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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"These Are Abductions"
https://digbysblog.net/2025/09/29/these-are-abductions/These Are Abductions
Published by digby on September 29, 2025

Heres a story by Nick Valencia about just one of tens of thousands of people who are being abducted by the government and essentially disappeared.
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They sent her to a detention center and was told we dont 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 delayfor erasing options, running out the clock, and breaking faith.
These are abductions, Tucker said flatly.
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 didnt we?
There was a time when the whole country was up in arms about family separations, remember? Apparently its 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 were a fascist state just isnt big news anymore.
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"These Are Abductions" (Original Post)
babylonsister
Monday
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Permanut
(7,588 posts)1. They're being reported in the local media as "arrests".
tulipsandroses
(7,970 posts)2. Its sickening. I've been in a funk for a few days after watching a father literally being ripped away from the arms of
his children. Children crying being held back by masked agents while they take their crying dad away. It was reminiscent of a scene that I had seen only in old Holocaust movies. Hard to believe it is happening here. These are not violent criminals. I keep waiting to hear this administration brag abut taking down a drug gang. A violent gang that is creating havoc in a neighborhood. Instead I see scenes of crying children traumatized watching their dad taken away.