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Activist #MohsenMahdawi at risk AGAIN by Fascist USA's Regime
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Activist #MohsenMahdawi at risk AGAIN by Fascist USA's Regime
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Two immigration judges who ruled against the Trump administration in the deportation cases of pro-Palestinian university students have been fired by the Department of Justice.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that the justice department had terminated six judges,
including Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, who oversaw deportation proceedings against Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi,
two students who were arrested last year as part of Trump’s campaign against the Gaza protest movement.In an interview with the Guardian, Patel said she did not view her dismissal as “directly retaliatory” for any one case.
She said it fit within a broader pattern of the administration dismissing judges near the end of their probationary term,
particularly those who have experience representing immigrants in court.“I think there’s a broader agenda of trying to reshape the immigration bench to be more reflective of the political agenda of the administration,” Patel said.
The Biden administration appointed both Patel and Froes to the bench in May 2024, and both had previously worked in immigration defense.
A recent NPR analysis found that the Trump administration appears to be targeting immigration judges who previously represented immigrants -
US kills 11 in triple vessel strike; Mamdani to control pivotal NYC rent authority; "Voice of Hind Rajab" filmmaker rejects prize in Berlin
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/united-states-triple-strike-boats-rent-freeze-voice-hind-rajab-rejects-berlin-prize-drop-site-dailyDrop Site Daily
from #DropSiteNews
Feb 18, 2026As Ramadan begins, Israeli attacks continue across #Gaza and Israel imposes restrictions on access to Al-Aqsa mosque. Settler attacks, military raids and arrests across the #WestBank. Chief Israeli ministers push for “emigration” and continued occupation in discussions of the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon. #US sells over $1 billion in #Venezuela #oil and projects expanded production. Palantir relocates headquarters to Miami. #ICE facility in Texas accused of destroying children’s letters. #Immigration judge ends removal case against Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi. House Democrats weigh censure vote against Rep. Randy Fine over anti-Muslim remarks. DHS workers say #Noem -ordered demolitions are exposing them to asbestos.
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Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/leqaa_kordia
from #DemocracyNow
December 24, 2025Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester #LeqaaKordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia U. #Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her #ICE check-in this past March, she was arrested and immediately sent to a detention center in Texas, where she has been held ever since. Although Columbia U. student protesters like #MohsenMahdawi and #MahmoudKhalil have been freed from ICE detention, “her case sort of fell between the cracks,” says Laila El-Haddad, Palestinian writer and journalist from Gaza, who just visited Kordia. She also criticizes the #Trump administration’s effort to “crack down on any dissent and... to weaponize immigration law to silence dissent and to criminalize free speech, especially when that speech relates to #Palestine.”
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Mohsen Mahdawi Faces Conservative Judges as Trump Administration Tries to Lock Him Back Up https://theintercept.com/2025/09/30/mohsen-mahdawi-ice-detention-trump-columbia/ #uspoli #TrumpNazi #GOPNazis #MohsenMahdawi #racism #racist
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Palestinian student #MohsenMahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies
Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 ETMohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old #Palestinian student and #US permanent resident, returned to #ColumbiaUniversity on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.
“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or #Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-university-palestinian
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #USPol #politics
#Gaza #Palestine
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#BadarKhanSuri, a postdoc fellow at #Georgetown, was released after 58 days.
#RumeyzaOzturk, a #Tufts doctoral student, was released after 45 days.
#MohsenMahdawi, a #Columbia undergrad, was released after 16 days.
But 72 days after his arrest on Mar 9, #MahmoudKhalil — the country’s most prominent pro-#Palestinian #protester turned prisoner — is still detained in Jena, LA….
#Trump #immigration #law #dissent #democracy #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-detention-judge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4CE24CD2-E7AD-4501-B3EF-08583FEDF33B -
Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers
from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025
"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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“They Want to Silence Me”: #Columbia Student #MohsenMahdawi on ICE Jail, #Palestine, Activism, #Buddhism [interview]
from #DemocracyNow
May 16, 2025
"In this prison, [...], #ICE rents a section of the prison. And the section where I was, it was a mixture of three-quarters of people who have committed crimes before, and one-quarter of migrants who come in and out. And I was — my cell was C-38, the first cell in that C section where the migrants are. So, I saw waves of the migrants. Those are not just migrants. Those are the people who feed us, who plant our food, who harvest our organic, delicious #Vermont produce."https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/16/mohsen_mahdawi_columbia_university
#StopGazaGenocide
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#Israel #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GCJki3pMg
'They Want to Silence Me': #Columbia Student #MohsenMahdawi on #ICE jail, #Palestine, #Buddhism & More
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dlE3HfG90
#MohsenMahdawi to Al Jazeera: Detention won't stop me, I draw strength from #Palestine's Struggle
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#ColumbiaUniversity undergrad & activist #MohsenMahdawi can stay #free on bail, per UNANIMOUS US Court of Appeals for Second Circuit. It denies govt's stay & mandamus requests.
In declining the writ of mandamus, the court cites #RumeysaOzturk’s case. [see pic]
#immigration #law #Trump #Universities #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #dissent #censorship #Dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #judiciary
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I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
Guest essay by #MohsenMahdawi
#immigration #law #Trump #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #dissent #AmericanAutocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/mohsen-mahdawi-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.aupQ.28zpWyh0uozq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #Trump admin is appealing a lower court decision to free #MohsenMahdawi, a permanent #legal resident & an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at #Columbia who had been detained at his court appointment for becoming a #US #citizen on April 14. After he was released from federal custody on Wed following the lower court order, Mahdawi offered a defiant message to Trump & his ofcls: “I am saying it clear & loud. I am not afraid of you.”
#law #immigration #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news/8cbefa1a-9ef1-59d0-aef7-4f0e5738ef11?smid=url-share -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLLbXJmoYQ
#DemocracyNow 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 :ablobcatrave:
'I Am Not Afraid of You': #MohsenMahdawi's Defiant Message to Trump After Release From #ICE
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Detained #Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi speaks from prison
[on April 29, before he was freed on April 30]from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5377484
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#ICE
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwIUBEpCNs
#DaveNeal two
1.14 min. mark: Adorable #kangaroo in #Alabama.
12.22 min. mark #WithoutACrystalBall proves #SuperRichBullies' history of lying and causing trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9eKzqgf0k&pp=ygUXd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyeXN0YWwgYmFsbCA%3D
18.04 min. mark: Trump blames Biden for the economy, despite #economists saying that's BULLSHIT. #Tariffs
26.30 min mark: #MohsenMahdawi released. 🎉
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwIUBEpCNs
#DaveNeal two
1.14 min. mark: Adorable #kangaroo in #Alabama.
12.22 min. mark #WithoutACrystalBall proves #SuperRichBullies' history of lying and causing trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9eKzqgf0k&pp=ygUXd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyeXN0YWwgYmFsbCA%3D
18.04 min. mark: Trump blames Biden for the economy, despite #economists saying that's BULLSHIT. #Tariffs
26.30 min mark: #MohsenMahdawi released. 🎉
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwIUBEpCNs
#DaveNeal two
1.14 min. mark: Adorable #kangaroo in #Alabama.
12.22 min. mark #WithoutACrystalBall proves #SuperRichBullies' history of lying and causing trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9eKzqgf0k&pp=ygUXd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyeXN0YWwgYmFsbCA%3D
18.04 min. mark: Trump blames Biden for the economy, despite #economists saying that's BULLSHIT. #Tariffs
26.30 min mark: #MohsenMahdawi released. 🎉
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwIUBEpCNs
#DaveNeal two
1.14 min. mark: Adorable #kangaroo in #Alabama.
12.22 min. mark #WithoutACrystalBall proves #SuperRichBullies' history of lying and causing trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9eKzqgf0k&pp=ygUXd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyeXN0YWwgYmFsbCA%3D
18.04 min. mark: Trump blames Biden for the economy, despite #economists saying that's BULLSHIT. #Tariffs
26.30 min mark: #MohsenMahdawi released. 🎉
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwIUBEpCNs
#DaveNeal two
1.14 min. mark: Adorable #kangaroo in #Alabama.
12.22 min. mark #WithoutACrystalBall proves #SuperRichBullies' history of lying and causing trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa9eKzqgf0k&pp=ygUXd2l0aG91dCBhIGNyeXN0YWwgYmFsbCA%3D
18.04 min. mark: Trump blames Biden for the economy, despite #economists saying that's BULLSHIT. #Tariffs
26.30 min mark: #MohsenMahdawi released. 🎉
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#Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi is released from detention
Mohsen Mahdawi, a #ColumbiaUniversity student arrested & detained by masked #immigration agents after his naturalization interview in Vermont, has been #released from #detention while his case proceeds.
US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford said Wednesday that Mahdawi's detention for 2 weeks, "so far demonstrates great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime."
#law #Trump #immigration #AbuseOfPower
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382306/mohsen-madawi-released-ice-columbia-university-activist-judge -
Just found out: #ColumbiaUniversity's #MohsenMahdawi released from #ICE abduction
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 😃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOu_r219UxU
The people united will never be defeated
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmWUOSbgr0
Trump Blames Biden For Bad Economy News!! Says 'BE PATIENT' WTF?
#FascistUSA #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #Tariffs #EggsAreStillHigh #China #Shipping #goods
8.23 min. mark: Dave Neal's informed that #MohsenMahdawi has been released 😃 🎉
9.24 min. mark : A drtone flew by, and recorded people sending an S.O.S. at a detention centre because they're being sent to #ElSalvador without #DueProcess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmWUOSbgr0
Trump Blames Biden For Bad Economy News!! Says 'BE PATIENT' WTF?
#FascistUSA #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #Tariffs #EggsAreStillHigh #China #Shipping #goods
8.23 min. mark: Dave Neal's informed that #MohsenMahdawi has been released 😃 🎉
9.24 min. mark : A drtone flew by, and recorded people sending an S.O.S. at a detention centre because they're being sent to #ElSalvador without #DueProcess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmWUOSbgr0
Trump Blames Biden For Bad Economy News!! Says 'BE PATIENT' WTF?
#FascistUSA #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #Tariffs #EggsAreStillHigh #China #Shipping #goods
8.23 min. mark: Dave Neal's informed that #MohsenMahdawi has been released 😃 🎉
9.24 min. mark : A drtone flew by, and recorded people sending an S.O.S. at a detention centre because they're being sent to #ElSalvador without #DueProcess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmWUOSbgr0
Trump Blames Biden For Bad Economy News!! Says 'BE PATIENT' WTF?
#FascistUSA #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #Tariffs #EggsAreStillHigh #China #Shipping #goods
8.23 min. mark: Dave Neal's informed that #MohsenMahdawi has been released 😃 🎉
9.24 min. mark : A drtone flew by, and recorded people sending an S.O.S. at a detention centre because they're being sent to #ElSalvador without #DueProcess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmWUOSbgr0
Trump Blames Biden For Bad Economy News!! Says 'BE PATIENT' WTF?
#FascistUSA #UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT #Tariffs #EggsAreStillHigh #China #Shipping #goods
8.23 min. mark: Dave Neal's informed that #MohsenMahdawi has been released 😃 🎉
9.24 min. mark : A drtone flew by, and recorded people sending an S.O.S. at a detention centre because they're being sent to #ElSalvador without #DueProcess
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Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free after judge orders his release
#HackerNews #ColumbiaStudent #MohsenMahdawi #JudgeRelease #NewsStory #Freedom
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HT @fight
Great news for students, Palestinian solidarity + free speech!
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released
#FreePalestine #MohsenMahdawi #ResistICE #Resistance #Resist
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BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail. #mohsenmahdawi #Trump #FreePalestine
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released -
Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is released from detention
#HackerNews #ColumbiaStudent #MohsenMahdawi #ReleasedFromDetention #Activism #ImmigrationRights #JusticeSystem
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)
#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)
#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)
#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)
#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)
#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BPkkHLagc
#DaveNeal #TheRushHour 23 April 1
#EntertainmentIndustry news and #PoliticalNews
11.35 min. mark #SuperRichBullies and the #ShamSubpoena, #WithoutACrystalBall
14.58 min mark No one wants a #Tesla.
16.36min mark The Dow is down, self-inflicted. Worst April since #TheGreatDepression19.23 min. mark: #MohsenMahdawi interview. He was preparing for his #CtizenshipExam when he was abducted.
#FreeMohsenMahdawi #JewsForMohsenMahdawi
23.19 min mark Congressmembers #RobertGarcía, #MaxwellFrost, etc. demanding the release of #KilmarAbregoGarcía and others. #JeSuisAndry #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcía
#BringAndryRomeroBACKNOW :pride:
#DueProcess #StopAbductions #StopTrafficking #StopRemovals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BPkkHLagc
#DaveNeal #TheRushHour 23 April 1
#EntertainmentIndustry news and #PoliticalNews
11.35 min. mark #SuperRichBullies and the #ShamSubpoena, #WithoutACrystalBall
14.58 min mark No one wants a #Tesla.
16.36min mark The Dow is down, self-inflicted. Worst April since #TheGreatDepression19.23 min. mark: #MohsenMahdawi interview. He was preparing for his #CtizenshipExam when he was abducted.
#FreeMohsenMahdawi #JewsForMohsenMahdawi
23.19 min mark Congressmembers #RobertGarcía, #MaxwellFrost, etc. demanding the release of #KilmarAbregoGarcía and others. #JeSuisAndry #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcía
#BringAndryRomeroBACKNOW :pride:
#DueProcess #StopAbductions #StopTrafficking #StopRemovals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BPkkHLagc
#DaveNeal #TheRushHour 23 April 1
#EntertainmentIndustry news and #PoliticalNews
11.35 min. mark #SuperRichBullies and the #ShamSubpoena, #WithoutACrystalBall
14.58 min mark No one wants a #Tesla.
16.36min mark The Dow is down, self-inflicted. Worst April since #TheGreatDepression19.23 min. mark: #MohsenMahdawi interview. He was preparing for his #CtizenshipExam when he was abducted.
#FreeMohsenMahdawi #JewsForMohsenMahdawi
23.19 min mark Congressmembers #RobertGarcía, #MaxwellFrost, etc. demanding the release of #KilmarAbregoGarcía and others. #JeSuisAndry #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcía
#BringAndryRomeroBACKNOW :pride:
#DueProcess #StopAbductions #StopTrafficking #StopRemovals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BPkkHLagc
#DaveNeal #TheRushHour 23 April 1
#EntertainmentIndustry news and #PoliticalNews
11.35 min. mark #SuperRichBullies and the #ShamSubpoena, #WithoutACrystalBall
14.58 min mark No one wants a #Tesla.
16.36min mark The Dow is down, self-inflicted. Worst April since #TheGreatDepression19.23 min. mark: #MohsenMahdawi interview. He was preparing for his #CtizenshipExam when he was abducted.
#FreeMohsenMahdawi #JewsForMohsenMahdawi
23.19 min mark Congressmembers #RobertGarcía, #MaxwellFrost, etc. demanding the release of #KilmarAbregoGarcía and others. #JeSuisAndry #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcía
#BringAndryRomeroBACKNOW :pride:
#DueProcess #StopAbductions #StopTrafficking #StopRemovals -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BPkkHLagc
#DaveNeal #TheRushHour 23 April 1
#EntertainmentIndustry news and #PoliticalNews
11.35 min. mark #SuperRichBullies and the #ShamSubpoena, #WithoutACrystalBall
14.58 min mark No one wants a #Tesla.
16.36min mark The Dow is down, self-inflicted. Worst April since #TheGreatDepression19.23 min. mark: #MohsenMahdawi interview. He was preparing for his #CtizenshipExam when he was abducted.
#FreeMohsenMahdawi #JewsForMohsenMahdawi
23.19 min mark Congressmembers #RobertGarcía, #MaxwellFrost, etc. demanding the release of #KilmarAbregoGarcía and others. #JeSuisAndry #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcía
#BringAndryRomeroBACKNOW :pride:
#DueProcess #StopAbductions #StopTrafficking #StopRemovals -
Here's a #DemocracyNow segment from 5 days ago, about #MohsenMahdawi's abduction. Amy speaks with Congressmember #BeccaBalint (D-VT) ✡️ :pride: (She is calling for the release of Mahdawi. She's also the first Jewish Congressmember to call for a #Ceasefire 🇵🇸 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1vShBUx4pc
#FreeMohsen #StopAbductions #DueProcess #StopKidnappings
Masked hooded men in plain clothes with an unmarked van kidnapped him. That's NOT #Democracy
#NotInOurName ✡️ :anarchismhebrew:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jXeAtssQlU&pp=ygUPbWlkZGxlIGVhc3QgZXll
#MEE MiddleEastEye
US Senator #PeterWelch visits #Palestinian #student #MohsenMahdawi held in #ICE facility
#DueProcess #FascistUSA #Vermont #FreeMohsen #FreeMohsenMahdawi NOW!
#AbolishICE #StopKidnappings #StopDeportations #StopRemovals #StopAbductions
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https://forward.com/opinion/712747/ice-vermont-mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-university/
'As Israelis in #NewYork, we're horrified by #ICE's deention of one of our #Palestinian partners in #peace ☮️ '
An open letter in support of #MohsenMahdawi
#StopDeportations #StopAbductions #StopKidnappings #AbolishICE #FASCISTUSA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9p_0gE-igE
#MohsenMahdawi Arrest Sends Message 'Peacemakers Are Not Welcome': Israeli -American #Columbia #Student
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#Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by #ICE
A green card holder, #ColumbiaUniversity protest leader #MohsenMahdawi faced attacks from pro-#Israel activists.
By Akela Lacy, April 14, 2025
"Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in #ColchesterVT, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank. #Mahdawi, a leader of the campus protest movement against Israel’s war on Gaza, became yet another green card holder arrested and facing removal."'#MohsenMahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,' Mahdawi’s attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement to The Intercept. 'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.'
"Mahdawi’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Monday morning challenging the legality of his detention, alleging the government was violating his statutory and #DueProcess rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel. The filing said it appears that Mahdawi was facing deportation under the obscure provision used in other recent cases that gives Secretary of State #MarcoRubio the right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy."Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Z0lNh#FreeMahdawi #SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #ICE #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #CharacteristicsOfFascism