Summary
ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.
However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.
Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.
The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”
It’s unacceptably bad but at the same time not an issue. I realize that sounds crazy but unless you join a protest or live in or frequent a targeted community then you would think nothing changed.
This is why we don’t have mass protests yet because it’s not actually breaking out of the media sphere for most of America.
Thanks! I guess I’d be alright. I got a bit spooked recently, when my mom mentioned that there have been random shootings at the mall at the night. Not like mass shootings. But more like feuds between people.
That level of random violence does seem to be up but is still rare.