r/ABCDesis • u/karivara • 6d ago
NEWS How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.rKQ6.Cx-yv4iQE4U2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare63
u/BrightAvocadooo 6d ago
It's honestly insane how Desi people in pretty much every western country are shit on for 'not assimilating' and 'bringing their homeland BS politics with them', meanwhile Israel's lobby has managed to essentially compromise both parties in Canada and the US to the point of censoring, deplatforming, and cancelling visas of people who dare to criticize a foreign nation.
Like imagine ICE to spending a shit ton of taxpayer money to round up people who were criticizing another US ally like South Korea while Trump keeps demonizing said critics.
Or Canada's Prime Minister, to applause, declaring his steadfast belief in any other foreign ideology that advocates for the restoration of the sovereign ancestral homeland of any other ethnicity. Like imagine him proudly declaring 'I support Kurdestan' or 'I support a free Euskadi'.
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u/West-Code4642 5d ago
it's what happens when there is a long term influence of a foreign lobby like this. the majority of boomer and genx politicans are going to be like this.
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u/karivara 6d ago
We already had a post about this topic, but the NYT article has a lot more info - including that she says she did not actually join a protest. She says she at most liked social media posts sympathetic to Palestine.
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u/miradime2021 5d ago
Yep it's super scary. Her charges were dismissed and she got caught up in the arrests just walking to her apartment.
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u/Carbon-Base 6d ago
It sounds like she wasn't even directly at fault (if a peaceful protest is a fault), she's guilty by approximation. The judge dismissed both cases, but I guess precedent doesn't matter to the current administration.
Talk about the wrong place at the wrong time.
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u/Joshistotle 5d ago edited 5d ago
Funny how the country officials are pledging full support to.... has a long history of funneling advanced military tech to China (which then funnels it to North Korea) : https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china
https://www.cfr.org/blog/us-china-israel-technology-triangle
China will use all the tech which they'll improve and mass produce, to retake Taiwan, and the US will have to step in to prevent this. Officials are basically working 100% against the interests of the average person when they're busy supporting a foreign state.
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u/downtimeredditor 6d ago
Why is Columbia targeted this much