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. "
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.