Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus
a rally for leqa’a kordia & mahmoud khalil. held @ unc 3/19/25 at south building.
The speeches below have been lightly edited for clarity.
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How do we defeat fascism? GET LOUDER. by spare tire, a representative of UNC SJP
Thank you all for being here today in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil, Leqa’a Kordia, Dr. Rasha Alawiyeh, and all political prisoners unjustly taken hostage, held without due process, and facing deportation by the US-Israeli colonial regime, whether in the imperial core or in occupied Palestine. We are here because, although one protest on its own will certainly not liberate Palestine, we have seen the limitations of the now obsolete ceasefire, that without the return of Palestinians to their home and the abolition of the Zionist entity, there can be no safety, no freedom, for Palestinians, or anyone for that matter. We are here to insist on popular momentum towards the ultimate, inevitable end of total liberation.
On Monday I woke up to videos of hundreds of Palestinian men shrouding innumerable martyrs in towels, blankets, and bedsheets, once again displaying their lifeless bodies in neat lines outside hospitals. To a father desperately searching through a morgue for his dead child. To a little boy staring at a wall for hours, having lost his entire family in one explosion. To a mother holding her dead daughter’s skull in place just to see her face one last time. All of this again for the five hundred twenty seventh day. Israel killed more than five hundred people in less than 12 hours with US-made bombs, which, in a typical display of murderous cowardice, the israelis dropped from US-made planes on a beseiged, starving, sleeping populace, most of whom were refugees born into the very concentration camp where they took their last breath. In the words of the late Dr. Refaat Alareer in 2021, “what usually happens in Palestine is that Palestinians cease, and Israel fires.”
It should come as no surprise that after we in the United States develop and export these genocidal technologies and practices, they manifest domestically in the end. Fascism is, first and foremost, colonialism that has come home to roost. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia, on March 9th as a retaliation against Khalil’s public anti-genocide stance. We can say the same about Leqaa Kordia, who DHS accused of allegedly overstaying her student visa and is now in a concentration camp in Texas. They are both being held pending administrative proceedings, in the same way that the thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons without charge on “administrative detention.” And Dr. Rasha Alawiyeh, a kidney transplant surgeon from Brown University, was shipped off to Paris in defiance of federal court rulings against her deportation. When I think of Dr. Alawiyeh, I also think of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, who has been incarcerated and tortured in Israeli prisons for months now. And in its own Trail of Tears, Israel has displaced more than 40,000 Palestinians from the West Bank in 2025 so far. It could not possibly be clearer than it is now that our domestic policy is at its core a mirror of our foreign policy.
These detentions and deportations are not unprecedented, and have their origins in our nations long history of incarcerating and purging political dissidents, Black and Brown people, Native people, LGBT people, the disabled, and all those deemed unworthy of full participation in civil society. Shame on our university for not declaring sanctuary for its international students and faculty. Shame on our University for not uttering a peep about the thousands of murdered students and academics in Gaza. Shame on our University for militarizing its campus instead of divesting from death. Shame on Lee Roberts and his ass-kissing, boot-licking cronies for willingly collaborating with the Gestapo. In times like this we must remind ourselves that fascists only act this way when they know that they are losing and we are winning.
How do we defeat fascism? As we have seen it is certainly not through the courts or through Democrats in Congress. The law is only a tool that must be wielded in the service of a massive, popular resistance movement. It is also not through preemptively complying in advance, in the foolish hope that somehow our compliance will protect us from harm. The only way to defeat fascism at home is to end all genocides abroad. The response to the assault on free speech must always be to GET LOUDER. The strategy must be to look to Black and Native Americans, who have resisted fascism and colonialism for four hundred years and counting. A vital step is for us White people to take a principled stance that rejects the comforts that our Whiteness affords us, to join as collaborators and co-conspirators in the struggle against settler colonialism. The antidote to unjust laws is always, always to break them. May we vindicate the generations of martyrs with nothing short of total revolution. Long live Palestine!
Brothers and sisters, comrades and friends. by Camilia, PalYouth NC
Brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, we stand here today, not just as students, but as a collective force for justice, for dignity, and for liberation. We gather because we refuse to be silent in the face of genocide. We gather because Gaza is burning once again.
Only days ago, the Zionist entity shattered what was left of the ceasefire with unrelenting brutality. Once more, bombs rain down on the people of Gaza—people who have already
endured 15 months of devastation. Over 500 martyrs just in the span of 48 hours. This is not war. This is not defense. This is a massacre. This is genocide.
The Zionist entity cut off all aid, food, and electricity from entering Gaza weeks before breaking the ceasefire. They even announced the relaunch of their ground invasion campaign in Gaza, aiming to sever the north from the south and dismantle supply lines for basic resources. They have sought to starve an entire population, to deprive hospitals of power, to force suffering upon every man, woman, and child. This was a premeditated campaign of extermination, an attempt to break the will of a people who have refused to bow for 75 years. But Gaza is unbreakable. The Palestinian people are unbreakable. And today, we stand with them in their unwavering defiance.
While Palestinians are being massacred overseas, we face an escalation of scare tactics here in the U.S. In the past few weeks, Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Kordia—two steadfast voices of Palestinian liberation—have been abducted. They are not alone. This has happened to many before them—from the Holy Land Five to the LA Eight—voices advocating for the liberation of Palestine have consistently faced harsh repressive tactics by the ruling class. Across the West Bank, across Gaza, and across historic Palestine, Palestinian leaders, activists, and journalists are being rounded up, imprisoned, tortured, and disappeared. They are not just trying to erase Palestinian land—they are trying to erase Palestinian existence, Palestinian memory, and Palestinian resistance.
But we see their tactics for what they are. We know that when they come for our leaders, it is because they fear the truth. They fear the power of our movement. And they should. Because we will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated.
The same repressive tactics that sought to destroy liberation movements in the past are being used again today. The same state violence that targeted Black revolutionaries, Indigenous resistance leaders, and anti-war activists is now being deployed against those who dare to speak out for Palestine. Students are being doxxed and blacklisted. Professors are being fired. Protesters are being surveilled, arrested, and brutalized.
But let us be clear—this is not just about Palestine. This is about the entire system of imperialism and capitalism that thrives on war, displacement, and exploitation. The ruling class profits off genocide, off occupation, off endless war. They do not want liberation, because liberation threatens their wealth and their power. And it is not just the Zionist entity—they are backed by the same forces that have oppressed and exploited people across the Global South for generations. This fight is against empire itself.
Columbia and other universities around the US are paying lip service to protecting their student body and keeping their campus communities safe, while at the same time helping to facilitate the abduction, detention, and forced disappearance of their own students. To university administrators and all others bearing complicity: including NC State – We see you, and we will continue to expose your empty words and bureaucratic gestures. We will continue to stand with and protect each other, and we will continue the struggle as long as necessary, until Mahmoud and until all our people are free.
We know history. We know that every movement for liberation has faced repression. And we also know that repression is a sign that we are winning. Because if we were powerless, they would ignore us. If our movement did not matter, they would not be trying so hard to shut us Down.
So let me be clear: NOW is the time to stand up and fight back.
We stand in the lineage of those who refused to be silent. We stand with the students who shut down universities in the 1960s to demand an end to apartheid in South Africa. We stand with the Freedom Riders who braved police batons and fire hoses to dismantle segregation. We stand with the Water Protectors who put their bodies on the line to defend Indigenous lands. And today, we stand with Palestine.
Let this moment radicalize you. Let this moment ignite your spirit. The system wants us to believe that we are powerless—but history tells us otherwise. When we organize, we win. When we resist, we shift the tides of history.
We are at a turning point. They want us to be afraid. They want us to be silent. But we refuse. We refuse to let fear dictate our actions. We refuse to allow history to repeat itself without Resistance.
For Mahmoud Khalil. For Leqaa Kordia. For every Palestinian fighting for their land, their freedom, and their very existence. We will not stop. We will not be quiet.
Because Palestine will be free. From the river to the sea!
Thank you.
Who Keeps Us Safe? by TranparUNCy representative
Thank you everyone for being here today.
I want to start with a chant, but before I do I want to invite everyone in the crowd to look to your left and to your right, to look at your friends and your comrades and your community. Now let me ask you:
Who keeps us safe?
Who keeps us safe?
Who keeps us safe?
These are the people, us, who keep us safe. These are the people who will alert each other if the fascist ice pigs come to campus, who will put their bodies on the line when the police violently suppress our protest, who will bail you out of jail, who will show up to your court hearings, who will give food and medicine and mutual aid to our community, who will teach us and inspire us, who will keep us safe. The cowards and collaborators in the building behind me will never, ever keep us safe.
Who keeps us safe?
On March 8th, plainclothes ICE officers ambushed Mahmoud Khalil in his New York City apartment building and took him into custody in front of his wife who is 8 months pregnant. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident and a green card holder, a fact that these ICE officers appeared to not know. They gave him no explanation for their actions.
This was not an arrest. This was a kidnapping. This was a disappearance. Khalil has still not been charged with a crime. The only explanation the trump administration has given is that Mahmoud Khalil spoke out against US foreign policy, against American support for the genocide of his people. Mahmoud is a political prisoner.
We must call this what it is: This is facism. Plain and simple. This is explicitly criminalizing dissent and free speech. This is weaponizing ICE, a brutal and unaccountable police force, to go after political opponents.
Do not for a second believe that they will stop at green card holders or immigrants. No one is safe. No one’s speech is protected. This is the most fundamental attack on freedom of expression imaginable. Your speech is not free. My speech is not free. Anyone walking past us on the quad right now, thinking that the genocide in palestine and the imperialist repression at home does not effect them? You are wrong. You are implicated too. This affects us all.
But as we look out at Trump’s fascist repression, we must be extremely clear about how we got here. Every single supposedly liberal college administrator across the country is complicit. They have spent the past 18 months lying about their own students. They have smeared us as antisemites. They have cynically claimed that criticism of Israel and its genocidal war is antisemitic. They have sent heavily armed police to break up our peaceful encampments. They have butchered their own policies around speech and protest on their campuses just to make it harder for students to advocate for palestine. This class of college administrators, at Columbia and other elite universities across the country, have brought us to this moment. When Trump got into the office, the groundwork had already been laid for his worst policies.
But let me also be clear: our administration is far worse. These people behind me are far, far worse. They aren’t complicit liberals, they are active MAGA collaborators. Our university system here in Chapel Hill, at every level from the Board of Governors to the Board of Trustees to the Administration, is crawling with MAGA radicals.
Take for example Art Pope, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in North Carolina. He sits on the UNC Board of Governors. He and his organizations have provided millions of dollars to finance Project 2025 and Trump’s authoritarian plans to weaponize the government to go after his political opponents.
Or how about Dave Boliek, who sat on our Board of Trustees for years, whipping up moral panics about wokeness on campus, until he stepped down to run for state auditor. With Trump’s personal endorsement he won, and now he exercises huge control over our state’s election systems.
Or how about Provost Chris Clemens and Jed Atkins, who have been building their shrine to White Christian Nationalism called the School of Civic Life and Leadership?
Or our shameful Chancellor Lee Roberts, that corporate finance hack, who sends militarized police to brutalize his own students, who promised to collaborate with ICE if they tried to deport students? For shame!
All of these groups—the Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees, the Administration—they are all appointed by the North Carolina Republican Party. This is the party that has spent the last two decades villainizing immigrants and queer people while they cut healthcare and food stamps and retirement benefits and workers rights. This is the party that has gerrymandered the state to systematically disenfranchise black North Carolinians and deprive them of their constitutional rights, and then try to ban schools from teaching about racial injustice. This is Trump’s party, from top to bottom.
Lee Roberts and Chris Clemens and everyone in this building behind me own everything Trump is doing. These are foot soldiers for MAGA at the university and they are your enemies. They will not keep you safe. They do not care about you.
We must be clear about one more thing. Trump, with his fascist enforcers at ICE and his collaborators at our university, have a clear goal: they want you to be afraid. They are trying to threaten and intimidate and silence and suppress, because they know that the movement for Palestine will only keep growing.
We can not let them. We can not let them intimidate us. We are here today to stand in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil, to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, to continue to demand that UNC disclose and divest from apartheid and genocide and ethnic cleansing, to demand ICE off our campus. We will never back down in the face of fascist repression.
Free Palestine and Free Mahmoud Khalil! Who keeps us safe?
For the Sake of Palestine, anonymous
Let me begin by grounding us today.
Grounding us in what has brought us to this point.
Grounding us in the fact that we do what we for the sake of the oppressed.
For the sake of Palestinians who have endured almost 80 years of dispossession, violence, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing, and, most recently, genocide.
For the sake of Palestine.
A land in which Arab Muslims, Arab Jews, and Arab Christians were once able to coexist, that was before European settler colonialists established a morally indefensible regime that could not, by definition, establish a Jewish ethno-state without ethnic cleansing and apartheid; a regime that actively erased the Arab Jewish identity to replace it with a Jewish supremacist ideology based in hate and exclusion.
The fact is clear: Any open eyed individual can see that Israel is an inherently fascist state. Western regimes preach ideas of tolerance but we know that’s all but a facade. Almost every supposed western democracy has decided to completely annihilate international rules and norms to protect Israel. Their unconditional support for a state that is so unabashedly genocidal shows the true colors of the many Western institutions that surround us, including UNC.
The reality is that those in power are willing to destroy their own democracies, or whatever is left of these alleged democracies, for the sake of genocidal state halfway across the world. Mahmoud Khalil and Liqa Kurdeyyah’s only crime was that they pointed out the hypocrisy of the system we live under.
The hypocrisy of institutions like Columbia, UNC, NC State, and Duke.
The hypocrisy of institutions that clearly lack a moral compass.
The hypocrisy of institutions that, not even a televised genocide was a red line for them.
It is time to face the truth: whatever semblance of a democracy this country once had is now being replaced by outright fascism. The reality is that attempting to deport pro-Palestine activists is but a stepping stone. If Trump and his accomplices do not like your speech, then you’re not too far down the list. We cannot continue with business as usual hoping fascism will magically go away.
I believe we need to face the truth that UNC’s Board of Trustees, and UNC’s Chancellor, Lee Roberts, are a part of this fascist system. Our chancellor eagerly wants to cooperate with ICE in order to deport your fellow undocumented classmates
I also feel compelled to mention our fascist Provost Chris Clemens, who was the faculty Sponsor of a now-disbanded UNC white-supremacist student group called “Youth for Western Civilization.” When he was confronted about it in the media, he argued that he wanted to “promote diversity of thought” and that he “hadn’t read their national charter.” As if wasn’t obvious that the word “youth” in “Youth for Western Civilization” was not a clear nod of to “Hitler youth.”
People need to wake up. Fascism is here. And fascists occupy the building behind me.
Let me be clear: Supremacy has no place on our campus.
Whether it is white supremacy or Zionism, we must reject them loudly and proudly. I do feel compelled to remind you that the Trump administration’s newest effort to crackdown on activists fighting for Palestinian Liberation is only an escalation of efforts by the Biden administration.
Just last semester, DHS agents were present at protests on campus. There is a reason they are cracking down on us so hard. It is because we are the ones who are willing to put ourselves on the line in the struggle for justice and freedom.
YOU ARE the last line of defense against fascism.
Wearing pink to Trump’s speech is not what’s going to stop fascism. The party that enabled and perpetuated a genocide will not save us. The party whose leader lied on national TV and said he saw pictures of 40 beheaded babies, to manufacture a consent for the genocide of Palestinians, will not save us. It is US who will have to step up and stop fascism
This movement, and its analogues across the country, are last beacons of principle and morality.
Palestine, and the idea of Palestine, will liberate us.
And that is why Trump and his lackeys are coming after us
Because they know we won’t sell our principles—they know that WE WILL stand on business
They can try to intimidate us—but are we going to let them?
They will learn the hard way that we are not self serving assholes like them. We WILL put ourselves on the line to fight for the most oppressed in this world.
Thank you and Ramadan mubarak.
This is your university too. by a representative of UNC FSJP and AAUP
First, to all UNC students who are immigrants or here on visas: you have every right to be here, and there are students and faculty who will fight for your right to be here. This is YOUR university!
There’s been a long campaign (since at least 2010) to turn the University of North Carolina back into the University of White Carolina, but we will not let that happen. This movement has gained a lot of momentum lately, and the people charged with running UNC – from the BoG and BoT to Chancellor Roberts and Provost Clemens, are Trump’s allies, but we won’t let them turn the University of North Carolina back into the University of White Carolina. This is not their university, this is your university.
As a ,ember of FJP who is also Jewish, I want to remind everyone that criticizing Israel is not anti-semitic. Protesting genocide is not anti-semitic. Defending the Palestinian people’s right to their homes is not anti-semitic. Peaceful demonstrations are not anti-semetic.
I’ve worked at UNC for more than 15 years. I’ve never been prouder to work here than i was during the encampment last spring. That was the best of UNC.
As a member of UNC’s AAUP chapter, I want you all to know that AAUP has been for more than 100 years defending academic freedom which includes the rights to teach, research, and for students to study whatever you want, and to protest, without interference from administrators or politicians. Academic freedom is under attack more than ever.
To my faculty colleagues who are studying non-white people, queer people, trans people or any other groups currently being targeted with the DEI label: your work is more important than ever! Keep doing what you’re doing, and keep calling it what it is. DEI is not a dirty word. This is your university, too!
The Time for Silence is Over — Students must Rise NOW, by a Monsoon representative
My friends — I stand before you today in a time of crisis — in a time of the suppression of dissent and a time of genocide. Now is not the time for whispers, nor the time for fear. Now is the time to fan the fire in our voices, the steel in our spines, and for our collective unshakable, unbreakable, and unstoppable solidarity.
Because today, we are witnessing an attack — not just on Palestine, Kashmir, Congo, Sudan, and across the Global South, but on us ourselves, here in the metropole too. On our universities, from Columbia to UNC — on our right to speak out and to resist. On our right to demand a world free from genocide, apartheid, and occupation.
At Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil and Leqa’a Kordia have been detained on unconstitutional charges. All because they dared to speak the TRUTH. Because they refused to bow to an empire that funds the slaughter of Palestinians. Because they stood up for the right thing, and now they are being silenced. Let’s be very clear—this is not just about two students. This is a warning. A message to all of us. A message that says: “Sit down and Stay in line.”
But we are NOT sitting down. And we are NOT staying silent.
We know this because history shows us that student movements shape the world. From Vietnam, to South Africa, to Bangladesh, to right here in Chapel Hill. And right now, it is our time to take up that legacy — to raise our voices in the fight for Palestinian liberation. We are not the first students to be called “radicals,” “extremists,” “terrorists”, or “threats” for standing on the right side of history.
In the 1960s, students across this country rose up against the Vietnam War. In 1970, 6,000 UNC students (around a third of the student body) went on strike to show their collective strength and oppose the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and in response to the Kent State massacre. Of course, UNC and reactionary forces across the U.S. villainized those students then — but now, those students are remembered as heroes. The Vietnam War became synonymous with U.S. failure and brutality, and the anti-war movement changed history.
In the 1950s and 60s, Black student activists were told to “be patient” and “wait” while fighting against racial segregation. But they REFUSED to wait. In our very own state, the Greensboro Four — four Black students — sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, and they were spat on, attacked, and arrested. But their courage sparked a fire across the South, and that fire burned down segregation.
And in the 1980s, students demanded divestment from companies complicit in South African apartheid. At UNC itself, students erected shantytowns on the quad to demand divestment. Over 150 other universities held sit-ins and protests, and administrations sure enough called the police on their own students over and over again. But did that stop them? NO. Because of their pressure, institutions like Harvard, UC Berkeley, and even our own UNC were forced to divest. And today, no one defends apartheid South Africa. Those students were right, and history proves them so.
Do you see the pattern? Do you see the TRUTH? … The movements that are repressed today become the movements that are celebrated tomorrow.
Right now, they are coming after us: the students demanding Palestinian freedom. Just like they came after students protesting Vietnam, and the Black students fighting Jim Crow, and those fighting South African apartheid.
But do you know what’s different? We refuse to wait decades for history to prove us right. Because the world is already waking up. Because every bomb dropped on Gaza, every child buried under rubble, every massacre carried out with our government and our university’s money proves our case in real-time. They Are Scared of Us — And They Should Be — because history will not absolve their crimes.
You ask, why do they arrest students like Mahmoud and Leqaa? Why do they attack Palestinian advocacy? Why do they shut down protests, blacklist professors, and call us “terrorists” for demanding freedom? Because they know that the TRUTH IS DANGEROUS. They know that if enough people open their eyes, they will LOSE.
Israel’s apartheid regime is collapsing under its own brutality. The world is turning against it. Millions are marching in the streets. The world will call it what it is—a GENOCIDE.
Remember this: Israel needs the United States to keep its war machine running. And the United States needs its young people to stay silent to keep doing this. — That is why they fear us. And they should because we will not be silent. We will not betray Palestine. We will not let Lee Roberts or Chris Clemens sleep peacefully while children in Gaza die. We will continue to organize and disrupt. We will demand divestment, demand justice, demand an end to this war machine.
Because if we back down now, we betray every freedom fighter, every martyr, every Palestinian who has resisted occupation for 76 years.
So I say this to everyone here listening: do not be afraid. Do not let them scare you into silence. This is bigger than us. This is bigger than our schools, our careers, our safety. … This is about the future of Palestine. This is about ending genocide.
This is about knowing that when our children look back at this moment, they will say that we did not stay silent. That we did not look away. That when history called on us to fight for justice, we answered.
So let the administration insult us and call us agitators. But NEVER let them silence us.
Because Palestine will be free within our lifetime. And when that day comes, the world will know that we — the students — helped make it so. This is our fight. Because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Because when they suppress speech on Palestine today, they set the precedent for silencing every movement for justice in the future. And when they come for one of us, they will face ALL of us.
The Struggle is Not Over — And We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest. We Will WIN. FREE PALESTINE.
Closing Remarks from Siembra UNC organizer
What does it mean to take care of each other? What does it mean to keep each other safe? This is a question Siembra as both a state and student organization has sought to answer throughout the duration of our existence. We have landed on informing people of their rights, as residents and workers in this country and reinforcing the value of their humanity and dignity in a landscape where immigrant populations are dehumanized and villainized. A big part of this is fighting to maintain dignity which is difficult under circumstances when awareness of our oppression is heightened and our oppressors are escalating the ways in which they are willing to break and bend the laws meant to protect people’s rights. We see this with the existence Mahmoud Khalil’s green card being almost entirely ignored by the feds, we see this with the way that Venezuelan residents with protected statuses who have legal residence in this country can be kidnapped and thrown in El Salvador’s inhumane mega prison CECOT, and we see this with the way that the United States permitted the occupation to break the brokered ceasefire.
The new escalations under the Trump admin, revelations of the power the state has always held and preserved. Makes one of our key goals, reducing panic among immigrant communities and allies alike, much more difficult. Panic prohibits people from living their day-to-day lives, it prohibits people from going to work and school comfortably, it inhibits people from operating like normal people.
It is important to realize that anti-immigrant sentiments, like zionism in the United States, have bipartisan support. Obama funded “private detention centers for immigrants, including the granting of a $1 billion contract to Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest prison company, to build a massive detention facility for women and children seeking asylum from Central America.” (From the New Jim Crow 2020 intro)
It is notable that not everyone who is detained by ICE or the feds will garner the same level of national attention that Mahmoud Kahlil’s case did, maybe it is that someone does not hold the “proper documentation”, or they don’t hold the same level of public attention as student protestors are able to. I implore you to understand that every detention or deportation leaves a hole in families and communities. While the discarding of green cards and student visas is a terrifying breach of rights, we must resist the idea that there are uniquely bad detentions or deportations, just newly invasive ones.
Throughout the United States Empire, carcerality, criminality, and immigrant scapegoating are all interconnected and shared oppressions. The majority of ICE detentions have historically happened from jails, the murder of marginalized racialized populations in both Palestine and Israel is justified using flawed societal definitions of “crimes” that ensure that the side in power is rhetorically almost never the criminal no matter what is done to the criminalized population. Just as people are disappeared by the occupation for being “linked to terrorists”, we see people disappeared by the United States government for the same reason.
This is historic, the United States funded efforts to disappear people in central america in decades past and the instability those disruptions caused led to new efforts to disappear people today.
Remember your rights when you are at home, remember your rights when you are at work, when you are out and about. Do not talk to cops in general, ICE, DHS, and every federal agent will lie to you and make you think you are absolutely fucked by the law, they utilize the fact that we don’t really expect to be lied to about stupid bullshit. Remember. Judicial warrant. Signed by Judge.
Take your time, they will rush you to make you panic and make you dumb. This is the tactic, they will manipulate and lie to you. You need to shut up and lock in. If you cannot see a judge’s signature, if you cannot see that the warrant is from a district court, do not open your door. Ask the agent to leave some means of contacting them with an attorney and ask them to leave. If you are at work, push with your fellow employees for there to be a private room with some sort of locked door that only employees have access to, then there is still the requirement that any search would require a judicial warrant. This actually just ensures that your fourth amendment rights can be practiced and protected.
