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#mahmoudkhalil

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The Conversation U.S.

The Supreme Court has ruled that First Amendment rights are not limited to citizens, but to everyone in the U.S.

It has yet to rule whether the vague language in the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act covering deportation for creating “serious adverse foreign policy consequences” takes precedence over #freespeech rights.

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#MahmoudKhalil #RumeysaOzturk

The ConversationLawful permanent residents like Mahmoud Khalil have a right to freedom of speech – but does that protect them from deportation?
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Yale just banned its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for protesting the Judeonazi seen here celebrating the settler arson attack that burned Palestinian babies to death

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@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten


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‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT

"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."

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#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

The Guardian · ‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jailsBy Dani Anguiano
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Building on the arrests of foreign students over criticism of Israel, NIH is imposing new speech rules on American scientists. All 300,000 researchers working on NIH grants may not voice support for boycotts or similar protests of Israel. Doing so risks significant penalties.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Students and alumni have chained themselves to the gates of the university, demanding that the administration act to protect its current and former students, including
and

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“I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late,” he wrote.

The administration is deporting Khalil for nothing more than his beliefs, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio explicitly admitted in a memo turned over as evidence in his case."

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#MahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
#Trump #ICE #MarcoRubio #fascism

Thousands of Pro-Palestinians gather as hundreds of children's shoes are laid on the ground representing the lives lost during Israel and Palestine conflict before the march for Gaza to the ICE building in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2025.
Truthout · Mahmoud Khalil Writes From Prison: “Democracy for Some Is No Democracy at All”“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote.
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