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This is a clear attempt by President Trump to make an example out of Mr. Khalil and silence dissent across the country. No matter what your views are on Israel & Palestine, we should all be terrified of a government incarcerating its residents for their political opinions."
Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney with American Civil Liberties Union's Center for Democracy said in a statement Key organizations in the movement will give updates on the situation in Palestine and calls to action for upcoming mobilizations and activity. Then, people will break out into smaller groups by borough and neighborhood to plan outreach in their area,
There are no allegations that Mr. Khalil is a flight risk or a danger to the community,
His detention unquestionably chills his speech, as the federal government monitors and controls his ability to communicate with the outside world and has complete power over all of the decisions that impact his daily life inside a remote private prison,
his lawyers argued in the motion for bail This is about people who don't have the right to be in the United States to begin with
I'm coming with you, don't worry,
In the video filmed by his wife Noor Adballa, Khalil can be heard saying If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it.
We can deny you that visa,
the U.S. top diplomat argued They are right to be worried. Some of our faculty members and students who have covered the protests over the Gaza war have been the object of smear campaigns and targeted on the same sites that were used to bring Khalil to the attention of Homeland Security. President Trump has warned that the effort to deport Khalil is just the first of many,
I have those fliers on my desk, they were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Mahmoud was moved across multiple state lines and subsequently transferred to a remote prison in Louisiana hours after filing his habeas petition, an intentional and retaliatory act and an attempt to interfere with the jurisdiction of the New York court.”
Samah Sisa, a staff attorney at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, also said at a press conference on Friday All of this talk of flyers is just nonsense, there is no truth to it whatsoever.”
Meanwhile, Ramzi Kassem, the director of CLEAR, a group representing the Columbia graduate and a permanent resident of the US, slammed the narrative, saying The actions we’ve outlined above jeopardize these principles and therefore the viability of our democracy. All who believe in these freedoms should steadfastly oppose the intimidation, harassment, and detention of individuals on the basis of their speech or their journalism,
the uni faculty signed off The use of deportation to suppress foreign critics runs parallel to an aggressive campaign to use libel laws in novel — even outlandish ways — to silence or intimidate the independent press,
noted Columbia, while listing other examples of how media was either favourably speaking about Trump or was vulnerable to being sued, like CBS faced the legal wrath for an interview with Kamala Harris Meanwhile, the Trump administration insists on hand-picking the journalists who will be permitted to cover the White House and Pentagon, and it has banned the Associated Press from press briefings because the AP is following its own style book and refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,
the leading university said To frontload [immigrants] as the primary threat to Jewish security is not only morally irresponsible, but dangerous for the Jewish people and for American society,
the group said in a letter signed by hundreds of rabbis My committed Jewish faculty colleagues and I have warned that the false characterisation of [Columbia University] as a hotbed of antisemitism would be used as an alibi for what’s actually at stake for the Republican establishment and now the Trump administration: strict control of speech, of protest, and of higher education at large,
Anti-Palestinian organisations were spreading false claims about my husband that were simply not based in reality. They were making threats against Mahmoud and he was so concerned about his safety that he emailed Columbia University on March 7,
There’s an attack on people’s rights with one hand and on their livelihoods with the other,
Of course we are vulnerable. We have a gigantic endowment but we would burn through that endowment in no time flat if federal funds and tuition funds were taken away,
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