Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border

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It started with a mostly-wrong tip about the “caravan.” It turned into a theory about immigration lawyers (and Antifa?!?) making money by smuggling migrants.

The story behind 2 lawyers’ interrogations by a “terrorism response” team.

Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border
In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. The documents also show that more lawyers were…
propublica.org
9:56 AM · May 14, 2021

https://www.propublica.org/article/documents-show-trump-officials-used-secret-terrorism-unit-to-question-lawyers-at-the-border

In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. The documents also show that more lawyers were targeted than previously known.

Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d introduced himself as a counterterrorism specialist.

Levy was part of the legal team representing the father of a girl who’d died the previous month in the custody of the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP. “There was so much hate for immigration lawyers at that time,” she recalled. “I thought that somebody had put in an anonymous tip that I was a terrorist.”

The truth was more troubling. Newly released records show that Levy was swept up as part of a broader than previously known push by the administration of President Donald Trump to use the federal government’s expansive powers at the border to stop and question journalists, lawyers and activists.

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[Grasswire2]

1. !!!

Will we ever know the fulness of his perfidy?

[malaise]

2. Truth will put

but I want punishment

[treestar]

3. He really did want to do away with the rule of law

and used government power to intimidate.

[Hekate]

4. KnR

When fascism comes to America....