A group of Democratic legislators visited two anti-Israel activists held at the Louisiana Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) facilities this week, claiming that they are “illegal in heartbreaking conditions” after taking the fist of the students.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), representative Ayanna Presley (D-MA) and representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) were photographed outside one of the facilities on Tuesday, and Presley reported that there they visited Mahmoud Khalil and her “constituent”, Rumya OzTurb:
Neinder Khalil or Ozturb are American citizens and, therefore, are prohibited from voting in the elections and cannot be labeled correctly as “constituents.”
The BBC reported That representative. Troy Carter (D-La) and representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) also joined Massachusetts legislators to visit the couple.
“For Rümeysa, Mahmoud and all those who have been harmed by this White House without law: we see you and win that they stop fighting for you,” Presley wrote on social networks, and added that both university students “are being very heartbreaking.”
“For Donald Trump: his abuse of power and attacks our constitutional rights will not be without control,” added the “squad” member.
Khalil, a former graduate student of 30 years or the University of Columbia, was born in Syria of Palestinian parents, was arrested By ICE officials in March after leading radical protests on the New York institutions campus, Breitbart News reported.
According to the Department of National Security (DHS), Khalil “directed activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization” as an activist in Columbia:
In defense of his judgment and the subsequent transport to an ice installation in Louisiana, the border tsar of the Trump Tom Homan administration saying“You cannot go and ask for the annihilation of Israel and take care of a university campus and take care of a university building and destroy the property of the government. You cannot deliver literature that supports a terrorist organization.”
“They can have Goths with that at the Biden administration,” Homan explained in an appearance in March Fox News. “They will not escape under the Trump administration. When you come to this country, either with a visa or becomes a resident foreigner, that is a privilege. But with that privilege comes certain rules. You can violate the law.”
Last week, Khalil compared His time at the ice arrest center to a Nazi concentration camp in a on published By him Washington Post.
Ozturb, a 30 -year -old Turkish citizen, also dedicated himself to antiisrael activism, while at the Massachusetts University of Tufts, co -author of an opinion article at a school in a school publication vocation In the institution to participate in the boycott movement, divestment and sanctions (BDS) for “companies with direct or indirect ties with Israel.”
The Turkish antiisraeli activist was also arrested by ICE officials in March.
Speaking with journalists, Markey said that the White House sent old students to the facilities in a state controlled by Republicans in an effort to “circumscribe [their] Constitutional rights. “
The last democratic field trip comes a few days after Sen. Chris van Hollen (D-MD) took office to El Salvador to meet with the defendant of the MS-13 gang and presumed wife Beater Kilmar Abrego García. He was soon continued By four more Democrats: Representatives. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Maxine Dexter (D-OR), Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and Robert García (D-CA).
Olivia Rondeau is a Breitbart News political reporter based in Washington, DC. Find it in X/Twitter and Instagram.