Originally published at: A Disturbing Peek Into Trump’s Kafkaesque Immigration Courts
Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong Again Today we begin with a particularly striking example of the bleak inanity of executive branch immigration courts under President Trump, first flagged by Politico’s Kyle Cheney. The especially disturbing episode was revealed in an order yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell of Ft. Myers, Florida, who granted a…
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Heather, Paul and Garrett today:
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North Korea has denied communication with U.S. President Donald Trump, despite the President saying he plans to meet with leader Kim Jong Un later this year.
Kim Yo Jong, Mr. Kim’s sister and close adviser, said Wednesday there had not been any recent communication between Pyongyang and Washington, but the relationship between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump was “truly great.”
Earlier this week, Mr. Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale down the annual war games with South Korea that have long been a point of contention between the allies and North Korea, and has since waxed lyrical about his relationship with Mr. Kim.
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“Minnesota’s entirely plausible concern appears to be that release from a border town like Brownsville would allow Castro to slip into Mexico."
An ICE agent fleeing to Mexico to escape arrest. Let that sit for a while.
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Sure, why not. Nothing else going on that needs his attention.
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Top 10 posters. I’m assuming none of us read the morning memo.
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I read it, looking for links to confirm/expand/discuss!
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It’s a stunt on everyone’s part. I thought MS was a serious organization. I guess not.
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Gotta hand it to the writers room that they came up with a plot device where an ICE agent might flee across the border to Mexico to escape the U.S. criminal justice system.
Indeed. I don’t want to keep saying ETTD, but what the hell else am I supposed to call it when ICE agents are literally self-deporting?
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I did after posting.
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As they say, “You couldn’t make this shit up.”
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Hopefully some justice-oriented cartel operators capture him and give him the treatment he deserves.
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Interesting tidbit - this has been going on since his first term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html
Inspectors general, by law, are tasked with preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse related to their agency, while promoting efficiency in agency programs and operations. While they are located inside respective federal agencies, they are designed to act independently and in a nonpartisan manner. About half of federal inspectors general are subject to Senate confirmation.
The list is detailed, comprehensive and depressing.
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A government of fabulists.
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MS.NOW is reporting it. Cohen will put some of it up this afternoon, the rest on his WABC Sunday program.
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Maybe Mexican border control can detain him with deportation to CECOT.
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When I was a pre-teen back in the 1950’s, before sending me off to the annual two weeks of summer camp my mother would sew nametags into my clothes so some other kid wouldn’t grab them by mistake when they came out of the laundry. Apparently, Trump is less mature than I was at the age of eight, since he wants his nametags on the outside of anything that he deems to be his stuff. And, of course, that’s anything he can get his tiny hands on, no matter that it belongs to someone else or to everyone.
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I don’t believe in god but that would make me reconsider.
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