Trump has been in office for months, so I'm having doubts on who did what when.
That's because you're ignoring all of the evidence, apparently from some bizarre need to exonerate Donald Trump of responsibility.

Trump campaigned on mass deportations; he's talked multiple times about getting sending people back to "shithole countries". He appointed people who are doing exactly that.

He is responsible; your attempts to deflect that responsibility are just ridiculous distractions.

The Trump administration is literally sending people to concentration camps and sending people to countries where they will die. Quit defending that callous awfulness.

At least fifty of the Venezuelans that were sent to El Salvador were here legally.

https://www.cato.org/blog/50-v...
https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

Let's be clear about what happened:
- They applied for, and were granted, refugee status or some other legal status.
- The arrived in the United States legally.
- They committed no crimes while they were here.
- Trump sent them to a concentration camp in El Salvador.

These actions by the Trump administration are abhorrent and indefensible.

and this looks like a matter of their status as temporary refugees has expired
What's with the passive voice bs? The Trump administration changed their status; it's not some clock that was already ticking, this was directly caused by Noem.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

many returned to Afghanistan willingly
Bullshit.
https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/...

why didn't anyone stop the Trump administration
I don't have the words to describe how truly fucked-up that paragraph is.

At the same time Trump expedited the refugees from South Africa, he reversed the status of refugees from Afghanistan.

These were people who had directly helped the United States. They had demonstrated this work ethic you claim to be worried about over and over again, in incredibly difficult circumstances. Many acted as translators, and already speak English.

Trump wants to send these people back to a country where they will be tortured and killed.

The racism is obvious. The only reason you don't see it is because you choose to ignore tit.

The goal was/is to make money via insider trading.

The [1952 Immigration and Nationality Act] also has an exemption that prohibits an alien's removal "because of the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations, if such beliefs, statements, or associations would be lawful within the United States." But the law allows the government to proceed with a deportation if the Secretary of State "personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest."

https://constitutioncenter.org...

Does the INA only apply to people who are attempting to immigrate to the US (e.g. green card holders) or does it apply to visa holders as well? The citation I was trying to find said student visa holders were also covered. The fact that Marco Rubio is personally signing all of the visa revocations is a very strong indication that the law does cover them.

From the Wikipedia page on Bouarfa v. Mayorkas:

revocation of an approved visa petition under s1155 based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that falls within the purview of 8 U.S.C. s1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions 'in the discretion of' the agency."

That's not a blank check. I don't know what's in the cited section, but I doubt 'wrote an op-ed' is one of the 'certain actions'.

If I do find more information, I'll be sure to not let you know, since you asked so nicely.

Nostromo?

They really should check to see what the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has hidden in the ice.

Following up would have been watching the video, realizing the statement was not even close to meeting the threshold laid out in Counterman v. Colorado, and moving on. It's almost unheard of for US Attorneys to send letters like this; if this were a real case, his statements would have made it almost impossible to prosecute. Apparently he sent a copy of this letter to WaPo but did not send one to the congressman:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Ed Martin is rather famously a hack - already at least six prosecutors have resigned rather than follow his order to lie to the court about why they were dismissing the charges against Eric Adams.

Trump's DOJ is sending letters to members of congress who called Musk a 'dick':
https://bsky.app/profile/rober...

From whitehouse.gov: people with autism, asthma, auto-immune disease, and ADHD are a "dire threat to the American people and our way of life."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

Wago lever nuts are absolutely better - you can visually inspect the connections, and reconfigure a box without degrading the integrity of the wire. They work better with stranded wire, can be installed correctly by almost anyone, and have a host of other benefits.

They are not used much in the US due to cost and tradition. The cost difference is substantial; you can something like five to ten times more wire nuts for the same price as wagos. But in several European jurisdictions lever nuts are the standard; using twist-on nuts is considered poor and shoddy work.

This also happened in Manhattan that week:

Migrant teen killed, another injured, after being asked if they spoke English: New York police

https://abc7chicago.com/post/m...

Obviously this isn't getting near the same level of effort as the CEO case.

By that logic, you have to believe the 'representative of the government' who showed us proof that the drones are actually Tie Fighters:

https://x.com/SenMastriano/sta...

(hint: "congressional representative" refers to representing the people - they are not de facto representatives of the government).

It's a federal crime, so there's nothing a DA could do.

The US government could go after Musk, of course, and revoke his citizenship. But denaturalization is a severe penalty for what might be a simple misunderstanding or filing error. So historically, that has only been used in severe cases, like war criminals and people who lied about things like murder convictions.

In the first Trump administration, Stephen Miller set up an entire effort to find people to denaturalize and report. SCOTUS cut that down a bit, but they are planning an even bigger effort this time around. The real goal, of course, is to make naturalized Americans into second-class citizens.

When the Justice Department goes after someone for filling a form incorrectly, but ignores Musk's overstay, there will be no shortage of sycophants willing to 'explain' how the cases are different. Don't be one of them.

More reading:
https://thehill.com/opinion/im...

Someday, maybe, you'll use 'ad hominem' correctly.

Today is not that day.