PLACE OF BIRTH IS NOT A CHOICE
In August 26, 2025, the Trump administration has ramped up pressure on ICE agents to increase arrest, detain, and to ultimately remove to 3,000 people per day. This figure up from the roughly 660 per day during Trump’s first 100 days in office.
Private companies, such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group, have profited billions from this system. These corporations provide ground transportation and flights to for-profit prisons and services under government contracts. After spending months in detention, without hope of asylum, those arrested are pressured to sign voluntary departure agreements.
The White House’s mass deportation is stripping immigrants of the right to due process. Students, professors, kidney specialists, scientists, artists, tourists with valid visas have been detained, imprisoned or deported. So far, these victims are primarily from Latin America, but also from Turkey, the West Bank, India, South Korea, Gambia, Britain, Wales, Iran, Lebanon, Canada, and Germany. More than half of the immigrants in the U.S. are Latino. Venezuelans has lost Temporary Protective Status since October 2025. Seventy percent of deportees have not committed any crime. Of those who have, a high percentage are traffic violations or DUI’s’
Some of these detained immigrants are deported to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Guantanamo, South Sudan, Myanmar, Mexico, and Libya. Their destinations are sometimes “classified.”
Since August 3, 2025, Trump has ordered more than a dozen U.S. strikes on alleged drug traffickers, near Venezuela, killing at least 80 people since November. (2025). Trump claims that the United States is in “armed conflict” with the drug cartels, a status that aims to provide legal cover to the administration for using deadly force.
Venezuela’s huge oil reserves, estimated at 300 billion barrels, the largest in the world.
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