Anyone can be arrested and spurious grounds given to justify the decision.
It is very clear that in the case of the Venezuelans kidnapped in defiance of a court order and put in slave labor camps in El Salvador that most are not gang members, they are merely people who happen to have tattoos.
While you can loudly assert that the authorities must be correct, the authorities avoided having to justify their claims in court by rendering them to a third country. The court disagrees with your assessment.
This is a lawless administration acting in defiance of the US courts and constitution. You can try to ridicule people for pointing out the facts, but they are facts nevertheless.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM Tzadik Vanderhoof <tzadik.vanderhoof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is this perception of "risk" based on any evidence? What exactly are you "at risk" of happening to you? Can you point to any example of whatever you're afraid of having happened?I'm assuming you're neither a gang member nor an advocate for a terrorist organization. As far as I know, these are the only types of people that have been affected by any adverse actions, and the only thing that's happened, even to them, is removal from the US.I assumed we were a group of rational thinkers.On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 9:51 AM Andrew Alston <aa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I can say categorically that I will not risk going into the U.S. for the foreseeable future, despite holding a valid visa.Multiple individuals I have spoken to have echoed this sentiment - including people who have pulled out of events like nanog. The risk is just to great for a foreigner and the situation is to fluid to know what’s going to happen going forward.AndrewOn Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 16:22, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:People may be willing, but their families and their employers and the companies that insure their employers may well take a different view.StewartOn 20 Mar 2025, at 09:20, Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Willing and resolute people who understand the importance of supporting Ukrainians regularly take trains from neighboring countries.Anything else?Regards,GregOn Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:You wrote:I don't think we would have continued with a meeting in Kyiv had one been planned.Why do you think an IETF meeting would not happen if it were planned in Kyiv?Destruction of the main airport for a start.
