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Mahmoud Khalil has the eyes of thousands and thousands of individuals on him and his scenario however this story has not obtained practically sufficient protection contemplating how egregious and terrifying it’s. For many who are unaware, Khalil was a graduate pupil at Columbia College in New York Metropolis complete accomplished his schooling then turned his focus to organizing and protesting the remedy of Palestine by each Israel and the USA. This previous Saturday, based on NewsOne, Khalil was apprehended by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent at his college condominium.
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Division of Homeland Safety Tricia McLaughlin tried to rationalize Khalil’s arrest throughout a press convention final Sunday.
“Khalil led actions aligned to Hamas, a chosen terrorist group,” she mentioned. “ICE and the Division of State are dedicated to implementing President Trump’s government orders and to defending U.S. nationwide safety.
Did you discover how broad the reasoning that McLaughlin used was? “Led actions aligned to Hamas” what the f*** does that even imply? Certain, it’s unlawful in the USA to “materially assist” a chosen terrorist group, nonetheless, vehemently supporting Palestinians in Gaza falls nicely in need of “materials assist”.
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Beneath this ocean-wide definition, anybody talking publicly in assist of Palestine might be detained and, or, deported. On this case, Khalil is topic to deportation as a result of he’s in the USA on a pupil visa, one that’s being threatened by Trump and his cronies like “little” Marco Rubio who vow to revoke pupil inexperienced playing cards and have them deported if they’re discovered “supporting Hamas”
The push to enact the brand new age McCarthyism is coming from all angles. Peep this asinine phase from Abby Phillips present on CNN.
Whereas Khalil sits in a detention heart, he has a spouse who’s eight months pregnant and determined for him to return dwelling to her. His lawyer, Amy Greer, says that she has spoken to him and tried to go to him within the New Jersey facility that he was initially taken to solely to search out that he was not there and was moved to a facility in Louisiana.
By way of Al Jazeera:
“It is a tactic that ICE loves to make use of, transferring somebody to a facility that’s additional away from their authorized help, neighborhood and family members,” mentioned Nathan-Pineau. “It will increase the psychological pressure of detention.”
These Republicans are evil individuals and Trump is their Satanic ringleader. To hell with all of them.
