1d ago

ICE requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities

www.theguardian.com Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities

Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and The Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit

Summary

ICE demanded that Momodou Taal, a Cornell PhD student and UK-Gambia dual citizen, surrender
after he sued the Trump administration over executive orders targeting foreign students in pro-Palestinian protests.

Taal, backed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, seeks to block deportation.

The request came soon after his lawyers sought a restraining order. Critics call the move unprecedented and politically motivated.

Taal fears arrest and deportation, while two other plaintiffs, both US citizens, claim the crackdown violates free speech rights on campus.

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- Can you quote where he spouted racist hate speech?
  
  I know Lemmy doesn't support karma scores for a reason, but in case it helps you decide which people you want to continue to hear from, the commenter you're replying to would have almost -11,000 (negative eleven thousand) karma, were Lemmy to support such a thing.
  
  You gotta actively try to reach that kinda score, it's almost impressive. You have to go out of your way to be a jackass.
  
  You have to go out of your way to be a jackass.
  I think you misspelled Conservative.
  
  Ooh do me next!
  Is there an extension that shows account "karma" somewhere? I dont care very much but I would be interested to know how I'm getting along here since there's no notifications for reaching upvote Milestones.
  Now that I think about it; I don't get notifications from lemmy at all. Maybe I should look at my settings..
  
  You're probably somewhere in the high 600s, but I am estimating. I think the info exists in the backend, but Lemmy deliberately doesn't make it available anywhere because of the things it encourages--stealing and reposting content for karma farming, judging which people are worth talking to by how well they conform to the dominant opinions, etc. Admittedly, that second one is exactly what I used it for earlier, but -11,000 is a lot so I'm not too worried about it.
  The scores used to be accessible via the API, so some Lemmy apps used to show them, but ultimately the feature was removed on the Lemmy end, i.e. Lemmy servers no longer provide that data to apps. I'm not aware of any way to see karma totals within the Lemmy interface today.
  That said, the threadiverse is made up of more than just Lemmy: you can interact with Lemmy users and vice versa from other federated sites running Mbin, PieFed and eventually Sublinks when that software is ready. I'm not sure about the other two, but Mbin sites support a Reputation count which is the karma equivalent, so it is possible to see a user's Reputation from an Mbin server. Here's a link to your profile as viewed from kbin.earth, a popular Mbin server.
  Boring technical "Well actually" stuff: The nature of federation means that the scores visible from remote servers are incomplete: what you're really seeing is the user's Reputation based on posts the remote server knows about. e.g. Somebody looking at your profile from kbin.earth will see your Reputation as 664, but somebody looking at you from fedia.io sees you with 609.
  This probably means something pretty simple, like that you comment in more communities followed by kbin.earth users than fedia.io users, so the kbin.earth server has "seen" more of your posts in order to calculate a higher Reputation score. Alternatively, you might have one super unpopular post that fedia.io saw and kbin.earth didn't, which got -56 points. But the first guess is more likely, unless you know otherwise. :P
  
  Is there an app or something that tallies that?
  
  Not that I'm aware of, but Lemmy-compatible fediverse server software like Mbin does calculate a Reputation score for all threadiverse users, including people from Lemmy. I went into a bit more detail about it in this comment. Mbin users can see Reputation scores for other fediverse users, but because this whole system is decentralized, it's only the score as known about by that server, so it's not a complete picture of the "real" score.
  
  That's fine, the point was for them to prove what they were claiming. If not for them, for anyone else reading
  
  He's a protestor for Palestine. He hates Jews and is explicit about it. He wants the genocide of 7 million Jews.
  What more is there to say? Do you need an exact quote? "From the river to the sea" is there.
- The First Amendment applies to everyone and this is clearly a violation of that. Put your hand down, we won't call you again, kid.
- What racism?
- I would argue that immigration is a right, not just a privilege. If people want to be Americans, the government should not be able to stop them.
  
  I would argue that it's not, and it's one of few jobs that the government is responsible for.
  
  You know that the first immigration law in the US was called?
  The Asian Exclusion Act.
  Immigration control was and always has been about maintaining white racial supremacy.
  
  I'm pretty sure the first one in America was passed by Native Americans about the European immigrants. Tell me how that turned out.

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