US appeals court upholds block on Trump deportation of some Venezuelans

Denver judge blocks Trump deportations of accused Venezuelan gang members to prison in El Salvador

Government attorneys argued that blocking deportations of accused Tren de Aragua members would usurp Trump’s authority on foreign policy

Trump Targets Migrants amid Human Trafficking Allegation

Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, and invoked 18th-century war powers to justify these actions.

Trump's Lawless Deportation Machine Disappears Immigrants into Blacksite Hellhole

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump kidnapped hundreds of Venezuelan men on March 15, spiriting them away to a black site hellhole outside the reach of due process, habeas corpus, and American justice. Accusing the victims, without evidence, of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang and invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, ICE forced the men onto three airplanes, flew them to El Salvador, and dumped them into CECOT prison — …

Trump administration's appeal of a temporary restraining order preventing DOGE access to Social Security data is denied

The Trump administration's appeal of a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE access to personal Social Security data has been denied.

Musk's 'illegal' meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday accused billionaire Elon Musk of sabotaging her constituents' access to their Social Security benefits.Writing on BlueSky, Warren revealed that she's been "hearing from Social Security recipients in MA who’ve been marked as 'not currently receiving payments,' on the Social Security website" despite the fact that they have never been marked as such in the past."Social Security is something you are legally…

Why DOGE needs write access to the Social Security database

This is my shortest journal ever. If you want to find fraud, you only need read access. If you want to create fraud, you need write access.