ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege
By moving campus activist Mahmoud Khalil to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.
Louisiana's government and people will not protest. I figure that's why we have the concentration camp here.
No shit.
There’s literally no other reason to: there are “immigrant detention camps” closer to nyc and Syria/Algeria, and this is arguably the worst one in terms of likelihood of winning your immigration case and likelihood of getting pepper sprayed for no goddamn reason
"allege" is a quietly gross word here. lawyers don't allege shit. they argue. they present a conclusion based on a set of facts. you can either accept the conclusion, or you can reject it based on it not following the premises, or by disagreeing with the premises. to allege something is to just say it without full evidence. there's a very important distinction and this choice of words indicates an effort to discredit the lawyers argument by reducing it to being a possible reality that is unconfirmed.
I mean, did they say it in a court (or a brief), or just to a news reporter? I feel like "allege" could be correct if it's not an official record.
On Monday, I spent about ten minutes filling out webforms pasting the same message to each of my representatives at different levels of government (one was surprisingly asshole levels of interaction, but I suspect that was incompetence rather than deliberate). I encourage you to do the same. If they can come for him, they can come for us. Feel free to borrow and modify:
Please publicly fight for the rights of Mahmoud Khalil. If they can come for him for having an opinion counter to AIPAC's desires, they can come for US citizens. Thank you.
Time to secretly haul ice agents to exotic destinations like the middle of the Sahara or one those uninhabitable US possessions as retaliation. Or there’s always Novaya Zemlya.
