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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.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.”

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    18 hours ago

    I would get your family out of America. People downplaying this are willfully ignorant. Maga pretending it’s all hysterics are wrong, tankies pretending this is business as usual because “America bad” are wrong.

    All the groundwork is laid to mass imprison and deport dissidents, the definition of dissident is widening, we are witnessing a complete lack of checks and if your last hope is violence from the populace or the military to fix this then I think Americans need to trust their gut and recognize this place isn’t worth staying

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      Too bad my dad voted for and loves Trump.

      But if things got really bad, my mom could relocate to where I am, my dad might consider it if things were really really bad.