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ICE Refuses to Allow Mahmoud Khalil to Hold His Newborn Son Mr. Khalil's legal team filed a letter requesting the federal court overseeing Mr. Khalil's case order ICE to permit a family contact visit **There will be also be a virtual press briefing tonight at 5:30 pm ET (register here)** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2025 CONTACT: ACLU Media, media@aclu.org Center for Constitutional Rights, press@ccrjustice.org JENA, LA - In a decision that underscores the government's ongoing retaliation against Mahmoud Khalil in response to his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights, officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison contractor GEO Group have refused to allow a contact visit between him and his family. The officials cite a blanket no-contact visitation policy at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center (CLIPC) and unspecified "security concerns" relating to the presence of a mother and newborn baby in an unsecure part of the facility. ICE's refusal comes after multiple requests from Mr. Khalil's legal team that point to federal policies explicitly encouraging contact visits between detained parents and their ies tie the act iths children. Mr. Khalil's team has also noted that permission for family visits like these are routinely granted at facilities like the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey, where his attorneys have requested he be transferred. Mr. Khalil's wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, traveled over 1400 miles from New York to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center (CLIPC) in Jena, Louisiana, bringing their newborn child in the hopes of a contact visit - one where her husband could meet, touch, and hold his son for the very first time. Instead, facility administrators have repeatedly denied these requests and have insisted the visit proceed behind glass, where no human touch is possible. "I am furious at the cruelty and inhumanity of this system that dares to call itself just," said Dr. Noor Abdalla. "After flying o…

New — Mahmoud Khalil's legal team says ICE & private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to let him have a contact visit with his wife & newborn baby.

They traveled over 1500 miles — hoping Mahmoud could see and hold them for the first time since his arrest over 10 weeks ago.

Maybe they should just match our pensions!

Even though this butterfly app is on the first page of my “socials” folder, I still forget it exists. Cat for tax.

I’ve been so perturbed by these St Labre Indian School advertisements on HBO Max. I thought we were done with Indian schools.

I’m a little convinced that my cat takes in the seams of my clothes while I’m out. Surely they can’t be shrinking this much. Where would a cat hide his needle and thread? Don’t be deceived by his cherubic pose, either.

This is false advertising because, in fact, I was elsewhere.

But I was at home……… maybe they should be more specific about whose house I’m at…

Gritty is president now, I don’t make the rules

Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.

It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy"

KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#superbowl

Shared by an immigration/agricultural worker attorney in Ohio.

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

Over 200 people showed up to march and stand in solidarity with our im/migrant neighbors in Geneva, New York!

So, I’ve been working on it again. Most days it helps. Most days it keeps me present through the difficult shit. But every day, it reminds me that I’m called to stand on the side of mercy, justice, dignity, and integrity.

Which I wish we saw a lot more of in our institutions’ leadership.

Mostly because I think in the past few years when my passionately disciplined centering prayer practice has dwindled, I’ve really felt the difference in how I respond to The News™ and all of the stuff we hear every day about the next group to experience political violence.

I don’t know if this is a hot take or anything, but I think we all need to have a centering/contemplative prayer practice, even if it’s just for a few minutes in the morning to ground ourselves, prepare for what the day throws at us—at work, in the news, whatever—and be able to get through it.

Dreams, nightmares, same thing.

We are so far past dog whistles at this point.

What about trees is required for ice cream?

I need to know more.

He’s positively suffering.

That last one is based

Oh, me too, I guess!

Boop

*tap tap* is this thing on?