Tufts student detained by ICE

[Anonymous]

Trump and Homan can't deliver on the mass deportations they promised for months, so they're going for "shock and awe".

The most disgusting thing about this is watching people scream about law and order while subverting the rule of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My point is, I’m fine with revoking student visas or not renewing provisional green cards, but why are we not just giving them notice and telling them to be gone by X date?

This is the part I don’t understand. The way it’s been handled makes no sense.

There are tens of million of people here illegally. The more ICE makes it difficult for people, the more likely these tens of millions will self-deport.

So why is ICE spending all this time on people here legally?

Because their status changed when the government decided they were no longer welcome here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My point is, I’m fine with revoking student visas or not renewing provisional green cards, but why are we not just giving them notice and telling them to be gone by X date?

This is the part I don’t understand. The way it’s been handled makes no sense.

There are tens of million of people here illegally. The more ICE makes it difficult for people, the more likely these tens of millions will self-deport.

And this student wasn’t one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My point is, I’m fine with revoking student visas or not renewing provisional green cards, but why are we not just giving them notice and telling them to be gone by X date?

This is the part I don’t understand. The way it’s been handled makes no sense.

There are tens of million of people here illegally. The more ICE makes it difficult for people, the more likely these tens of millions will self-deport.

And this student wasn’t one of them.

But again, the third rail …

[Anonymous]

If you're to learn, learn. If you're here to start trouble, get out.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump and Homan can't deliver on the mass deportations they promised for months, so they're going for "shock and awe".

The most disgusting thing about this is watching people scream about law and order while subverting the rule of law.

They aren't doing shock and awe. If you think this is shock and you have no idea what you're talking about.

Biden had 5 to 10 thousand people crossing the border A DAY.

They are not subverting the rule of law. The executive literally has the power to do this. Got it?

Marco Rubio just revoked 300 foreign student visas. Big deal.

Drop the rhetoric. I'm not falling for the crocodile tears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're to learn, learn. If you're here to start trouble, get out.

An op ed is "trouble"? Since when?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

If you went to a school in a foreign country and were giving it money and participating in student-government activists, you’d probably feel it’s ok to write an op ed in the school’s paper to request it take a stance on a topic about which you are passionate about. After all, you aren’t participating in a protest. You aren’t advocating for a government action. Your free speech right was encouraged by the university even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

If you went to a school in a foreign country and were giving it money and participating in student-government activists, you’d probably feel it’s ok to write an op ed in the school’s paper to request it take a stance on a topic about which you are passionate about. After all, you aren’t participating in a protest. You aren’t advocating for a government action. Your free speech right was encouraged by the university even.

Most people don't think she only wrote an op-ed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

If you went to a school in a foreign country and were giving it money and participating in student-government activists, you’d probably feel it’s ok to write an op ed in the school’s paper to request it take a stance on a topic about which you are passionate about. After all, you aren’t participating in a protest. You aren’t advocating for a government action. Your free speech right was encouraged by the university even.

Most people don't think she only wrote an op-ed.

Since when do you care about what “most people” think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's where she and other foreign students are being held: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CcqyBM48EW2MyNzz8

It's a privately run ICE detention center owned by Geo Group.

They were trying to pay their prisoners $1/day for work AKA slave labor.

https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage

The GEO Group runs private prisons and detainee centers and gets paid by the government to house prisoners and detainees. They get paid about $70 per day for each detainee and they need to keep their "enrollment" up in order to make a profit.

GEO Group owns and/or manages 28 immigration jails on behalf of ICE and USMS, with a total capacity of approximately 30,500 people. ICE contracts accounted for 42.7% of GEO Group’s annual revenue in 2023. ICE pays the company a per diem rate based on the number of immigrants it imprisons. In 2022, for example, a contract between ICE and GEO Group for the company’s operation of ICE’s LaSalle Processing Center stipulated a guaranteed minimum of 1,170 jailed immigrants at a rate of $76.64 per bed each day (approximately $2.7 million a month).

ICE is the single largest client of GEO Group, accounting for 42.7% of the company’s total revenues in 2023. Following the Trump administration’s announcement in 2018 of its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy and plans to add 15,000 more beds to facilitate family detention, GEO Group’s stock prices increased by 1.79%. In 2020, just before Biden took office, ICE awarded the company a new 10-year contract for the continued operation of its South Texas ICE Processing Center. Organizers and advocates have observed that ICE deliberately extended this contract by an unusually long period of time in order to extend “the harm of this administration far beyond Trump’s term in office.”

While the Biden administration’s executive order regarding private prisons does not apply to contracts with ICE, GEO Group has stated that changes in federal immigration policies and changes in federal immigration policies may impact the government’s use of public-private partnerships with prisons and immigration jails and therefore negatively affect the company’s contracts with ICE. The company has also identified “declines in crossings and apprehensions along the Southwest border” as a risk to its shareholders.

GEO Group has lied about its involvement in family separation. Since 2014, the company has managed the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, an ICE jail designed to hold up to 1,328 people. The immigration jail previously held up to 830 migrant families with children until 2021, when ICE announced it would instead begin using it as a short-term “reception center” for detained immigrants. The company claimed that it “has never had any involvement, in any way” with the separation of families.

Like its other prisons, GEO Group’s immigration jails have been implicated in numerous human rights abuses, including sexual abuse, forced labor (see below), medical neglect, spying, excessive use of solitary confinement, deprivation of food and recreation time, and other inhumane conditions that have resulted in deaths and self-deportations.

https://investigate.afsc.org/company/geo-group

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

If you went to a school in a foreign country and were giving it money and participating in student-government activists, you’d probably feel it’s ok to write an op ed in the school’s paper to request it take a stance on a topic about which you are passionate about. After all, you aren’t participating in a protest. You aren’t advocating for a government action. Your free speech right was encouraged by the university even.

Most people don't think she only wrote an op-ed.

That's all she did.

ICE hasn't been able to get enough immigrant criminals to meet their "quota" of detainees. They are trying desperately to funnel immigrants into these detainee centers so the private prisons can charge the government as much as possible - the prisons need full "enrollment" or they will not be profitable enough.

They are just arresting anyone they can at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My point is, I’m fine with revoking student visas or not renewing provisional green cards, but why are we not just giving them notice and telling them to be gone by X date?

This is the part I don’t understand. The way it’s been handled makes no sense.

There are tens of million of people here illegally. The more ICE makes it difficult for people, the more likely these tens of millions will self-deport.

So why is ICE spending all this time on people here legally?

Because their status changed when the government decided they were no longer welcome here.

No, it's not that.

It's like I said - ICE has been told to arrest anyone they can find any kind of pretend justification for. They are desperate to keep "enrollment" in these private facilities up so they can charge the government the full rate.

They have contracted to supply the detainee centers with a certain number of bodies per center. Say it is 1500 for a center. If they only send 1000, the private prison/detainee center isn't as profitable. That's bad for the GEO company. Bad for the other private companies that run private jails.

So they have to keep expanding their range and go after people here legally, now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care. I don’t visit other countries with the intent to protest anything that goes on there. I’m not entitled to visit any countries of which I am not a citizen.

If you went to a school in a foreign country and were giving it money and participating in student-government activists, you’d probably feel it’s ok to write an op ed in the school’s paper to request it take a stance on a topic about which you are passionate about. After all, you aren’t participating in a protest. You aren’t advocating for a government action. Your free speech right was encouraged by the university even.

Most people don't think she only wrote an op-ed.

Source? To date, the government has not provided any specific details of what she has done to merit being abducted and eventually deported. Even Canary Mission, the pro-Israel site that tracks critics of Israel, simply cites her op-ed as her "anti-Israel activism" without providing any evidence of ties to Hamas or illegal activity. She's got the ACLU representing her now, so I'm hopeful they will get more information.