No shit.
There’s literally no other reason to: there are “immigrant detention camps” closer to nyc and Syria/Algeria, and this is arguably the worst one in terms of likelihood of winning your immigration case and likelihood of getting pepper sprayed for no goddamn reason
On Monday, I spent about ten minutes filling out webforms pasting the same message to each of my representatives at different levels of government (one was surprisingly asshole levels of interaction, but I suspect that was incompetence rather than deliberate). I encourage you to do the same. If they can come for him, they can come for us. Feel free to borrow and modify:
Please publicly fight for the rights of Mahmoud Khalil. If they can come for him for having an opinion counter to AIPAC’s desires, they can come for US citizens. Thank you.
“allege” is a quietly gross word here. lawyers don’t allege shit. they argue. they present a conclusion based on a set of facts. you can either accept the conclusion, or you can reject it based on it not following the premises, or by disagreeing with the premises. to allege something is to just say it without full evidence. there’s a very important distinction and this choice of words indicates an effort to discredit the lawyers argument by reducing it to being a possible reality that is unconfirmed.
I mean, did they say it in a court (or a brief), or just to a news reporter? I feel like “allege” could be correct if it’s not an official record.
i don’t think allege and argue are tied to officiality but rather to the structure of the act. i can argue to a reporter. i can make allegations in court.
Maybe? I’m not a lawyer, I’ve just worked with some of them. For clients at least, my understanding is that venue and audience can matter. But you could be right regarding the attorneys themselves.
Time to secretly haul ice agents to exotic destinations like the middle of the Sahara or one those uninhabitable US possessions as retaliation. Or there’s always Novaya Zemlya.
