“The question it raises in my mind is why would it take 3 months” for the US atty to decide to prosecute Petrova, she said. “It doesn’t really quite add up…why would you need this amount of time if you thought this was a crime worth charging.”
The shift alters Petrova’s legal standing in several ways. As a #criminal defendant, Petrova has constitutional protections she lacked as an #ICE detainee, including the right to a #jury trial & the right to confront witnesses.
#KseniiaPetrova’s lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, has said he was “blindsided” by the #smuggling charge, …“Less than 2 hours after the Vermont judge set a hearing on Kseniia’s release, she was suddenly transferred from #ICE to #criminal custody. This is not a coincidence. It is an attempt by the government to justify its outrageous & legally indefensible position that this #scientist working for the US on cures for #cancer & #aging #research has somehow become a danger to the community.”
#law #Trump
#KseniiaPetrova, a #Harvard researcher from #Russia who has been fighting #deportation proceedings since Feb, will now face #felony *#smuggling* charges in Massachusetts, a federal judge in Louisiana said on Thurs.
Petrova made a brief court appearance Thurs morning via video from a jail in Monroe, LA, near the #ICE detention center where she has been held for nearly 3 months.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder arrested for protesting Gaza blockade at US Senate hearing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/ben-jerrys-co-founder-arrested-protesting-gaza-blockade-senate-hearing #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Ice-creamandsorbet #RobertFKennedyJr #Israel-Gazawar #USpolitics #Worldnews #USSenate #Medicaid #Protest #Israel #USnews #Gaza
Federal Judge orders the release of a Georgetown scholar with lawful status, detained by #ICE since March, for the offense of a speech about #Palestine. The judge ruled the detention violated his First Amendment rights https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-orders-release-georgetown-fellow-detained-immigration-authorities/story?id=121802159
Report: "Georgetown Scholar to be Released From ICE Detention"
Badar Khan Suri's release "is in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said at a hearing in the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia."
"The release is another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk."
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-georgetown-scholar-badar
#ice #studentprotests #resistfascism #trump #uspol #racism #freespeech #palestine .
"I finally just got to fully read the RS article & it seems very likely that this entire 2-day illegal plot to rip this family apart
started bc
an undercover #ICE agent cut off the baby’s father & he honked his horn at the car. Evil, EVIL shit."
-T O'Neil
Trump’s ICE used a woman’s kids & grandchild as “bait” to arrest her during a chaotic scene last week in Worcester, Mass., which is now drawing attention from the state AG’s office.
#Racism #Fascism #Deportations #USPol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-kids-bait-arrest-woman-worcester-massachusetts-1235338539/
CBC: Conferences relocating to Canada over harsh new U.S. border measures
#ICE grabs guy in #Waltham, leaving 12-year-old alone on the street, after recording residents and driving a vehicle up onto the sidewalk and at a city councilor
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone
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https://www.europesays.com/de/103775/ Freilassung: Trump begrüßt Hamas-Ankündigung #100164680 #100312362 #100615498 #100633310 #China #DonaldTrump #EdanAlexander #FBI #Genf #Hamas #Handelsgespräch #Headlines #HowardLutnick #ICE #Katar #Konflikt #Medikament #Nachrichten #NewJersey #News #Newsblog #Onlineplattform #Republikaner #Schlagzeilen #TopNews #TopMeldungen #TopMeldungen #TopNews #TruthSocial #Universität #USA
To anyone NOT WHITE traveling outside or coming to the US, right now.
Add security measures to your phone. Hide or delete #SocialMedia, use only secure forms of communication.
Alternatively get a burner phone.
#Signal can be used, under another icon and name, for security.
@mcnado somehow you imply they have a *conscience*?
Have you watched the videos of their glee, at inflicting harm, pain and misery unto humans?
Once they made the *conscious" CHOICE of accepting that task, they're no more human than the filth that ran concentration camps in 1930s.
They lost their humanity, threw it away, and we should treat them as such.
Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa.
Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID.
Now Martin’s the one charged—with assaulting them. But the video shows who was really assaulted. This is how ICE operates: lie, escalate, and disappear people.
If people chose to work for terror organisations like the ICE Gestapo, they are also part of the the problem
"I just follow orders" is bullshit and should not be accepted
Hitler didn't murder millions by himself, he gave orders and people followed them
“ICE agentsin six cars raided a gas station in farmworker town of Oxnard, CA. They surrounded an undocumented father and his two children in a truck, took the father and just left the children behind.
"They left the children inside the truck"
-E Lee
#ICE #DHS #Fascism #Deportations #FamilySeparation #TrumpRegime #USPol
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/ice-raids-overwhelm-california-communities-20319412.php
“Confirmed: Trump Is Working With Betar USA To Deport People Over Speech”
by The Dissident on Substack
“A New Court Ruling Found That The Trump Administration Is Relying On The Vile Betar USA group to deport people”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/confirmed-trump-is-working-with-betar
Vor einigen Monaten hätte man so was in den #USA nicht erwartet. Schlimm wie die Demokratie dort verloren geht. #trump #ice
Bürgermeister von New Jersey wegen Protesten vor Migrantenzentrum festgenommen
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy904elvxj3o
First they wanted to make lists of the autistics, trans people and those who might access abortion. Not to mention the lists that ICE undoubtedly have.
Now it's food stamp recipients.
Who and what will be next?
You know who made lists? Nazis. There's no reason for the government to require this level of personal data.
Or at least, there's no good reason. I think we all know what their reason is. This is fascism. They’re preparing lists to target and eliminate people deemed ‘undesirable’. We must fight back.
If you’re still being silent because you aren’t in a targeted group, please remember history.
Fascists won’t stop. They will land on your doorstep eventually.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration
