Summary
ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.
However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.
Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.
The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”
His wife is a US citizen and he has a green card by the way. This is how it starts, first they were deporting illegal immigrants with a criminal record, now its anyone pro-Palestine. How long until its anyone that voted Democrat?
They’re doing legal immigrants from Ukraine as well.
I have not confirmed, but a post on BlueSky suggested this was just a postured threat and not taking place. I suggested to one of the threatened families that he should immediately file a Tort lawsuit against the administration anyway, just to make clear even threats won’t be accepted.
Files tort lawsuit - wins - trump declares they used the deep state judge to illegally win, and deports him for breaking some made up law.
This is not normal. He did not commit a crime. Everyone in these borders has first amendment rights specifically to prevent the government from just declaring some people non citizens and oppressing them.
Don’t you understand?! 1st amendment only applies to things that align with the Trump party agenda.
That’s what makes America the most free country of all.
he isn’t being deported for his views its the fact he was a willing participate in a riot and committed a hate crime you don’t get to break our laws and expect to be allowed to stay
Lol, college students protesting on the college campus is not a riot, he’s not been officially charged with any crime either.
Where did you get “riot” from…? And hate crime? Riiight.
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/time-escalate-anti-israel-activists-intensify-protests-violent-direct-actions hate crime they are attacking a minority group for reasons of race and religion
The same adl that said that elon didn’t throw a nazi salute.
- Article is fairly old, though it is stated that Mahmoud is a leader of a sorts in the Columbia campus movement so we can guess he didn’t show up yesterday.
- These protests started peacefully ages ago and the current administration is outright banning them. What are they gunna do, just sit down and take it?
- Palestine is being aggressively ethnically cleansed right now and the US government is enabling it with a smile on its face. Context is important because fighting back against people who consider you vermin is not a fucking hate crime. Zionists can fuck right off.
Why are links to the ADL allowed anywhere on the internet?
The Apartheid Defense League is not credible and not factual. They only care about Anti-zionism not anti-semitism. The Zionist tag you got checks out
How do you tag people?
I’m not sure all apps support it. I know Thunder and Voyager support tags
something needs to be done about the anti semitism on lemmy i get bombarded when ever i speak about my religion wich is jewish
If you’re serious about combating anti-semitism, you need to recognize the difference between Anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Genuine anti-semitism is more rare on Lemmy than other platforms, I call it out whenever I see it. None of us should tolerate any kind of Bigotry. Zionism is about Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Cleansing of native Palestinians, it is not reflective of Judaism nor is it representative of Jewish people. Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. The conflation of the two is genuinely antisemitic, as it falsely attributes the actions of Israel to all Jewish people.
Zionism is anti-Semitic at it’s core, it other-izes Jewish people, and justifies the violent settler colonialim of Israel as in the defense of all Jewish people, which only serves to further fuel genuine Antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people globally. Zionism is also an inherently fascist ideology. The ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine has always been fundamental since it’s inception as a colonialist movement.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
Go back to Reddit.
Secretary of State Marc Rubio also shared an article about Khalil on Sunday night and posted on X, “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
Everyone regardless of immigration status has free speech rights in the US. Rubio is bragging about pissing and shitting on the Constitution. They cannot use immigration to suppress free speech, obviously. This guy needs to released by the courts immediately or American free speech is a complete farce.
Harris wouldn’t have done this, you know it.
Harris of the Biden Harris administration that was arresting student protestors from the start?
Or Harris of the Biden Harris administration that deported more people than trump while dropping the number of new visas issued?
Did they disappear or deport people with green cards?
Answering a question with a question is pretty shitty.
It was to help you realize the absurdity of your attempt at whataboutism.
These things are not the same.
That’s not whataboubtism is. Deporting people regardless of circumstance and shutting down free speech are the same as shutting down free speech and deporting someone regardless of circumstance.
Yeah, it’s failed whataboutism.
News: “Trump admin deports completely legal green card holder.”
You: “but the Biden admin deported a lot of people, too!”
But not green card holders. Which is the point, Captain “they’re all the same.”
That wasn’t the comment I responded to, this comment thread is about Harris. I responded about Harris.
And yes, this one has a green card, so instead of being disappeared into jail for an indeterminate amount of time later to be released on court order, he’s disappeared into jail with his green card suspended later to be released on court order.
Looks like yes, if you look for the stories. ICE is terrible no matter the administration.
Another one: https://archive.md/AKDGo
On Dec. 17, 2019, my husband, Rodner, and I went to our local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office with our attorney for a routine check-in, a requirement of his pending green card. About an hour later, my lawyer emerged and told me Rodner was being deported.
Dude was deported when Trump was in office. But sure, blame Biden for it to show how committed you are to being uncommitted.
Pretending everything else is equal, there is a world of difference, legally, from a “pending green card” and actually having one.
Yes, ICE is terrible, generally, but quit pretending the current admin is the same as what we could have had.
I learned about this only recently, and was very disappointed on this.
It’s made me examine my own biases that I’ve only “grumbled” about Biden’s relatively quiet acceptance of Israeli genocide, and now understanding he deported protestors. I’d desperately want to understand what drives the tacit support there. That said: The “Genocide Joe” tagline didn’t ever convince me.
EDIT: Wow, and now I’m being thrown back in a loop and wondering if the links I just came across earlier today were correct, or if I was reading info out of context. Sounds as though, yes, ICE kept deporting in often suspect circumstances under Biden, but those were unrelated to protests? I’ll…leave this comment up as a public lesson in how easy it is to be misinformed while I keep reading to understand as best I can.
Centrists suddenly dislike retaliation against anti-genocide protesters at Columbia.
Give it a few hours and both sides will be the same again
Strictly speaking, everyone in the United States has the freedom of speech regardless of their being citizens or not.
With that being said, green cards and the like can be rescinded for a variety of reasons, particularly national security.
Add in the fact the Supreme Court has yet to firmly deny the right of Trump to do anything and the outright antisemitism at these protests, the picture of the future ain’t good for this guy.
It is not anti-Semitic to protest Israel commiting genocide with the US’s help.
I also don’t think it’s reasonable to hold all of the protestors accountable for some of the protestors actions (assuming some actually are anti-semetic)
Perhaps not, but intimidating Jewish students and pledging loyalty to Hamas is.
intimidating Jewish students and pledging loyalty to Hamas is.
What loony tunes world are you living in? Most baseless hasbara I’ve ever heard. Lemme guess the ICC is hamas too? Oxfam, amnesty are hamas? I could go on and on and on
Where’s you’re evidence of “protesters pledging allegiance to hamas” you think I forgot that brain-dead fucking claim??
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