cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28614633
By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025"A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, his lawyers said. "
It’s all right cause they ain’t white.
Plenty of white leftish folks don’t own guns. If they and every other minority were packing, fascists would be saying, “it’s alright cause they ain’t Right.”
I meant that the deportees to the tropical gulag aren’t white so the conservatives have nothing to protest.
My bad, I didn’t mean to diminish your point. I mostly meant to say, when we’re armed and protective of our neighbors, the feds are less emboldened.
I would never count on conservatives to be an ally. They’ll only start caring once their wallets are affected.