Two-tier set of justice favoring wealthy friends of Donald Trump, and select drug kingpins he favors for some reason

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Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment


Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in 2021 and the Waldorf Astoria facade in New York Photo illustration by ProPublica. Photos by Andy Buchanan

After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

...when it comes to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was tried and convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes and allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S., Trump has taken a decidedly softer tone.

Hernández, he said, has been “treated very harshly and unfairly” — so unfairly that on Dec. 1, Trump pardoned the former president after he served less than four of those 45 years.

But the federal government’s magnanimity did not end there. On the day he was to be released, records show, Hernández had an immigration detainer — a request for law enforcement agencies to hold noncitizens for pickup by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — in place.

Here, too, the Trump’s administration’s treatment of Hernández differed from its public objectives. Other noncitizens caught up in recent immigration sweeps — the vast majority of whom do not have criminal records — have faced swift efforts to deport them, even to countries where they may face threats. But in Hernández’s case, the Federal Bureau of Prisons scrambled to get his detainer removed so he could walk free.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-prison-special-treatment

...on the other side is a relentless assault against countless others like this fellow, caught up in a wave of government-directed terror against dark-skinned foreigners in this country.



Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump 21h
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam remains in ICE custody as he fights a DECADES-OLD deportation order. The 64-year-old, who spent forty-three years wrongfully imprisoned, only to be detained last fall, has now been denied bail.

___After decades of maintaining his innocence, Vedam’s conviction was thrown out by a judge in August after it was revealed that prosecutors had withheld potentially critical ballistics evidence during his two trials.

The Department of Homeland Security is continuing to fight Vedam’s release, saying in a statement Monday that the vacation of his conviction will not deter its efforts. Though DHS called Vedam a “criminal illegal alien,” his attorney said he is a permanent legal resident.

Vedam was initially detained on drug charges while police investigated and was eventually charged with Kinser’s murder. In the drug case, he pleaded no contest to four counts of selling LSD and a theft charge, the AP reported.

“Having a single conviction vacated will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration law,” a DHS spokesperson said. “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/17/us/subu-vedam-case-ice-pennsylvania?Profile=CNN%2CCNN+International


...this is a charge he plead no contest to in the '80's. Even making the stretch that the drug charge was any more valid than the other rejected charges, he's been clean and sober since then.

And isn't that the injustice in the Trump administration just declaring people a risk with drug war rhetoric meant to scare people away from defending what could very well be our own family members who had experience with illegal drugs, or other victimless crimes which didn't amount to anything, just as countless Americans have experienced and gone on to be president, for instance?

It's opportunistic to the ethnic cleansing, and it should scare the hell out of everyone watching this regime in power pick and choose who they want to catch up in their inhumane and abusive net they've constructed out of the billions republicans poured into the 'immigration' department.

DHS operates more like a tool of Donald Trump than as a law enforcement agency, with their selective prosecutions, profiling, and manipulation of their ability to detain people in this country, often without recourse.

The line they use about getting criminals out of the country is nothing but a diversion from their own nazi-like behavior which favors their brand of criminals, and labels everyone they choose to oppose an enemy of the state.

It's right out in the open, and all of history will note this period in history where republicans enabled and exercised the worst of governmental repression and violence against their own countryfolk.