President Donald Trump suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), a U.S. citizen, should not have constitutional rights because of where she’s from in racist remarks at a rally this week. “She was from Somalia and she came over and right away she started opening her mouth, ‘I have constitutional rights,’” Trump said mockingly, in the middle of a three-and-a-half minute rant about Omar in…
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Florida lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is convinced that the warrantless seizure of his cell phone by federal agents at the Newark International Airport after he returned from Palestine this September was not random. Shehadeh, a Miami-based attorney and Palestinian rights advocate, was held for several hours for a secondary inspection and had his phone seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
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On April 2, guards at the remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” allegedly brutally beat several detained men who demanded access to phones. It took nearly a week for word to get out. Six days after the reported attack, Raiko Lopez Morffi’s right eye was still swollen and black during a video call with his lawyer Katie Blankenship…
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