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#DHS said in a stmnt on Mon that Alawieh had told #CBP officers that she traveled to #Beirut to attend the funeral of #Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
"A visa is a privilege not a right—glorifying & supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security," the DHS stmnt continued.
A second Palestinian Columbia University student has been arrested by DHS/ICE over the weekend.
Leqaa Kordia is from the West Bank and in any sensible world a democratic country would not deport a person to an active genocide but that appears to be what the Trump administration is set to do.
"Trump "border czar" Tom Homan on "what's next":
"Another flight every day... We are not stopping.
I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We are coming."
-M Gertz
The lawless #TrumpMusk regime will not comply with the law. They're openly defying it. Will SCOTUS continue to give #Trump virtually limitless immunity?
While you certainly don't "have to hand it to the nazis," I must admit that it's way easier to show people that the Trump regime's attempts to target anti-genocide protestors using "War on Terror" logic will lead to them targeting all protestors using that same logic, when they just blurt that part out loud:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/deportation-protest
DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in 'Stunning' Interview
"The Trump administration has accused Khalil, who is of Palestinian descent, of leading "activities aligned to Hamas" and protests where pro-Hamas propaganda was distributed, but officials have provided no evidence that he's provided support to Hamas or other groups designated as terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.
A White House official this week told The Free Press that Khalil is not being accused of breaking any laws, but is rather "a threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," and Edgar's comments to Martin offered further evidence evidence that DHS is working to deport Khalil without accusing him of a crime.
"He is coming in to basically be a student that is not going to be supporting terrorism," said Edgar. "So, the issue is he was let into the country on this visa. He has been promoting this antisemitism activity at the university. And at this point, the State Department has revoked his visa for supporting a terrorist type organization."
This story comes out of an interview with Troy Edgar (Trump's deputy homeland security secretary) by NPR's Michel Martin; thus it's important to note that while Edgar isn't making a legal argument here, he is absolutely working the court of public opinion to sway your perception about the legality of Trump's unlawful arrest, detainment, and ongoing attempts to deport a former Columbia University student green card holder, legally residing in the country with his wife (who is an American citizen), for protesting a genocide (by Israel) in Gaza, facilitated by both the current, and prior US administrations.
With that in mind, the first thing I'd like to point out is the bizarre, manipulative, and legally irrelevant language Edgar uses here. From a technical standpoint, the phrase "activities aligned with Hamas" is wholly unrelated to any law on the books in America, even our nightmare War on Terror era anti-terrorism laws, while simultaneously covering such a broad spectrum of activities that untold millions of Americans could potentially be "engaging in activities aligned with Hamas" - if for example, as in Khalil's case, you've advocated for ending Israel's genocide in Gaza, or the US government's arm shipments to Israel that make it possible, you've technically engaged in "activities aligned with Hamas," who also want the genocide and arms shipments to end. Does anyone, including Troy Edgar know what "a terrorist type organization" means? You won't find a single paragraph in US law that discusses prohibitions against supporting "a terrorist *type* organization" and this is really just a way for Edgar to say Khalil is working for "terrorists" without exposing himself to liability for false accusations; it's a poison phrase to turn public opinion against the accused, and in favor of the Trump administration's unlawful and quite frankly fascist actions. This is of course setting aside that Edgar, much like the rest of the Trump regime, continues to use the War on Terror legal language of "supporting a terrorist organization" (typically financially, materially, or logistically) to describe protesting a genocide; a stretch that also has no basis in American law that I'm aware of.
Additionally of course, there's the bombshell this article is mostly based around to consider; a US deputy homeland security secretary just went on public radio and argued that (legally nebulous) "pro-Palestine activity" and even just protesting in general, is terrorism. While many disingenuous bootlickers will try to parse Edgar's words here, he was given plenty of opportunities to answer questions about what "terrorist" activities the government was alleging Khalil engaged in, and Troy continually repeated the phrases "pro-Palestinian activity" and "protesting." Furthermore given that the entire Trump administration keeps making this "mistake" over and over again, it seems pretty reasonable to assume that at least from a propaganda perspective this is the regime's official position on supporting Palestinians and protesting in general.
Folks, can you think of any reason why an increasingly unpopular fascist administration presiding over the rapid impoverishment of the US labor class, and working with Israel to ethnically cleanse Gaza, would want to declare "pro-Palestinian activity" and "protesting" to be terrorist activity? Might it be because they expect a lot of Americans to start getting interested in Palestinians and protesting?
DHS deputy secretary Troy Edgar is questioned over Mahmoud Khalil's arrest. When pressed, he cannot give a single example of Khalil's alleged “terrorist” activity, “support of terrorism,” or ANY criminal activity at all.
#MAGA - DHS detains Lebanese doctor with a work visa to teach medicine in the US
> A US district court judge in Massachusetts ordered that Alawieh should not be deported without 48 hours' notice and a reason why from DHS
> Instead, according to a notice of apparent violation, #DHS “willfully” disregarded the court order and deported Alawieh to France, with a flight to continue on to Lebanon. It is unconfirmed if that deportation took place as planned https://abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-detains-lebanese-doctor-work-visa-teach-medicine/story?id=119858026 #immigration #DHS
Local #Chicago radio station #WDRV just broadcast a message from the #DHS warning illegals to leave or be deported.
I’ll never tune in again.
97.1 FM WDRV Chicago
https://wdrv.com/
ICE is now rounding up immigrants who are going through the naturalization by marriage process, no doubt because #TomHoman's crew are so grotesquely incompetent they can't actually meet Trump's quotas by going after actual criminals.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/03/16/he-voted-for-trump-then-ice-detained-his-wife/82469657007/
And he would vote for Trump again. That's how stupid the average Trump voter is.
They said they would target visa overstays. His wife overstayed, but he thought "she's one of the good ones." When you enable these types of policies, your "good one" gets lumped in with the "bad" (which are someone else's "good ones").
He voted for Trump. Then ICE detained his wife.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/
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'The #DOJ is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus... as the Trump admin intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-#Palestinians demos last year.
Agents from #DHS searched two university residences with a warrant Thursday... No one was arrested and it was unclear whom the authorities were searching for,'
#DOJ investigating if Columbia University hid students from #ICE
FULL ON NAZI MODE!!!
Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in #ProPalestinian protests at Columbia
By Larry Neumeister
Updated 5:50 PM EDT, March 14, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether #ColumbiaUniversity concealed 'illegal aliens' on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-#Palestinian demonstrations at the school last year.
"Agents with the Department of Homeland Security searched two university residences with a warrant Thursday evening. No one was arrested and it was unclear whom the authorities were searching for, but by Friday afternoon U.S. officials had announced developments related to two people they had pursued in connection with the demonstrations.
"A Columbia doctoral student from #India whose visa was revoked by the Trump administration fled the U.S. on an airliner. And a Palestinian woman who had been arrested during the protests at the university last April was arrested by federal immigration authorities in Newark, New Jersey, on charges that she overstayed an expired visa."
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-3a8db6e646b786a721089a6f0bc8d9fc
#ICE #ICEDetention #DHS #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreeMahmoudKhalil #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ResistFascism #USPol
#MahmoudKhalil Isn’t the Only #GreenCard Holder Targeted for Arrest
The Trump administration has identified another legal permanent resident it wants deported.
By Nick Miroff, March 13, 2025
Excerpt: "It turns out Secretary of State #MarcoRubio identified a second individual to be deported, and included that person alongside Khalil in a March 7 letter to the Department of Homeland Security [#DHS]. Both were identified in the letter as legal permanent residents, The Atlantic has learned.
"Rubio’s letter notified DHS that he had revoked both targets’ visas, setting in motion plans for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and attempt to deport them, according to a senior DHS official and another U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe how the operation against Khalil took shape.
In addition to the two names in Rubio’s initial letter, the State Department has also sent the names of 'one or two' more students whose visas it has revoked, according to the DHS official, who described the first group of names as an opening move, with 'more to come.'"
Original article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-deportation-green-card-holder-mahmoud-khalil/682037/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/mgFc6
#Fascism #Authoritarianism #ResistFascism #ResistTrump #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #KristiNoem #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ResistICE #ICE #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoud
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Table of #DOGE members.
(11 - 15) (of 68)
From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#DOGE_members
11) #NateCavanaugh, #GSA
12) #GeorgeCooper, Recruiter
13) #SamCorcos, #IRS
14) #EdwardCoristine, Expert (coding), #DT, #OPM, #DOS, #DHS, #FEMA, #USAID
15) #SteveDavis, Musk second-in-command, #EOP, OPM, GSA
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained at an immigrant checkpoint.
Trump’s immigration crackdown is inhumane & illegal. The child, a US citizen, who’s recovering from brain cancer, was deported with her undocumented parents. Homan said he’d separate families or deport them all.
“Trump is bringing back McCarthyism to go after Mahmoud Khalil
The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.”
by Gaby Del Valle
Mar 12, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
#AmericanPrestige pod | The Arrest of #MahmoudKhalil w/ #SpencerAckerman
Ackerman's piece @ Forever Wars : https://www.forever-wars.com/mahmoud-khalils-detention-is-a-war-on-terror-milestone/
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine
