As protests arise and First Amendment questions mount surrounding the immigration detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., penned and circulated a letter demanding the immediate release of the recent Columbia University graduate.
It found little support among Tlaib’s colleagues in Washington, with a mere 14 Democrats signing their names on the letter condemning Khalil’s detention as an “illegal abduction.”
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., who counts Khalil as one of his constituents, did not sign the letter. When contacted by The Intercept about the case, Espaillat said he expects the Trump administration — which has explicitly flouted and sought to circumscribe federal legal protections for civil liberties — to adhere to the rule of law.
The Trump administration itself has admitted the case against Khalil does not hinge on allegations that he broke the law and told a conservative news outlet that it will these proceedings as a blueprint to target other students.
You’re purposefully misrepresenting what I said.
The way to prevent protestors from disappearing is to vote for “genocide Joe”.
Paelestinian protestors chose to discourage voters from preventing this. They chose this outcome while so many tried to prevent it.
Well, during the term of Joe Biden he attacked these protestors verbally and encouraged local police and fascist MAGA terrorists to attack peaceful protest encampments with physical violence.
The idea that Biden cared in any way about the constitutional or even basic human rights of these protestors is laughable.
Trump makes protestors disappear and you claim both sides are the same?
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/5/2/videos-show-violence-of-mob-attack-on-ucla-anti-war-protesters
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html
This is the kind of shit that Biden endorsed. A violent mob working together with campus police to attack peaceful protest camps. And to put icing on the cake, then some of the peaceful protestors that were brutally attacked got arrested, while the attackers could leave uninterrupted, which further shows that the attackers had the backing of the government.
Biden had absolutely no regard for the rights of people who opposed the Israel crimes he zealously enabled.
They aren’t a monolith. I attended the protests and voted for genocide Joe. I’m sure many others did too.
Not that people who didn’t deserve any of this. This is an extremely wrongheaded way to look at this.
It wasn’t my intention to misrepresent your comment, apologies if that’s how it came across.
Even though I disagree with the people who didn’t vote Dem because of the genocide, as a whole I find it incredibly easy to empathize with a subjugated population whose families are being discriminately murdered for no reason. I can’t blame them for not voting, especially when it’s unclear that their votes would have made any difference. Trump hasn’t stopped the genocide, Kamala wouldn’t have either. So the Palestinian protestors didn’t cause this man to be arrested by their actions or lack of actions. Even if they voted for Trump, I still fundamentally believe they deserve our empathy and a forceful defense of their rights.