Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate who has been in immigration detention in Louisiana for more than a month, was barred from attending the birth of his firstborn child Monday, after immigration officials denied him permission to attend the birth in person, according to emails reviewed by CNN.
On Sunday morning, attorneys for Khalil wrote to Melissa Harper, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New Orleans, requesting that Khalil be released from detention for two weeks so he could travel to New York and be with his wife when she delivered their son.
Such an asshole move. What is ICE afraid of? That he might flee the country?
They’re afraid he might experience something human and in their view he isn’t so why give him the dignity?
They want to make an example out of Mahmoud. Oppose Israel and ICErael will make your life hell.
I don’t get it. Why do they even care about protesting on campus? It’s what students do, and is protected by the first amendment. The entire over reaction feels like a spite move but even so, who is that emotionally invested in it to feel spiteful? I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the investment in this campaign. Rubio even spewed vitriolic rage on the topic. Again, it makes no sense.
The appropriate disagreement response, in Old America, would be: who cares? Maybe in tandem with an eye roll.
Totalitarians are thin-skinned and paranoid as a rule.
It’s about exerting power.
These assholes pretty much control their base. Their base plugs their ears whenever facts are presented to them.
The question that I raise is “then why care about what factual news people say? Why care about any protests when you can spin it effortlessly?”
Because fascism and authoritarianism is primarily concerned about flexing their muscles, their power. Demonstrating their reach.
It’s a dick measuring contest, so that their followers can see how big and thick their leaders can punish “others”.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
It’s quite simple. Israel First. Our country serves the Israeli authoritarian state, and if you dare speak out about what they’re doing to Palestinians in Gaza, Israel will have US Authorities make you disappear.
I’m addition to the other stuff, protest movements often begin at schools, so trying to preemptively control that has benefits for a regime concerned about future protests and civil unrest.
Shithole country.
