“Bad hombres”
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I am beginning to think that Trump’s blanket travel bans are not about national security:
The Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was scheduled to participate in the tournament after winning the Latin American championship in Mexico.
“The Cacique Mara Little League team from Venezuela was unfortunately unable to obtain the appropriate visas to travel to the Senior League Baseball World Series,” Little League International said in a statement, adding that it is “extremely disappointing, especially to these young athletes.”
The Venezuelan team traveled to Colombia two weeks ago to apply for their visas at the U.S. embassy in Bogotá.
The embassy did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
“It is a mockery on the part of Little League to keep us here in Bogotá with the hope that our children can fulfill their dreams of participating in a world championship,” the team said in a statement. “What do we do with so much injustice, what do we do with the pain that was caused to our children?”
Venezuela is among a list of countries with restrictions for entering the U.S. or its territories. President Donald Trump has banned travel to the U.S. from 12 other countries, citing national security concerns.
Kagan and Breyer pointed out in their dissent in Korematsu II that one dispositive way you could tell that the “national security” justifications offered for Trump’s first term travel ban were a bad faith pretext is that the regulation theoretically permitted waivers for people who posed no security concerns that were almost never granted. The logic will apply equally well to this one.
As always with the Trump administration, the additional context makes it worse:
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w…
[image or embed]— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) Jul 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Hanid Ortiz was kicked out of the US military for fraud and larceny, and then killed two women (one of them with a machete) and a man he mistook for his wife’s lawyer. Anyway, I’m not convinced that Trump and Vance are rounding up random construction workers at Home Depot and revoking visas from Haitian immigrants to protect the safety of the American public.