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A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Fabian Schmidt, New Hampshire resident with a green card, has been ′violently interrogated" and detained with no access to his medications by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Rhode Island.

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-- Annika Brockschmidt (@ardenthistorian.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Sounds like Gestapo tactics and for what reason?

FTA:

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

"It was just said that his green card was flagged," said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn't hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he'd been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being "violently interrogated" at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

"He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn't feeling very well and he collapsed," said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn't know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 10:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

NEW: The family of Mahmoud Khalil have just released footage of his arrest. It's distressing.

"Stop resisting"

"He's not resisting"

The men who take him are in plain clothes and in unmarked cars. They refuse to give their names or even say what agency they're from.

bsky.app

#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 11:01 AM | Reply

One group wants to incentivize illegal immigration and human trafficking. The other group wants to harass legal immigrants and make life more difficult for them. A monkey pox on both your houses.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-03-15 11:44 AM | Reply

#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Shared that with my Arab friends and acquaintances that voted Trump and GOP because Biden and the Dems were "so bad" because they didn't do more to stop Gaza. Crickets. Of course I did tell them "This is just the beginning. Remember this is what you voted for."

#4 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-15 01:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A 37 year old architect from India, who was enrolled in a PHD program at Columbia and due to graduate in May, fled to Canada after the US recently revoked her Visa and sent ICE agents to her apartment:

Laura Seay
@texasinafrica.bsky.social

Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.

www.nytimes.com

Archive link to avoid paywall:
archive.ph

Just as with the DOGE layoffs and cuts, the Trump administration is not taking any kind of due dilligence or care as they carry out these actions. What makes anyone think they will behave any differently when they come after some program that you or someone you loves depend upon? They aren't, and they won't.

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 04:48 PM | Reply

And yet another inexplicable deportation:

Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.

A federal court order that would have halted the immediate deportation of a Rhode Island doctor was issued Friday evening while the doctor's departing plane sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport, said a family friend and colleague.

But the plane ultimately took off, carrying Dr. Rasha Alawieh out of the country for reasons still unclear to her family, her lawyer and Brown Medicine colleagues such as Dr. Basma Merhi.

"They did not do anything to stop the plane," said Merhi, who was learning details of the event through information relayed by Alawieh family members. "So, clearly, they wanted to deport her regardless of if there was a judge's order or not. She didn't do anything wrong."

Alawieh had been studying and working in the U.S. for the last six years and had been in Rhode Island, working for Brown Medicine in the Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension, since last July.

She worked at Rhode Island Hospital evaluating potential transplant recipients and followed the progress of those patients after their procedures, Dr. George Bayliss, the transplant division's medical director, said Saturday.

www.providencejournal.com

www.browndailyherald.com

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 06:40 PM | Reply

How long Till the New Camps open?

Trumps Reichstag moment hasn't happened yet.

Declared EMERGENCY isn't enough.

He needs something high profile. To become a real LEADER.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-03-15 10:14 PM | Reply

@#7

Funny, now that it may have become apparent that Pres Putin seems to own Pres Trump, this current alias seems to be taking a different approach?

Why?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 10:30 PM | Reply

Once institutions no longer have recognized officers, no legal remedies and no money to fight, this administration believe there are no consequences to persons abuse.

Notice how many MAGA hats are worn at the town halls that republicans are too terrified to attend?

Vets seem ready to throw down.

#9 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-16 01:19 PM | Reply

Overheard at a coffee shop this evening: "If the rule America followed led it to this point, of what use was the rule?"

#10 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-03-17 10:45 PM | Reply

We're all sovereign citizens now!

#11 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-03-17 10:47 PM | Reply

@#9 ...Once institutions no longer have recognized officers, no legal remedies and no money to fight, this administration believe there are no consequences to persons abuse. ...

Exactly.

Now, all of what is left of those institutions seems to be able to do is obey the dicta of Pres Trump, regardless of whether or not those dicta abide by the rules that Congress had established for that institution.


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-18 12:43 AM | Reply

@#10 ... "If the rule America followed led it to this point, of what use was the rule?" ...

Two questions:

1) was the rule actually foo lowed, or was it bent and destroyed?

2) if the rule is of no use, what should replace it?

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-18 12:45 AM | Reply

was the rule actually foo lowed, or was it bent and destroyed?

Doesn't matter. Carson's gonna buy it anyway.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-18 01:18 AM | Reply

@#14 ... Doesn't matter. ...

Sadly, I would tend to agree.

The rule of law does not seem to apply within the Trump administration.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-18 02:05 AM | Reply

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