@wdlindsy@toad.social"We know they’re lusting to widen their net against perceived enemies.
That was on full display in broad daylight Tuesday in Boston when masked federal agents in hoodies stopped and handcuffed a Tufts University doctoral student and Fulbright scholar. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and Muslim wearing a hijab, was put into an unmarked car and shipped off to a detention center in Louisiana, just as Columbia student Mahmoud Kahlil was earlier this month."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"There are Americans cheering for these unjust deportations because they’ve been convinced by Trump’s dehumanizing, demonizing verbiage that immigrants are not deserving of humane treatment. But we can be sure this is not the end—this is just the beginning of this fascist regime’s terror campaign aimed at deterring refugees, savoring cruelty and silencing dissent."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportations #Ozturk
/4
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/reveling-in-terror-tactics
@wdlindsy@toad.social"What’s happening right now in broad daylight, on our formerly free sidewalks, endangers every one of us. Until we can again walk those streets without fearing masked secret police from our own government, no one is safe."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Even after many months of warning that a vengeful Trump 47 would attempt to govern this way, we still cannot believe it can happen here, in the United States of America. Call this fascism, but remarkably, that particular F-word has lost its sting in the sheer exhaustion of the decade since our strongman ruler descended on that golden escalator at Trump Tower. What is happening to Ozturk is state-sponsored terrorism."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"There are many, many stunning and unprecedented things happening in Trump’s America right now. But I chose to write about this one because, frankly, once you have watched the chilling video of masked government goons snatching Ozturk off the street in broad daylight, it is hard to think — let alone write — about anything else."
~ Will Bunch
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #Ozturk
/1
The gift link below is from Greg Dworkin at Daily Kos.
Also earlier this month, #Canada citizen #JasmineMooney was detained by US authorities & was held by #ICE for 2 weeks before being released. In another case, a tourist from #Germany, 29-yr-old tattoo artist #JessicaBrösche, spent 6 weeks in #detention including 8 days in #solitary confinement after she was arrested at the Mexican border on 18 Feb.
We had no idea initially what had happened to her since she was unable to send any messages or make any calls upon detention. She was moved to a facility in Vermont at first & then #Louisiana where she is now. Where she is now is a #jail that has space rented by #ICE & is kept in a room with over 80 other female detainees,” Anderson posted.
Russian #scientist from #Harvard Medical School detained by #ICE
Cora Anderson, a friend & colleague of #KseniyaPetrova, shared the news of Petrova’s detention, saying Petrova arrived at #Boston’s Logan airport on 16 Feb from a trip to France when she was stopped by US authorities who revoked her #visa & told her she was to be deported to #Russia. In response, Petrova said she feared political persecution & was then sent to a #detention facility.
#immigration #law #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention
#USpol #Sarcasm #ICE #MassDeportations #USConcentrationCamps
"... if the entire country isn't in the streets then we're ok with it. TERRIFYING."
You"re phrasing it more directly than I did summing up the brown excrements flooding the national zone on a daily basis:
@wdlindsy@toad.social"She stepped onto a sidewalk in Boston — and vanished into Trump’s shadow state. Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America."
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
/10
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74
I want to see Senators Markey and Warren at the ICE Detention Center in Louisiana with a goddamn media crew demanding to see their constituents. Make them turn you away. Put it on CNN.
@wdlindsy@toad.social"This Is the land of wolves now. Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains. …
It’s only been eight weeks.
I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year."
~ Jonathan V. Last
@wdlindsy@toad.social"The Trump administration is essentially claiming it can detain noncitizens for expressing views it deems problematic, with no specific criminal charges and without providing evidence. If this doesn't concern you because you disagree with the political views of those being detained, then you were never actually concerned about free speech — you were just concerned about protecting certain viewpoints."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"By the time a federal judge ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts, she had already been transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana — more than 1,400 miles from where she was seized.
This is the latest in a disturbing pattern."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
/7
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ice-detention-of-a-turkish-student
#RumeysaOzturk was arrested on her way to Iftar dinner, sunset in Boston is ~7PM, so she was likely arrested ~6:30. The petition for #habeas was filed at 10PM & Judge Talwani’s order to not remove her from Massachusetts was filed at 10:53PM the same day, ~4½hrs after her arrest.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69790775/3/ozturk-v-hyde/
Asst US Atty Mark Sauter said Thurs that her transfer to #ICE’s detention facility in Louisiana didn’t violate Talwani’s order because they relocated her before it was issued.
Arctic sea ice hits lowest peak in satellite record, says US agency https://phys.org/news/2025-03-arctic-sea-ice-lowest-peak.html
From @stevanzetti: “This administration has shown a troubling pattern of failing to uphold the rule of law, disregarding the rights of citizens, green card holders, and targeting Black and POC communities. James Rodden’s continued authority in any capacity undermines the public’s trust in this agency, weakens the rule of law, and fails to hold individuals accountable for their outright racist and disgusting remarks.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/congressman-veasey-ice-response-racist-x-account/
#USpol #MEpol #ICE #immigration #ChingaLaMigra #StopICE #MutualAid #Urgent
[From uselesscops on Instagram]
Edit: the fundraiser has been taken down by Donorbox - this is not the first time this has happened while trying to help affected families. People have reported the page before, while trying to demand proof from families that need to remain anonymous - to avoid ICE stalking them. Still watch the video - *especially* if you're a cishet white person in the US. There is a message that needs hearing there.
Please, watch this. Especially if you are a cishet white person in the US. And *do something.*
If nothing else, share the fundraiser around, to help this family and others impacted in #Maine towards justice. Help them stay in the community that they call home - that they have *every right* to be in.
https://donorbox.org/support-families-impacted-by-ice-in-maine
But #RumeysaOzturk [was]…transferred to the Central Louisiana #ICE Processing Center in Basile, a #DHS spox said Wed.
It’s only been 8 weeks.
I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year.
