Suri spent nearly two months in a Texas detention center after ICE agents arrested him outside his Virginia home. Suri is one of a number of international scholars and students tangled up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on campuses.
  • Emergency3030@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    And BEHOLD: Dictatorship.

    A taste of dictatorship in the US. Thankfully it hasn’t become fully embraced but getting closer by the day.

  • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    It was like overcrowded, literally maybe a dozen plus, 14, 15 people were lying on the floor and there was no space for me. That’s why they put me in a TV room. The TV would be on for 21 hours in a day. It will turn off between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.”

    The cruelty is the point.

    Also, we great and Badar Khan Suri, about Rümeysa Öztürk, but there are dozens of people in these gulags who we’re not hearing about. They need (obviously) to be shut down entirely.

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    The United States can’t be separated from the gulags or the Gestapo.

    If a major part of the US is a hell, then the US is a hell.