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2 weeks ago | 
documentedny.com | Sam Carliner
This week on May 1 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will hear oral arguments which could determine the fate of New Jersey’s immigrant detention ban. New Jersey enacted the ban in 2021, but the law was challenged and overturned by the for-profit prison company CoreCivic in 2023. In the years since then, immigrant rights activists in the Garden State have been fighting to get the decision reversed.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Sam Carliner
Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States have been abducted by federal agents and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration. The escalation of attacks on the movement for Palestine is not confined to the United States.
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1 month ago | 
f.mtr.cool | Sam Carliner
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Sam Carliner
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
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1 month ago | 
popularresistance.org | Sam Carliner
Above photo: The Palestine movement, immigrant rights groups, and community members gathered together in Newark, NJ on March 28, 2025 to protest the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Sam Carliner. ‘Every Arrest That ICE Has Made Is A Political One.’“This is about Palestine and this is not about Palestine,” said New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice director Amy Torres at a recent rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil. “This is about this administration. . .
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1 month ago | 
mondoweiss.net | Sam Carliner
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s upcoming immigration hearing to take place in New Jersey, rather than Louisiana where a judge is more likely to go along with the Trump administration’s political persecution of Khalil.
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2 months ago | 
znetwork.org | Sam Carliner
The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University. The Trump administration appears to be delivering on its promise to go after foreign students who participate in the movement for Palestine. Trump has already passed several executive orders as part of this McCarthyist attack on universities. The outrage against Khalil’s detention is clear.
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2 months ago | 
popularresistance.org | Sam Carliner
Above photo: Hundreds of protesters call for the release of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square in New York City on March 10. Twitter/@pro_nyc. Universities and the government are cracking down on the student movement for Palestine. Activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped. The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University.
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2 months ago | 
thedissenter.org | Sam Carliner
The following article was made possible by paid subscribers of The Dissenter. Become a subscriber and support independent journalism on whistleblowers and freedom of the press. For the past month, national security officials in President Donald Trump's administration have expressed anger over alleged leaks involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids throughout the country, including in California, Chicago, the greater Denver area in Colorado, and northern Virginia.
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2 months ago | 
wagingnonviolence.org | Sam Carliner
The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University. The Trump administration appears to be delivering on its promise to go after foreign students who participate in the movement for Palestine. Trump has already passed several executive orders as part of this McCarthyist attack on universities. The outrage against Khalil’s detention is clear.
