the orders, as it's a place still overwhelmed by civil war and violence. And they're doubling down on the slander and accusations towards migrants as "vicious criminals":

The Trump administration earlier doubled down on its decision to send migrants to countries that aren't their own following a legal challenge. It has aimed to use third-country destinations to remove individuals that cannot be sent back to their home countries for a variety of reasons.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the people on the flight out of the U.S. had been convicted of crimes in the United States and that ICE was not able to return them to their home countries.

"We found a nation who was willing to take custody of these vicious illegal aliens," said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, about the Asian men on the flight. "Now, a local judge in Massachusetts is trying to force the United States to bring back these uniquely barbaric monsters who present a clear and present threat to the safety of the American people and American victims."

It's a broad and horrifying brush trump's people are using, even as more disciplined organizations like the Cato Institute are doing their own research and finding a sizable number of these deported migrants were law-abiding and didn't break any immigration laws. McLaughlin, trump, Stephen Miller, all of them are attacking these people with the most vile accusations without specific proofs or cases to back such claims.

trump's been out there defaming Kilmar Abrego Garcia - who at least has been confirmed still alive, but shipped over to another El Salvadoran prison - and yet refusing to obey court orders to have Abrego Garcia brought back, denying the man the opportunity of due process to contest trump's accusations and retain his legal status.

Our government is lying to us, lying to themselves, all to persecute immigrants - even the ones here legally - out of a racist agenda that has a nasty history of destroying everything it touches.

And this will all get worse before we even see an inkling of sanity and justice to restore our better angels. /rage