Monitoring of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia graduate detained by ICE on Saturday in New York—now indicates he is being held at a facility in Louisiana. Spoke to his lawyers who said there's no timeline for him to see A judge. The government moving and disappearing people without charge is alarming.

On X, people were arguing to me that this is OK, because people charged with crimes are often detained before trial.

But there's no known crime here, and the terms and circumstances of his arrest are opaque and arbitrary, including the transfer to Louisiana. He wasn't in touch with his lawyer until recently.

The argument seems to be that the government can unilaterally revoke a green card based on an affiliation with a foreign terrorist organization, but the proof of that -- beyond a subjective ideological designation -- is flimsy at best.

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Yeah I'm not sure where anyone can look at this and be like o yeah this is solid this is a positive and good thing

Yeah, of course they sent him to Louisiana too, Jenna is a hell hole

The fact that there might be a plausible legal argument for it -- and of course, I doubt that -- would only make it scarier.