Rümeysa Öztürk Being Deported for Writing Op-Ed in a Student Paper, her Lawyers Say #trump #ice #dhs
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/30/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice-immigration-op-ed/

Rümeysa Öztürk Being Deported for Writing Op-Ed in a Student Paper, her Lawyers Say #trump #ice #dhs
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/30/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice-immigration-op-ed/
#ICE Uses a Subjective Checklist of Tattoos, Clothing to Label US Immigrants as Gang Members
"Pro-Israel groups credited for guiding Trump in arrests of international college students"
#International #Students #Arrests #Detention #Deportation #US #Colleges #Universities #Campus #Blacklists #Surveillance #Betar #CanaryMission #DHS #AccuracyInMedia
At the risk of stating the obvious, it would be nice if media minions on my TV would spend any time at all analyzing Trump's fascist ICE kidnapping spree as part of a larger plan, with an eye on what the regime is actually trying to accomplish here. Maybe American media outlets are spooked by living in a country where it's increasingly illegal to admit racism exists, but it's not like it's impossible to do the legwork; even for corporate media. Take for example this piece in the international edition of The Guardian, pointing out that it's almost certainly not an accident all of DHS's targets for fascist ideological policing and deportation are people of color, even though a majority of the folks participating in campus anti-genocide protests the regime is claiming represent a threat to our national security, were white folks born in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/us-universities-students-israel-palestine-protests
‘A warning for students of color’: Ice agents are targeting certain protesters, say experts
"Now, at least five students and academics of color at US universities have been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), as a part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to punish noncitizens over their support of Palestine.
“What we’re seeing is the use of immigration law to go after visa holders, permanent lawful residents, [over] their speech,” said Samah Sisay, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). “He’s trying to suppress political speech that goes against what the administration wants.”
Despite white students, professors and academics also being heavily involved in pro-Palestine protests, people of color have disproportionately faced sudden arrests and threats of deportation or had their visas revoked.
“We’re just seeing the focus on very specific people,” said Sisay, referring to academics of color. “I think it really is to try to create a wedge in solidarity, the multiracial, multiethnic solidarity that’s been created in support of Palestinian human rights.” Ice’s actions, she said, have “set a warning for students of color at these universities who rely on scholarships and educational support to improve their lives or better the situations for their family.”
So look, maybe you don't need to be a genius to figure out why an openly white nationalist, Islamophobic, and deeply xenophobic Trump administration is starting its attempts to criminalize protest and dissent, with non-white academics, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslim. These guys are fucking nazis, and that's the kinda shit nazis do; although I'll be honest with you, the next time I see a corporate media outlet explain the actions of the Pork Reich by directly saying "well they're fascists, obviously" it'll probably be the first.
The truth however, is that Stephen Miller, who is definitely running Trump's immigration policies and his fascist war to crush dissent, is the kinda crudely cunning fascist who absolutely "uses the whole cow." Sure the regime is stacked to the brim with raving white nationalists, but they're also clearly working to break the solidarity of the anti-genocide protest movement, while simultaneously targeting people Americans have already been taught to hate in order to shift the Overton Window far enough towards fascism to allow them to start black bagging and imprisoning *anyone* of *any* immigration status, who opposes the regime. It is irresponsible to simply repeat regime propaganda to justify illegally disappearing protestors, without helping your audience put these events in a larger context that would explain why it's important for all of us to oppose Trump's fascist repression of people many Americans don't care about and have been taught to dislike, if they don't want the regime's next assault on civil rights to strike closer to home.
"If over a million people leave the US, the economy will shrink and tons of Americans will lose their jobs."
-AR Melnick
"Immigration Research IRI estimate: If all undocumented TPS humanitarian parole #Venezuelans, #Cubans, Nic. & #Haitians are deported, the Florida economy will shrink, and 80,000 US-born workers may lose their jobs. That's just in Florida!"
-A Oppenheimer
#Cruelty #Sadism #Deportations #Immigrants #DHS #Austerity #Trumpcession #Economy #Resist #USPol
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article302787889.html
#DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email acct of an #ICE raid, while Hegseth, Waltz et al get off not only Scot-free but vigorously defended for far more egregious security failures.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-staffer-faces-serious-punishment-accidentally-adding-reporter-grou-rcna198233
Unequal treatment in the Trump administration should surprise no one.
"SURPR-ICE!...
"But seriously though, we've revoked your visa, you're under arrest, and will be deported."
zeteo.com/p/ice-manual... #ICE #deportations #studentvisas #tufts #dhs #maga #doge #uspoli #trump #project2025 #donaldtrump #muslims #middleeast #columbia #mahmoudkhalil #immigration #usa #us
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ ...
#Trump Admin Mistakes Autism Awareness Tattoo For a Gang Symbol—Deports Innocent Man to notorious private El Salvador Prison
The Trump regime has expanded its blatantly unconstitutional college campus kidnapping spree beyond the Ivies; this time ICE snatched University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi at his off campus home at 5AM on Tuesday. The DHS has refused to provide clarification for why Doroudi, a mechanical engineering student from Iran who is legally studying in the United States, was detained; beyond some vague nonsense about "national security."
ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues
"David Rozas, an attorney representing Doroudi, said in a statement Saturday that they are "confused" about why Doroudi was detained. Doroudi has maintained lawful status while studying at the university, Rozas said.
"We have not been made aware of any allegations of misconduct against my client," Rozas said. "We do not believe he is suspected to have committed any crimes nor participated in any political activities whatsoever."
He said Doroudi has a pending EB-2 application, a pathway to a green card for immigrants who hold an advanced degree or have "exceptional ability."
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in an emailed statement: "ICE HSI made this arrest in accordance with the State Department’s revocation of Doroudi’s student visa. This individual posed significant national security concerns."
Given the DHS's refusal to provide adequate details, many mainstream news outlets are reporting that it's unclear if this particular visa revocation and ICE kidnapping is part of Trump's larger fascist war on college campus protestors and people who write op-eds criticizing Israel's genocide in Gaza. Given the methods the regime used to target Doroudi and fact that ICE has already shipped him to the notorious detention center in Louisiana that it shipped most of the other students to however, I think that position is a little too credulous. At a minimum, sources at the University of Alabama have indicated that the community there regards this as part of Trump's racist repression of international students.
Crypto coming with the innovation: there's a new app where you can earn crowd sourced crypto by reporting people to #ICE so they can be #deported.
They put the stasi on the blockchain, basically.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1906080456765775947
The SW border mission & the detention ops at #GITMO have cost close to $330M thru mid-Mar, as Trump attempts to fulfill his promise to crack down on illegal #immigration in the US.
The deportation flights & det ops at GITMO *held a few hundred detainees at its peak, have cost nearly $40M of that total. There're only a few dozen deported migrants currently being held there.
DOGE didn't find WASTE, FRAUD & ABUSE in fed agencies they've probed. They're at #DHS.
#USPol
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/southwest-border-mission-cost-330m-40m-guantanamo-bay/story?id=120298109
Real Madrid TattooDeported.
I've been practicing #immigration law for 28 yrs -he'd have remained detained until hearingjudge's decision. Negative: deported—not to SLV but to VE. Asylum: eventually allowed to leave prison & start a life in the US. They're combing SM posts/info. to vet ppl to make sure they're not criminals.
We've courts & judges:evidence -to make a fair, indep deter. #DHS: making
SNAP JUDGMENTS WITH LIFE-THREATENING CONSEQUENCES.
#Deportations #USPol https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341544/ice-deported-tattoo-real-madrid-el-salvador-jerce-reyes-barrios
US #DHS Secretary Kristi Noem poses in front of an infamous El Salvador prison, sporting a $50k Rolex luxury watch, not to mention a tight shirt over a liberally padded bra. Vulgarity incarnate. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/28/kristi-noem-watch-cecot-video/82702507007/
“We Have Become The Evil We Once Fought”
#KristiNoem seemingly violated the Geneva Convention. We’re snatching ppl off streets..& much more in The Blue Letter
https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/we-have-become-the-evil-we-once-fought?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #news #politics #dhs #elsalvador #nato #media #ELONMUSK #ozturk #ice #usa #dictatorship #press #socialmedia #eu #tech #ai #us #america #europe #russia #ukraine #china #signal
This is what evil, illiberal regimes do.
The use of prisoners for propaganda purposes is as old as war itself. The Viet Cong & North Vietnamese alternated their approach. Sometimes they used American POWs as props to suggest that all was well in their camps & that prisoners were being treated properly. (They were not.)
The goal:to use prisoners’ bodies as weapons of political war & to do so against their will
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"Someone should tell Marco Rubio, DHS Secty Kristi Noem and Border czar Tom Homan that Trump's pardons will only protect them from being prosecuted in the US for federal crimes. It won't stop then from being prosecuted for crimes against humanity. And that is where they are heading."
-D Obeidallah
We should know soon, if GOP SCJs believe that Trump still has impunity, & if due process and the rest of the Constitution, will be upheld.
“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Venezuelan Deportations Resume”
#Deportations #DueProcess #Sadism #Trump #ElSalvador #HumanRights #DHS #RuleOfLaw #Resist #USPol