MAGA’s ongoing fascist assault on the nation’s residents echoes past eras of U.S. enslavement, racial terror, dispossession, segregation, and exclusion. Historian and political analyst Robin D. G. Kelley, distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has written several books examining this history…
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Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day of school. But this September, Martín is in solitary confinement at the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) in New Jersey. “I was crying, but my daughter, she told me, ‘Mommy, don’t cry. Daddy’s gonna come home,’” Gabriela Soto told Truthout. “I said, ‘I know…
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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil sued Columbia University on Monday, alleging the university expressed “deliberate indifference” and failed to respond to instances of “severe, persistent, and coordinated harassment” toward Khalil and other students.
Khalil, a former graduate student who is suing alongside the university’s School of International and Public Affairs’ Palestine Working Group, alleged the university’s inaction ultimately led to his detainment in March last year and attempted deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Khalil missed the birth of his first child while he was in ICE custody hundreds of miles away in Louisiana.
The plaintiffs alleged that since the group’s creation in 2018, “its members have been antagonized and harassed without consequence because of their vocal support of Palestine, perceived shared Arab and/or Muslim ancestry, and status as non-citizens and/or immigrants.”
Instances of harassment cited in the lawsuit include doxxing by outside groups, facilitated by Columbia University students and faculty, and the false characterization and suspension of the student organization.
Khalil first sued the college last year for releasing his student disciplinary records to the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce shortly after he was detained. That case remains active.
Since President Donald Trump took office again in 2025, Khalil has become a key target of his administration’s crackdown on campus protests and immigration despite his permanent residency status as a green card holder. Columbia is one of several universities, including Harvard, Brown and Northwestern, among others, that the administration has attempted to withhold funding from or otherwise punish over what it says was their failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students from antisemitism amid Israel’s war in Gaza. The schools have rejected
This June, Haydi Torres found herself on the phone with a stranger in Arizona who wanted to help free Ivan, a 39-year-old Russian man, from the San Luis Regional Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail near Yuma. Ivan had already been granted bond. But by the time an advocate contacted Torres, who is a bond and community associate at Envision Freedom Fund…
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As part of its relentless project of mass deportation, the Trump administration has taken particularly brutal aim at the most vulnerable population of immigrants: children. If the federal government has its way, about 20,000 unaccompanied minors will soon face immigration court hearings without legal representation. For decades, Congress has allocated funding for unaccompanied immigrant…
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Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Haitians in Springfield are getting letters telling them to report to the ICE office in either Blue Ash (near Cincinnati) or Westerville (near Columbus). “When they do, their passports are collected,” said Carl Ruby…
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