An overview and some important updates to the legal challenges to Trump’s decision to send 238 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison three months ago.
It gets worse. Announcing the "termination notices" sent to the 532,000 individuals allowed into the US under President Biden’s parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said:
"The Biden Administration lied to America. They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed. Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First."
As I feared, the Supreme Court’s endorsement, on May 31, of Trump’s bid to cancel the humanitarian parole program introduced by the Biden administration, which granted permission for 532,000 eligible migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US on a two-year stay, has been followed up by the administration, which has sent the following message to all of them: “This notice informs you that your parole is now terminated. If you do not leave, you may be subject to enforcement actions, including but not limited to detention and removal, without an opportunity to make personal arrangements and return to your country in an orderly manner.” https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/migrants-cuba-venezuela-haiti-nicaragua
The law is under a lot of pressure because the opposition party is often in collusion with the Orange rapist, 1/3rd of who this week voted to commend ICE for bravery in LA. Hope Boasberg can keep his job. Maybe Noem will send Padilla to CECOT and then they’ll get around to abolish ICE. Great discussion on Beanfield and greed out of control, the highlight of Reagen. The counterculture in the U.S. was completely co-opted by the 80s, Hedges writes it in Death Of The Liberal Class.
Thanks also for listening to my interview about the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, and the decades since. The more time passes, the more I realize how vibrant so much of the counter-culture was in the UK throughout the 80s and into the 90s (until Blair, really, although even then we had the massive anti-globalization movement), although none of it, sadly, was sufficient to push back adequately against the remorseless juggernaut of a society based solely on greed, and the atomization and material enslavement of the people.
It gets worse. Announcing the "termination notices" sent to the 532,000 individuals allowed into the US under President Biden’s parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said:
"The Biden Administration lied to America. They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed. Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First."
As I feared, the Supreme Court’s endorsement, on May 31, of Trump’s bid to cancel the humanitarian parole program introduced by the Biden administration, which granted permission for 532,000 eligible migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US on a two-year stay, has been followed up by the administration, which has sent the following message to all of them: “This notice informs you that your parole is now terminated. If you do not leave, you may be subject to enforcement actions, including but not limited to detention and removal, without an opportunity to make personal arrangements and return to your country in an orderly manner.” https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/migrants-cuba-venezuela-haiti-nicaragua
The law is under a lot of pressure because the opposition party is often in collusion with the Orange rapist, 1/3rd of who this week voted to commend ICE for bravery in LA. Hope Boasberg can keep his job. Maybe Noem will send Padilla to CECOT and then they’ll get around to abolish ICE. Great discussion on Beanfield and greed out of control, the highlight of Reagen. The counterculture in the U.S. was completely co-opted by the 80s, Hedges writes it in Death Of The Liberal Class.
Yes, I saw that 75 Democrats voted for the House resolution expressing "gratitude" for the work of ICE and other law enforcement personnel, although there does also seem to have been a backlash: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-ice-gratitude-resolution-backlash-2084004
And NBC News reports here on a tense Congressional hearing, in which three Democratic governors fought back against a Republican assault: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-spar-democratic-governors-tense-immigration-hearing-rcna212324
Thanks also for listening to my interview about the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, and the decades since. The more time passes, the more I realize how vibrant so much of the counter-culture was in the UK throughout the 80s and into the 90s (until Blair, really, although even then we had the massive anti-globalization movement), although none of it, sadly, was sufficient to push back adequately against the remorseless juggernaut of a society based solely on greed, and the atomization and material enslavement of the people.