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Trump judge shopped and had Khalil sent to Louisiana. The first few paragraphs.

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

Khalil, who as a Columbia University graduate student led pro-Palestinian protests there last year, was detained last month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had determined that Khalil's activism was antisemitic and that allowing him to remain in the country would undermine a U.S. foreign policy goal of combatting antisemitism around the world.

During a hearing at the remote Louisiana detention center where Khalil is being held, Judge Jamee Comans said she had no authority to question Rubio's determination.

After the ruling, Khalil told the judge, "I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process.

"This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family," he added. "I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months."

Khalil will not immediately be deported. His attorneys have said that if he were ordered deported, they would appeal the judge's ruling. Comans gave Khalil until April 23 to request a stay of his deportation if his attorneys believe he qualifies for one. And the judge said if they don't meet that deadline, she will order him deported either to Syria, where he was born, or to Algeria, where he is a citizen.

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On March 28, Beirut’s southern Dahiya suburb was targeted with four Israeli airstrikes on the neighborhood of Hadath — the first attack on Beirut since the truce in November 2024. A residential building, which housed a number of Lebanese families, was left completely flattened by the airstrikes.

“The entire building is gone. The only thing left is cement and glass,” a local business owner told Mondoweiss. “We were sitting with our grandchildren when we heard the airstrikes and saw people running and screaming.” Hours later, smoke still billowed from the ash and rubble as recovery efforts continued.

Residents of Hadath communicated a sense of unease that existed among residents of Dahiya, even before the airstrikes. One woman explained that Israel’s ongoing attacks against South Lebanon were never far from people’s minds. “Many of us felt as though this attack was inevitable, and that Israel wouldn’t spare Dahiya. The ceasefire doesn’t exist for South Lebanon, and it doesn’t exist for the people of the suburb. Where any of our people exist, Israel sees a target.”

“We want Israel to know one thing: that this will not keep us from the path of resistance,” a young man told Mondoweiss. “Do not think that we are afraid, no. We have put our faith in God and in our resistance.”

It is this sharpened confidence that has moved the people of Dahiya forward on what they describe as the “path of resistance” — one that has no shortcuts and has forced them to confront the brutality of the United States’ foremost vassal state in the region. To many, the battle is an unfinished one, and those loyal to Hezbollah remain posed in a state of preparedness for whatever comes next.

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As of Thursday, April 10, 20 international students at the City University of New York (CUNY) have had their visas revoked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Per a statement released by the university, they face a “change in visa status” — with no clear explanation. This attack follows the escalating situation at Columbia University where five visas and two green cards have been revoked so far.

CUNY is one of the largest public university systems in the United States with 25 campuses serving each borough of New York City. The student body at CUNY is heavily represented by working-class and immigrant students. Visa revocations were also reported at the State University of New York (SUNY), another public university, as well as at New York University.

All of these campuses have been at the center of the movement for Palestine, fighting against the genocide, as well as to divest our institutions from the State of Israel.

Since the green card revocation and detainment of Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil last month, over 300 student visas at universities across the U.S. have been revoked. Many are the result of a direct attack on free speech in support of Palestine but a lot more have not been supported by any evidence or reason from the DHS or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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"A teenager described by his family as autistic remains in critical condition after being shot in his backyard by Idaho police last weekend. Video taken by a witness showed Pocatello police shooting the boy as he approached them with a knife from the other side of a chain-link fence."

Watch the video, went down exactly as described, except far worse.

This is what you're risking when you call the police. Here's my latest tale, probably be dead if I wasn't a middle-aged white guy:

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/16390613

Originally Posted By u/Midnight_Warrior89 At 2025-04-11 11:24:22 AM | Source

In December work officially began on a multi-billion-dollar railway through Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan that will link China more closely with Europe, bypassing Russia.

https://archive.ph/Ah0zg