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Last week I waited by the phone just in case something went wrong during a friend’s client’s citizenship interview.

It didn’t—for them.

But it did for Mohsen Mahdawi. ICE arrested him at his naturalization interview.

If you think you’re safe, think again.
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
theintercept.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The administration now says they will monitor the social media of immigrants for "antisemitic activity."

Let us be clear: This is a cynical attempt to weaponize antisemitism to enact an anti-immigrant agenda. Jews are safest in a democracy where immigrants are treated with dignity, not surveilled.
April 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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BREAKING: The Trump administration will begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitism.”

This will NOT fight antisemitism.

This is simply using Jews as an excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda.

We refuse to be used this way.

www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
www.uscis.gov
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM