r/Cascadia • u/russellmzauner • 11d 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/caseythedog345 11d ago

I’ve been arguing with my fellow jews for the past couple days about this. I don’t understand at all how they think this is ok. I don’t agree with a lot of what these Palestinian protesters want, but I recognize that they deserve respect and dignity. They have a constitutional right to protest, even if they aren’t citizens. It’s not even legal to deport people for their political views, supreme court said so in bridges v wixon. I’m so tired of people around me deciding to ignore the constitution when they feel like it, just to remove someone for having different ideas. Shit makes me sick.

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u/DiscussionRelative50 6d ago

Ironic that you use the birthplace of fascism as your example. Currently pushing a bill to criminalize unauthorized peaceful protests punishable by up to 7 years prison time (for their own citizens).

Well played, sir.

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u/Wild_Excitement4293 6d ago

Oh wow, I had no idea. Seems a bit extreme to me, to imprison people due to unauthorized protest. I am all for protesting, while obeying existing laws and not affecting other citizens liberty/property. To push legislation to where only the government determines what’s authorized/un authorized is ridiculous.

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u/DiscussionRelative50 6d ago

Okay then you understand that under existing laws, foreign nationals that are in the US legally have every right and protection of protest that US citizens have?

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u/Wild_Excitement4293 6d ago

Yes, if they are here legally.

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u/DiscussionRelative50 6d ago

‘Constitution applies to citizens, non citizens do not get that right. It’s like me going over to Italy and protesting against their government. You think they are going to allow me to do that? No. They will ship me home.‘

What did you mean by this statement?

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u/Wild_Excitement4293 6d ago

Non citizens, meaning here illegally.

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u/DiscussionRelative50 6d ago

Those are two different things. These stories aren’t about illegal immigrants, they’re about foreign nationals that are here legally being detained.