Washington, D.C.– Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to allow the administration to rapidly apprehend and deport individuals and families without due process to “third countries” where they have zero ties. This decision represents a dangerous expansion of the administration’s ability to carry out its mass abduction quota.
In a dissenting opinion on a separate case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the Court’s alignment with “moneyed interests” in its rulings. The Court’s latest decision is no exception. Mass abductions have become a multimillion-dollar industry, one that weaponizes immigration status, harms working people, and fuels terror in our cities and homes to the benefit of the ultra-wealthy.
In response to this news, United We Dream released the following statement:
“Without question, this heinous Supreme Court decision is a deep violation of our country’s constitution and jeopardizes due process for everyone. By giving the green light for the administration to target anyone they choose, without ever having to justify why, this decision will undoubtedly make it easier for ICE to abduct and disappear thousands of people who power our nation and our economy to foreign torture prisons, including in El Salvador and other countries. Make no mistake: this decision will hurt all of us.
Not only does this ruling join a long legacy of cruelty and exclusion –from Japanese internment to the Muslim ban and the latest termination of the CHNV parole program– it also benefits the wealthy elite who profit from an ever-expanding mass abduction industry, now making its way abroad, while working-class communities pay the price. The White House’s own Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, owns stocks in Palantir, one of the main contractors for ICE detention facilities. Make no mistake, this ruling is about hitting a mass abduction quota, no matter the human cost. As these injustices intensify, working people must come together to make it clear: we will not stay silent. We will continue to protect our neighbors and loved ones against this rising terror and violence.”
