Here’s a story by Nick Valencia about just one of tens of thousands of people who are being abducted by the government and essentially disappeared.
— On September 16, newlyweds Tucker and Barbara May walked into the downtown Los Angeles federal building believing they were there for her green card interview.
Married this spring, they had followed every rule, filed every form, and spent every dollar to prove their marriage was real.
But their interview was a trap.
“It was never going to be an interview,” he told Nick Valencia News. “It was always a setup.”
Not only was she lured there, her husband said, once inside ICE agents separated her from her lawyer with the excuse of a broken copier. Then, they put her in handcuffs.
“One officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried,” he added.
By Saturday night, Tucker didn’t know where his wife was.
They sent her to a detention center and was told “we don’t care” when she told them she that a habeas petition and a temporary restraining order had been filed. The facility withheld the legal documents her lawyer had sent which were required to re-open her case until she had already been shipped out to an unknown location.
At every stage, the process her husband described has been calibrated not for justice but for delay—for erasing options, running out the clock, and breaking faith.
“These are abductions,” Tucker said flatly.
The government says that she missed an immigration hearing she was never told about. The government has produced no proof that they ever tried to notify her.
As the article points out, the business model for these detention centers is to have bodies kept there as long as possible. We knew that was the case didn’t we?
There was a time when the whole country was up in arms about family separations, remember? Apparently it’s just not a big story anymore. This man had to beg for a member of the press to write about it and Nick Valencia is the only one who did. I guess the fact that we’re a fascist state just isn’t big news anymore.