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The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention ....."

The White House has been abundantly clear: the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was pursued on behalf of Jews. It's part of a wider strategy to obfuscate MAGA antisemitism and an increasingly fascist regime.

As fear of ICE raids and deportation mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the Los Angeles rebuild and to support their families.

It's on

Trump’s promise of widespread deportations won’t happen without defining a wave of new ‘illegals’ into existence. Immigration detention has become a $3 billion industry fusing for-profit prisons with immigration policies built to “secure” the border.

By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants who have committed nonviolent crimes, all but ensuring that it will move forward.

Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.

The suspended student, a PhD candidate, is facing the possible revocation of his visa as a visiting foreign student. If his visa is revoked, he will likely be deported by the end of the week.