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Paria sans portefeuille<p>"The raids have not been on drug dens or sex-trafficking rings. They have been on restaurants and schools, hospitals and court houses. <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>’s war is not simply at home, but on home." </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s-war-on-home" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s</span><span class="invisible">-war-on-home</span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEraids</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEdetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEdetentions</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/stateRepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stateRepression</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/policeViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeViolence</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LAprotests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAprotests</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LAresists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAresists</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LettersAndPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LettersAndPolitics</span></a> looks at <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s deployment of the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> to quell the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LAprotests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAprotests</span></a> over <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEraids</span></a> </p><p>guests<br>⦁journalists Ben Camacho &amp; Sonali Kolhatkar<br>⦁Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law<br>⦁Mohamed Shehk of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center </p><p><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-9-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-p</span><span class="invisible">olitics-june-9-2025/</span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/stateRepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stateRepression</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEdetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEdetentions</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/policeViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeViolence</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LAPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAPD</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LAresists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAresists</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>'Between this push and pull of executive and judiciary hangs the ultimate, vexing question of what Americans are willing to accept. As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” ' </p><p>"They're Here to Detain Me" </p><p><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/theyre-here-to-detain-me-rozina-ali/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/2</span><span class="invisible">6/theyre-here-to-detain-me-rozina-ali/</span></a> <br><a href="https://archive.ph/woxZt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/woxZt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/PalestineSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineSolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEdetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEdetentions</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/civilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/stateRepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stateRepression</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"The stories featured on this site are not just data points or headlines. These are true stories of nearly 700 people that capture one of the darkest moments in American history."</p><p>Disappeared in America: The Faces of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> Dragnet </p><p><a href="https://theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-in-america/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theimmigrationhub.shorthandsto</span><span class="invisible">ries.com/disappeared-in-america/</span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/civilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEraids</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEdetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEdetentions</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/stateRepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stateRepression</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/immigrantRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrantRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonmothME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonmothME</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resists</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monmouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monmouth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> department withdraws <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> training application</p><p>Residents packed the Monmouth Board of Selectmen meeting Wednesday to speak out against the town's police department taking on the role of enforcing federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> laws. </p><p>by Emily Duggan, Kennebec Journal, April 17, 2025</p><p>MONMOUTH — "After dozens of residents voiced opposition, the police department has withdrawn its application for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows local law enforcement agencies to work with the federal agency to enforce federal immigration laws. </p><p>"Police Chief Paul Ferland said he was seeking the training so his officers would know what to do if they come across people who are in the United States illegally.</p><p>"In the past year or so, Monmouth officers have called the U.S. Border Patrol about a dozen times, each time with questions about legal rights, when to detain someone and how to not violate someone’s constitutional rights. </p><p>"Each instance can take hours, Ferland said, as officers wait for federal agents to arrive from wherever they are stationed. Once the agents arrive, they check for the person’s immigration status and whether they may have an upcoming court date. If not, the officers can issue a date. </p><p>"The southwest Kennebec County town is home to a number of businesses, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agricultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agricultural</span></a> businesses that employ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrant</span></a> workers.</p><p>"Ferland announced the department’s withdrawal from the program Wednesday at the town’s Board of Selectmen meeting, which was packed with residents both in person and on Zoom who turned out mostly to speak against the move. </p><p>"Because Ferland is also the chief of the Winthrop Police Department, that town is also withdrawing, he said.<br>" 'When I saw how this is dividing the community, it’s not what I want. It’s not what our officers want. Our community is our community, it’s our home. The officers love their community, and we are not here to divide it. That is one of the reasons why I pulled the application. Not the only, but the biggest,' Ferland said. </p><p>"Following an executive order signed by President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, police departments from 38 states have applied to be a part of ICE’s 287 (g) program, including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WellsPoliceDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WellsPoliceDepartment</span></a>, which according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement data is the only <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> police agency that is currently taking part."</p><p>Original article:<br><a href="https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/04/17/monmouth-police-department-withdraws-ice-training-application/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">centralmaine.com/2025/04/17/mo</span><span class="invisible">nmouth-police-department-withdraws-ice-training-application/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.md/FHBWe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/FHBWe</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportations</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAbuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAbuses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainePol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonmouthMaineResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonmouthMaineResists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineResists</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrant</span></a> coalition raises alarm over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WellsME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WellsME</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> partnership as state debate looms</p><p>April 13, 2025</p><p>WELLS, Maine (WGME) -- "The executive director of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineImmigrantRightsCoalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineImmigrantRightsCoalition</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MufaloChitam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MufaloChitam</span></a>, says her organization is aware of the new agreement that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WellsPoliceDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WellsPoliceDepartment</span></a> signed with ICE which allows officers to arrest people based on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/violations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violations</span></a>.</p><p>"Wells is the first town in Maine to take this step, though other towns have applied as well.</p><p>"Chitam says, for her organization and the people they represent, the important thing is to bring awareness to what this means.</p><p>"Around the country, departments in 37 states have signed on.</p><p>" 'It just brings reality to Maine. We’ve been seeing this around the country, and around other states, but not experienced it in Maine. So that’s significant for us. It makes it real, it brings it home,' Chitam said.</p><p>"Maine lawmakers may also debate a bill that would ban police departments from this partnership."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/immigrant-coalition-raises-alarm-over-wells-police-ice-partnership-as-state-debate-looms/ar-AA1CQ53l" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/us/immigran</span><span class="invisible">t-coalition-raises-alarm-over-wells-police-ice-partnership-as-state-debate-looms/ar-AA1CQ53l</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deportations</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAbuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAbuses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainePol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Private groups work to identify and report <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> for possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a></p><p>“Now they’re using tools of the state to actually go after people,” said a Columbia graduate student from South Asia who has been active in protests and spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing her visa. “We suddenly feel like we’re being forced to think about our survival.”</p><p>By ADAM GELLER, March 29, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.</p><p>"'Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!' a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a> tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.</p><p>"She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestinian</span></a> marches at U.S. colleges. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWingJewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWingJewish</span></a> group said some people identified with the tool were on a list of names it submitted to President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s administration, urging that they be deported in accordance with his call for the expulsion of foreign students who participated in 'pro-jihadist' protests. </p><p>"Other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> groups have enlisted help from supporters on campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-forei</span><span class="invisible">gn-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineAndRoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PineAndRoses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> protests <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a></p><p>Posted by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a> and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025 </p><p>"Last week, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineCoalitionForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineCoalitionForPalestine</span></a> organized a protest of ICE detention of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> student leader <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a>. Since then, ICE has operated as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Administration’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecretPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecretPolice</span></a>, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and protesting the U.S.-sponsored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. The list includes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmworker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmworker</span></a> organizer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlfredoJuarezZerefino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredoJuarezZerefino</span></a>. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesPelletier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesPelletier</span></a> spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.</p><p>New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk</p><p>"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts. </p><p>"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> in Massachusetts, as well as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doxxing</span></a> of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a>. </p><p>"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalActivists</span></a> or undocumented <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> seeking safety, jobs, and a better life. </p><p>"We must stand up against this brazen attack on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a>.</p><p>"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a>. </p><p>"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights. </p><p>In Solidarity,</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BerkshiresDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BerkshiresDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonUniversityYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonUniversityYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeCodDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapeCodDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConnecticutDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConnecticutDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NortheasternYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NortheasternYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SimmonsYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimmonsYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernNewHampshireDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernNewHampshireDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UpperValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UpperValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorcesterDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorcesterDSA</span></a>"</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pineandroses.org/news/new-engl</span><span class="invisible">and-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13Resists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13Resists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurReich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>