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DHS Takes Vicious Parting Shot at ACLU After Its Immigration Lawsuit 'Fails Spectacularly'

By Jack Davis May 26, 2025 at 7:56am

The Department of Homeland Security left the staid language of government communications in the dust after the American Civil Liberties Union failed in an attempt to block the administration from sending criminal illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.

“ACLU Attempt to Block Criminal Illegal Alien Removals Fails Spectacularly,” the department headlined its news release that a lawsuit filed weeks ago was dismissed.

“The ACLU’s dangerous campaign to keep violent criminals in the United States is falling apart,” the release said.

The release explained the ACLU’s “latest attempt to wage lawfare against the Department was dropped. This lawsuit tried to prevent DHS from removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from the country.”

“We are glad to see the ACLU’s meritless, frivolous, and frankly dangerous lawsuit fall apart,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

“That they claim to be a civil rights organization while advocating on behalf of foreign criminal gang members is laughable. They clearly could care less about the Americans that these illegal alien criminals victimize,” she continued.

The ACLU lawsuit was filed on March 1 on behalf of 10 illegal immigrants DHS was proposing to house at Guantanamo Bay prior to deportation.

“Never before has the federal government moved noncitizens apprehended and detained in the United States on civil immigration charges to Guantánamo. Nor is there any legitimate reason to do so now,” the illegal immigrants said in their filing to avoid a trip to Gitmo, according to The Hill.

“The government has ample detention capacity inside the United States, which is far less costly and poses none of the logistical hurdles attendant to detaining people on Guantánamo,” the lawsuit said.

According to the Washington Times, Homeland Security told the judge hearing the suit that seven of the criminal illegal immigrants named in the suit have already been deported.

The three remaining had little chance of being sent to Guantanamo Bay, the adminsitration told the court.

The three illegal immigrants “no longer wish to continue litigating this case,” wrote Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney.

The release said those illegal immigrants not already deported voluntarily agreed to drop the lawsuit.

The release said that DHS achieved its purposes while the ACLU came up emptuy.

“Fortunately, these criminals will no longer to be able to victimize American citizens,” the release said.

“The Department will continue to use all available resources to remove the dangerous criminal illegal aliens who were let into our country by the previous administration.”

The decision was initially announced on X by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem posted the court document announcing the dismissal and added a two-word message of her own: “Suck it.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/dhs-takes-vicious-parting-shot-aclu-immigration-lawsuit-fails-spectacularly/?

Canada #77

Japan Rides The Censorship Bandwagon

Authored by Bruce Davidson via The Brownstone Institute Sunday, May 25, 2025

The manufacturer of the replicon mRNA Covid “vaccine” in Japan, Meiji Seika Pharma, has brought a lawsuit against a member of the Japanese parliament, Kazuhiro Haraguchi. Haraguchi had commented that the Covid injections are “akin to a biological weapon,” a statement which the Meiji Pharma president claimed was beyond the bounds of acceptable expression.

However, statements like Haraguchi’s about the dangers of the Covid mRNA injections are now commonplace in many nations, and drug companies do not seem to be suing people for making them, at least in the US. Instead, state attorneys general in Kansas and Texas have been suing Pfizer for misrepresenting its Covid injections.

In general, Japan has been gradually evolving into a place where it is difficult to publicly express ideas unapproved by powerful business interests and officialdom. In addition to government and mainstream news media collusion to keep Covid medical realities from the Japanese public, the government passed a law to squelch nonconforming messaging online.

The intentions behind this measure are clear: Prominent government figures have openly declared their conviction that “misinformation” is a major problem in Japan. In December 2024, Prime Minister Ishiba stated that he was considering more regulations concerning Internet discourse that he considers problematic, and a prominent LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) politician named Noda commented recently that Japan was being influenced more and more by “fake” information.

In May 2024, Japan’s parliament passed a law to enable the quick elimination of defamatory posts from social media platforms like Facebook and X. By this law, such platforms would have to make explicit sites for taking requests to delete posts and also make clear their criteria for taking down posts. The new law went into effect on April 1, 2025.

Unsurprisingly, some Japanese YouTube vloggers are expressing concerns that, under the new set of regulations, their vlogs may soon be targeted as purveyors of “misinformation,” especially when they criticize government policy.

Only online media platforms are targeted in this development, even though Japanese print communications and TV programs have also often been guilty of spreading harmful disinformation. Ironically, in many instances, this is not because they are unregulated but precisely because they are under the thumb of government agencies.

For example, the Japanese National Police Agency has deliberately leaked information about people under investigation in order to pressure them into confessing to crimes. Since the Japanese public often naively believes that suspicion equals guilt, this tactic results in terrible consequences for the unjustly accused.

In 1996, after an unsuccessful attempt by the Aum Shinrikyo cult to assassinate three Japanese judges, police leaked to news media outlets some details of their investigation of Yoshiyuki Kono, an innocent man whose family was also severely injured in the attack.

Kono’s experience of being hounded by both the authorities and the mainstream news media mirrors that of Richard Jewell, the heroic security guard who became a suspect after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. The FBI deliberately leaked details of their investigation to American mainstream news outlets, which proceeded to harass and condemn Jewell along with the investigating FBI agents, though the case eventually unraveled.

Even before the social media platform law, Japanese news media outlets were effectively controlled by the government. As a result, Japan was ranked lowest among all Group of Seven nations for freedom of the press in the World Press Freedom Index. Japan’s overall ranking dropped from 68th to 70th after the 2024 social media law was passed.

The reasons for this are the press club system and the self-censorship of most Japanese reporters. Each government ministry has a press club consisting of representatives from prominent news media outlets, and they receive official briefings from government officials. However, these members of the press can be banned from these briefings if they do anything that reflects badly on the government.

Therefore, at such meetings, there is “no atmosphere that encourages deliberation of important issues because reporters know that if they ask difficult questions they can be punished,” in one Japanese reporter’s words. For instance, reporters at press briefings were afraid to ask questions about unclear statements to Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga, who sometimes harshly responded, “That question is beside the point!”

These developments are especially ominous in light of the fact that Japan already has a tainted history in regard to suppressing freedom of information and expression. In 1925, the Japanese government passed the Peace Preservation Law, which criminalized the expression of unapproved ideas.

In the years that followed, totalitarian control rapidly replaced democratic government and unrestricted public debate. This culminated in a war that brought great horrors to Japan and other nations. Freedom of expression is a matter much more significant than words.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/japan-rides-censorship-bandwagon