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A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont

apnews.com A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28614633

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025

"A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, his lawyers said. "

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In an act of political terrorism, they were kidnapped.
Kidnapped, not arrested. Kidnapped by the American Stasi. Mohsen Mahdawi was kidnapped by the American version of the Stasi known as ICE.
The attorneys said they do not know where he is. They filed a petition in federal court seeking an order barring the government from removing him from the state or country.

They'll try to ship him (if they haven't already) to the prison from which no one ever returns, according to the president of El Salvador and the prison's director. How can you keep shipping more and more prisoners into a camp without ever releasing a prisoner? Maybe they already have a "final solution". It's all feeling very much like Nazi Germany.
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24344317
Weird how conservatives with a hate boner for feds are so silent. Who could have guessed they're all bark and no bite?

Want to scare the shit out of conservatives and these illegal feds? Buy a gun and learn to use it. An armed public is a safer public. Remember it took black folks arming and protecting their own for the Republicans to attempt any gun restrictions.
- It was never about big government versus small government. Big government was only a problem when it benefitted the "wrong" people.
- It's all right cause they ain't white.
  
  Plenty of white leftish folks don't own guns. If they and every other minority were packing, fascists would be saying, "it's alright cause they ain't Right."
And these are probably only the cases you're hearing about.

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