Creeping autocracy doesn't just roll onto Main Street with tanks. Though under President Donald Trump, one might argue we're closer to that sort of thing than we'd like to admit. More often, autocracy starts with a list, a government list, then more lists, then bigger lists, and the names on those lists begin to face the full force of the state with blatant disregard for the rule of law and for basic constitutional rights.If you followed our coverage, you know the warning. Autocrats don't go after the avera ...

Andre Ernnandez. This is one of the last known videos of Andre Ernnandez Romero. It's been over 3 months since President Donald Trump invoked emergency wartime powers to deport more than 200 Venezuelan men without due process directly to an infamous Supermax prison in El Salvador.The government has never confirmed that Andre is in that prison. His loved ones and lawyers believe he was sent there because a freelance photographer captured these images of him when he arrived. Growing up, Andre was forced to li ...

I want to bring in Democratic Florida State Senator Shervin Jones who represents Miami Dade County, which includes a large portion of the Everglades. As you watch this unfold, you see the president there, you see your governor there, um, and the reporting that there could be people arriving as soon as tomorrow. What are your concerns.Well, first, thank you for having me. It's disgusting. What's happening in the Everglades isn't immigration enforcement.It's absolute political theater. when we know we have he ...

This week, the Supreme Court made it easier for the Trump administration to deport some migrants to quote third countries. That means a country that they're not from. They have no previous connection to without first giving them the chance to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution, or death in those countries. Justice Son Sonia Sotomayor joined justices Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson warning that the policy is a real danger to the principle of due process writing quote the du ...

One of the most common refrains of the Trump era is the cruelty is the point. And it may be hard to argue otherwise, especially now with the images we've seen when it comes to the Trump administration's immigration policies. That ruthlessness has been on display for all to see for weeks.First, there was the horrifying footage of Narcisso Baranco, father of Marine veteran Alejandro Barco, seen in a now viral video being pinned to the floor by masked federal agents arresting him while he was working his lands ...

We have an important update now on the story of a Venezuelan asylum seeker who had a rare major surgery and was deported to El Salvador and his family has no idea where he is. Joining me now, NBC's David Noriega in Los Angeles. David, what have you learned.Alex, so just to quickly recap, Blime Bermisad is a Venezuelan man who was deported to El Salvador weeks after undergoing a surgery to remove his entire right lung. Now, he's presumed to be at Secot, that supermax prison, mega prison in El Salvador, where ...

California Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from and handcuffed at a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome. The escalation is eerily reminiscent of the scene outside that ICE detention facility in New Jersey just last month. That incident resulted this week in the indictment of Congresswoman Lam Monica Mcver by a federal grand jury.The congresswoman is facing three counts of forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. She says she plans to plead ...

Tensions remain high in Los Angeles amid the demonstrations against President Trump's massive immigration crackdown. And we're hearing from people on the ground now about why they're taking a stand. I'm not okay with this. I'm not okay with people getting taken from their jobs and being taken from when they're going into the federal building for their appointments to do this the right way.We don't feel safe. We're standing up for the children that can't stand up for themselves or their parents. We need immi ...

You know, the deployment itself is the problem. We have very specific guardrails in the United States to make sure that we live under a civilian authority, not military rule. And so if the president wants to deploy the military, the president wants to deploy the National Guard without the consent of state and local leaders.There are only extremely specific rare circumstances under which you can do that. That's invasion. There's no invasion.That's rebellion. There's no rebellion. And if the state and local a ...