This Week's Resistance Wins Trump’s Trying To Bury: Maryland AG Halts His Deportation Machine, ICE Agents Confess Under Oath, and Workers Win Big In Court
Plus, a community stops a data center cold
The regime lost this week. In court, under oath, and in city halls from California to Maryland.
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JUDGE REFUSES TO SILENCE WORKERS
VA Secretary Doug Collins tried to terminate the union contract covering more than 320,000 VA workers. On Friday, a federal judge blocked that from happening.
US District Judge Melissa DuBose issued a preliminary injunction ordering Collins to reinstate the collective bargaining agreement. Nurses. Caretakers. Doctors.
The termination, Judge DuBose wrote, “seems substantially motivated by the Plaintiffs’ history and frequency of vocally opposing changes to labor policies.”
AFGE National President Everett Kelley said: “No one can retaliate against workers for standing up for their rights.”
The judge just proved him right.
DEPORTATION WAREHOUSE STOPPED COLD
On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked the regime from moving forward with its planned $215 million immigration detention warehouse in a small Maryland town.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown argued that DHS and ICE “disregarded federal law” to fast-track the project. There was no environmental review, no public comment, and no consultation with the state. The plan was to pack 1,500 people into a Williamsport warehouse.
“DHS purchased this facility while keeping the state and the public in the dark,” Brown said. “We will not let DHS and ICE rush through the proper legal process in their haste to ramp up deportations.”
The regime bought a warehouse and called it a detention center. Maryland fought back. Construction is stopped.
ICE IS LOSING IN COURT
ICE lied. They told the public there were no arrest quotas. Then Innovation Law Lab took them to court and forced them to testify under oath.
The truth came out—eight arrests per day per team. Warrantless. No probable cause. Just numbers to hit.
“I made as many arrests as I could,” one agent testified.
Federal courts have now shut down warrantless ICE arrests in Colorado, DC, and Oregon. Innovation Law Lab’s Stephen Manning said: “The law is an impediment to the quotas.” And it’s working.
A COMMUNITY BLOCKS THE MACHINE
A community in Monterey Park, California, packed a city council meeting that went past midnight on March 4. With 5,300 petition signatures in hand, they forced a unanimous vote to place a permanent citywide ban on data centers on the June ballot.
The developer threatened a lawsuit. The council didn’t blink.
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Scott
I have two questions for you today.
Are there examples in your community of people showing up and making change?
What do you think of ICE agents admitting under oath that they have arrest quotas?
🚨TWO URGENT ACTIONS TODAY: Trump's UNHINGED DHS pick—Markwayne Mullin—confirmation hearing tentatively set for next week! He defends ICE fatally shooting citizens, backs expelling US-born kids, objected to 2020 election results.
Tell your Senators: BLOCK this nomination! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-markwayne-mullin-for-dhs-secretary/
And tell your Reps to support Pam Bondi's impeachment: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-attorney-general-pam-bondi/
I think it's very important that ICE officers are admitting they've been told to indiscriminately hit arrest numbers without warrants or cause. The more people who talk, the more the truth about the cruelty of this regime comes out. The tide is beginning to turn, but it needs to turn faster.