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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked</p><p>Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning</p><p>By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025</p><p>"Secretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a>, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a>.</p><p>"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholars</span></a> have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a>, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.</p><p>"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders. </p><p>"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation. </p><p>"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> and were suspended, expelled or jailed.</p><p>"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and to assemble, experts and advocates said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clampdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clampdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToAssemble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToAssemble</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Maggie Maybe<p>This was heard today in the House Executive Dept. and you can still make public comment on line until 11:59 pm tonight.</p><p>It’s a Democrat bill but it’s relative to detention center contracts. I think the good thing is that they want to limit the governor’s powers to send the National Guard to the detention center.</p><p><a href="https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB438/id/3049184" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">legiscan.com/NH/text/HB438/id/</span><span class="invisible">3049184</span></a> </p><p>If you want to make public comment</p><p><a href="https://gc.nh.gov/house/committees/remotetestimony/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gc.nh.gov/house/committees/rem</span><span class="invisible">otetestimony/</span></a></p><p> you would choose today, then<br>House Executive Dept<br>10:30 am HB 438</p><p>Anything you type in that box also becomes permanent public record.</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/NH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NH</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/detentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detentionCenters</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/HB438" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HB438</span></a></p>
Maggie Maybe<p>This is important. The New Hampshire Democrats are trying to pass this bill relative to detention centers.</p><p>It would also limit the governor’s power to just call in the National Guard to work at detention centers or bring people to detention centers.</p><p>This is going to be heard tomorrow in the house executive committee. PLEASE SUPPORT (the link and instructions to provide public comment/support in the replies.)</p><p><a href="https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=507" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo</span><span class="invisible">.aspx?id=507</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/NH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NH</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"The state’s Republican leaders say they’re primed for Texas to be both the model and epicenter as the incoming administration cracks down on immigration."</p><p>TX Gov Abbott &amp; Trump's racist enablers are preparing ground for detaining &amp; deporting undocumented immigrants. Many Republican leaders encourage mistreatment, incl. possible enslavement &amp; separating family members of these ppl, even those w/o a criminal record.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/29/migrant-deportations-texas-border-homan-abbott/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/immigration</span><span class="invisible">/2024/11/29/migrant-deportations-texas-border-homan-abbott/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bluesky</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>The 1,402-acre ranch is located in Starr Co. along the Rio Grande. TX Land COM Buckingham &amp; state &amp; nat. officials -celebrated the property/1st sections of a border wall being constructed there.</p><p>She sent Trump a letter: fully prepared to enter into an AGT with the DHS, ICE or the US BP to allow a FAC to be built for the processing, detention... of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BorderWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorderWall</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2024/11/25/texas-general-land-office-to-unveil-proposed-1402-acre-site-for-immigrant-detention/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ksat.com/news/texas/2024/11/25</span><span class="invisible">/texas-general-land-office-to-unveil-proposed-1402-acre-site-for-immigrant-detention/</span></a></p>