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A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officialsand called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism. On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.
“Talking straight here,” he said.
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”
Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”
The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.
The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members. The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.
All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.
The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/ -
CW: UK Politics
Do #Stamer and #Mahmoud seriously think that this policy will mean that the billionaire-controlled, Putin-adjacent media will just say "OK, fair play, Labour are being sufficiently mean to immigrants for our liking, everything is fine"?
No. It ain't going to happen. They will just keep screaming for ever more inhumane and destructive policies.
I am seriously scared by how far Labour are prepared to go down this road.
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CW: UK Politics
Do #Stamer and #Mahmoud seriously think that this policy will mean that the billionaire-controlled, Putin-adjacent media will just say "OK, fair play, Labour are being sufficiently mean to immigrants for our liking, everything is fine"?
No. It ain't going to happen. They will just keep screaming for ever more inhumane and destructive policies.
I am seriously scared by how far Labour are prepared to go down this road.
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📣 New Podcast! "Khalil's Release, Court Victories, Scientific Discoveries, and Community Empowerment" on @Spreaker #alexandria #amendment #commandments #cortez #detention #dornsife #education #first #ice #immigrant #immigration #khalil #law #louisiana #mahmoud #ocasio #public #rights #ten #usc
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Wow. I knew about the Mahmoud Khalil ruling this morning, but I was certain they'd find some bullshit reason to continue holding him. Remains to be seen if he'll be able to stay in the country, but free is better than locked in a hole.
#mahmoud #justice #fucktrump #fuckICE
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/us/mahmoud-khalil-ordered-released-by-judge
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Mahmoud Khalil to be released from custody, orders federal judge #Trending #US News #Mahmoud Khalil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11251836/mahmoud-khalil-release-judge-order//612
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Acting President Claire #Shipman was met with loud jeers at #Columbia #College’s #graduation #ceremony. Just minutes in, students erupted in chants of “ #Free #Mahmoud”, demanding the release of jailed #Palestinian #activist Mahmoud #Khalil.
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Acting President Claire #Shipman was met with loud jeers at #Columbia #College’s #graduation #ceremony. Just minutes in, students erupted in chants of “ #Free #Mahmoud”, demanding the release of jailed #Palestinian #activist Mahmoud #Khalil.
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A delegation of five congressional Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit
#Mahmoud #Khalil and #Rümeysa #Öztürk
in the immigration prisons they’re being held in and to demand their release.The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Troy #Carter (Louisiana), is the first from Congress to visit either Khalil or Öztürk since they were abducted by immigration agents last month and flown from their homes in New York and Massachusetts, respectively, to Louisiana.
The group also included Sen. Ed ##Markey (Massachusetts) and Representatives Jim #McGovern (Massachusetts), Ayanna #Pressley (Massachusetts), and Bennie #Thompson (Mississippi).
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/ -
A delegation of five congressional Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit
#Mahmoud #Khalil and #Rümeysa #Öztürk
in the immigration prisons they’re being held in and to demand their release.The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Troy #Carter (Louisiana), is the first from Congress to visit either Khalil or Öztürk since they were abducted by immigration agents last month and flown from their homes in New York and Massachusetts, respectively, to Louisiana.
The group also included Sen. Ed ##Markey (Massachusetts) and Representatives Jim #McGovern (Massachusetts), Ayanna #Pressley (Massachusetts), and Bennie #Thompson (Mississippi).
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/ -
He didn’t “lose both arms.” His arms were severed by Israelis.
#Israel #Palestine #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #USA #fascism #UK #EU #complicity #Gaza #WestBank #journalism #WorldPressPhoto #Mahmoud https://mastodon.online/@EditorDavePerry/114353149494238336
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He didn’t “lose both arms.” His arms were severed by Israelis.
#Israel #Palestine #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #USA #fascism #UK #EU #complicity #Gaza #WestBank #journalism #WorldPressPhoto #Mahmoud https://mastodon.online/@EditorDavePerry/114353149494238336
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He stood up against genocide.
And for this, he was ambushed at his home,
abducted,
and arrested.Arrested without cause.
Arrested without a warrant.
By plainclothes officers who refused to give their names.Just handcuffed and shoved into the back of a car,
while his wife — eight months pregnant — watches and tries to understand what’s happening.This is not a scene from some dark chapter of a distant past filled with black-and-white photos of bygone dictatorships.
This happened here,
in the United States of America,
in March of this year.It’s happening here right now.
#Mahmoud #Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University last year when he led protests against Israel’s US-backed Occupation of historic Palestine
and genocidal slaughter of Palestinians.But now, speaking out carries a high price.
And free speech is no longer so free.
Mahmoud Khalil is a U.S. resident,
born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.But Trump officials say they’ve striped him of his Green Card,
and they’re holding him in an ICE jail in Louisiana…
far from his home in New York.Far from his wife.
Unable to communicate with his lawyers or the outside world for days after his illegal abduction.
But Mahmoud Khalil is, still, not silent.
And he is not alone.
As he stood up for the Palestinians facing Israeli bombs and the barrels of their guns,
others are standing up for Khalil.People have rallied for his freedom.
Hundreds. Thousands.
From New York City to Boston.
Phoenix to Miami.
North Carolina to Oklahoma City.Jewish peace activists protested inside Trump Tower.
The people will not be silent as the powerful try to silence the people’s freedom to speak.
To be willingly silent now will mean more unwilling silence later.
https://therealnews.com/trump-targeted-mahmoud-khalil-to-inspire-fear -
He stood up against genocide.
And for this, he was ambushed at his home,
abducted,
and arrested.Arrested without cause.
Arrested without a warrant.
By plainclothes officers who refused to give their names.Just handcuffed and shoved into the back of a car,
while his wife — eight months pregnant — watches and tries to understand what’s happening.This is not a scene from some dark chapter of a distant past filled with black-and-white photos of bygone dictatorships.
This happened here,
in the United States of America,
in March of this year.It’s happening here right now.
#Mahmoud #Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University last year when he led protests against Israel’s US-backed Occupation of historic Palestine
and genocidal slaughter of Palestinians.But now, speaking out carries a high price.
And free speech is no longer so free.
Mahmoud Khalil is a U.S. resident,
born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.But Trump officials say they’ve striped him of his Green Card,
and they’re holding him in an ICE jail in Louisiana…
far from his home in New York.Far from his wife.
Unable to communicate with his lawyers or the outside world for days after his illegal abduction.
But Mahmoud Khalil is, still, not silent.
And he is not alone.
As he stood up for the Palestinians facing Israeli bombs and the barrels of their guns,
others are standing up for Khalil.People have rallied for his freedom.
Hundreds. Thousands.
From New York City to Boston.
Phoenix to Miami.
North Carolina to Oklahoma City.Jewish peace activists protested inside Trump Tower.
The people will not be silent as the powerful try to silence the people’s freedom to speak.
To be willingly silent now will mean more unwilling silence later.
https://therealnews.com/trump-targeted-mahmoud-khalil-to-inspire-fear -
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.
Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.
Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.
On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.
My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.
Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns—based on racism and disinformation—to go unchecked.I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.
I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.
While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing — based on racism and disinformation—to go unchecked.
Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration’s latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.
If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.
The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.
Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17689
#columbiaUniversity #mahmoud #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners #repression
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Mahmoud Khalil says he’s a ‘political prisoner’ in 1st statement since arrest #Trending #US News #World #Columbia protests #israel hamas conflict #Mahmoud Khalil #ProPalestinian
https://globalnews.ca/news/11088255/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-us-detention-louisiana//612
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Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil’s challenge to his deportation
A federal judge has turned down a request from the Trump administration to dismiss Palestinian activist #Mahmoud #Khalil’s challenge to his deportation,
and ruled his case should be heard in New Jersey rather than Louisiana, where he is now detained.
In his decision, judge Jesse Furman said that since Khalil’s attorney filed the challenge to his arrest while he was in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention in New Jersey,
the case must be heard there. Government lawyers had asked that his petition be considered in Louisiana,
where Khalil had been flown to after being arrested by Ice in New York City and then briefly held in New Jersey.“Given that the District of New Jersey is the one and only district in which Khalil could have filed his Petition when he did, the statutes that govern transfer of civil cases from one federal district court to another dictate that the case be sent there, not to the Western District of Louisiana,”
Furman wrote.
He added that “the Court’s March 10, 2025 Order barring the Government from removing him (to which the Government has never raised an objection and which the Government has not asked the Court to lift in the event of transfer) shall similarly remain in effect unless and until the transferee court orders otherwise.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/19/us-politics-live-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-elon-musk-latest-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil’s challenge to his deportation
A federal judge has turned down a request from the Trump administration to dismiss Palestinian activist #Mahmoud #Khalil’s challenge to his deportation,
and ruled his case should be heard in New Jersey rather than Louisiana, where he is now detained.
In his decision, judge Jesse Furman said that since Khalil’s attorney filed the challenge to his arrest while he was in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention in New Jersey,
the case must be heard there. Government lawyers had asked that his petition be considered in Louisiana,
where Khalil had been flown to after being arrested by Ice in New York City and then briefly held in New Jersey.“Given that the District of New Jersey is the one and only district in which Khalil could have filed his Petition when he did, the statutes that govern transfer of civil cases from one federal district court to another dictate that the case be sent there, not to the Western District of Louisiana,”
Furman wrote.
He added that “the Court’s March 10, 2025 Order barring the Government from removing him (to which the Government has never raised an objection and which the Government has not asked the Court to lift in the event of transfer) shall similarly remain in effect unless and until the transferee court orders otherwise.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/19/us-politics-live-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-elon-musk-latest-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Green cards grant foreign nationals the right to live and work in the U.S. as permanent residents.
They’re valid for ten years and have to new renewed.
“Only the immigration judge can take away that green card.
The Trump administration thinks that they can expand that and do some crazy things,”
said Curtis Morrison,
an immigration attorney in California with experience litigating against the Trump administration.“But the law as it is now — he needs to be able to appear before an immigration judge.”
The government has to initiate removal proceedings in immigration court,
and an individual has the right to go before a judge to defend themselves and understand the government reasoning for the potential deportation.“[It’s the] Immigration and Nationality Act
— which describes different kinds of conduct or crimes that could trigger somebody with a green card being deported and put into court proceedings to have them deported,”
said Gregory Chen, senior director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.The law doesn’t always require convictions for green card holders to be deported.
“There is a long list of behaviors, conduct and also crimes.
If somebody’s been convicted of something that could make somebody deportable if they have a green card,” he said.Chen hadn’t heard of other green card cases like Schmidt’s other than that of Palestinian and Syrian student activist #Mahmoud #Khalid in New York City,
a green card holder who is currently detained due to his protest activity at Columbia University.In that case, attorneys are relying partially on First Amendment right of protest.
“We have seen a disturbing trend from the federal government to target people who have legal immigration status,”
said Chen,
including not just those who have green cards, but people with visas and varying legal statuses.“Denying a green card holder admission on such a minor charge would be an extreme case,
but it is possible under the law,”
said Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, immigration law professor at Cornell Law School of the pot possession charge and deportation.The reasons a green card holder can be deported include many kinds of criminal convictions, even if those convictions are from a long time ago and even some very minor convictions.
For marijuana convictions, a person is deportable unless the conviction is for possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana for one’s own use, she said.
Otherwise, any controlled substances offense makes a green card holder deportable.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained -
Green cards grant foreign nationals the right to live and work in the U.S. as permanent residents.
They’re valid for ten years and have to new renewed.
“Only the immigration judge can take away that green card.
The Trump administration thinks that they can expand that and do some crazy things,”
said Curtis Morrison,
an immigration attorney in California with experience litigating against the Trump administration.“But the law as it is now — he needs to be able to appear before an immigration judge.”
The government has to initiate removal proceedings in immigration court,
and an individual has the right to go before a judge to defend themselves and understand the government reasoning for the potential deportation.“[It’s the] Immigration and Nationality Act
— which describes different kinds of conduct or crimes that could trigger somebody with a green card being deported and put into court proceedings to have them deported,”
said Gregory Chen, senior director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.The law doesn’t always require convictions for green card holders to be deported.
“There is a long list of behaviors, conduct and also crimes.
If somebody’s been convicted of something that could make somebody deportable if they have a green card,” he said.Chen hadn’t heard of other green card cases like Schmidt’s other than that of Palestinian and Syrian student activist #Mahmoud #Khalid in New York City,
a green card holder who is currently detained due to his protest activity at Columbia University.In that case, attorneys are relying partially on First Amendment right of protest.
“We have seen a disturbing trend from the federal government to target people who have legal immigration status,”
said Chen,
including not just those who have green cards, but people with visas and varying legal statuses.“Denying a green card holder admission on such a minor charge would be an extreme case,
but it is possible under the law,”
said Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, immigration law professor at Cornell Law School of the pot possession charge and deportation.The reasons a green card holder can be deported include many kinds of criminal convictions, even if those convictions are from a long time ago and even some very minor convictions.
For marijuana convictions, a person is deportable unless the conviction is for possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana for one’s own use, she said.
Otherwise, any controlled substances offense makes a green card holder deportable.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained -
A far-right group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport-- claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment.
"Betar US" is one of a number of rightwing, so called "pro-Israel" groups
that are supporting the administration’s efforts to deport international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests,
an effort that escalated this week with the arrest of #Mahmoud #Khalil, an activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University.This week, Donald Trump said Khalil’s arrest was
just “the first of many to come”.
#BetarUS quickly claimed credit on social media for providing Khalil’s name to the government.Betar, 💥which has been labelled an extremist group by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish advocacy group,
said on Monday that it had
“been working on deportations and will continue to do so”,
and warned that the effort would extend beyond immigrants.
❌“Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” the group’s post on X read.
(It is very difficult to revoke US citizenship, though Trump has indicated an intention to try.)👉Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move
The group has compiled a so-called “deportation list”
naming individuals it believes are in the US on visas and have participated in pro-Palestinian protests, claiming these individuals “terrorize America”.
A Betar spokesperson, #Daniel #Levy, said in a statement to the Guardian that Betar submitted 🆘“thousands of names” of students and faculty they believe to be on visas from institutions like Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Syracuse University and others to representatives of the Trump administration.The group claims to have “documentation, including tapes, social media and more” to support their actions.
It claims to be sharing names with several high-ranking officials, including the secretary of state, Marco #Rubio; the White House homeland security adviser, Stephen #Miller; and the attorney general, Pam #Bondi, among others.The White House and state department did not respond to questions about whether they are working with Betar or other groups to identify students for deportation.
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A far-right group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport-- claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment.
"Betar US" is one of a number of rightwing, so called "pro-Israel" groups
that are supporting the administration’s efforts to deport international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests,
an effort that escalated this week with the arrest of #Mahmoud #Khalil, an activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University.This week, Donald Trump said Khalil’s arrest was
just “the first of many to come”.
#BetarUS quickly claimed credit on social media for providing Khalil’s name to the government.Betar, 💥which has been labelled an extremist group by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish advocacy group,
said on Monday that it had
“been working on deportations and will continue to do so”,
and warned that the effort would extend beyond immigrants.
❌“Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” the group’s post on X read.
(It is very difficult to revoke US citizenship, though Trump has indicated an intention to try.)👉Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move
The group has compiled a so-called “deportation list”
naming individuals it believes are in the US on visas and have participated in pro-Palestinian protests, claiming these individuals “terrorize America”.
A Betar spokesperson, #Daniel #Levy, said in a statement to the Guardian that Betar submitted 🆘“thousands of names” of students and faculty they believe to be on visas from institutions like Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Syracuse University and others to representatives of the Trump administration.The group claims to have “documentation, including tapes, social media and more” to support their actions.
It claims to be sharing names with several high-ranking officials, including the secretary of state, Marco #Rubio; the White House homeland security adviser, Stephen #Miller; and the attorney general, Pam #Bondi, among others.The White House and state department did not respond to questions about whether they are working with Betar or other groups to identify students for deportation.
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As the Trump administration’s effort to deport #Mahmoud #Khalil sparks legal battles and demonstrations,
#Columbia #University announced Thursday that it has
👉revoked degrees from some other pro-Palestinian campus protesters.
A campuswide email reported by The Associated Press says that “the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students
ranging from multiyear suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.”
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As the Trump administration’s effort to deport #Mahmoud #Khalil sparks legal battles and demonstrations,
#Columbia #University announced Thursday that it has
👉revoked degrees from some other pro-Palestinian campus protesters.
A campuswide email reported by The Associated Press says that “the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students
ranging from multiyear suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.”
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Mahmoud Khalil to remain in detention in Louisiana, judge rules #Trending #US News #Immigration #Mahmoud Khalil #Palestinian Protests #Protests
https://globalnews.ca/news/11078702/mahmoud-khalil-remain-detention-louisiana//612
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#Mahmoud #ICE #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestine
Orlando: Protesters at Federal building housing immigration court demand unconditional release of Khalil Mamhoud.
On the 11th of March, protesters in front of Orlando's Federal building demanded that Trump release Khalil Mamhoud and cancel plans to round up and deport pro-Palestine students. Protesters warned "You are not safe if Mahmoud isn't safe."
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#Mahmoud #ICE #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestine
Orlando: Protesters at Federal building housing immigration court demand unconditional release of Khalil Mamhoud.
On the 11th of March, protesters in front of Orlando's Federal building demanded that Trump release Khalil Mamhoud and cancel plans to round up and deport pro-Palestine students. Protesters warned "You are not safe if Mahmoud isn't safe."
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#Trump #Mahmoud Khalil #ADL #fascists
"A fresh round of controversy is swirling around the Anti-Defamation League’s approval of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to the arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize Columbia University protests against Israel.
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until three months ago, was taken into custody Saturday night at his university-owned apartment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on an order which Trump confirmed came directly from him.
The arrest prompted the ADL to post on social media that they 'appreciate the Trump Administration's broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus antisemitism — and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.'"
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#Trump #Mahmoud Khalil #ADL #fascists
"A fresh round of controversy is swirling around the Anti-Defamation League’s approval of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to the arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize Columbia University protests against Israel.
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until three months ago, was taken into custody Saturday night at his university-owned apartment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on an order which Trump confirmed came directly from him.
The arrest prompted the ADL to post on social media that they 'appreciate the Trump Administration's broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus antisemitism — and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.'"
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One of the ICE agents told
#Mahmoud #Khalil’s attorney by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa.Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.
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One of the ICE agents told
#Mahmoud #Khalil’s attorney by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa.Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist with green card at Columbia University
#Mahmoud #Khalil is married to a U.S. citizen,
his attorney said.if they get away with arresting legal residents, they'll get citizens next.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
-- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement
-- on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News.However, Khalil is in the United States on a green card and not on a student visa, Greer said Sunday.
Despite informing agents about his legal status, ICE detained him, she said.
At one point during a phone call with agents, they hung up on Greer, a representative of her law firm told ABC News.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin addressed Khalil's arrest on Sunday night, saying, “On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism....
Yeah, they pulled the antisemitism card
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-green-card-columbia-university/story?id=119616144 -
ICE arrests Palestinian activist with green card at Columbia University
#Mahmoud #Khalil is married to a U.S. citizen,
his attorney said.if they get away with arresting legal residents, they'll get citizens next.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
-- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement
-- on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News.However, Khalil is in the United States on a green card and not on a student visa, Greer said Sunday.
Despite informing agents about his legal status, ICE detained him, she said.
At one point during a phone call with agents, they hung up on Greer, a representative of her law firm told ABC News.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin addressed Khalil's arrest on Sunday night, saying, “On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism....
Yeah, they pulled the antisemitism card
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-green-card-columbia-university/story?id=119616144 -
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Controversies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
* Mahmoud Ahmadinejadhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
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