Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate who has been in immigration detention in Louisiana for more than a month, was barred from attending the birth of his firstborn child Monday, after immigration officials denied him permission to attend the birth in person, according to emails reviewed by CNN.
On Sunday morning, attorneys for Khalil wrote to Melissa Harper, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New Orleans, requesting that Khalil be released from detention for two weeks so he could travel to New York and be with his wife when she delivered their son.
Khalil’s case has sparked a firestorm of controversy since he was arrested outside his Columbia University residence where he was living with his then-pregnant wife, a US citizen. …
I just read this and thought… Jesus Christ, that’s fucking ice cold.
I feel like they could’ve agreed to a 48 hour suspension in his detention just to be at the hospital and then carted him back to a remote swamp prison and still retained 99% of their Nazi cred. Hell, letting him hug his child and then disappearing him again is still ruthless as fuck. But no. That was still too much kindness for these sadists. Okay, noted.
ICE has attracted the worst people since its inception. Some of these people are cops that were so bad they couldn’t be hired as cops any more.
Are you fucking kidding me? Look, I could launch into 50", and it would be of no use.
The sooner people realise that U.S. news sources can’t be trusted, the better. Who the fuck am I? I only ran a few newsrooms. I’m not coming at this as someone uninformed. We have multiple crises erupting all at once, and we have a degraded education system to facilitate that.
We can certainly debate that later. This is triage. We need to start setting the framing, not looking at outcomes.
Launch into 50"?
Fifty column inches. That’s essentially a full page on an 11x17 tab once you deal with what the furniture takes up.
I apologize, but I don’t know what this means.
Which portion is unclear? Not trying to be a dick, but I also don’t want to be insulting in a further response.
Really the whole thing. I saw you explained what a 50" is, which helps. Additionally, though, it sounds like you’re shocked by some element of the coverage. I wasn’t clear if that was the case and if so by which part of the coverage you’re specifically dismayed.
Can you state your central point?
My central point is that we’re a failed state.
