Immigrant students and scholars are being detained at remote facilities in Louisiana over objections

Immigrant students and scholars are being detained at remote facilities in Louisiana over objections

As U.S. authorities crack down on immigrants at universities in a fervor against pro-Palestinian protests, they quickly have shuttled some of those detained to remote facilities in Louisiana. Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student facing possible deportation for his role in protests at that campus, are calling his imprisonment in Louisiana a “Kafkaesque” attempt to chill free speech. Louisiana is emerging as a linch…

Immigrant students & scholars in US are being detained at prisons, jails in Louisiana

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CHRONIC. The arrests of students in the United States continue, without charges. In the middle of the day, in the middle of the street, I was scrolling on my phone the information of my favorite newspaper. Ukraine, Dittli, Depardieu... And then this: "Florida debate about child labour to replace undocumented immigrants." I did not click on it, I continued to unfold. To stop three seconds later, seized by two things that I didn't know was the cra…

UA student detained by ICE moved to Louisiana facility

Alireza Doroudi, the UA student detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his home on Tuesday, has been moved to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, Louisiana, according to the ICE website.  He was moved Friday, after being held in the Pickens County Jail on no charges.  David Rozas, an attorney representing Doroudi, said in a statement Friday that Doroudi was in the United States with an active I-20/SEVIS status a…

VIEWPOINT: Reject Silence, Defend Academic Freedom at GU

On March 17, masked immigration agents arrested Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow and teacher Badar Khan Suri outside his home in Northern Virginia. Khan Suri is being held without charges in a federal immigration detention facility in Texas for “spreading Hamas propaganda” and having “close connections to a known or suspected terrorist.” This follows the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and legal permane…