And please note, we're all unhappy before she's been pardoned. If he pardons her, the wratch he will face will be like nothing he's ever experienced before.
This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot" for Tuesday:
Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Donald Chump disgraces the nation overseas, he floats pardoning his friend the convicted pedophile and sex trafficker, the Justice Dept can meet with Maxwell but not with her victims, Chump's cruelty towards the victims of assault is the same cruelty he aims at immigrants, and much more.
Epstein and Maxwell's survivors aren't being protected by Chump. Their attacker is. That's who Chump identifies with. Here's Tara Palmeri speaking with survivors Maria and Annie Farmer.
Horror stories. In Houston, US citizen Miguel Angel Ponce Jr. is attempting to drive from his home to work when ICE assaults him.
"He says, 'I need to see your ID.' I gave him the ID. When I went back down, he said, 'Get out of the car,'" Ponce said.
"For what?" Ponce said he asked. "'Get out.'"
He says officers then handcuffed him and took him away.
"I pretty much felt kidnapped. [They] told me I have a deportation order, put me in handcuffs, took me to another location. I couldn't call my wife — locked up in the back seat."
Despite showing his ID and insisting he was born in the U.S., Ponce says the officers continued to insist he was someone with immigration violations.
"[He] said, 'You've had an encounter with ICE.' I said, 'No, I've never...' At that point, he slapped handcuffs on me. They're like, 'You have an order of deportation.' That is crazy — because I was born here. I was born in College Station. 'No, you're the one I'm looking for.'"
Mistakes happen? Mistakes happen a lot with ICE and that's because (a) they don't know their job and (b) they don't know the law -- which is also part of their job. Bonuses are being handed out to ICE but, note, no ICE agent's getting in trouble for breaking the law. They're given immunity by Chump. They're basically the gestapo. Margaret Kadifa (MOTHER JONES) reports another horror story:
Three asylum seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired.
They’re the latest in a series of ICE actions, where over 30 immigrants have been arrested by federal agents while leaving San Francisco immigration court, at 100 Montgomery Street or 630 Sansome Street—which also has an ICE field office and is where Thursday’s arrests took place.
After a Department of Homeland Security attorney on Thursday moved to dismiss the case of the man, a strategy federal attorneys have recently been using to make asylum seekers easier to remove, immigration judge Patrick O’Brien raised doubts over his mental ability, saying, “it’s obvious to me that there are competency issues.”
The man—who was only fluent in Mam, a Mayan language primarily spoken in Guatemala—had been muttering to himself throughout the morning, O’Brien said.
Later in court, the man was unable to tell O’Brien his address. O’Brien even asked the man at one point if he was on medication.
There appear to be competency issues beyond just a language barrier, O’Brien said. (After a few hours of requesting one, the court had been able to find a remote Mam interpreter to help with the man’s hearing.)
O’Brien then proceeded to ask the Department of Homeland Security attorney for a continuance of the case, rather than a dismissal, due to the man’s possible mental incompetence. The man needed time to find a lawyer and other support, O’Brien said. “He’s clearly not understanding the questions,” O’Brien said. “Is this someone the department really wants to move to dismiss a motion to appear on?”
The DHS attorney agreed, and allowed for a continuance of the case, which essentially means the man will come back for another hearing in a few months. The DHS attorney said she could “renew” the motion to dismiss another time.
But as the man left the hearing room, Mission Local observed about five ICE officers stopping the man and then leading him out a side door. The man’s arrest was the third over the course of three hours Thursday morning.
Arrested on the way out of the court house? It's happening over and over across the country. And heartless trash like US House Rep Nancy Mace get off watching videos of it. Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Nancy Meets A Stranger" went up yesterday.
Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Nancy Meets A Stranger." Jesus approaches US House Rep Nancy Mace and counsels, "Glee over someone being deported isn't very Christian." Nancy, apparently ignorant of the teachings of Jesus as well as Jesus himself, barks, "F**k you, hippie. Get out of my way or I'll lie on the House floor that you assaulted me." Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS.
She is the Nazi pride in the US as she brags about getting off on watching videos of immigrants reporting to courts for hearings and then, as they leave the hearings, being kidnapped by ICE.
This is apparently the sort of thing that allows the unmarried and unloved Nancy Mace to get off during her endless string of lonely nights, Alexandra Villarreal (GUARDIAN) reports:
Jerome traveled a thousand miles from California to El Paso, Texas, so he could accompany Jenny to her immigration hearing. He and his wife had promised to take her after she had fled Cuba last December, after the government there had targeted her because she had reported on the country’s deplorable conditions for her college radio station.
Everything should have been fine. Jenny, 25, had entered the United States legally under one of Joe Biden’s now-defunct programs, CBP One. By the end of the year, she could apply for a green card.
But a few days before her hearing, Jerome started to feel like something was off. Jenny’s court date had been abruptly moved from May to June with no explanation. Arrests at immigration courthouses peppered the news.
And when Jenny went before the court, the government attorney assigned to try to deport her asked the judge to dismiss her case, arguing vaguely that circumstances had changed.
Instead, the judge noted that Jenny was pursuing an asylum claim and scheduled her for another court date in August 2026 – the best possible outcome.
“She turned around and looked at me and smiled. And I smiled back, because she understood that she was free to go home,” Jerome said.
But as Jenny left the courtroom and approached the elevator to leave, a crowd of government agents in masks converged on her and demanded she go with them. Just before she disappeared down a corridor with the phalanx of officers, she turned back to look at Jerome, her face stricken, silently pleading with him to do something.
“I said, ‘She’s legal. She’s here legally. And you guys just don’t care, do you? Nobody cares about this. You guys just like pulling people away like this,’” Jerome recalled telling the agents. “And nobody said a word. They couldn’t even look me in the eye,” he told the Guardian.
No, they couldn't look anyone in the eye. They're cowards who are breaking the law and they live in shame so they hide behind masks. PASADENA NOW covers yet another one:
Federal immigration officials have detained the husband of Huntington Hospital’s Chief of Medical Staff in downtown Los Angeles, where he has allegedly endured nearly two weeks of harsh treatment and insufficient medical care, according to a civil rights group’s statement released Thursday evening.
Tunisian immigrant Rami Othmane was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 13 while driving to a grocery store, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said. His wife, Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, who oversees more than 1,000 physicians associated with Huntington Hospital, claims immigration officers blocked her husband’s car, did not present a warrant, and failed to identify themselves during the encounter.
Othmane suffers from chronic pain and an untreated tumor and is reportedly being held under inhumane conditions at a federal facility in downtown Los Angeles, NDLON said.
“He is not a criminal,” Alrashid was quoted in the group’s statement as saying. “He is a kind, peaceful man with an open immigration petition. He should be with his family, not sleeping on a concrete floor without medical care.”
The family filed an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative on June 12, initiating a legal pathway toward permanent residency. The petition remains pending, according to the advocacy group.
Jasmine Mendez (LOS ANGELES TIMES) adds:
Rami Othmane was held July 13 while driving to the grocery store. His wife, Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, said agents blocked Othmane’s car and did not identify themselves or present a warrant before detaining him.
Alrashid, chief of medical staff at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, was on FaceTime with her husband during the incident. The couple married on March 5, 2024, and filed an I-130 petition last month to qualify their relationship status to obtain Orthmane’s green card.
[. . .]
“This is not just an immigration issue — this is a human rights crisis,” Alrashid said in a statement. “My husband has been subjected to 12 days of inhumane treatment in a federal building. He is not a criminal. He is a kind, peaceful man with an open immigration petition.”
Remember when the big lie was told that only violent criminals would be targeted? Alicia Victoria Lozano (NBC NEWS) notes:
Immigration officials have been repeatedly spotted outside a Hollywood homeless shelter since May, leading staff to accompany residents from war-torn countries to work, errands and court.
An executive at the shelter that serves people ages 18 to 24 said she saw two Venezuelan men handcuffed and arrested by ICE agents after they returned to the shelter from work.
“There was no conversation,” said the employee, Lailanie, who asked that her last name not be used because she feared retribution from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
She said about half a dozen immigration officers went up to the residents “and put their hands behind their backs right away.”
Homeless shelters appear to be another target in the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown, which has resulted in nearly 3,000 arrests in the Los Angeles area. They now join Home Depots, 7-Elevens and cannabis farms as locations where the federal government is carrying out its mass deportation effort.
In addition to the Hollywood shelter, service providers have reported seeing immigration enforcement at shelters in North Hollywood and San Diego, according to local media.
Chump Land is one horror story after another. And it's tanking him in the polls. Diamond Walker and Valentina Palm (PALM BEACH POST) report:
Kenny Laynez's cellphone camera captured every undocumented immigrant’s nightmare on video when it happened to him on the morning of May 2. One problem: He is a U.S. citizen. Here's more to know about what happened.
Kenny Laynez, a U.S. citizen, was driving with his mother and coworkers to their landscaping jobs when they were pulled over on Singer Island by Florida Highway Patrol and Border Patrol agents. Officers dragged them from the car, grabbing necks, twisting arms, using a Taser, and later joked about raises and promotions.
Laynez, who was born and raised in West Palm Beach, was held for six hours at a federal facility in Riviera Beach before being released. His mom, who is Guatemalan and has legal status in this country, was not detained. His coworkers were taken to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and later released on bail.
“I have rights. I was born and raised here," Laynez told the officers, according to a copy of the video shared by the Guatemalan-Maya Center of Lake Worth Beach.
"You don’t have any rights here. You are a ‘Migo,’ brother,” said the officer, who hurried him into a van. "Migo" is short for "amigo," the Spanish word for "friend, " an apparent reference to Laynez's ethnicity.
A virtual hearing in federal court in Miami was being held Monday on a lawsuit that was filed July 16. A new motion on the case was filed Friday.
Lawyers who have shown up for bond hearings for “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been told that the immigration court doesn't have jurisdiction over their clients, the attorneys wrote in court papers. The immigration attorneys demanded that federal and state officials identify an immigration court that has jurisdiction over the detainees and start accepting petitions for bond, claiming the detainees constitutional rights to due process are being violated.
“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” the immigration attorneys wrote. “This is an unprecedented and disturbing situation.”
Detainees who have managed to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers report appalling conditions. Insufficient and contaminated water. Inadequate, spoiled food. Ignored requests for medical care. Swarms of mosquitoes. Unbearably hot tents that leak when it rains. Severe overcrowding. Facility personnel who berate and threaten them. We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.
This is what happens when detainees are seen as dollar signs. In our book, Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants, we follow the money that coalesces around detention in the United States. Countless companies, state and local governments, and communities are tangled up in the economic webs tied to incarcerating migrants. These entities make money by starving, sickening, and exploiting detained migrants. The less they provide, the bigger their profits.
***PHOTOS COURTESY OF CUONG VAN HUYNH AVAILABLE HERE***
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement calling for longtime Seattle area resident Cuong Van Huynh to be allowed to remain in the United States ahead of an immigration check-in, joining a chorus of public statements in support, including from Teamsters Local 117 and MLK Labor:
“Cuong Van Huynh is a hardworking and esteemed member of the Seattle and King County community. Here’s what I know from Van and the people who love him: He works full-time at Swire Coca-Cola and also runs a beloved Banh Mi and chicken wings shop, Honey Bear, with his wife in Federal Way. Van works overtime to support his two sons who are in college studying aerospace engineering and business. He often engages in charitable works across the community and truly embodies the American dream.
“Van came to America as a refugee from Vietnam in 1984. Van was convicted back in 2006 for attempting to purchase marijuana—since then, he has made tremendous contributions to our community. It is beyond wrong to deport a man with an American wife and two American children for trying to purchase marijuana nearly two decades ago, a substance that has now been legalized in Washington state.
“I am joining local unions and community members in calling on the Trump administration to allow Van to remain here in America, his home, with his family. Seattle and King County are better off thanks to Van, his hard work, the family he’s raised here, and the community he’s built. I hope the entire community will join me in standing with Van. This man is a pillar of our community, and he should not be torn away from his family and his home after 40 years.”
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