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Led By FoolsMahmoud Khalil speaks out from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:"Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all." <a href="https://writer.oliphant.social/dispatch/a-letter-from-mahmoud-khalil" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://writer.oliphant.social/dispatch/a-letter-from-mahmoud-khalil</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeKhalil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeMahmoudKhalil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CivilLiberties</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Palestine</a>

DoNotPunchDown<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alissaazar</a> This should be boosted over and over. Beautiful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeKhalil</a>

AGoldstein221"Besides sheer brutality, there is a clear strategic reason that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents quickly whisked Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil out of New York City last weekend. It’s the reason he was first transported to New Jersey, then to a private detention center in Louisiana. And it’s why the Trump administration is fighting to keep him there, more than a thousand miles away from his pregnant wife and lawyers.That reason: Ravi Ragbir, whose court victories against the first Trump administration regarding his own retaliatory detention made New York a far less friendly forum for the government.Like Khalil, Ragbir is an activist in New York City who was targeted for deportation over his speech during the first Trump administration. Like Khalil, Ragbir was quickly flown to a far-off detention center — in his case, in Miami — as his family, friends, and attorney frantically tried to locate him. And like Khalil, whose attorney worked through the night to file a rapid petition for his release, Ragbir quickly challenged his detention and deportation.In 2019, Ragbir won a ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — the federal appellate court that covers New York — that affirmed noncitizens’ right to challenge targeted deportations as unconstitutional retaliation under the First Amendment.The 2nd Circuit’s decision in Ragbir’s favor is a powerful shield, not just for Khalil but also others the Trump administration has vowed to detain and deport based on Palestinian solidarity protests and activism. But that decision is only binding law within the 2nd Circuit’s jurisdiction — and not in states which fall under different federal appellate courts, such as Louisiana.Indeed, two Department of Homeland Security officials recently told The Atlantic that Khalil was moved to Louisiana “to seek the most favorable venue” for the government’s arguments."In April 2019, the 2nd Circuit ruled Ragbir’s advocacy “implicates the apex of protection under the First Amendment,” and that he offered “strong” evidence that ICE officials decided to deport him when they did “based on their disfavor of Ragbir’s speech (and its prominence).” Such retaliation was grounds to challenge his deportation, the majority determined."Khalil’s case has simultaneously sparked protests while sending a chilling message to pro-Palestinian activists, with Trump promising that he is the “first of many” to be detained and deported.<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/14/mahmoud-khalil-ravi-ragbir-ice-deport/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://theintercept.com/2025/03/14/mahmoud-khalil-ravi-ragbir-ice-deport/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freekhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#freekhalil</a>

Chilly SquidMahmoud Khalil detention: Nearly 100 protesters arrested at Trump Tower in NYC - UPI.com <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/13/trump-tower-protesters-arrested/5071741904604/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/13/trump-tower-protesters-arrested/5071741904604/</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politicalprisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalprisoner</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/freeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freeKhalil</a>

Chilly Squid“How many more New Yorkers will you detain?” New York Assemblymember (and NYC mayoral candidate) Zohran Mamdani (D) shouted at Trump’s immigration czar while security personnel held him back.More of This, Please - Jezebel <a href="https://www.jezebel.com/more-of-this-please" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jezebel.com/more-of-this-please</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politicalprisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalprisoner</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/freeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freeKhalil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/1stAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1stAmendment</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ICE</a> Secretly Hauled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MahmoudKhalil</a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege By moving the campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#activist</a> to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening. Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan."By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away."Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaSalleDetentionFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LaSalleDetentionFacility</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JenaLouisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JenaLouisiana</a>, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateJail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivateJail</a> operated by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GEOGroup</a>. "Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RetaliatoryTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RetaliatoryTransfer</a>' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a> case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies."Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."Read more: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/7uhSa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://archive.ph/7uhSa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CharacteristicsOfFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FloodingTheZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FloodingTheZone</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShockAndAwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ShockAndAwe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ColumbiaUniversity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Palestinian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Protests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeKhalil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CenterForConstitutionalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CenterForConstitutionalRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TrumpRegime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAreNeverWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivatePrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivatePrisons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndefiniteDetention</a>

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