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Given the absolute shitshow that has been the fascist Trump regime's campaign to crush anti-genocide protestors, would it surprise you to learn that ICE just revealed in a court filing that they didn't have a warrant to arrest Mahmoud Khalil?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrant-mahmoud-khalil

ICE Admits They Didn't Have a Warrant When They Arrested Mahmoud Khalil

"ICE has admitted it detained Mahmoud illegally and without a warrant—to justify it, they are now flat out lying with an absurd claim that he tried to flee. At every step of the way, the Trump administration has flouted the law," said Samah Sisay, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Another attorney for Khalil, Amy Greer, said she was on the phone with Khalil, his wife, and even spoke to the agent making the arrest on March 8.

"In the face of multiple agents in plain clothes who clearly intended to abduct him, and despite the fact that those agents repeatedly failed to show us a warrant, Mahmoud remained calm and complied with their orders," she said Thursday. "Today we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant—they didn't have one."

Frankly everything about the Gestapo abduction and attempted deportation of Khalil follows the now-typical Trump regime pattern of being a Russian nesting doll of fascist fuckery. Khalil, who is legally residing in the United States with his American wife, is being targeted simply for his role as an important spokesman for the student encampment anti-genocide protestors at Columbia, under the guise of fighting wholly made up "antisemitism in higher education." The regime has admitted that Khalil committed no crimes, and claims the authority to detain and deport him simply because the fascist Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, feels that Khalil is a hinderance to American foreign policy objectives; which sure does sound like the government is targeting Khalil on behalf of our genocidal client state, Israel.

None of this is about enforcing the law or protecting the American public; the regime decided its goal was to crack down on anti-genocide student protestors and the easiest way to do that was to go after foreign students who protested against the genocide in Gaza through the executive branch's expanded authority over foreign policy and immigration matters. The "criminal" was identified, before the "crime" was decided on; which is a sure sign of an authoritarian regime weaponizing the law to engage in political repression. As such, it's hardly surprising that Trump's Gestapo, ICE, didn't bother to get its paperwork in order before snatching Khalil, nor that they're lying about thinking he was a flight risk to justify it after the fact. Fascists don't care about the law except in so much as it can help them persecute their targets, and the Trumpenreich regime is not exceptional in that respect.

@Wen deleting #Apps won't help.

• Not only does #CloudAct apply to the #GAFAMs but #DHS & #CPB have unrestricted bulk avcess to all communications, including private messages and have used them in the past to decline entry several times...

While the abduction and attempts to deport every foreign student who participated in anti-genocide protests on American campuses are all important stories, I'm genuinely surprised Trump's targeting of Rumeysa Ozturk hasn't become a flashpoint in this larger story, the way the Abrego Garcia abduction has in the trafficking migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador scandal.

Frankly, demonizing anti-genocide protestors is a bipartisan sport in the American establishment, but the Ozturk abduction is unique in that she never participated in a protest; the regime is detaining and attempting to deport Ozturk because she wrote an op-ed calling for Tufts University to divest from Israel while it conducts a genocide, and the wrong people noticed. Specifically Canary Mission, a doxing group that specializes in harassing anti-genocide protestors in multiple Pig Empire nations. Soon after the group accused Ozturk of antisemitic activities; again, for writing an op-ed calling on Tufts to divest from Israel, she was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents in a video half the country watched and shared online.

This transcript of a recent interview with one of Ozturk's lawyers touched on the subject of the Trump regime obtaining target lists from an anonymous doxing group with unclear funding, and provides an update on Ozturk's legal fight; which appears to be going about as well as can be expected because all of this is fascist Calvinball bullshit designed to silence dissent and protect a genocide being conducted by an American client state.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/rumeysa_ozturk_vermont_ice_tufts

“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk

"JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And could you talk about the role of Canary Mission and others like it in, essentially, identifying for the government people that they should be deporting?

MUDASSAR TOPPA: Yeah, and, you know, I think at this point there’s been a clear connection that we can draw — right? — from the doxxing organizations, the pro-Israeli doxxing organizations. And there is a clear doxxing-to-deportation pipeline that’s taking place.

And in Ms. Öztürk’s case, it’s even more apparent, because Ms. Öztürk was not a known organizer or advocate for any cause, really. And Ms. Öztürk’s sole sort of publicly identifiable association to the movement against the genocide and the movement for Palestinian human rights was this co-authored op-ed in her school newspaper that was really just asking the university to respect the wishes and the vote of the student Senate. And, you know, all of the sudden, in February of 2025, almost a year after she’s written — she’s co-written this op-ed, Canary Mission publishes a page on her, doxxing her and alleging that she’s engaged in antisemitic behavior because of this co-authored op-ed. And less than a month later, she’s abducted by ICE.

And so, it’s very chilling that the government seems to be taking their marching orders from these private doxxing organizations with mysterious funding and backing. And I think it underscores why the government’s actions are simply unconscionable."