Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Crumbling: Handpicked Florida Sheriffs Break With The Regime, 160 Judges Shred His Cases, and Seattle Area Slams The Door On ICE
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160 JUDGES. 50 COURTS. ONE MESSAGE: NO.
The regime has a name for federal judges who rule against their deportation policies—“activist judges.” And there are a lot of them.
Last week, a federal judge in DC blocked the regime’s attempt to completely gut the deportation appeals process—with new rules that were set to take effect the next morning. They didn’t.
Juan Manuel Lopez-Campos is 46 years old—a Mexican father of five US citizen children with no criminal record. Police pulled him over for a routine traffic stop, detained him, and held him for nearly two months with no bond hearing.
He finally got in front of US District Judge Brandy McMillion—who freed him, ruling the regime’s detention policy “is not only wrong but also fundamentally unfair.” Her language has now been influential in cases across the country and contributed to releases and bond hearings.
A federal judge said immigrants have won 350 of 362 decided habeas cases—legal challenges claiming unlawful imprisonment—in 50 courts before 160 different judges. The regime calls them activists. I call them guardrails. And they’re holding strong.
GEORGIA ISN’T HAVING IT
The courts are saying no—so are the people. Oakwood, Georgia, is a city of around 7,000 people in Hall County, where 71% of voters went for Trump in 2024. It was never supposed to push back.
But in late February, the regime paid $68 million for a warehouse there—without talking to local officials, no impact study, no review. They learned about it from news coverage. The planned facility would hold up to 1,600 people and eliminate $771,000 in annual property tax revenue.
On Monday of last week, Oakwood’s residents packed the meeting room where the City Council voted unanimously to demand the regime halt all construction. The crowd gave them a standing ovation for it.
Ari Mathé is a local attorney with children who go to school and take dance lessons within a mile of the warehouse. At the council meeting, she laid it out plainly for the regime: “Chaos was the point and bullying these small towns they didn’t think would stand up to them. They were wrong.”
SEATTLE SLAMS THE DOOR ON ICE
Oakwood isn’t alone. Thousands of miles away, the Seattle area slammed the door on the regime.
On March 3, the King County Council passed an emergency one-year moratorium blocking new or expanded detention facilities in all unincorporated areas in the county.
Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda introduced the measure and put enforcement teeth on it from the start. “If there was an attempt to violate this moratorium, we would make sure that code enforcement officers are deployed,” she said. Civil penalties, liens on property, and other measures—everything is on the table.
The regime built a machine designed to move faster than anyone could stop it. King County went ahead and put a wrench in their gears.
Seattle moved a week later, with the City Council voting unanimously to pass its own one-year moratorium. And Commissioner for the Port of Seattle, Toshiko Hasegawa, issued an order prohibiting port properties from being used for detention or other immigration enforcement activities. “The Port of Seattle exists to connect people and goods—not to separate families or facilitate deportation,” she said.
Councilmember Alexis Rinck said: “We cannot make it clear enough. We do not want this in Seattle, we do not want this in our county, we do not want this in our ports ... We want ICE out of our communities.”
Seattle. King County. The Port. They locked it down.
EVEN FLORIDA’S SHERIFFS SAY NO
Ron DeSantis built his Florida State Immigration Enforcement Council to be the frontline of Trump’s deportation machine. It included eight handpicked sheriffs and police chiefs.
Last year, council chair Grady Judd—Polk County Sheriff and one of DeSantis’ closest law enforcement allies—stood before the group urging Trump to sign more executive orders to speed up deportations.
On Monday, Judd sat in the same room and said the opposite. ICE isn’t targeting criminals, he stated. It’s removing people who “are healthy and can work.”
“They have kids in college, are in school, they’re going to church on Sunday, they’re not violating the law, and they’re living the American dream,” he told council members. “Those are the folks we need in this country that we embrace, because we are a country of immigrants.”
Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummel said the regime cast “too wide of a net,” and that Congress needs to “get off their butts and they need to fix it.” At least six of the eight members expressed similar concerns.
Even the regime’s own enforcers are admitting the machine is targeting the wrong people. That’s not resistance spin, that’s the truth. And we’re here to make sure it doesn’t get buried.
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Onward!
Scott
I have two questions for you today.
What do you think of Ron DeSantis’ handpicked council calling out the regime’s deportation machine?
Thoughts on Seattle blocking ICE?
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Got to love the way communities are standing up to DHS and not allowing warehouses converted into concentration camps in their backyards. At least most folk understand history and will not succumb to fascist authoritarian rule.