They just snatched another person last night.

[u/russellmzauner]

They just snatched another person last night.

A Turkish national here fully legally not just attending but *working* at Tufts, grabbed offsite, nobody knows where Rumeysa Ozturk is. There is footage of her being taken but no information from ICE on her whereabouts or any stops made along the way to where she might be right now.

This happened in Portland OR in 2020 when they were grabbing dozens of people off the streets except they took pictures of everyone's ID and fingerprinted them all before releasing them. Summer is coming and they've turned focus onto Oregon with at least two of the EO (mail in voting termination and natural resource exploitation); my fear is that they're going to use those lists in an attempt to sweep Portland.

Can more people file FOIA requests on the numbers of people they collected personal data on back in 2020 so they can be warned? At the least the total numbers of people they kidnapped, albeit temporary (just long enough to get their pictures, etc), can be made accessible to people who may be impacted as well as other uninformed people who might care about such things.

Any socially conscious lawyers reading this subreddit - it would be pretty cool to get some advice or maybe they can sort of wander off and quietly submit the document that I have no idea how to submit and even if I did I got no money and/or connections to fight the federal government.

[u/Iwas7b4u]

What do we do if we see something like this? Do they show ID?

Who are these guys?

Why did they pick her?

It wasn’t random. They planned this.

If you are anything like this person who was kidnapped, IMMEDIATELY BREAK YOUR ROUTINE!

Sleep other places Turn off your phone Use secure communications Build a go bag Park your car well away from where you sleep

Scary isn’t it that Americans would even need to act and speak this way.

[u/Hopeful_Being_2589 → u/Iwas7b4u]

I read a couple articles that said She was picked/ investigated because she wrote a letter (with others at the university) that qualified as violating the free speech amendment. Free speech has limits such as threats of violence or death, display of hate symbols such as swastikas, treason, etc. I’m not sure of the specifics.

Unfortunately, the protests have had some violence, displays of and defacement of property with hate symbols, and people wearing such things as Hamas headbands or shirts with other symbols of groups that are classified by our government as terrorist organizations.
.. and it’s all on film. So, the current government is using that to justify using facial recognition to track down anyone at the protests and match with citizenship records.

So, a lot of what is happening is terrifyingly legal and encouraging more bills to pass that make it worse.

The article also said :

It was ICE. Some were wearing visible badges.

Ozturk is detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to ICE’s online detainee locator system.

[u/Iwas7b4u → u/Hopeful_Being_2589]

Of course it’s Louisiana. What a horror story of a prison system there.