r/Cascadia 10d ago

They just snatched another person last night.

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.

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u/hanimal16 Washington 10d ago

“A couple of weeks ago, the professor said, she received a message from Ms. Ozturk, asking her to remove pictures of her with friends from the social media account of the lab. Ms. Ozturk told her she was being doxxed, meaning that personal information about her was being posted maliciously online.”

It sounds like Rumeysa was being harassed? If so, next step (aside from locating her) is to find out who was doing the doxxing.

Quote from NYT article

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u/Scotcash 7d ago

I've set all my social profiles to private simply because my wife is from Mexico, even though she has a green card.

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u/hanimal16 Washington 7d ago

I’ve got a friend from Peru with a green card (husband and kids born here), says she’s working towards citizenship, but I am so scared for her. I want to tell her not to draw attention to herself