"These Are Abductions" -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/09/29/these-are-abductions/

Here’s a story by Nick Valencia about just one of tens of thousands of people who are being abducted by the government and essentially disappeared.

— On September 16, newlyweds Tucker and Barbara May walked into the downtown Los Angeles federal building believing they were there for her green card interview.

Married this spring, they had followed every rule, filed every form, and spent every dollar to prove their marriage was real.

But their interview was a trap.

“It was never going to be an interview,” he told Nick Valencia News. “It was always a setup.”

Not only was she lured there, her husband said, once inside ICE agents separated her from her lawyer with the excuse of a broken copier. Then, they put her in handcuffs.

“One officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried,” he added.

By Saturday night, Tucker didn’t know where his wife was.

They sent her to a detention center and was told “we don’t care” when she told them she that a habeas petition and a temporary restraining order had been filed. The facility withheld the legal documents her lawyer had sent which were required to re-open her case until she had already been shipped out to an unknown location.

At every stage, the process her husband described has been calibrated not for justice but for delay—for erasing options, running out the clock, and breaking faith.

“These are abductions,” Tucker said flatly.

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Read the whole thing.

[underpants]

1. It doesn't elaborate but how is a broken copier an excuse?

[Irish_Dem]

2. Anything could be happening to his wife.

[AZJonnie]

3. Apparently someone has been in contact with her thankfully

But yeah, fucking scary. If you're willing to pull shit like this abduction and ignore legal processes with "we don't care" you're just a step away from truly vicious acts. I mean, if you're a sick person, you probably think "why not"? Obviously there's not going to be any kind of accountability.

This story is fucking disgusting, but what's also extremely disheartening is that one has to read about this stuff going on only in blogs and substacks and such. Because the mainstream media are too fucking cowed (and/or complicit) to splash stories like these across their websites and airwaves. This should be on 60 Minutes. Also our Democratic leaders should be raising more hell.

One angle to use here, cynical as it may sound, is to frame this like "a white man's freedom to marry and start a family with a woman he loves just because she wasn't born here has been unilaterally revoked by the President, and their loved ones are instead being abducted". Sad as it is, that's the way you reach these assholes, esp. because I'm sure they're finding fewer and fewer US citizen women who want anything to do with them. Make them realize THEIR freedoms are being stripped away.

[Irish_Dem]

4. She is not in a position to give an accurate report of what is happening to her.

She must be very careful what she says.

We simply have no idea what is happening to the women who have been kidnapped.
Yes the guards know full well that there will be no consequences for anything they do.

Like the German Nazis and Gestapo.

[AZJonnie]

5. Given their CiC is both a self-admitted and an adjudicated Sexual Predator

who's rallying cry is "you can do anything, grab 'em by the *****", they probably think they'll be getting "medals of freedom" if they engage in similar depredations as Dear Leader.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Exactly. They will get a raise and promotion.

Like Putin did for all the Russian soldiers who raped, tortured, and killed women and children.