Showing posts with label Aurora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aurora. Show all posts

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Mass deportations: Colorado is ground zero for Operation Aurora.constantly updated.to 5/15/2025

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado offers legal assistance and educational resources for people detained by ICE. You can contact the ACLU of Colorado by phone, email, or letter. 
How to contact the ACLU of Colorado 
  • Phone(303) 777-5482
2/7/2025 Raids resumed and now separating families inAurora and Denver. Recommended for those detained: a lawyer.  ACLU is providing assistance.

To report ICE activities in your area, https://coloradoimmigrant.org/get-involved/

To REPORT RECENT ICE ACTIVITY OR POLICE/ICE COLLABORATION, CALL OUR HOTLINE 844-864-8341

Call our bilingual hotline, open 24/7, if you witness ICE activity, or if you want to document a past experience with ICE.


https://www.skyhinews.com/news/as-ice-rumors-spread-through-the-community-grand-county-officials-clarify-that-they-dont-play-a-part-in-federal-immigration-activities/

1/29/2025 upWhat's next for people who were detained in Colorado by federal agents? | Watchdate:  the raid was called off late 1/29 due to "leaks from the media". Leak, heck. All the information came out of the administration's mouths.  They were trumpeting their plans, naming federal agencies cooperating to the world. When they execute their plans, we should assume it will be more of a surprise.  https://www.cpr.org/2025/01/29/aurora-immigration-raid-postponed/

1 30 2025 update: Aurora wll be the  Trump national target for mass deportations. as he has promised. Per media reports Trump is enlisting the federal cyber security agency, to track down their targets. So far, more than those with criminal records have been caught up in these actions in Chicago and in a smaller raid in Aurora on Day One. 
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Pay careful attention to this: the racist, anti-immigration, mass deportation thrust of the Trump administration will be Colorado. They are naming their plans of mass deportation for the whole nation after Aurora, Colorado. https://www.denverpost.com/2024/11/07/colorado-immigrants-deportations-trump-operation-aurora/If the Trumpists succeed in little Colorado, they can use their court victories to take on California with millions of undocumented families with mixed status. We are Trump's test case and Colorado is ground zero. Per an interview in Bloomberg in October, Gov. Polis estimated 10% of the Colorado workforce is undocumented. While he welcomed deporting criminal elements in Colorado, the problem is what happens if the federal government goes beyond that and goes after the law-abiding workforce. The governor has control over the use of the Colorado National Guard to carry out mass deportations. The Colorado attorney general will also stop that when he can by filing many court cases, per his interview on MSNBC The Reidout last night. If those lower court cases succeed, the appeal will be to the US Supreme Court, also now under the control of Trump. However, in the past, when this was tried when Trump was the last president, the court upheld Colorado's state rights. That was then; what it will do in 2024-2028 is unknown. No doubt, given what Trump's priorities are, these legal cases will be decided quickly.

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/trump-challenges-10th-amendment-by.html by threatening state and local officials who refuse to go along with his demands and conditions.

All of this may take time, so the effect will not be immediate, and Trump will not be sworn in until late January. There is not enough money in the federal budget to ever deport every undocumented, and it will take time to construct deportation camps. The federal enforcement agencies will have to set priorities based on personnel and money they can raise in Congress. After that, only money and personnel will limit who and how many will be found by other methods. Colorado will be a priority. The whole Trump national mass deportation effort is named Operation Aurora.

Arresting and deporting undocumented with criminal records will be more immediate. The rest will depend on how many federal law enforcers there are and the budget and money Congress funds. Raids on places of work, will be sooner than later. Colorado, the target and the legal fight our state is promising to take, will also be a slower process. Trump's control of the Supreme Court may depend on how far the Trump appointees on the Court are willing to go on the issue of states' rights. Trump also may invoke emergency powers to short cut all of the court actions. It was done when Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps in World War II.
The real danger to resorts like ours will be raids on places of work to ferret out not only criminals but any undocumented workers, no matter how law-abiding. If their families have undocumented people, expect trouble. This will be a heartless family separation permitted attempt. Tears will not help.
Tools to resist individual cases: The burden will be on the American Civil Liberties Union to provide legal help, and the best they can do is hope due process, illegal imprisonment arguments, and states' rights will help. From what I know, the Trump plan is to try to place those who do not have documents into concentration camps as their status is challenged by lawyers. How about green card holders: keep them and any documents showing legal status (birth certificates if born here) with you at all times. Be aware there will be a movement by Trumpists in Congress to reverse green card status and to deport green card holders as well, but whether that passes into law will take some time and may fail due to the opposition of business interests who have valuable green card holders as employees. Also, slowing down the Trump plans, the whole mass deportation effort will suffer from the lack of federal personnel, but with Colorado the main target, we are a focus and a priority. Their efforts will not be just for any undocumented person with criminal records. It will also be an undocumented person who cannot prove status. including separating families with mixed status. If any family members become a target for mass deportation, a private organization, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) can attempt to provide legal help to individuals, but they also have limited resources, and there is no guarantee they will take every case or that it will succeed. There are some helpful resources named in the Denver Post article.
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/11/07/colorado-immigrants-deportations-trump-operation-aurora/
https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/immigrant-advocates-colorado-leaders-react-to-president-elect-donald-trumps-push-for-mass-deportation

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4979992-donald-trump-mass-deportations-obstacles-former-ice-official/ This ts he best I could find in google searches of articles without a paywall. Much has been written  

Excerpts translated to Spanish:
Arrestar y deportar a indocumentados con antecedentes penales será más inmediato. El resto dependerá de cuántos encargados de hacer cumplir la ley federal haya y del presupuesto y dinero que financie el Congreso. Las redadas en los lugares de trabajo se producirán más temprano que tarde. 
El verdadero peligro para centros turísticos como el nuestro serán las redadas en los lugares de trabajo para descubrir no sólo a los delincuentes sino también a los trabajadores indocumentados, sin importar cuán respetuosas sean las leyes. Si sus familias tienen personas indocumentadas, esperen problemas. Este será un intento despiadado de separación familiar permitido. Las lágrimas no ayudarán.
Herramientas para resistir casos individuales: Por lo que sé, el plan de Trump es intentar enviar a aquellos que no tienen documentos a campos de concentración, ya que su estatus es cuestionado por los abogados. ¿Qué pasa con los titulares de tarjetas verdes? Manténgalas consigo y cualquier documento que demuestre su estatus legal (actas de nacimiento si nació aquí) con usted en todo momento.  Además, al frenar los planes de Trump, todo el esfuerzo de deportación masiva se verá afectado por la falta de personal federal, pero con Colorado como el objetivo principal, somos un foco y una prioridad. Sus esfuerzos no serán sólo para cualquier persona indocumentada con antecedentes penales. También será una persona indocumentada que no pueda acreditar su estatus. incluyendo la separación de familias con estatus mixto.  Hay algunos recursos útiles mencionados en el artículo del Denver Post.
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/11/07/colorado-immigrants-deportations-trump-operation-aurora/
For help in Spanish: Recursos para migrantes y refugiados – 2-1-1 Colorado
Appeals court rules US can deport illegal immigrants despite local objections in win for incoming Trump admin


Thursday, September 12, 2024

Trump's biggest fibs September 10 build his foundation on sand.

Gullibles' travails.  Eventually, one can only hope outright Trump lies will catch up with the con man. Maybe also, there is something else at work, even if Trump lies. For MAGA, facts are irrelevant. Trump channels his followers' racial rage/ white nationalism/anti-immigrants, misogyny, and self-interest of pro-business segments with low regulation and taxes that appeal more than those who know better and don't care about facts and the end of democracy. This is really dangerous to the foundtation of this country. Trump's lies ignored are like building a house on sand. If the gullible prevails, eventually, the foundation crumbles and collapses when, unfortunately, it is too late to repair the damage.  

(Update 9 16 24.  In defense of the Springfield Haitian dog-eating hoax he had promoted, GOP VP candidate JD Vance said, "It is OK to make stories up to get media attention" because Harris was getting a free ride from the press.  https://www.thhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrantseguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrants.  How very sad that Trump and Vance depend on the gullibility of their most loyal base, who they hope are as easily manipulated and fooled by their lies as they think. )

Aurora, Colorado mayor admits he overstated Venezuelan gang problem in Aurora, Colorado. https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/09/11/aurora-venezuelan-gang-arrests-mike-coffman-danielle-jurinsky

"Migrant crime" is now Trump's shorthand for his anti-immigrant fear and hate platform.  Aside from the substance of the crazy conspiracy theory of Haitians eating family pets in Springfield, Ohio, this is Trump's big dog whistle to the racists and those wanting to get rid of immigrants who are "adulterating our blood."  The pet story excrement was debunked in real-time by the moderators and later by fact-checkers. Trump hit two of his platform planks in one blow: immigrant hatred and fear of black people.

In any case, fact-checkers had a field day on the September 10 debate. It was rich pickings. Looking at the various fact-checking, here are the biggest fibs Trump told in the September debate, and they are fundamental to his pitch to the gullible and others with its racism/immigration, lues about the economy and prices, energy/oil, and national security/male superiority/misogyny.  

Trump's pitch ever since 2016 is that immigrants are bringing crime and are responsible for a crime surge. Fact check: 1) The rate of crime was worse under Trump than now.  2) Illegal immigrants' crime rate is well below the rate for American-born (probably because they do not want to be sent back to what they fled if they get caught). 3) It also appeared to some viewers as a surprise that Trump killed the bi-partisan funding bill this spring, which would have funded more border guards and immigration judges, fentanyl detection equipment, and more of the wall so his supporters' anger about immigration could last through Nov. 5 . 4) Illegal border crossing volume now are lower than  Trump's at the end of his presidency.More on the subject below. Update 9 13 24: More Trump lying BS on immigrants and Venezuelan gangs:  Colorado mayor, police respond to Trump's claims that Venezuelan gang is 'taking over' (msn.com)  

Ukraine and national security: Trump, US taxpayers are losers because we are paying for this war while Europe gets a free ride (paraphrased). 1)Europe's contribution as a whole is nearly two times the US's. Putin's next victim if he is not stopped in Ukraine is Poland. Clever Harris: 800,000 Polish-related Pennsylvania voters in a critical swing state. 2) Misogyny: Harris is a woman, therefore de facto weak. The latter is not a fact-based response. It was the best line of the debate from Harris, given Trump's ego-driven personality flaw making him vulnerable to manipulation and flattery: " Putin will eat you for lunch. " Hawks like Dick Cheney and lists of national security advisors and retired generals are supporting Harris. She's got the cajones.

The big lie: Trump: no," I was just being sarcastic when I admitted I lost the 2020 election by a whisker." This was fact-checked as false by the moderator in real-time in the debate broadcast. Trump was not being sarcastic. It was enough to tick off January 6 mob leader Nick Fuentes, who thought he was a patriot.  So the Big Lie was really a big lie, underlying GOP efforts to keep adversaries from voting with any number of suppression methods and intimidation, including violence and threats by Trump to throw election officials, adversaries of all kinds, in jail if he wins.

Women's health: Trump: babies killed after birth by Roe v Wade. Nope. That's murder anywhere. This is Harris's 100-pound gorilla pitch impact: "The government should not tell women what to do about their own health and bodies, and they can still keep their own personal beliefs." Harris just wants to restore Roe v Wade, which we had for 50 years, and Trump's Court appointees tanked. She would sign that legislation like Roe  Wade sent by Congress. Trump's abortion bans in one-third of our states kill women, cause needless suffering, or make them infertile for lack of medical care in a miscarriage. In the debate, Trump weaseled out of answering (it's a state's rights thing) whether he would sign a nationwide abortion ban, probably because he would lose a large portion of his followers if he said he would not sign a federal ban. On ban details, he changed his position at least four times since March.

Economy and inflation: Trump paraphrased:"Economy: sucks, and I Trump will fix it". Reality check: Yes, grocery prices are too high, but gas at the pump has fallen to more tolerable levels. The inflation rate is now the lowest in three years...under 3%, near normal. Trump keeps hyping his  grievance, with no fix, and even a plan to make inflation worse. However he appeals to an unstated fantasy coddled by low-information voters that he will get them back to nearer pre-COVID prices. Heard on TV from COVID amnesiacs, "I liked the economy better under Trump, so he will do a better job. " With no plan, no how to do it? Keep the faith, MAGA. By the way, wages are up higher than price increases and Harris wants a nationwide minimum wage of $15/hr.  Was the post-COVID -inflation spike all Biden's fault? Nope and nope. Pent-up demand and the supply chain slow gearing up post-COVID equaled too much pent-up demand for too little supply.  Harris has a plan for helping middle-class living be more affordable while inflation rates. Harris's plan will prosecute gougers, deny monopoly price setting, flood the market with cheaper housing that is affordable for first-time buyers and renters, and make health care even cheaper by battling big pharma and financial relief for new parents.


Women's health: Trump: babies killed after birth by Roe v Wade. Nope. That's murder anywhere. This is Harris's 100-pound gorilla pitch impact: "The government should not tell women what to do about their own health and bodies, and they can still keep their own personal beliefs." Harris just wants to restore Roe v Wade, which we had for 50 years, and Trump's Court appointees tanked. Harris would sign that legislation sent by Congress. Trump's abortion bans in one-third of our states kill women, cause needless suffering, or make them infertile for lack of medical care in a miscarriage. In the debate, Trump weaseled out of answering (it's a state's rights thing) whether he would sign a nationwide abortion ban, probably because he would lose a large portion of his followers if he said he would not sign a federal ban. On ban details, he changed his position at least four times since March.https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/trump-has-only-concepts-of-a-plan-to-replace-aca-harris-vows-to-expand-health-law/

Obamacare: Trump tried to kill it.  Has only "concepts' to replace, but one concept is to return to a failed attempts to put all of those with pre-existing conditions put in one pool. It had failed before in som many states where that was tried was the reason Obamacare came to being.  It has to do with an actuarial pool that was so narrow and and so hard to qualify for it failed. The costs required either huge subsidies or raise the premiums so no one could afford to pay them. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-house-trumpcare-bill-could-be.html


Economy matters and deserves some more details: 

1)The rate of annual price increases (inflation)  is now below 3%, the lowest in 3 years,  and near the historical normal. The bleeding has stopped, but we are stuck with past inflationary prices. That hurts. On average, the good news is wage increases have been more than inflation increases, with Harris bucking for the $15 minimum.. Everyone who wants a job has one with the lowest unemployment rate in 54 years. The Fed is predicted to lower interest rates this month since inflation is licked. 

2)Trump's proposed solution to fund the government (so he can continue to give a tax break to the very rich and keep the rest of us quiet): 10 to 20% on all imports with tariffs. Tariffs are like sales taxes, paid for by importers themselves (not their governments), who raise prices to cover added costs, and the prices are like a rising tide that raises all boats in the entire marketplace while boosting deficit/debt. Nearly all big-time economists agree.

 3) Oil and energy prices at the pump are dramatically down to less than a buck more than in the old days as crude oil has enough supply on hand and unused leases to provide oil for the next 40 years...so drill baby drill makes the unnecessary useless.  Natural gas? Enough forever. 

4) Harris opposed fracking natural gas? Give me a break. Trump, please update this before lying again. She evolved years ago and does not oppose it now. Her energy policy is all of the above, a combination of renewables and traditional sources.  

5) Obamacare? Trump only has a "concept" to improve and/or replace Obamacare (used by over 16  million people), his same old empty promise since 2016. Where's the beef? Next to women's health, this may be the largest sleeper gorilla infecting Trump's hoped-for voter support. 

I mostly drew on ABC and CNN fact-checking post-debate on September 10 and many recent posts on my blogspot. Key word the blog to search sources and posts on my blog.

New sources not cited on my  blog before:

 Ukraine      https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/europe-has-a-long-way-to-go-to-replace-us-aid-large-gap-between-commitments-and-allocations/   Commitments and actual expenses by Europe are much more than the US's...but not sufficient as a replacement for US assistance. They still need us

.News: Unemployment is at its Lowest Level in 54 years | U.S. Department of Commerce

When the bi-partisn immigration bill was killed by Trump, Biden issued some executive orders.Border crossings are lower now under Biden than when Trump left office.  From:How do Biden, Trump's border policies compare? (newsnationnow.com)Yes, closing the border to all but manageable levels, given our current capacity, got the figures down.( But that is a half done job and subject to legal challenge and existing authorized expenditures.. Border guards are underfunded and understaffed.. Wall unfinished. Fentanyl detection machinery is unfunded. Biden's exec order can be challenged in court because it ignores the intent of federal immigration legislation to provide asylum to all those those qualifying under the law.) Per the article: "last month, Biden signed an executive order shutting down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters between ports of entry hits 2,500. According to several people familiar with the discussions, the border will reopen only once that number declines to 1,500...After Biden’s executive action went into effect at the southern border, he touted a drop in illegal immigration, saying encounters have gone down over 50% with levels lower than when Trump left office." July 2024.

Overtime pay: Project 2025 would make more workers exempt and deceptively, Trump would not tax overtime pay and tips.   Harris also would exempt tips from taxes, but would not exempt workers from overtime pay. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-warnings-from-democrats-about-project-2025-and-donald-trump

Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Natural Gas in the United States, Year-End 2022 (eia.gov)

Statement from President Joe Biden on Record ACA Enrollment Numbers | The White House






Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Update on immigration issues: Harris gains and Trump's BS exposed

Update 9 28 24 : There's a new sheriff coming to town: Harris on immigration: go to https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/harris-on-immigration-theres-new.html

Update 9 28 24  Aurora, Colorado is now a Trump hype of Venezuelan gangs taking over the city. That is the usual tactic of Trump: take a limited event and blow it up to apply to the whole.  Such has been the case in Aurora, Colorado.  The gang activity was limited to a few buildings. Gang members have already been arrested and charged and will likely be in jail  and then on their way back to Venezuela with their special protective status revoked.  That is the way it works. https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/09/11/aurora-venezuelan-gang-arrests-mike-coffman-danielle-jurinsky

Update 9/4/24: (Also reproduced as a separate posting)  Fear and loathing of all immigrants is key to Trump's campaign. However, it is based on factual BS.  The facts on the immigrant crime wave? There is not one.  https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-waveTrump sabotaged the only bipartisan bill to address it this past winter. Biden used what executive powers he had and cooperation by Mexico. The result was the lowest illegal crossing in 3 years. Catch and release is down 65%. We would have been on our way to even lower figures without Trump's wrecking the bill..  The executive orders Biden utilized face court challenges, but for now it has been effective and is still in effect. In addition, Mexico has cracked down on migrants, tripling their deportations.  Trump's campaign of fear and hatred of immigrants causing crime is debunked by statistics, ignored by  Trump's MAGA whose fuel is hatred of others unlike them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-crossings-us-mexico-border-june-2024

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/border-crossings-drop-biden-policy-00165055          

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mexico-stopping-three-times-as-many-migrants-as-last-year-rcna146821

Immigrants, as a whole, are less likely to commit violent crimes. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

Illegal immigrants are not more likely to commit violent crimes: in fact, the opposite is true: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wave

Will Biden's executive order survive a legal challenge? "Biden's proclamation leans on Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that lets a president limit entry of specific migrants if it is "detrimental" to national interest. Trump used the same provisions with his 2017 banning of people from Muslim-majority countries and a later policy barring asylum seekers that was ultimately struck down by courts. Biden administration officials insist the new proposal is very different, but that will likely do little to prevent expected lawsuits to stop it. The American Civil Liberties Union vowed to challenge the order in court. "It was illegal when Trump did it, and it is no less illegal now," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the organization's Immigrants’ Rights Project. "    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/04/texas-mexico-border-biden-immigration-asylum-policy.

A humane approach to immigration policy is the bi-partisan bill Trump killed because he wanted the issue to still be hot as he campaigns. There is also a possibility to contrast policies that may have a broader appeal to those who indeed want the border crisis to be handled, but not with the cruelty of Trump's plan.  What the bi-partisan bill lacks is Trump's plan to use the US Army to break up families with mixed status (an estimated 6.7 million families) and deport 20K total without documents, putting them in concentration camps waiting for deportation. 

Harris  needed to revive flagging Hispanic support of Democrats (Trump 46%; Biden was 40%) that was a reverse of past statistics and the left flank of Democrats uneasy with even the bi-partisan bill Trump killed. The first step is to attack Trump for killing the bi-partisan bill. which Harris just did. With illegal border crossings now equal to Trump's data as he left office, the Democrats have highlighted that update.  Harris has gained significant approval by Hispanics, but there is still more to do. https://www.semafor.com/article/09/03/2024/kamala-harris-poll-hispanic-voters-climate-healthcare The next could be to paint the Trump approach based on racism, hate, cruelty, and fear, while the bipartisan bill approach is both humane and effective. With many in the Latino community also resenting the flood of migrants at the border, the humane plan of Harris might have some appeal. Harris is following the old bit of wisdom: the best defense is a great offense. However, she still needs to reverse the loss of Hispanic voters...https://thehill.com/homenews/4801766-kamala-harris-donald-trump-border  

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

On yesterday's school shooting; it is a political issue and it should be

 On the shooting in Uvalde, Texas: Yes, this is a political issue, it should be because politicians can help fix it. Ban the sale of assault weapons and large magazines or whatever you call these weapons of war. Give school administrators the ability to intervene when the red flags are raised. . That speaks to how one gunman can kill masses of people. in a matter of minutes ...and whole classrooms and their teachers. It is also why arming teachers and police resource officers and law enforcement officers are outgunned and have to use war tactics to bring them down. We have banned the sale of combat weapons before. We can do it again. I am a gun owner, but .. I could be that grandmother in Buffalo, and the grandmother of yesterday's shooter. I am the mother of a teacher of an upper elementary teacher who herself is the mother of a survivor of a local school shooting, and both mother and daughter have spent a matter of years recovering from the mental health damage. Her daughter sheltered in a cloakroom closet for hours until her room was cleared..as the gunman took his life in the next classroom. He, a fellow student she knew well, did not have weapons of war, only a legally bought shotgun, but "only two died", not 10 nor 20.. The shooter had already been flagged as a potential threat by his school authorities, but they did nothing to prevent it. (The school district was successfully sued) I am the grandmother of a grandson, a 4th grader, who cowered under his desk for hours in a school near Sandy Hook. I live in two communities, one is urban and of which gave the name of infamy to Columbine and Aurora movie carnage. The other, rural community where shotguns are a matter of necessity, but hunting and protection from wildlife are not done by weapons of war. Each mass shooting becomes the blueprint for the next mass killer, and they learn how to become more deadly. Stop this insanity now.

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2022/heartbroken-colorado-officials-candidates-react-to-massacre-at-texas-elementary-school/article_03281f4c-dbcc-11ec-a4f1-b33a5486a4ff.html

Joe Biden on Uvalde, Texas school shooting: full speech (statesman.com)

Colorado, the birth mother of mass shootings, Columbine, Aurora theatre, and the most recent one in a Boulder supermarket, is where politicians have taken the responsibility to do something about it. What a contrast is Gov. Polis to Gov. Abbott of Texas. Abbott called his political opponent SOB for demanding he take action in the wake of Uvalde.. Polis signed precisely the kind of legislation Abbott refuses to support.
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